OKCupid says it will accept Bitcoin, as currency falls to recent low. On Tuesday, as Bitcoin’s exchange rate fell to its lowest level in days at around $64 per bitcoin, OKCupid announced that it would accept the digital currency from users wanting to pay for bonus features on the site.
The popular (and free) dating site, which boasts 4 million active users, will now become one of the world’s largest sites to accept Bitcoin. Feds reveal the search warrant used to seize Mt. Gox account. The Department of Homeland Security is investigating Mt.
Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, for violating laws on US money exchange and money transfers—and it's grabbing the exchange's money in the process. DHS officials refused to comment on the ongoing investigation, but they did provide a copy of the warrant that was used yesterday to seize funds that Mt. Gox had in Dwolla, a money transfer service. Dwolla is a Des Moines, Iowa company that provides one of the most popular ways to move US dollars to Mt. Gox, where they can be used to buy bitcoins. In the warrant, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), states that there's probable cause to believe Mt. Weeks after shutdown, Bitcoin exchange customers still wait for refunds. More than two weeks after the Bitcoin exchange Bitfloor closed its virtual doors, many customers are still waiting to get their money back.
One tally of 78 Bitfloor users on reddit found that Bitfloor owed them $267,000. The number might be much higher once all users are accounted for. In an e-mailed statement, Bitfloor's legal counsel blamed the delay on a dispute with the firm's bank. And Bitfloor said it has enough funds deposited with the bank to "cover all of its customers' U.S. dollar credits on account.
" Last month's Bitfloor shutdown ended a difficult year for the Bitcoin exchange, which had been the fourth most popular forum for trading Bitcoins for dollars. Study: 45 percent of Bitcoin exchanges end up closing. A study of the Bitcoin exchange industry has found that 45 percent of exchanges fail, taking their users' money with them.
Those that survive are the ones that handle the most traffic—but they are also the exchanges that suffer the greatest number of cyber attacks. Computer scientists Tyler Moore (from the Southern Methodist University, Dallas) and Nicolas Christin (of Carnegie Mellon University) found 40 exchanges on the Web that offered a service changing bitcoins into other fiat currencies or back again. Of those 40, 18 have gone out of business—13 closing without warning, and five closing after suffering security breaches that forced them to close.
Four other exchanges have suffered serious attacks but remain open. One of those is Mt Gox, the largest Bitcoin exchange, with Moore and Christin stating that at its peak it handles more than 40,000 Bitcoin transactions a day, compared to a mean average of 1,716. The sheer quantity of trade done on Mt. Bitfloor, number four Bitcoin-based exchange, shuts down for good. Places that accept bitcoins. Bitcoin Charts / Markets / mtgoxUSD. Summary 1 mon, 2 wks ago None — None Trade History 60d 30d 10d 5d 2d view larger chart Market Depth y: Volume in BTC, x: price.
Bitcoin Charts / Markets API. Bitcoincharts provides a simple API to most of its data.
You can use this API to include markets data in your websites, mobile apps or desktop applets. Please remember to add a link to Bitcoincharts! Bitcoincharts' API is accessable through HTTPParameters are passed using GET-requestsreturned data is JSON encodedDon't query more often than once every 15 minutes! Weighted Prices Bitcoincharts offers weighted prices for several currencies at You can use this to price goods and services in Bitcoins. Weighted prices are calculated for the last 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days. The returned JSON is dictionary with elements for each currency. Markets Data You can access general market data at This will return an array with elements for each market. Symbolshort name for marketcurrencybase currency of the market (USD, EUR, RUB, JPY, ...) bidhighest bid price asklowest ask price latest_tradeunixtime of latest trade.
Mt. Gox suspends US dollar withdrawls “for the next two weeks” Mt.
Gox, the world’s largest Bitcoin-based exchange, announced early Thursday morning that it has suspended US dollar withdrawals “for the next two weeks.” The Japan-based firm is currently under investigation by the United States Department of Homeland Security, which seized Mt. Mtgox. MtGox/API/Streaming. Real time streaming data may be obtained over the streaming API, using Socket.io or the vanilla websocket websocket channel list List of the public streaming channels : Connecting Host: websocket.mtgox.com or socketio.mtgox.com Port: 80 or 443 ( ssl ) Namespace: /mtgox (Including beginning slash) The following JavaScript code establishes a connection in the browser: < script src = " ></ script >< script > var conn = io. connect ( ' ) ; conn. on ( 'message' , function ( data ) { // Handle incoming data object. } ) ; </ script > the Currency parameter.
p2p/bitcoin-exchange. The Infamous Defcon Bitcoin Briefcase. BitMonet: Pay-per-view for the Internet. There was a time when getting the day's headlines meant opening a single newspaper and reading it front to back.
But the Internet changed all that. Now we arrive at individual stories through keyword searches, e-mail alerts, Facebook posts, and aggregate news portals, hopping from one site to the next with an abandon that makes brand allegiance seem downright quaint. Multi-Currency Trading : Support Desk. Mt.Gox - Bitcoin Exchange.