Questions tagged [currencies]
something that is not directly useful (like a commodity) but which can be used as a medium of exchange or a store of value. Essentially, money.
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Current sentiment: Positive (Both stock market and bitcoin)… Can you use bitcoin to invest in Stocks?
I was playing with the idea of enhancing portfolio risk/return characteristics. And one thing institutions do is hedge currency risk by investing in multiple different currency denominated assets. (...
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How to you recover a stolen bitcoin lost to an investment scam?
I once lost my bitcoin to an investment platform and it took a while before I managed to get my bitcoin back. My question is I want to know how many people have lost their bitcoin and how do you ...
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Debit Card connection to Cryptocurrency
I have a question concerning the product of Crypto Currency debit cards example list found here:
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How long does the exchange from cryptocurrency to fiat take?
If I want to use the Debit Card in a ...
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Does cryptocurrency ETF use block-chain technology?
As you know, one of these days trends is cryptocurrency ETFs that the CES doesn't approve it yet. But there are some questions about them and their functioning. Is it necessary to build them over ...
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Can you have a cryptocurrency with a single source of truth?
Can you have a cryptocurrency that's based on TRUST? (how dare I use this dirty word haha)
Everyone who participates in the system agrees to trust this 1 party only, because they find them trustworthy....
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Finding legitimate sources of research and info regarding crypto, mining and the blockchain [duplicate]
I'm relatively new to Bitcoin, crypto and the blockchain and mining etc, however due to having over 15 years experience in IT Ive followed BTC etc since it kicked off in (2009?), and would like to ...
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My unconfirmed BTC transaction on blockchain just disappeared [duplicate]
I had an unconfirmed BTC transaction on blockchain.com for about 2 days plus and now I log in and there's no transaction again. I checked blockchain.info using the hash; all wiped nothing is showing, ...
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Beginner's question: Why must proof-of-work be useless?
I wonder why the proof-of-work under no circumstances may be usable. The argument I understand is: If the proof-of-work could be used, its results could be sold, and doing the proof-of-work would cost ...
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Electrum & BitAddress Wallets Creation
Can anyone please tell me if my procedure is correct and enough.
I've always heard and read that I must disconnect from the internet when creating Electrum Wallets, to keep away from hacks, viruses, ...
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How are the prefixes for EXT_PUBLIC_KEY and EXT_PRIVATE_KEY derived?
I want to know how the prefixes for EXT_PUBLIC_KEY and EXT_PRIVATE_KEY are derived. For example in bitcoin you have:
base58Prefixes[PUBKEY_ADDRESS] = std::vector<unsigned char>(1,0);
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How is a USD-chained currency like Tether economically possible?
(I'll try my best to keep it relevant to Bitcoin, but feel free to close it if it seems inapplicable to Bitcoin trading. It's more about economics)
Say there's a currency whose supply is controlled (...
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Who is the target audience?
I can not stop asking myself the question, what problem does bitcoin actually solve? Before you accuse me of being lazy and not doing any research, here is my thought process:
You want to have a
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Crypto currencies and internet dependence [closed]
Ive a problem with the concept of crypto in one aspect. What about "cyber safety"? Given that there will be more online malicious activity in the future, isnt cryptos dependence on the internet a ...
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A book about cryptocurrencies wallet or key creating [duplicate]
i'm studying about cryptocurrencies wallet, and i'm searching for a book in this subject but i couldn't found it.please Introduce me a good book that covers all information about wallets.
thanks.
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What happens to bitcoins that are in a ponzi scheme wallet? [closed]
I bought bitcoins that are stored in Cloud Token wallet. I found out later on that this crypto currency was part of a Ponzi scheme (shame on me). Currently I've had difficulty withdrawing my coins, ...
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What benefits does Bitcoin have that other cryptocurrencies do not?
I have heard several times Bitcoin being called "the king of crypto." It makes sense when you look at how the coin surpasses all the altcoins in terms of market capitalization and trading volume. No ...
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Working of crypto currency swaping (Exchanging) in Crypto exchange
I am new in crypto. I know something about cryto currency and its working. I am curiosity about the working of Crypto exchange like binance,coinbase...etc... My doubts is
Some exchanges provide the ...
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How does Bitcoin protect against inflation?
In an economy where the prices of goods keep inflating, like a car going from $10,000 to $20,000 in 1 year, what would be the incentive for people to put their money in Bitcoin? Wouldn't the price of ...
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What's the consensus on using a non-networked VM as a cold wallet/airgapped computer?
I'm wondering if connecting a hardware wallet like a Ledger Nano S to the Ledger Live desktop app running on a computer that's connected to the internet not considered a 'fully cold' wallet setup. How ...
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transfer cryptocurrency with api
I need a wallet that have api for currency transfer like block.io api. But because block.io only supports 3 currencies, it is not suitable for my project
There is another wallet for my work? (Only ...
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how to place a bitforex api buy order
I have read the documentation for BitForex on placing a buy order here:
https://github.com/bitforexapi/API_Doc_en/wiki/Order
Then after understanding that, I read the API Call Description ...
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Address not valid when withdrawing money from Binance
I want to withdraw the Vibrate crypto from binance. When I enter the BTC wallet address which I took from my account from coinbase, binance says invalid address. Am I missing something here?
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How to create a cryptocurrency backed by an asset (say a fiat currency or physical commodity) [closed]
I want to create a cryptocurrency for use between myself and a collection of friends (as a proof of concept).
Assuming that I want to peg my cryptocurrency to (say) the Chinese Renminbi and the price ...
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Is there any “permissionless” blockchain “without a native coin”?
We may certainly say that a "permissioned" blockchain cannot have a native coin (or cryptocurreny) since in permissioned blockchain we need a permission to be eligible to participate for transactions ...
