Bitcoin.de: FIDOR and bitcoin.de launch Express Trade.

[C. Bergmann]

Hello Europa,

Facts about bitcoin.de:

- Biggest peer-2-peer Marketplace EUR/BTC
- running since 2011 without interruption
- fully compliant with german law
- first bitcoin-company officially cooperating with a Bank (Fidor Bank)
- Owners well-known in german business-landscape

- ongoing improvement of our service and security
- 2FA + One-time-passwords per Email / Yubikey for login
- Servers in a secure and secret place, 24/7 video-surveillance
- regular external security audits
- automatic Emails from bitcoin.de signed and encrypted on demand

- Bitcon.de is the most importan pillar of the german bitcoin landscape
- with sponsoring a german bitcoin-forum and a german bitcoin-blog Bitcoin.de helps to shape the knowledge about Bitcoin

For further information:
- https://www.coinforum.de/ (Forum)
- http://bitcoinblog.de/ (Blog)
- http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitcoinde/EUR (Charts)
- https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitcoinde/btceur (Charts)

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[C. Bergmann]

New: english section in our bulletin board

https://forum.bitcoin.de/forums/29-Board-(English-Language)

[C. Bergmann]

We are continuously improving our marketplace. Some news about us:

- 2-Factor for everyone: we enabled 2-factor for every customer. You have three options: 1) Yubikey (soon you can order the stick from your profile on bitcoin.de) 2.) Google-Authenticator (or some other OTP [one-tokken-password]) on your smartphone 3.) most simply, but not as secure as the other options: email. We send you the tans.

- we enabled a "read-only-version": If you enable it, you can loggin without a tan, but only to read.

- choose the bank of your trading partner: on your marketplace you can sort the offers due to the bank or banking group. If you share a bank with your trading partner the transaction happens faster

- new chart: you see it. If you have questions - I'm here

- automatic suspension of people which don't pay the check: We received some complaints about traders ordering bitcoins but refuse to pay. Especially with dancing prices this is annoying. Now people who do so repeatedley are automatically suspended.

- coming soon: a subwallet for your taxes. After 12 month we give you a confirmation you didn't spend / sold the bitcoins. In germany income from bitcoins is taxfree if you hold them 12 month.

Questions are welcome.

[Akka]

- coming soon: a subwallet for your taxes. After 12 month we give you a confirmation you didn't spend / sold the bitcoins. In germany income from bitcoins is taxfree if you hold them 12 month.

That sound interessting. Will I be able to use it for multible deposits, that are tracked seperately. Like a savings address maybe, where I have proof, that I currently have XBTC that I have hold at least a year?

[C. Bergmann]

- coming soon: a subwallet for your taxes. After 12 month we give you a confirmation you didn't spend / sold the bitcoins. In germany income from bitcoins is taxfree if you hold them 12 month.

That sound interessting. Will I be able to use it for multible deposits, that are tracked seperately. Like a savings address maybe, where I have proof, that I currently have XBTC that I have hold at least a year?

I don't know for sure if we support multible deposits. You can wait till the subwallet is online, test it and than participate in the discussion about it in our forum. We have a category "die bitcoin.de wunschliste" and are open for proposals

[C. Bergmann]

If you're looking for charts for bitcoin.de you'll find it here:

http://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitcoinde/btceur

and brandnew:
http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitcoinde/EUR

[cozytrade]

If you're looking for charts for bitcoin.de you'll find it here:

I'm rather looking for public API of market depth for bitcoin.de. Not yet available?

[C. Bergmann]

If you're looking for charts for bitcoin.de you'll find it here:

I'm rather looking for public API of market depth for bitcoin.de. Not yet available?

You'll have to register for API-keys on our market-place.

[defaced]

Will you be adding any of the alternatives like FRK?

[cozytrade]

You'll have to register for API-keys on our market-place.

How can I register? Not necessary to be private API for trading but just public price information is fine. I could not find it neither in "Marketplace" or "Settings". Any update from below?
https://forum.bitcoin.de/threads/447-Api

[cozytrade]

Do you have USD market?

> Current Bitcoin price:  EUR 601.44€  USD $929.94 ( as of 2/4/14 11:01 PM)

Big discrepancy 

I thought you are dedicated in EUR trading but many volumes in "Latest trade deals USD". However, USD price is quite further expensive from EUR. If you have your own market, how can I participate? Or you just feed the USD price from a partner such as MtGOX?

[C. Bergmann]

Do you have USD market?

