There have been a number of cases of thefts or losses of Bitcoins from a few Bitocoin exchanges, but has there ever been a case of traditional currency being stolen or lost by an exchange?
Category: Bitcoin Exchanges
Bitcoin Exchanges Questions and Answers
Tradehill used to be an important Bitcoin exchange, but it was closed earlier this year due to losing a lot of money to their payment processor. What is the full story behind Tradehill?
I’m asking about legal concerns, not technological ones. If I’m based in the USA, should the exchange be a US company? If not, where should it be based? How is banking set up?
I’ve heard that [Ogrr] (http://ogrr.com/) has provided Bitcoin as its internal unit of trading. Could someone who knows the forum well provide us with information about: How large is the transaction …
I’ve been looking through the bitcoin wiki and googling isn’t providing any useful results. Basically I’m looking for some way to deposit my BTC into my US bank account. Is there any service that can …
In July 2011, 1 BTC was trading at above $10 USD. By September, the price of 1 BTC had fallen over 50%, and at the time of writing (October 2011) 1 BTC is trading around $2.50 – $3.00 USD. In a forum …
BTC-E appears to have an API available at https://btc-e.com/api/1/ticker but this only lists the BTC/USD pair data. They also offer pairs of BTC against alternate currencies like Ixcoin and Tenebrix. …
The C programming language outperforms interpreted languages such as Python or Ruby, but when it comes down to programming productivity, it is much easier/faster to write a Python program than a C …
So far I have seen some Perl modules; Finance:MtGox and Webservice:MtGox for interacting with Mt.Gox, a Ruby gem for Mt.Gox and a Python based command line client for again, Mt.Gox. I’m wondering if …
After the big hack of Mt Gox we all became aware that there is nothing in place to prevent “flash crashes.” Most stock, FOREX and other exchanges have features like trading curbs or other market …