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What would it take to create my own Bitcoin exchange?
Setting up and operating an exchange can be quite involved.
A few tiers to start thinking about: legal, banking, tech+security, and volume.
Legal
The first question is whether you want to operate ...
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Bitcoin market hours (open/close prices)
In 24 hour markets High and Low usually mean "highest/lowest price in last 24 hours".
Open generally refers to the price at 12:01 AM UTC of any given day and close generally refers to the price at ...
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Why do bitcoin exchanges use "central" wallets?
Note: This answer applies to Bitcoin, not "crypto" generically.
On terminology
I think you may be conflating "wallets" and "addresses". Addresses are used to communicate ...
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Is there any way to buy bitcoins online without a fee?
Of course you may trade bitcoins with just anyone without having to pay fees to a centralized exchange.
I think Bisq (formerly BitSquare) may be the best answer to the question; decentralized, free ...
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What is the strategy behind a sell wall?
I use this type of trading to accumulate buys at a cheaper price. Ex: if I spend 2 hours buying small amounts of coins so nobody notices the large buys, then I put up a large sell wall ($30k-$45k) to ...
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How to tell if a cryptocurrency exchange or trading platform is trustworthy?
Here's a few checks I'd advise anyone to do.
Does it promise to earn you more than 10% profit in less than a month? If so it is a fraud.
Does it make implausibly impressive claims like "SEC ...
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Is there any way to buy bitcoins online without a fee?
Some Chinese exchanges don't charge a fee.
Any site that has possession of your bitcoins or dollars means there is at least some risk of getting ripped off.
So unfortunately, what you ask for doesn'...
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Coin Exchange Profits
You are right that you will need significant volume to make substantial profits.
Which country are you located in? Some countries will also have very high regulatory startup costs, which is why you ...
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How much does it effectively cost to purchase currency at an exchange?
Essentially, you have to factor in 3 fees in a purchase:
1. Deposit fee (if applicable)
This is usually a fee for wire transfers, and from my experience is only relevant if you deposit cash across ...
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How do exchanges store and transfer bitcoin?
It is important to keep in mind that addresses are not the same as wallets. A wallet contains multiple addresses, not each address is a wallet.
Exchanges maintain their own wallet with thousands of ...
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How can I convert my Bitcoin to Western Union urgently?
There are many Bitcoin buyers on LocalBitcoin who are willing to pay via Western Union. Look for someone with a very high feedback rating and do not release the Bitcoins from escrow until you are sure ...
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Is there any way to buy bitcoins online without a fee?
There is no middle man for using Bitcoin. If all your income and expenses were in Bitcoin, the transfers would have negligible overhead. But what you are looking for is a service that will take your ...
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How are Fees Charged at Kraken?
How are fees charged?
They are charged in the currency fee set during a trade.
Due to a discreet nature of trade matching process, it's rather tricky to give a definite answer on how each individual ...
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What is needed to get listed on a currency exchange website?
First, you're going to have to prove that your altcoin is useful and has value and liquidity. You can't just create a new coin and expect people to value it. The most successful altcoins have ...
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Is it safe to store all my coins on Coinbase?
I would recommend diversifying your btc holdings as much as possible. What if something happens to your wallet? That wouldn't necessary be better than coinbase. You could keep some in a personal ...
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what is the Volume and BaseVolume reported from bittrex API?
Volume is the amount traded in that altcoin over the past 24 hours.
In the case of BTC-DGB, this is the amount of DGB that has been traded in 24 hours.
BaseVolume is the total value traded in the ...
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How do I find the exchange an address belongs to
It is basically impossible to identify who (whether it is an exchange or someone else) owns an address unless they announce that they own the address. You will not be able to figure out what exchange ...
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Best way to mix bitcoins? mixer, coin join (shared send), dark wallet, stealth addresses?
I would say connect to tor, create a blockchain.info account, send you bitcoin there, then send the bitcoin to https://shapeshift.io to another currency which you have a wallet setup, then back to a ...
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Bitcoin market hours (open/close prices)
For the Gemini exchange the closing price is at the time of their daily auction at 4pm ET.
You can read more about the auction here:
https://gemini.com/marketplace/
And why it is considered their "...
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BTC Exchanges and Counterparty Risk
To engage in trading on an exchange, you have to make a deposit of either fiat or Bitcoin. As the balances are then managed by the exchange until paid out, there is no counterparty risk to your ...
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Algorithmic trading python library?
Check out my ccxt library on GitHub: https://github.com/kroitor/ccxt
With it you can access market data and trade bitcoin, ether and altcoins with many crypto currency exchanges. It is used to ...
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Which Bitcoin exchanges publish proof of reserves?
Several exchanges have published reports (OKCoim, Kraken) but Bitfinex is the only one I am aware of to offer real time proof of reserves with individual BitGo wallets.
"The era of commingling ...
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How do exchanges keep relatively similar price on coins?
If I could buy a bitcoin on Exchange A for $2,000, turn around and immediately sell it on Exchange B for $2,500, and make an immediate profit of $500, I would do that all day long, and get rich!
But ...
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Why is the USD spread of the order book on GDAX kept very low most of the time?
GDAX offers 0% fee to maker (traders who's trades are being matched by a seller or buyer). That incentives traders to try to match bid and ask as close as possible thus reducing spreads.
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Is it possible to buy bitcoins via an exchange directly into cold storage?
You can generate a wallet for cold storage offline easily. You can then ask the exchange to use a public address of that cold storage as the recipient for a transaction. You'd still pay the fee the ...
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High activity on exchanges vs. low transaction rate on blockchain
Given that every transaction on an exchange requires also a transaction on the blockchain, how does it work?
They don't, movements on exchanges are internal, not Bitcoin transactions.
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How do cryptocurrency exchanges handle users' accounts?
When you send funds to an exchange, you do not own the UTXOs created. They are owned by the exchange.
Exchanges use the UTXOs from all their wallets to process withdrawals. This means that if you ...
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Is this exchange legitimate?
It is definitely fake, I got the same exact message saying I won the same amount. Please do not drop $200 to buy yourself .006 btc to get your prize, this oozes sketch in every way possible.
The site ...
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How hard is it for an exchange to adopt native segwit? Is it not as simple as updating the address regex checker on the front-end?
Adopting any deposit change at all is not as simple as "just change regex".
There are a few considerations:
Addresses must be generated, and generated properly. All generated addresses that ...
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Is there an opensource crypto-currency exchanges engine?
Bitsquare.io is currently the state of the art and it is open source:
https://github.com/bitsquare/bitsquare/
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