Questions tagged [exchanges]
Exchanges are sites which allow for the conversion of Bitcoins to various world currencies as well as alternate cryptocurrencies.
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What's the simplest way to deposit BTC into US Banking account with minimal fees? [closed]
I've been looking through the bitcoin wiki and googling isn't providing any useful results. Basically I'm looking for some way to deposit my BTC into my US bank account. Is there any service that can ...
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How can I change BTC into normal cash?
Can you eventually hold the bitcoins in your hand, like real cash dollars or euros or something? If so, how?
I've gone through all the service previews and introduction videos (actually, a video), ...
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Automating service with income from VISA and expenses in Bitcoins
Open-org.com is building an online service, which will have income coming from VISA cards, and will pay expenses in Bitcoins. We expect to make something like 100 transactions per day from credit ...
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How is the exchange rate for Bitcoin established?
I noticed that there are exchange rates for Bitcoin to other given currencies. How are these rates established?
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Is the mtgoxlive depth chart information accurate?
Mt. Gox publishes live data which is available at mtgoxlive.com. The chart includes the current market price as well as a depth chart of existing bid and ask prices, which I assume is compiled from ...
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Are there any open-source trading bots out there?
Has anyone published an open-source trading bot that runs on a Bitcoin exchange?
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How hard is it to transfer money between Bitcoin exchanges?
Say I had a 100$ in a Mt.Gox account and wanted to send it to my TradeHill account, how hard is it to perform a transaction like that without going through a separate bank account? I'm mostly asking ...
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Private credit card/debit card exchanges?
I've seen sites that make use of google checkout or other forms of cards processing to convert USD from debit/credit cards to BTC. I know that these types of sites cannot be opened up to the public ...
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How can I buy Bitcoin via a Credit Card or Paypal?
I want to buy some bitcoins. Ideally, I would like to buy them on the MtGox exchange (because the consensus seems to be that this is the most reputable exchange), however I have found the system for ...
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Is there a Bitcoin exchange which has bank accounts in South Korea?
Is there any exchange, or a website selling Bitcoin, which has a bank account in South Korea?
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Is there a bitcoin exchange accepting SEPA transfers? [closed]
Since mt.gox had to close its european office, is there any other exchange accepting SEPA transfers?
Sending a wire to the HK office costs much more than a SEPA transfer to me, and I'd like to avoid ...
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Why do so many bitcoin exchanges have their bank accounts closed and have problems establishing bank accounts?
I find it really strange that it happens that so many Bitcoin exchanges have their bank accounts closed.
Outside of the Bitcoin world, I find it very unusual to have a bank account closed, for a ...
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Is there already an existing closed cash flow loop for the currency BTC?
Loop means:
merchant will get delivered goods from producer in BTC
customer will buy goods from merchant in BTC
factory worker will get salary as BTC (at least in parts)
At this loop there is no ...
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What is the easiest way to programmatically obtain the current USD-BTC spot price?
E.g., if I wanted to create a cron script that would grab the latest spot price every hour and store it in a local file or database, what would be the place to "scrape" that information from?
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Trading between different cryptocoins
Is there a website that allows one to trade multiple different cryptocoins (Bitcoins, Namecoins, SolidCoins, RuCoins, LiteCoins, etc) all in one place?
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Why have prices fallen so drastically around October 2011?
Any idea why bitcoin prices have fallen so in September and October of 2011? It seems like back in August, one bitcoin cost about US$17, whereas in late October, it's just somewhat over US$2.
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Could the price drop between July and September 2011 have been caused by a bot?
In July 2011, 1 BTC was trading at above $10 USD. By September, the price of 1 BTC had fallen over 50%, and at the time of writing (October 2011) 1 BTC is trading around $2.50 - $3.00 USD.
In a forum ...
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Is there an open source Bitcoin exchange?
I just found this project, which is described a.t.m as a learning project.
Is there a more serious, open source Bitcoin exchange? I'm aware exchanging BTC for fiat money can be quite complex, and ...
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What happens to cash used to buy bitcoins?
Are there any requirements to Bitcoin exchanges [USD/EUR/etc], as to for what the [USD/EUR/etc] may be used? Or is the [USD/EUR/etc] received property of issuer of bitcoins?
Unfortunately, this is ...
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Does BTC-E have an API for alternate currencies?
BTC-E appears to have an API available at https://btc-e.com/api/1/ticker but this only lists the BTC/USD pair data. They also offer pairs of BTC against alternate currencies like Ixcoin and Tenebrix. ...
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What happened with MtGox on 2011/9/12?
On that date, some erratic out-of-spread trades appeared on MtGox.
The explanation given says that accounts may have been compromised by the CosbyCoin attack on bitcointalk.org. I do not understand ...
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Why is MtGox trying to trademark "Bitcoin"?
Someone on the #mtgox IRC channel pointed me to this. It seems to be an application by Tibanne Co. Ltd. for the Trademark name BITCOIN.
I asked MagicalTux on #mtgox about it, but got no answer.
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Is performance really important when choosing a language for a trading bot? [closed]
The C programming language outperforms interpreted languages such as Python or Ruby, but when it comes down to programming productivity, it is much easier/faster to write a Python program than a C ...
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Can I buy/sell a lot of bitcoins without moving the price?
I am curious about how to acquire a lot of bitcoins (or similarly move a lot of bitcoins) without hitting the bid/ask
I don't care about blockexplorer, I am just curious about price discovery
are ...
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Is there a list of available APIs for Bitcoin exchanges?
So far I have seen some Perl modules; Finance:MtGox and Webservice:MtGox for interacting with Mt.Gox, a Ruby gem for Mt.Gox and a Python based command line client for again, Mt.Gox.
I'm wondering if ...
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How can one find how much "room for arbitrage" is there in the Bitcoin market?
I don't know what's the mathematical/economical definition, but I would define "room for arbitrage" as the amount of money that can be extracted from the market by doing arbitrage (between the ...
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If I convert my US Dollars to Bitcoins, will its value likely depreciate? [closed]
Is it worth converting 'normal' currency into Bitcoins with the hope of making a profit later, by converting the Bitcoins back into 'normal' currency? In other words, could it be seen in a similar ...
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Do any of the Bitcoin exchanges implement trading curbs?
After the big hack of Mt Gox we all became aware that there is nothing in place to prevent "flash crashes." Most stock, FOREX and other exchanges have features like trading curbs or other market ...
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What are the legal processes that someone would have to go through in order to get a Bitcoin exchange operational?
One of the main perceived difficulties in getting started with Bitcoin is obtaining some in the first place.
Naturally, for an exchange to be accepted into the mainstream it needs to be a recognised ...
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How are MtGox options going to affect Bitcoin price volatility?
MtGox plans to introduce Options, would Bitcoin price become more stable or it would just hedge risks?
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Can bitcoins be "sold short"? Or are there "put" options?
Borrowing an asset and "selling it short" facilitates finding the appropriate price for the asset, allowing people to bet that the asset is overpriced (e.g. in a "bubble"). Can bitcoins be sold short?...
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Is there an efficient way to exploit arbitrages between the different exchanges?
The Bitcoin ratio vs other currencies is not the same among exchanges. Is there currently a way to exploit this arbitrage and profit?
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