> Current Bitcoin price:  EUR 601.44€  USD $929.94 ( as of 2/4/14 11:01 PM)

Big discrepancy 

I thought you are dedicated in EUR trading but many volumes in "Latest trade deals USD". However, USD price is quite further expensive from EUR. If you have your own market, how can I participate? Or you just feed the USD price from a partner such as MtGOX?

This: we just feed the price from mtgox. It to enable our customers to look at the "real picture", cause the price is made by dollar-trades (maybe today also by cny). I think we won't mirrow gox-prices forever but change to bitstamp. But I don't know, if or when this will happen.

[C. Bergmann]

You'll have to register for API-keys on our market-place.

How can I register? Not necessary to be private API for trading but just public price information is fine. I could not find it neither in "Marketplace" or "Settings". Any update from below?
https://forum.bitcoin.de/threads/447-Api

1. if you register, you can do this as an api user. Don't know if you can change your settings if you are already registered. I will do research :/

2. no update about this topic. As I see it, the question was if users can use an api to set automatic trades. We would enjoy this, but at the moment our customers have to complete their trade by sending money from their bank-account. I think it wouldn't be compatible with automatic trades resp. lead to a lot of broken trades. But we are working on this things and I hope during this years we'll provide some options for this. We're evolving step by step

[C. Bergmann]

Some news from our marketplace to keep you up to date:

Security

• We have improved our login security. We can’t tell you many details, but the most visible change will be the captcha you’ll soon see there after failed logins.
• We have also made reactivating your account after a series of failed login attempts easier – this has been too complicated in the past.
• Additionally, we now provide a visual representation of the strength of your passwords, allowing you to judge how secure they are.
• In the near future will will be implementing a YubiKey store on our site, allowing you to buy YubiKeys for Bitcoins. We recommend you do this, as we believe it is the most secure way to protect your account.

Trading

• You may have noticed that we have already dropped our dollar charts. The reason is not that they weren’t useful, but that up to this point we have been using Mt Gox’s data. This no longer represents the real price. We will soon be displaying the CoinDesk price index (CPI), which is an average of several international exchanges.
• Very soon we will be providing more detailed trading data, which will appear as follows: At the top you will see the price as a candlestick. In the middle are three- and 12-hour averages. At the bottom is the volume of coins traded.
• Additionally, there is a new option when making an offer. It has previously been possible to choose a buyer or seller from a specific country, but selecting just one country to trade with meant unchecking all of the other options. We have now made this possible with just one click.
• Enabling the country in which your bank is based is now obligatory. The reason for this is that in the past there have been extremely cheap joke offers, which have been made available for only one exotic country. This is no longer possible.

Funding

• Finally, we have implemented the use of QR codes for funding your account. This makes it far easier for mobile users to transfer funds into our exchange.

[jhk753]

If you're looking for charts for bitcoin.de you'll find it here:

I'm rather looking for public API of market depth for bitcoin.de. Not yet available?

I developed a ruby gem in order to get public data from bitcoin.de

https://github.com/jhk753/bitcoinde

[C. Bergmann]

If you're looking for charts for bitcoin.de you'll find it here:

I'm rather looking for public API of market depth for bitcoin.de. Not yet available?

I developed a ruby gem in order to get public data from bitcoin.de

https://github.com/jhk753/bitcoinde

Hi,

thank you for your interest. I send it to our technical stuff, please be patient, they are very bussy at the moment with several projects.

Cause my background is not IT - what is a ruby gem? Does it show the market depth?

kind regards

Christoph Bergmann

[C. Bergmann]

Hallo everyone,

I have a new announcement: Now you can use your bitcoins to buy a yubikey stick directly from your bitcoin.de account. The yubikey is not keylocked, so you can use it on every application you want.

For those who don't know: A yubikey stick is a usb-stick that creates one-time-passwords. It is considered the most secure login. In our shop we offer three different models of YubiKeys.

Bitcoin.de already uses one-time-passwords that you receive by email when you login. Yubikeys help you to make this procedure even more secure and faster.

We have a couple of nice plans in our pipeline. I will keep you updated.

Bitcoin.de - the german bitcoin marketplace running without disruption for more than 30 month.

kind regards

Christoph Bergmann
bitcoin.de

[jhk753]

If you're looking for charts for bitcoin.de you'll find it here:

Yes you can see market depth. A ruby gem is basically a library to help get data from bitcoin.de written in ruby

I'm rather looking for public API of market depth for bitcoin.de. Not yet available?

