Exchange Rate Plugin

[jjacob]

The Bitcoin exchange rate plugin seems to have gone crazy today.
When I opened electrum, the exchange rate shown was 1 BTC = 800+ USD.
It has been hovering at 1 BTC = 350 USD since then, although the current price is in the $270s.
Does anybody else have this problem?

[ThomasV]

which source are you using?

[jjacob]

which source are you using?

Checked. It was localbitcoins. Was that unadvisable?
Changed it to blockchain.info. Now the price seems reasonable.

[ThomasV]

Checked. It was localbitcoins. Was that unadvisable?

I will check. Maybe we should remove them from the list.

[RustyNomad]

I use BitcoinAverage and price is on 281.58.

I use the specific one as it also offers historical rates, not all do. With the historical rates your transactions are shown at the US$ price at the time of the transaction so a nice way to see what the transaction was worth in $ back when it was executed.

Thomas

A suggestion - not sure if this is possible but it will be a nice feature if the USD Amount can be included in the data when exporting the history.

I also made a post some time back to ask whether the order of the export file could possibly be changed. Currently the export order is

Code:

Transaction_hash, label, confirmations, value, timestamp

Would be nice if it could be changed around to the following:

Code:

Timestamp, label, value, (USD Amount), confirmations, transaction_hash

Currently when exporting to a spreadsheet (csv) I always need to rearrange the columns in a more logical order, as above. Not a major problem but would be nice.