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Ok, time to find another exchange. Considering http://www.coinnext.com http://www.coinnext.com and https://localbitcoins.com https://localbitcoins.com Other su

by kirk21 13y ago

Ok, time to find another exchange. Considering http://www.coinnext.com http://www.coinnext.com and https://localbitcoins.com https://localbitcoins.com Other suggestions?

x3ro 13y ago
https://www.bitstamp.net/ https://www.bitstamp.net/ ?
vtempest 13y ago
Coinbase.com is a great one, and they recently received venture funding
- nullc 13y ago
  Coinbase recently imposed a kind of ludicrous $3000 a day outbound limit on accounts that had previously been limited to 50 BTC/day. Removing the limit involves buying coin from them, waiting 30 days, and solving some seemingly impossible credit report based identity quiz (some people report passing after 10 tries, you're limited to one try per 24 hours).
  - politician 13y ago
    We did that back in the online poker gambling days. The casinos would throttle USD withdrawals, so that the players would be forced to wait and end up losing their chips by playing more. Physical casinos do this by attaching hotels next to the slots. This sounds similar.
- commandar 13y ago
  Coinbase is great for exchanging BTC/USD, but it's not a trading market like mtgox.
corford 13y ago
I've been using http://www.kraken.com http://www.kraken.com of late and it's been great - no problem wiring money to/from my bank account, easy to convert between LTC and BTC and market orders close immediately. I've only been trading in small BTC amounts though so not sure if you'd hit liquidity problems if trying to trade large amounts (kraken's volume is quite a lot smaller than the bigger established players like bitstamp)
zanny 13y ago
I started using bitfinex recently. Other exchanges I've used have had miriads of downtime, and I just moved off campbx because their site is so slow (and their market cap has shrunk huge). The other plus is that their fees are often half of other exchanges, I went from a .5% comission on cbx for sales to a .15%. Bitstamp is also good, I hear, but I just went with finex because their fees are lower =P. I think it is important to use an exchange outside the US though, because I expect the fed to start going Orwell on any bitcoin company soon.
jcfrei 13y ago
I've done most of my trading on https://btc-e.com/ https://btc-e.com/. Never encountered any problems. To my knowledge it is also the second largest exchange for BTC/USD by volume ( see: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currency/USD.html http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currency/USD.html - MtGox' volume just jumped a lot in the past days).
- schrodinger 13y ago
  Aren't they closing because of the Russia issues announced today?
  - jcfrei 13y ago
    I don't think so. Btc-e is based in bulgaria and withdrawals/deposits have only been stopped for one russian provider (QIWI). See: http://newsbtc.com/2014/02/07/btc-e-stops-russian-ruble-deposits-withdrawals/ http://newsbtc.com/2014/02/07/btc-e-stops-russian-ruble-depo...
geoka9 13y ago
Bitstamp seems to be good. There's also the Canadian https://www.vaultofsatoshi.com/ https://www.vaultofsatoshi.com/, which seems to be top notch as far as the tech (multiple 2FA options, OpenPGP cryptography for email, etc.).

by kirk21 13y ago

Ok, time to find another exchange. Considering http://www.coinnext.com http://www.coinnext.com and https://localbitcoins.com https://localbitcoins.com Other suggestions?

x3ro 13y ago

https://www.bitstamp.net/ https://www.bitstamp.net/ ?

vtempest 13y ago

Coinbase.com is a great one, and they recently received venture funding

nullc 13y ago
Coinbase recently imposed a kind of ludicrous $3000 a day outbound limit on accounts that had previously been limited to 50 BTC/day. Removing the limit involves buying coin from them, waiting 30 days, and solving some seemingly impossible credit report based identity quiz (some people report passing after 10 tries, you're limited to one try per 24 hours).
- politician 13y ago
  We did that back in the online poker gambling days. The casinos would throttle USD withdrawals, so that the players would be forced to wait and end up losing their chips by playing more. Physical casinos do this by attaching hotels next to the slots. This sounds similar.
commandar 13y ago
Coinbase is great for exchanging BTC/USD, but it's not a trading market like mtgox.

corford 13y ago

I've been using http://www.kraken.com http://www.kraken.com of late and it's been great - no problem wiring money to/from my bank account, easy to convert between LTC and BTC and market orders close immediately. I've only been trading in small BTC amounts though so not sure if you'd hit liquidity problems if trying to trade large amounts (kraken's volume is quite a lot smaller than the bigger established players like bitstamp)

zanny 13y ago

I started using bitfinex recently. Other exchanges I've used have had miriads of downtime, and I just moved off campbx because their site is so slow (and their market cap has shrunk huge). The other plus is that their fees are often half of other exchanges, I went from a .5% comission on cbx for sales to a .15%. Bitstamp is also good, I hear, but I just went with finex because their fees are lower =P. I think it is important to use an exchange outside the US though, because I expect the fed to start going Orwell on any bitcoin company soon.

jcfrei 13y ago

I've done most of my trading on https://btc-e.com/ https://btc-e.com/. Never encountered any problems. To my knowledge it is also the second largest exchange for BTC/USD by volume ( see: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currency/USD.html http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currency/USD.html - MtGox' volume just jumped a lot in the past days).

schrodinger 13y ago
Aren't they closing because of the Russia issues announced today?
- jcfrei 13y ago
  I don't think so. Btc-e is based in bulgaria and withdrawals/deposits have only been stopped for one russian provider (QIWI). See: http://newsbtc.com/2014/02/07/btc-e-stops-russian-ruble-deposits-withdrawals/ http://newsbtc.com/2014/02/07/btc-e-stops-russian-ruble-depo...

geoka9 13y ago

Bitstamp seems to be good. There's also the Canadian https://www.vaultofsatoshi.com/ https://www.vaultofsatoshi.com/, which seems to be top notch as far as the tech (multiple 2FA options, OpenPGP cryptography for email, etc.).