I developed a ruby gem in order to get public data from bitcoin.de

https://github.com/jhk753/bitcoinde

Hi,

thank you for your interest. I send it to our technical stuff, please be patient, cause they are very bussy working on bringing our API with that of our partner, the Fidor Bank together and trying to make bitcoin.de a real time exchange.

Cause my background is not IT - what is a ruby gem? Does it show the market depth?

kind regards

Christoph Bergmann

[C. Bergmann]

Yes you can see market depth. A ruby gem is basically a library to help get data from bitcoin.de written in ruby

I'm rather looking for public API of market depth for bitcoin.de. Not yet available?

Our API involves market depth. You can register for a API-Login. If you verify your account with your mobile phone our stuff will send you the keys for the API. Sometimes this needs some days. If you have trouble with it feel free to ask me again.

kind regards

Christoph Bergmann

[C. Bergmann]

Dear customers.

since today Bitcoin.de has a new feature: we can send our automatic emails to you signed and encrypted. Since we send you a one-time-password for the login and ongoing information about your trades, this is not just a matter of privacy but also of security.

If you want to use this feature just go to options in your account and scroll down to the bottom. Here you have three options:
- neither sign nor encrypt
- sign
- sign and encrypt

If you let us sign our emails we attach a digital signature. It enables your system to identify if this email comes from us or from someone else. So you will recognize phishing-emails. To activate this option, you have to download our public key.

If you choose the third option we will further encrypt our emails so that only your system can read it and no-one else. To enable this option you have to upload your public PGP-key.

For those who are familiar with PGP-encryption this operation should be easily-done. For those who are not I suggest to invest five minute in a internet-recherche. If you use Thunderbird for emails, you can download the plugin enigmail. If you use your browser for emails you can download the plugin mailvelope as an example.

For more information see http://bitcoinblog.de/2014/05/15/automatic-emails-from-bitcoin-de-now-signed-and-encrypted-by-request/

Further questions are always welcome.

kind regards

Christoph Bergmann
Bitcoin.de - trusted and secure marketplace. since 2011.

[C. Bergmann]

Did you know:

on bitcoin.de you can download an account statement. In your account you can generate a list with all of your trade and activities in a specific time-frame (purchase, sell, deposit, disbursement). You can download the account statement as a .csv.

We hope this helps you with your tax declaration or your book-keeping.

Further questions are always welcome.

kind regards

Christoph Bergmann
Bitcoin.de - trusted and secure marketplace EUR/BTC since 2011.

[C. Bergmann]

Dear customers,

since yesterday you have a public voice to tell us how we should improve our marketplace.
With Uservoice you can suggest improvements and vote for them.

Check it out:
https://bitcoin-de.uservoice.com/forums/251173-ideen-zur-verbesserung-von-bitcoin-de

Our support stuff is already answering on your suggestions.


kind regards

Christoph Bergmann
Bitcoin.de - trusted and secure marketplace EUR/BTC since 2011.

[C. Bergmann]

Dear customers,

Now you can buy gold directly from your bitcoin.de account

Here's the press release:

http://bitcoinblog.de/2014/06/30/you-can-now-buy-gold-through-your-bitcoin-de-account/

kind regards

Christoph Bergmann
Bitcoin.de - trusted and secure marketplace EUR/BTC since 2011.

[C. Bergmann]

Dear Customers,

our gold shop is now open for international customers. Have fun with it.

Christoph Bergmann
Bitcoin.de - trusted and secure marketplace EUR/BTC since 2011.

[C. Bergmann]

+++ NEW: Live-Charts for your website with the price-widget and a documentation of the API +++

Dear customers,

for everyone who wants to stream livecharts on your website, we made this ridiculously easy with our price-widget. You don't even need to know javascript. Simple, foolsafe html is enough to implement the bitcoin.de-price-widget. It's available in several outfits. For example it looks like this:



or, if you want, like this



Currently we are thinking about implementing a widget for the bulls and a widget for the bears.

More info about the widget: https://www.bitcoin.de/en/api/price-widget


Next point: Our API-documentation. We wrote a documentation for our API-users and translated it into english. I hope it is helpful for everyone who wants to use our API's data about prize and volume. One special feature of it: we also send average prizes, usually 3hours, but also 12hours. The documentation: https://www.bitcoin.de/en/api/marketplace


Last point: We are currently working on translating our website into major european languages. For this we are searching for volunteers. More info can be found here: http://bitcoinblog.de/2014/07/14/every-word-helps-bitcoin-de-is-looking-for-translators/

Kind regards

Christoph Bergmann
https://www.Bitcoin.de - trusted and secure marketplace EUR/BTC since 2011.

