Alternatives to Mt Gox

[LordGreynick]

Hey all,

What are some high volume alternatives to Mt Gox?

I was using Cryptoxchange but now they've gone out of business ..

[davout]

Where are you located ?

[mufa23]

BitFloor for the USA guys

EDIT: Oh, and CampBX. Although I haven't noticed an "high volume".

[2weiX]

intersango, maybe.

[Stephen Gornick]

The factors relevant to providing the right answer to that include:

 - Where are you located (country)?
 - How much are you looking to buy?
 - What payment methods do you have available?
 - How soon do you need access to the proceeds?
 - Is privacy important?

Here's a fairly comprehensive list:
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Buying_bitcoins

[LordGreynick]

The factors relevant to providing the right answer to that include:

 - Where are you located (country)?
 - How much are you looking to buy?
 - What payment methods do you have available?
 - How soon do you need access to the proceeds?
 - Is privacy important?

Here's a fairly comprehensive list:
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Buying_bitcoins

Thanks for the reply

- Located in Australia
- Varies from 100 coins up to 1000s of coins
- Telegraphic transfers, cash and direct bank deposits (in Australia)
- 3-5 days is usually fine
- Privacy not that important

[arlekyn13]

I'd add the following to the relevant factors:
- do you mind fiat conversions (AUD to USD and vice-versa) which will most likely involve additional fees?

If you don't, than bitfloor is prolly your 2nd best option in my opinion.

I'd still go for MtGox though for high volume, especially if you're looking for a dedicated AUD market. If international wires for withdrawals still take a long time, you can always go for the voucher which can be cashed out much faster at aurumxchange or elsewhere. Personally I'm using bitcoin-24.com now to sell my bitcoins simply because it provides some important features for EU users (no transaction fees, very low FEE for SEPA withdrawals).

On a side note, totally unrelated, Stephen, is that picture the one taken from Mars surface?

[Stephen Gornick]

- Located in Australia
- Varies from 100 coins up to 1000s of coins
- Telegraphic transfers, cash and direct bank deposits (in Australia)
- 3-5 days is usually fine
- Privacy not that important

There have been reports of people having a good experience using CurrencyFair in conjunction with an exchange.  With CurrencyFair, you transfer money (bank wire push) from your bank account to  CurrencyFair, then convert to a destination currency (e.g., USD) and then send the funds as a wire elsewhere.
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/CurrencyFair

There've been a few reports that this works with Mt. Gox, though others have said that wire transfers to Mt. Gox (in this case, coming from CurrencyFair) must be in the name of the accountholder so who knows.  This may work with other exchanges as well though.

is that picture the one taken from Mars surface?

Yup.  It's just a rock (and shadow).

[Aldur1]

Have you tried Trading OTC?

[Endgame]

If you want a high volume exchange that isn't MtGox, your best bet would be either bitstamp or btc-e. They are the 2nd and 3rd highest exchanges by volume at the moment. In both cases you would probably have to send a USD wire, but that isn't too hard to do from Australia. Alternatively you could use one of the fixed-rate Australian exchanges such as Omnicoins or Spendbitcoins.

[Chief Satangkai]

I too would use BTC-E for high volume exchanges. I can also recommend bitcoin-24...