I don't speak Chinese, but I would like to add these exchanges to http://fiatleak.com and need some help in finding the trades API for each.

Thank you.

fiatleak browser code updated Friday (Nov 22), now much lighter and faster... also functional on Mobile devices.

http://fiatleak.com/

Always open for feature suggestions, here or tweet to @fiatleak

http://fiatleak.com/

Hopefully this slows down the volume of questions asking, when does China wake up in #bitcoin-pricetalk

(refresh if you don't see the day/night overlay, it will move along with the day)

enjoy!

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I removed the $.

At the very least, it gets people to question what it really is... a dollar.

There is no US$ value for the Russian one, it is the value in their currency with a $ before it.

The dollar or peso sign ($) is a symbol primarily used to indicate the various peso and dollar units of currency around the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign

I see .1 Bitcoin sold in China holding a valuation currently of $276.2

That works out correctly for the current exchange rate of 1 BTC to $2762 Yuan.

Not everyone wants the dollar perspective, each currency is listed as their own.

great! must have been something with mod_pagespeed not rewriting includes correctly.

1) you are welcome to critique or modify the code as it is open source

2&3) each trade coming from an exchange gives an amount total of Bitcoins purchased, the currency that it was purchased in and the price that it cost in that currency.  Fiatleak simply takes each trade and adds together the amount of Bitcoins purchased.  As all trades are positive, this number increases...

As one form of exchange increases others decline, the answer to the question you are raising depends on where you draw the line of distinction between currencies of trade.  I draw a strong line between fiat (those with banker chosen inflation) and bitcoin (mathematically enforced maximum resource limit) which is why the site presents the data in this way.

The fact of the matter is that all of Bitcoin's economic value at this point has been derived from a handful of engineers developing software and an even smaller number of engineers developing and selling hardware to a mining market that purchases a small bit of electricity.  This goes to show that value is not a function anything other than acceptance, and it is why it is clear that the acceptance of a new currency like Bitcoin is actually taking away from our current system of fiat money.

If you want to argue more about it, let's do it on a hangout.

Interesting, I just added mod_pagespeed to apache... but it is not causing this for me.

I have removed it for now, can you refresh and see if this still happens?

Open up the console, FF or Chrome, right click on page -> inspect element then select the console tab in the bottom window pane that comes up.

If you see errors, paste them.

If you see nothing, nothing is moving.  Right now I am seeing periods of 30+ seconds without trades, so if you closed the window that fast (which is a long time watching a circle spin round) you would have experienced that.

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Perhaps it's been a week since you have seen fiatleak, I have made significant updates to the site over the past week which are described in detail here - https://github.com/andrewhodel/fiatleak/commits/master

Please share the site with your friends, show the US public before the upcoming senate hearing that Bitcoin is a worldwide phenomenon.

This memory leak has been fixed, sorry for my mistake in not knowing the kinetic.js library well enough.

https://github.com/andrewhodel/fiatleak/commit/a2716c33456285f4afc68da13346cb047f50a419

Here is a screenshot of Chrome's memory heap tool where I have taken snapshots over time as the data fills across the map.

https://i.imgur.com/2kBKOAm.png

The first heap snapshot was 11.2MB immediately when I opened the site.

As the plot of high points fills in across the map, you can see the heaps grow from snapshot 6 until they level off at snapshot 13 around 15.5MB.

With the volume of trades and extra exchanges having been recently added, the problem was become very apparent.

Thank you everyone for pointing it out.

Bitmessage seems great, I'm going to start working on a proof of concept with it.

A sybil attack is someone creating false identities to overcome trust in a DHT/p2p network, this paper describes a method to counter that with social links:

3.2 A simple sublinear protocol - http://imgur.com/BCWJW8c

However, I don't even know that this is needed.  As we are building a trading network, one could simply offer escrow services on the network as items of trade and it would automatically allow trusted agents with reputation.


I can just say that I haven't found any obvious cons with using Bitmessage as the messaging foundation, that's why I am looking for comments.

The signature is checked before peer's relay it to other peers, not every single peer in the network.

A network of trust, this is also strong against sybil as described here - http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/sybil-dht-socialnets08.pdf

Peers can accept trusted from trusted messages as those reasonable to view, and before executing a trade are welcome to take the processing power to verify the message signature themselves.

This is discussed in the last section of the paper.

 Spamming of messages across the network

Peers can simply not accept, and more importantly as it is a p2p protocol not relay messages for peers with negative or low ratings. This gives everyone the chance to start from 0 and grow their influence through their rating.