[C. Bergmann]

++ New: We are now responsive. Enjoy our page with your smartphone or tablet ++

Our customers wished for a long time we deliver our page optimized on tablets and smartphones. Now we made this real. Enjoy it!

Christoph Bergmann
https://bitcoin.de - Marketplace for Europe. Your trusted and secure partner for trading Bitcoins. Since 2011. Approved by the BaFin.

[C. Bergmann]

++ Proof of reserve (Bitcoin) by external auditors beginning at monday ++

Dear customers,

after we had talks to several certified public accountant firms we finally won on to audit our Bitcoin-reserves. Beginning at monday the auditors will control several accounts. Customers who are chosen will receive a message in their dashboard and asked for the permission.

More infos about the procedure and some details about the company and our quest to convince them to ad Bitcoin to their business will follow. We keep you updated.

The picture some customers will see in their dashboard looks like this (german version):



Christoph Bergmann
https://Bitcoin.de
Bitcoin-Marketplace for Europe.
Made in Germany.
Secure and trusted since 2011.

[C. Bergmann]

+++ Cooperation with audit firm RLT to verify customers’ bitcoin balances +++

Dear customers,

we proudly announce that bitcoin.de is the first bitcoin trading center that co-operates with an acknowledget audit firm to verify customer's bitcoin balances. After a long search for a partner that accepts the challenge we found one with RLT. The audit is made with german accuracy and ensure's the anonymity of our customers.

Read more: http://bitcoinblog.de/2014/09/25/bitcoin-de-co-operate-with-acknowledged-audit-firm-to-verify-customers-bitcoin-balances/.

Of course, it was necessary to discuss various issues such as cold wallets, the blockchain and other aspects of the bitcoin ecosystem. But within a few weeks bitcoin.de and RLT developed a procedure to verify that bitcoin.de does indeed hold its customers’ bitcoin balances. One major strand of such an audit is to consider and eliminate any possibility that bitcoin.de might mislead the auditor. The audit was carried out using control samples, because a complete verification was not practical. The creation of the sample was made in a way that takes into account the risk factors and guarantees a solid outcome.

RLT is auditing both the desired and actual state of the balances. The desired state is the balances that are used by the databases of bitcoin.de. The actual state is the balances that can be found in the blockchain and that are owned by bitcoin.de (who hold the private keys). The audit consists of three parts that started on Monday, September 1, after initial tests.

sincerely

Christoph Bergmann
bitcoin.de
german bitcoin-marketplace since 2011

[C. Bergmann]

+++ Accounts certified: Bitcoin.de receives seal of approval +++

Dear customers,

now our auditor has confirmed: bitcoin.de manages the customers' funds correctly. This is the first time a bitcoin marketplace was audited by an independent and acknowledged audit firm applying german standards of audits.

You can find the whole article about the audit here:

http://bitcoinblog.de/2014/12/04/accounts-certified-bitcoin-de-receives-seal-of-approval/

sincerely,

Christoph Bergmann
https://bitcoin.de
http://bitcoinblog.de/category/english/

[C. Bergmann]

++ FIDOR Bank and Bitcoin.de launch Bitcoin Express trading system ++

Finally we made it: FIDOR and bitcoin.de launch the Express Trading System - Europes fastes way to buy Bitcoins and a new level of cooperation between a bank and a bitcoin-marketplace.

See our press release:

http://bitcoinblog.de/2015/02/23/fidor-bank-and-bitcoin-de-launch-bitcoin-express-trading-system/

[SharkFaceGang]

Hello!I have some questions

I´m looking for trading´s fees withdraw/deposit´s fees

what kind of withdraw/deposit sistemes do you use?

what kind of fees does it have?

thank you!

[C. Bergmann]

Hello!I have some questions

I´m looking for trading´s fees withdraw/deposit´s fees

what kind of withdraw/deposit sistemes do you use?

what kind of fees does it have?

thank you!

Hello,

trading fee is currently 0,5%. Withdraw / deposit fee is 0.0. Deposit and withdraw is only with bitcoin, since we serve as a marketplace, where traders meet and send Euro with their bank-account / automatically with their fidor-bank-account.

Further questions are welcome, happy trading