When someone asks you "What is the price of a Bitcoin?" you would answer the Mt. Gox exchange rate in 2011 and 2012. This year, this is no longer correct.
Mt. Gox has been refusing to process withdrawals
PROOF in order to scare people into buying BTC to be able to withdraw their fortune from the site, which caused the price to rise above the "true" rate.
Mt. Gox Rate: $143.87
BitStamp Rate: $126.50
BTC-e Rate: $123.24
As you can see, Mt. Gox users are being defrauded of about $20/BTC currently. The site
https://bitcoinaverage.com/#USD has tried to average all the exchanged together to make one "true" price, but this is still false because all exchanges other than BTC-e are fraudulent.
The only way an exchange can offer the true price of Bitcoin is if
anyone can
instantly deposit
and withdraw at any time. The only exchange which can offer this service for now and for the future is BTC-e.
Here is a list of the deposit/withdraw options:
Cash deposit (USD currency) at Post of Russia
This is the only option that can guarantee instant deposits/withdrawals for all, which proves that the exchange rate is 100% real and not tampered with. Other exchanges had "cash deposits" at various banks but they all have been, or will be shut down due to problems with the law.
Anyone exchange that is accepting cash deposits for Bitcoin in the US is committing a
felony!
PROOFEach financial institution that establishes, maintains, administers, or manages a private banking account or a correspondent account in the United States for a non-United States person, including a foreign individual visiting the United States, or a representative of a non-United States person shall establish appropriate, specific, and, where necessary, enhanced, due diligence policies, procedures, and controls that are reasonably designed to detect and report instances of money laundering through those accounts.
Also, any deposits made in order to
sell Bitcoin would be involved in selling a ponzi scheme, because Bitcoin is recognized as a ponzi scheme by US law, since the people who originally bought are profiting from the people who are buying later, and if all people who own Bitcoins were to sell, the price would collapse to 0.
http://kschang.hubpages.com/hub/How-Pyramid-Schemes-and-Ponzi-Schemes-are-Prosecuted-in-the-US- The participant makes a payment of money to the company(Gox);
- In exchange, the participant receives the right to sell a product (or service) (Bitcoin);
- In exchange, the participant receives compensation for recruiting others into the program (In Bitcoin, more adopters = Higher Price);
- The compensation is unrelated to the sale of products (or services) to the ultimate user (Price of Bitcoin is unrelated to the crypto Bitcoin works on).
To be judged a pyramid scheme, the scheme must have all four elements.
Thus, anyone selling Bitcoins using an exchange other than BTC-e is committing a
felony!
In conclusion, anyone trying to buy or sell your Bitcoins at an exchange rate other than the BTC-e rate is trying to scam you.