Sites which allow for the conversion of Bitcoins to various world currencies as well as alternate crypto-currencies.
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any exchange to sell naked puts on bitcoin? [duplicate]
I would like to sell puts on bitcoin to collect premiums if bitcoin goes up in value to usd, and to be long bitcoins at a lower price if I get exercised. This is much more predictable for me than just ...
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Do USA-based miners need to register with FinCEN?
As seen in recent news, FinCEN has issued a statement on its classification of virtual currencies: http://www.fincen.gov/statutes_regs/guidance/html/FIN-2013-G001.html
Hypothetically suppose I mine ...
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Are each of the currency trades at MtGox independent from the other? Who or what is the equalizing force that aligns the markets?
MtGox supports many different currency formats. I'd like to know if each currency/BTC trade is independent of any other and the valuation isn't always perfectly aligned.
If someone wants Yen for BTC, ...
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What Currency should I use to buy bitcoins? EUR, USD or other? [closed]
If I want to buy through an exchange I should better go to the one who has highest volume. The better the volume the more liquidity it has. What if I buy bitcoins using India's or China's currency and ...
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How can we prevent distortion of the bitcoin exchange rate?
Is there anything within the structure of bitcoin exchanges to prevent bitcoin price distortion with multiple accounts controlled by one person?
I have seen stocks with similar levels of liquidity be ...
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When BTC is traded at a Mt Gox (or similar) what is the algorithm for matching Buys to Sells? How do partial fills occur?
I'm trying to understand how a partial fill would / should happen at an exchange and how that would occur
For example, if the BTC rate was $10/BTC and
Someone wanted to buy 100 BTC at $10
The ...
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Which exchanges allow me to transfer funds from my CurrencyFair account?
I can add funds to my CurrencyFair account via a bank transfer from a number of countries. This will be a convenient method if I can then send those converted funds as a bank wire transfer to a ...
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Why did bitcoin programmers release mining code?
Why did anyone ever release bitcoin mining code, aside from promoting bitcoin and eventually raising investor awareness?
Looking at a price chart, bitcoins were valued at just a fraction of a dollar ...
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What and where is the easiest way to convert bitcoin back to cash without showing ID?
so im thinking about purchasing a big bitcoin miner, but the question now is how do i convert my BTC back to cash? I don't feel safe giving out my info to mtgox or other exchanges as they require ...
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Why does blockchain.info say BTC was traded for $35?
According to blockchain.info, BTC reached a peak rate of $35 in June 2011. According to the data available from bitcoincharts.com, the highest price BTC was traded in Mtgox that month (and until ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of keeping bitcoins in an exchange versus a private wallet?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of keeping bitcoins in an exchange versus a private wallet?
Exchange advantages:
Liquidity - you can quickly trade bitcoins for dollars, and vice versa.
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What is Skrill's policy on its use in BTC trading?
Is Skrill tolerant of Bitcoin trade using its system?
Does it have any kind of history of reversing transactions or suspending accounts involved in Bitcoin trading?
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How long does it take for an exchange to send me bitcoins?
I'm not sure I understand all of the bitcoin storage options
I know there are bitcoin addresses and bitcoin wallets
what is the relationship of an address to a wallet? is a wallet mandatory and a ...
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bcchanger.com: why are bitcoins being sold at 1/3 market value?
Why are bitcoins being sold at 1/3 market value at bcchanger.com?
Are the lowball sellers trying to scam people or throw away money?
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Setting up a coinbase like service in India , need suggestions
I have read and researched extensively on bitcoin, but I haven't found any service like coinbase that allows a user to buy or sell bitcoins online without having a US bank account. So how can one ...
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I'm in the UK, how to fund my account at mtgox?
It is getting ridiculously hard to get bitcoins in the U.K. International wires are to expensive, my bank doesn't support SEPA. I'm seriously thinking about converting ukash vouchers to cash u ...
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Is the realgg.nl exchange legit?
I was on a site www.realgg.nl last night, they have some attractive funding options for me because I live in UK it's difficult to get coins. (Well a lot more difficult than US). Just wondering if ...
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Is buying and selling bitcoin in large volumes possible, or wise?
I'm asking because I think it could be a decent investment, but on clarkmoody the volumes aren't very large.
Which could mean that bitcoin is only useful in small volumes, and that larger ...
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How does Ripple's exchange work?
In Advanced/Trade tab there is a "BTC/XRP" box, and a "change issuer" link.
I have no clue what should I do to post any buy or sell:
I can freely modify the exchange currencies, and only USD/XRP ...
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How does one get money into the Ripple system?
How does one get money into the Ripple system? There appear to be ways how one can lend various currencies in the system, but how does one get non-debt money into Ripple?
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What money transmission licences are relevant to Bitcoin?
Tradehill was shutdown for various regulation issues, including not having the required money transmission licenses.
What were the money transmission licenses that were required?
What other ...
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Which exchanges offer stop-loss functionality?
In case of a sudden price fall, I want to sell my coins automaticly. MtGox doesn't have an option for this, which exchanges do?
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Is it possible to buy or sell Bitcoin options?
Like put and call options for a stock, but for the future price of Bitcoin?
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Easiest way to set up non computer-literate person with Bitcoin
What would be the easiest/quickest way to get somebody who isn't computer-literate set up to have the ability to transfer money to me via Bitcoin? Also, Bitcoin touts that it is anonymous. Is it any ...
