yes, I've done this before
Probably not for quite a while as they've had that security center since June. - https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120605.htmlThat verification is usually pretty quick -- oftentimes the same day, if done during the week and it isn't a holiday and there is no other crisis going on (like, perhaps, this week's scramble to overcome their loss of Barclay's bank for their UK customers). |
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What features, calculators or statistics are you missing in bitcoin eco system? What we should bring on the domain?
If you are providing exchange rates, then there are concerns. Quite often the rate at Mt. Gox is taken as the "official" rate. However, is that the last trade, the current best bid, or the current best ask? Additionally, that rate doesn't consider slippage. Perhaps just a few BTC are available at that level, and to buy even less than 50 BTC sometimes causes a half-percent swing. So maybe there needs to be a quotation for a specific action (buy or sell) and for a specific depth (slippage taken into account). Also, should Mt. Gox be taken as the "official" price. Perhaps it should be a weighting where anything that is an outlier gets discounted or omitted. This is something that is beginning to become more important as a reliable source for "current price" is needed and is pretty much inconsistently determined at this point. Also, there are two ways to compute exchange rates for currencies other than USD. For instance, there are BTC/AUD markets but that may be far from what a merchant really wants, the BTC/USD converted to BTC/AUD using the "official" AUD/USD exchange rate. The merchant may not plan on converting to AUDs, but just needs to know what price to charge. So using the latest BTC/AUD may reflect a price unfavorable to either the merchant or to the customer at any one point in time. There is no accurate history of trading volume per-day that includes all exchanges. BitcoinCharts gives each specific market, e.g., Mt. Gox's BTC/USD, BitSTAMP's BTC/USD, BTCChina's BTC/CNY but there's no total for the day of ALL the exchanges combined. As bulk and direct selling becomes more widely used, this total may not mean as much though. so maybe this isn't as important as it once seemed. The current "currency inflation rate" ... e.g., in the past 24 hours, how many coins were issued, then compute that daily inflation rate on an annual basis. e..g, at this moment, Bitcoin Watch shows 131 blocks produced in the past 24 hours. That is 6,550 BTC. So 6,550 against 10,027,100 that exist at this moment = 0.00065323 daily inflation rate, X 365 days/year = 0.238428858, so the currency inflation today is at 23.8% on an annual basis. This will bounce around depending on the number of blocks occurring each day but this is a metric not reported much elsewhere. |
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Tango down i4dollars.com Where will this whack-a-mole scammer pop up next? |
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Well that settles it.
Perhaps change the thread title to something like Account username spoof of Daily Anarchist or something similar. |
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Maybe because of this more people are using mtgox, and because they can only do 300 transactions a day they are having to0 turn away business?
Anyone shed any light on the matter?
Mt. Gox's message said even they weren't contacted by Barclays before it happened, so they didn't know. They usually don't provide the details when bank problems occur. You probably should assume it will be closed for an extended period of time though. Here are some options to consider: |
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It remains to be seen if our fractional reserve notes and their caveats are performing equally as well. Bad ideas don't do well in the long run. Good ideas stay around forever, in some form or another. Bitcoin is the economic singularity: In the future, books that summarize the history of money will have a line that says, “and then came bitcoin.” It is the economic singularity. And we are living in it now. - http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.com/2011/06/bitcoin-is-economic-singularity.html |
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Is it just me or are all of these Bitcoin exchange websites absolutely terrible in their methods and service?
It's not you. Here might be some options to consider: |
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This would be a good implemention for bitcoins Well, good for the content creator, bad for Vimeo (who takes a 15% cut): Viewers can then tip as much as they want using a credit card. Tips will be transferred to the video creator's PayPal account, minus a 15 percent service fee that Vimeo pockets.
- http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409890,00.asp |
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i.e. is there any way to get USD from say btc-e to mtgox for less than 1%?
If there was a lower cost to move the funds, there would be less of a price difference between the two and you wouldn't be as interested in doing so. So essentially, for someone performing arbitrage, the profit is nearly the same regardless of the fee to move fiat funds from one exchange to the other. [Update: Two services that appear to be under-utilized by arbitrageurs, however, are CurrencyFair and TransferWise. The way it works is you push funds from your bank to the service, then convert to the other currency, then perform a bank transfer to the destination's bank account. The only mismatch is needs is that the sending account must be your own. But here's a scenario. Alice has a bank in the UK. Bob, an over-the-counter trader in the U.S. will trade bitcoins with Alice, if she pays in USDs. So Alice sends GBP to CurrencyFair, then converts those funds to dollars. She then does a withdrawal, sending those funds to Bob. The withdrawal to the U.S. counterparty is done through ACH, so this doesn't work for sending funds to any exchanges as no exchanges presently take deposits via ACH. But for over-the-counter trades, this method becomes quite useful. ] |
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KickStarter made some significant changes with what types of projects they will allow. Basically, the more risky projects are no longer welcome on KickStarter. If you have to use a drawing, CGI or animation to show your product, you aren't welcome at KickStarter -- photos of actual prototypes only, If you are looking for speculative buying through KickStarter of your first production run, you aren't welcome. One "reward" per backer. KickStarter is no longer pre-selling but instead back to providing donation-based "funding". The equity crowdfunding won't likely have such restrictions, but KickStarter doesn't want to be an equity crowdfunding platform so they needed to make it less possible that there will be "capital at risk" from "investment" into products that never materialize. - http://www.crowdsourcing.org/editorial/kickstarter-bans-project-renderings-adds-risks-and-challenges-section-/19431There was a question asking about what Bitcoin-related crowdfunding exists. The response: |
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IMHO generally a bad idea.
You hadn't added a link to your discussion on an alternate approach, so I'm adding to this thread here: I think I may have found a solution for "real world" companies and GLBSE. - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110042.0why I would be looking at doing an IPO on GLBSE the reasons are simple. I like how little BS/paperwork is involved with GLBSE versus things like the NYSE/Pink Sheets/etc... I would rather spend time working on growing my business than hours/days/months on paperwork just to get listed on an exchange.
Because crowdfunding rules in the U.S. haven't even been finalized or published, the requirements to do an equity crowdfunding IPO aren't even known yet. Generally to crowdfund you'll want to use a crowdfunding platform -- perhaps one that might already have an investor following that is familiar with your industry. But even though things won't start popping until early 2013, you could start vetting platforms now. One thing you might consider is to put a bug in the ear of one of those local lawyers interested in learning about crowdfunding. Perhaps suggesting the upcoming crowdfunding bootcamp would be something of interest: - http://crowdfundingroadmap.com/bootcampGood sources of news and updates of the crowdfunding industry: - http://www.CrowdSourcing.org - http://twitter.com/bitcoinmoney/crowdfunding |
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mtgox requires alot of verification, hopefully it wont take too long
New information: Temporary suspension of all GBP Deposits via Barclays
TOKYO - JAPAN - September 25, 2012
It is with regret that we have to inform our British users that you will no longer be able to deposit British Pounds (GBP) to our Barclays bank account from now on. - https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120925.html |
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Ah ... Temporary suspension of all GBP Deposits via Barclays
It is with regret that we have to inform our British users that you will no longer be able to deposit British Pounds (GBP) to our Barclays bank account from now on. - https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120925.html |
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Sorry if the title turns out to be misleading, I might have just misunderstood something but the message seems to be very specific...
This is what I got just now, trying to pay some GBP into Mt.Gox's bank account.
What bank are you trying to send from? |
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