Signing up to see what happens..

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Many thankes. 

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When trying to buy a really small amount of BTC, it gives the error message "1: Amount too low". I suspect the '1:' is some sort of error code? Perhaps it's more useful to mention the minimal amount in the error message.

EDIT: Found a more serious one now.

I set a buy order at a ridiculously large amount of a million BTC for market price, at 1:250 leverage. I had $14k in my balance. Then something weird happened: the order got executed for 250.82679898 BTC (worth exactly $25k), but my balance remained untouched. Then the order was canceled automatically (and it is now listed as 'canceled' in my 'Closed orders' list) because the 'Margin allowance exceeded'. Not everything was unchanged, though: my fee-progress-bar jumped straight through four levels, to the point where it's now nearly at 0.36%. Being able to use this in a controlled fashion would make it a very viable attack to get into cheaper fee regions

I have thus been unable to reproduce it, but I'll keep trying. Perhaps you can see more info on the back end. It's trade order OYHWZH-PXEQY-PWFHKU.

There is a thread about this already. Let's keep it organised, guys.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=186609.0

One does not simply panic buy when Bitcoin Central has one's fiat

From their recent tweets, one might conclude that their host is at fault

https://twitter.com/bitcoin_central/status/327131323342942209
https://twitter.com/bitcoin_central/status/327133723936051200

Proper communication on this one so far, though. Informative downtime message
But yeah, it's a pity they're the ones with a breach again

There is always a relevant XKCD. 

Mouse-over alt: The top computer champion at Seven Minutes in Heaven is a Honda-built Realdoll, but to date it has been unable to outperform the human Seven Minutes in Heaven champion, Ken Jennings.

You might as well set it up as an AI challenge straight away then

From a Dutch account, I've always been able to SEPA within 48 hours to Bitcoin Central. With Bitcoin-24, however, I havn't seen anything arrive even after 6 days! Is this normal behaviour?

FWIW: the alternate URL works fine and I can see my balance just fine

They just tweeted again, saying that any verified user can send them an email and get access to an 'alternate url'. Quite assuring, as this means that the problem isn't with them but could likely really be a DDoS.


Yeah, I'll keep that in mind, but for now they've got the benefit of my doubt

As of this afternoon, Bitcoin Central went down. It seems that it's been down consistently for the past 3 hours, judging by the statistics on bitcoincharts.com.

I was just wondering if anyone had heard anything about this. Are there any accouncements? Anything on IRC, perhaps?

I'm glad I had just purchased BTC though - wouldn't want to slump straight into another downtime period with EUR in my hand seeing the price rise with every passing hour

EDIT: BTC Central is being DDoS'd, apparently. They tweeted about it.

It does come from the market, but there is often quite some time between depositing and withdrawing. It would be unsafe if Mtgox kept all that money (both fiat and BTC) within reaching distance. In case of a hack, it is important that only a fraction of their money is 'hot', while the main volume is in cold storage, preferably entirely offline.

There is a security/user experience balance in deciding how much they want to keep in hot storage to account for daily withdrawals.

I was afraid this would happen.. This has quite some potential to blow up in everyone's faces  

For 10k BTC I'd home-deliver it anywhere. Anywhere. 

Opening seems to have been succesful, and no strange edge-case trades have registered

And I shall quote your quote. For now.

Ah, that makes sense then. Thanks.

Is there a free version of Minecraft that lets me connect? I'm a bit confused - there seem to be a million different clients (both demo and full) and as many different princings..

If you read the announcement, you'll see that the transfer market is still frozen until later tonight.

Glad you found my addition useful

For those of you unable to compile it from source, I figured I might as well upload a release candidate (as long as it hasn't been pulled into the main release, anyway). Do note that it might be a bit buggy with Bitcoin Central at the moment, as that market is currencly frozen.

You can download it from my branch here