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Are all trades stored in block chain?
Are all trades stored in block chain?
Are all trades, like mtgox exchange, gambling, etc. stored in block chain? Or, few trades could have been skipped / ignored?
Consider this case, 'a' transfers ...
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How To Use BitPay
We have a online computer company written in PHP
www.cworld.com.au
A sister site we have uses Magento
How can we use BitPay to enable our site for BTC..Is there an API
Can we get paid for every ...
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How do I echange bitcoins into $ or Euros? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I change BTC into normal cash?
I sold items / goods for bitcoins
How do I eventually exchange these bitcoins for $ or Euro ?
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How Does trading on the Exchanges Work?
Pardon my Ignorance but can somebody explain the basics
Of how trading (Bid Buy/Bid Sell) works of the common exchanges
www.mtgox.com
www.btc-e.com
Aslo some of the common ways people or ...
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How can i convert Bitcoin to Indian Rupees and vice-versa?
How can I convert bitcoins into Rupees (Indian currency - INR) and get them in paper Rupee notes?
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Can I use bitcoin as a means of bypassing Argentine Dollar restrictions?
I am planning on doing some small-time buying/selling with a friend who is in the States. I am in Argentina and I do not have a way of reimbursing him in Dollars for products that he buys, sends to ...
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How do I withdraw my bitcoins and spend them?
I run a small business online. I am interested in using Bitcoin to accept monies from my customers but to be honest the whole thing has me a bit confused. I am in the UK how would I be able to ...
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Is there an open source bot I can get for BTC-E?
I'm interested in automatic trading but I don't know how to get started.
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What is the early history of the BTC exchange rate?
Trading on Mt. Gox, which is now the largest Bitcoin exchange, started in July 2010 at an exchange rate of $0.05 USD. This comment suggests that on May 2010, bitcoins were traded at bitcoinmarket.com ...
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Which Bitcoin exchanges allow anyone to fund your account by a bank transfer?
I know MtGox doesn't allow for such transfers to prevent money laundering. Which exchanges allow for anyone to fund your account with a bank transfer (USD preferable).
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Bitcoin price drop in the past few days (25/10/12 to 27/10/12)
Does anyone have any solid ideas or knowledge on why the price has dropped so much over the past few days? There is a lot of speculation, but nothing I have read to date seems to adequately explain ...
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Can the sender of a MtGox code see which account the code is redeemed to?
In other words, if I receive a MtGox code and redeem it to my account, can the person who gave me the bitcoins, via the code, see that my account was the account that redeemed it?
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Time series data for issues listed on the (now defunct) GLBSE
I would like to get the following data for every issue ever listed on GLBSE:
Time series of closing prices since IPO to de-listing (or closing of GLBSE),
Date and quantity of initial and secondary ...
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What is the reputation of bitfloor?
It seems that bitfloor is a well designed trading platform, and a competitor to MtGox. However, the trading volume is low.
How long has bitfloor been in business?
Have there been any negative ...
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How can I buy bitcoins using Western Union (October 2012)?
I would like to use Western Union to buy some Bitcoins. I have carefully read Bitcoin's wiki page about buying Bitcoins now I'm after users' input about which service they would recommend.
There's a ...
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How can Bitcoin be adopted as tradeable currency pairs on Forex?
There are Forex clearing-houses all over the world. How can we have a Forex clearing-house offering Bitcoin as tradeable currency pairs?
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Does the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission govern Bitcoin?
Do SEC regulations apply to:
Exchange of Bitcoin for US dollars
Investing in companies with Bitcoin
An exchange that sells shares of company stock for Bitcoin
Bitcoin futures contracts
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What is the most cost effective way to exchange USD for Litecoin?
Also, what risks are involved? Do the service(s) have a long track record?
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Receiving dollars directly into bitcoin wallet?
Is there a way that I can set up my account to have my customers pay for services rendered in dollars directly into my bitcoin account via an online electronic funds transfer from their bank account?
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Need authoritative source for historic Bitcoin conversion prices from all Exchanges
What are the authoritative sources for historic Bitcoin prices?
Ideally this will be an API of sorts, or a list of links that I can "screen scrape" to be able to collect the information.
I found ...
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Is there a way to buy or sell Bitcoins for Iceland Kronas?
Say I was living in Iceland and wanted to convert my local currency to Bitcoin and back. What are my options?
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How do I convert Bitcoin to cash at my bank via Mt. Gox?
If I use Mt.Gox to do this, what are the specific steps I need to take?
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Why has Intersango stopped accepting UK bank transfers?
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ztjcf/intersango_no_longer_accepting_uk_bank_transfers/
I hadn't been on the site in a while, but last night I sent £30 to
Intersango, only to find out ...
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Easiest way to convert bitcoins to usd
For someone in the USA what is the easiest way to convert bitcoins to usd while incurring minimal fees. I've heard of using mtgox with dwolla, or mtgox with internation wire transfer. But it strikes ...
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How can one be truly anonymous without mining?
Assume that person wanting to be anonymous has reason to do so. Powerful enemies will see what is bought with bitcoins, perhaps web blog on server and domain name. Even in nations with rule of law, ...
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Between which locations are transfers using Bitcoins cheaper than PayPal for 100$?
I believe that once it becomes significantly cheaper to transfer money between countries using Bitcoins, its usage will increase significantly. My question is, therefore, between which countries will ...
