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Title: Bitcoin address holding $$ not BTC ?
Post by: aplistir on October 05, 2017, 12:34:11 PM
How is it possible that some addresses have dollars in them instead of bitcoins?
Example here:
https://blockchain.info/address/37X5mtn38nHj9ZtDeyZKfvwWjjuguNdvgK (https://blockchain.info/address/37X5mtn38nHj9ZtDeyZKfvwWjjuguNdvgK)
And dollar transaction:
https://blockchain.info/tx/1269e5050787fc26d49f619c1a1ca1446fd4ba2789c2c5865dd9853ec471eeef (https://blockchain.info/tx/1269e5050787fc26d49f619c1a1ca1446fd4ba2789c2c5865dd9853ec471eeef)

Can I now convert BTC directly to digital dollars? How is it done?   ;D :D


Title: Re: Bitcoin address holding $$ not BTC ?
Post by: cr1776 on October 05, 2017, 12:36:34 PM

How is it possible that some addresses have dollars in them instead of bitcoins?
Example here:
https://blockchain.info/address/37X5mtn38nHj9ZtDeyZKfvwWjjuguNdvgK (https://blockchain.info/address/37X5mtn38nHj9ZtDeyZKfvwWjjuguNdvgK)
And dollar transaction:
https://blockchain.info/tx/1269e5050787fc26d49f619c1a1ca1446fd4ba2789c2c5865dd9853ec471eeef (https://blockchain.info/tx/1269e5050787fc26d49f619c1a1ca1446fd4ba2789c2c5865dd9853ec471eeef)

Can I now convert BTC directly to digital dollars? How is it done?


It isn’t. It is just set on your browser to show the dollar value. Click the dollar value to switch it back.


Title: Re: Bitcoin address holding $$ not BTC ?
Post by: aplistir on October 05, 2017, 12:46:58 PM
It isn’t. It is just set on your browser to show the dollar value. Click the dollar value to switch it back.

Hmmm.  Can't change it back.
Are you saying, that you do not see dollars in blockchain.info ? I only see dollars in every address now. I thought it must be a funny bug in blockchain.info  

Edit: Ok. now got bitcoins back. I restarted the browser, and erased recent history.
This thread can be moved to bitcoin discussion or completely removed.


Title: Re: Bitcoin address holding $$ not BTC ?
Post by: LoyceV on October 05, 2017, 04:59:35 PM
Hmmm.  Can't change it back.
Click any green/red field with a value to toggle between dollars and Bitcoins. No need to restart your browser for it, it's a feature.

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This thread can be moved to bitcoin discussion or completely removed.
You can do that yourself: lower left > move topic > Other - Archival. Or just lock it.


Title: Re: Bitcoin address holding $$ not BTC ?
Post by: Aura on October 05, 2017, 11:52:08 PM
Like others said it's the current exchange rate at Blockchain.
You can set it back by clicking on the green button/icon with the amount of value on it.


Title: Re: Bitcoin address holding $$ not BTC ?
Post by: Taras on October 06, 2017, 12:38:37 AM
There's also a dropdown at the bottom of the page that you can use to display amounts in some specific currency.
Also on that list are mBTC and bits, which are 1/1000 and 1/1000000 units of BTC!
https://i.krist.club/kHEu.png


Title: Re: Bitcoin address holding $$ not BTC ?
Post by: aplistir on October 06, 2017, 09:34:58 AM

Thanks.

Good to know. Learned something new about blockchain.info.
Hope it is useful to someone else too  ;)

I lock this thread, because I think everything has been said already.