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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How to tell if a cryptocurrency exchange or trading platform is trustworthy?
I've seen a good-looking website for buying and selling cryptocurrencies, should I trust it with my money?
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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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Why don't people buy at one exchange and sell at another?
Bitcoinity.org shows that for the past 30 days, bitstamp's price is high at 101.00, low at 77.00, and current price is 98.04. On contrast, mtgox's price for the past 30 days is high at 115.00, low at ...
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Why do the price of bitcoins vary wildly between exchanges?
▼ mtgoxUSD 95.0000 108.452 -12.404% 2428892
▼ btc24EUR 67.5047 89.036 -24.183% 348160
▼ btceUSD 82.9900 106.794 -22.289% 277286
▼ bitstampUSD 75.9900 109.320 ...
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How do buy and sell orders work?
How does buying and selling bitcoins work once the order is placed?
I just know that the order-matching engine is used for this purpose, but more information regarding this will be helpful.
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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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What would it take to create my own Bitcoin exchange?
I'm looking into creating a Bitcoin / crypto currency trading platform (say, like Tradeking), as I've noticed there are a few sites out there already, except they all have pretty hefty fees.
So, to ...
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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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What is needed to make a bitcoin exchange?
What do I need to setup a bitcoin exchange website like:
BTC China
Mt Gox
Bitstamp
I have my own web development team and we can code pretty much anything so that is not a problem.
I'm at a loss ...
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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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Is anyone taking advantage of different prices across exchanges?
Say I have funds on two exchanges. Whenever the price of bitcoin is higher on the first one, I sell on that one and buy on the other one.
Is anyone doing this or has a program that does this? Is it ...
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Will I pay BID price or lowest necessary amount?
I was wondering about how ASKs and BIDs are matched:
Say I set up two separate trading accounts on mtgox.
On my first account, I offer to sell 1 BTC for 1000 USD
...Nobody will buy it (at current ...
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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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How do bitcoin exchanges work?
I'm relatively new to the world of Bitcoins and understand the basic principles of wallets and addresses etc, but was wondering how exchanges (like Coinbase) work exactly.
Is the entire exchange ...
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How do bitcoin exchanges set prices?
What do exchanges base their Bitcoin and alt currency prices on? What makes them say that they will sell bitcoins for certain amount? Do they increase and decrease their price based on what other ...
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