BTCKan Now in English
BTCKan is now in English as well as Chinese. This is a great tool for monitoring price differences between exchanges.
BTCT Update – Trading Halted, website shutting down.
BTCT.co has completed halting trading and has begun their website shutdown. From BTCT.co IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL BTC TRADING CORP WEBSITE PARTICIPANTS Trading has been halted according to the winding down plan. We will update the site code shortly to allow transfers to and from asset issuers on a per-issue basis where necessary. And the announcement…
BTC prices in China exceed MtGox
For the first time since volume on the Chinese exchanges really picked up, the price per bitcoin on the Chinese markets has exceeded the price at MtGox (despite all of MtGox’s withdraw issues). This happened last night, and lasted only for a few hours, since the price has been hovering just about the same. …
MtGox 5% Manual Withdraw Queue is now in over 2 weeks
I have been waiting over a week now for a manual wire transfer from MtGox for the extra 5% (the only way to currently get a SWIFT transfer processed…). There are also reports on BitcoinTalk that others have been waiting 2 weeks. In addition there’s been reports over the past few days of BTC withdraws…
Chase Bank Lmits Cash Withdraws and Bans Internation Wire Transfers for Business Select Accounts
It appears that Chase bank has made a move to limit business customers ability to send international wires and limit the quantity of cash that can be deposited into an account each billing cycle.
BTC-e Has new USD banking partner
BTC-e has added a new USD banking partner to their Deposits page.e So USD SWIFT Wire Deposits are working again.
MtGox Press Release Regarding Recent Downtime
Dear Customers, As we have announced yesterday on October 10th, we had made server maintenance that was aimed at fixing the issues we had with our database which was causing it to lag (occasionally) for up to 10~15 minutes at a time (causing the site to be down for that duration). Since May 2013 we…
Using BitFinex for the Stop-Loss Feature
BitFinex is one of the only platforms that has adequate volume, easy withdraws and deposits, and a stop loss function built right in. I highly recommend using Stop Losses when trading in any market, especially one that has huge swings like the bitcoin market. Also don’t worry that the volume on BitFinex seems small, they…
BTC-e USD Wires Still not being accepted by posted bank
The bank that BTC-e has posted on their USD deposits page is still not accepting USD transfers. According to the bank, the account can only accept EUR transfers. Still waiting to hear back from BTC-e support on this one.
MtGox Offline for “Scheduled Maintenance”
MtGox was offline for a couple of hours last night for “Scheduled Maintenance.” When asked if midas were being implemented, Karples replied that while this isn’t midas itself, but that some upgrades were being done that are required by midas. The upgrade took around 4 hours last night, completing a little later than planned.