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.