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How do I pick the right cryptocurrency without becoming an expert in cryptocurrencies? [closed]
I live in a country where a certain national currency is used as legal tender. I do not understand how the local money works (e.g. how the national money supply is increased), nevertheless I can ...
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Reports of Cryptocurrency Exchanges faking volume trade data. Where can one find this report?
In 2018 December there was a research report on cryptocurrency exchanges faking volume trade data. Where can one find this report on these exchanges? Supposedly the only 2 exchanges that had real ...
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How does the full lifecycle of a cryptocurrency trading look like? [closed]
I am new into cryptocurrencies and I am wondering how to trade them. By trading cryptocurrencies I mean:
Transfer fiat currency (ie. USD) from my bank account into some account that enables buying ...
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How bitcoin gets monetary value [duplicate]
This looks like a complex thing but I am trying hard to understand it. Why would any one in the world honor a crypto currency till it is backed by a government with monetary value? How does a crypto ...
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Using CryptoCurrencies as a transfer method throughout Australia and Europe
I have read both this questions:
Can I easily use Bitcoin as a inexpensive way to transfer my money into another currency?
Does it make sense to use BitCoin to transfer money to yourself ...
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proof of stake concept and implementation confusion
i'm currently studying proof of stake concept in cryptocurrency in preparation of building it soon, but i still have some doubts about my understanding of the concept itself, and i have a lot of ...
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Idioms of use/ bitcoin heuristic
I already know the answer of a) part which is Alice. Can anybody help me in finding answer of b) part.
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Should I run crypto node for my trading platform?
I wanted to create a cryptocurrency trading platform where people can deposit cryptocurrency and trade them with other altcoins and finally withdraw it.
Tell me do I need to run full crypto node to ...
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Could bitcoin/blockchain be used to create a secure non-3rd party escrow?
I'm wondering if there could be a block chain approach to selling goods and putting money in an escrow-like state until the goods are received.
I'm envisioning the following scenario.
1) Buyer puts ...
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Have all hashes of unlocked difficulty levels of cryptocurrencies been mined?
I'm wondering if all the hashes of a previously unlocked difficulty level of a cryptocurrency, such as
0000000000000000xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx BTC
, have been completely ...
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Extracting Bitcoin historical ticker data by setting up Bitcoin Node?
How do I extract the ticker data (historical values such as day price, day open, day close etc) by setting up a Bitcoin Node?
Bitcoin Node is setup using Bitcore.io
All blocks are syncing right now, ...
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how to embed coin prices of my choice in my website [closed]
sorry for bad english, let's just say i want to embed specific price of coin for example ethereum and bitcoin $20 price in my website, in other words it shows $20 rate of btc and eth on my website not ...
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I'm Searching cryptocurrency exchange api [closed]
We want complete cryptocurrency trading service from api requirement all api where we can integrate all services in my UI.
long story in short we want any service provider backend in our UI.
API
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Why prices are different in different fiat currencies on the same market?
What I noticed is that prices in different fiat currencies on the same market for the same crypto currency are different. But what are the reasons behind that? Does it has anything to do with market ...
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What stops people attacking my new coin?
Say I just made a new altcoin.
I mined it for a few days at some reasanoble difficulty - 2000 for example.
I got to the 10 000th block and I am happy with my premine and network.
Then, an attacker ...
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Accepting Bitcoin for Services Rendered with Legal Verbiage on Set Coin Price
I accept Bitcoin and Ethereum for consulting work, but would like some feedback for Service Type Agreements that span upwards of a 1-year in an enterprise setting. What's the best method for ...
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What is Sentinel Chain? Is it a cryptocurrency scam?
What is Sentinel Chain? Is it a cryptocurrency scam?
Can somebody help me? Thx!!!
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How to buy with Poloniex API? [closed]
Hi I have a question about buy method. Recently I received successful message from Poloniex
I run once buy order method with option immediateOrCancel.
I get two trades instead of the expected one.
{'...
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How to solve error: Incorrect or no genesis block found. Wrong datadir for network?
I am making my own alt-coin, and I have mined the first genesis block hash(after some time), Merkle hash, nnonce and time. I am running on Ubuntu14.04.
But when I run ./bitcoind I get this error
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Fundamentally what is the difference between the EOS and Ethereum platforms? [closed]
I know one platform is owned by a company, block.one which owns 10% of all EOS tokens, I'm aware of their ICO structure and it seems their tokens are used as a sort of API token - some have called the ...
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Buy and selling Bitcoin in different currencies
If I were to purchase one Bitcoin in Australian (AUD) that is in the tens of thousands of dollars as of this moment, would I be able to sell this bitcoin in American (USD), which is in the thousands? ...
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QUESTION ABOUT SLOW API
do you know about api requests cryptocurrency exchanges? Simple ticker request may be viewed like this: https://api.kucoin.com/v1/open/tick or like this: https://www.okex.com/api/v1/ticker.do?symbol=...
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How to determine estimated block or transaction time [closed]
I would like to know if there is any possible way to determine the estimated block time for a special cryptocurrency at the present time so I can estimate the transaction time it takes to send coins ...
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Generate cryptocurrency addresses on server
I want to generate cryptocurrency addresses (e.g. for top 10 cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap) on my server and be able to send transactions when deposit arrives. Can I do that with CLIs or there is ...
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How do I calculate the expected shares per minute for my pool
I am currently mining Zencash in a pool, and I'd like to be able to calculate the expected shares per minute for a given pool's hashrate. Let's say the pool's hashrate is 50 KSol/s. I think that the ...
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How to avoid contagious media stories affecting Bitcoins? [closed]
There is an integral connection between fiat currencies and shop prices.
Can crypto's achieve the same shop use?
If a crypto has a giant user base, It can be less physical than Fiat. It needs to ...
