Current BTC to USD? Euros.
- Thread starter kingofsp
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Lol; I'd thought Bitcoin dropped to $44 USD this morning, and was about to go buy more when I stopped by this thread... Apparently when I checked btc in Euro on mt.gox last night it changed my Chrome mtgox extension over to euros! D'oh!
Preev is pretty clean, but not very useful for my needs. Here's what I'm checking when I'm thinking about a trade:
Bitcoin Charts / Markets
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Bitcoin Watch
In fact I just always have those opened in tabs, and I use "Bitcoin Paranoid" on my Android phone, which checks mtgox every minute for the latest price and displays it up in the very top status bar.
Preev is pretty clean, but not very useful for my needs. Here's what I'm checking when I'm thinking about a trade:
Bitcoin Charts / Markets
&
Bitcoin Watch
In fact I just always have those opened in tabs, and I use "Bitcoin Paranoid" on my Android phone, which checks mtgox every minute for the latest price and displays it up in the very top status bar.
Holy shit, I had no idea BTC is worth so much now. Glad that I left those 10 bitcoins in my mtgox account, at the time I only paid around $8.
Time to sell?
Time to sell?
I've been using coinbase.com. Nice interface and funds come right from your bank account.
This.
You would have better luck manipulating newbies by handling the conversions for them.
Of course not.
BTC keeps inching up at news of monetary despair. This Cyprus news may not have gone through with the worst-case scenario, but it got a lot of people thinking about governments doing more than they should.
I don't see any shortage of governments doing bad things with other ppl's money, do you?
I like Coinabul. It gives us a way to anonymously buy precious metals, and much of it AT SPOT, too.
I just can't imagine gold ever growing at the rate bitcoin does, however. I own both, but the way BTC is growing and with no signs of a bubble, I'm just putting $ into btc alone for now.
Oops, BUSTED. Someone didn't ask permission to use their logo...
It's ok though, you'll be able to buy anything at all from Amazon through their new bitcoin-accepting FBA service on other people's websites, like this one:
http://www.btczone.com
I recently (like last week) bought my first coins using https://www.bitinstant.com/.
Brought cash to my local CVS and had them in Mt. Gox before I got home, just a few minutes later.
If I was a non-american and I played poker I think it's pretty easy to go to 2+2 and swap Pokerstars/any major site chips for BTC. A lot of guys interested in trading over there, and chip transfers are irreversible.
I've heard money-packs and gift cards work well too. I'd be weary of cards using stolen CC info though.
LUKE!
Seriously? I say this because I care. I think BTC is relatively stable and probably increasing in value in the near future (speculation) but I wouldn't put more than 10% of my money into BTC if I was investing aggressively.
Too many unknowns.
Diversify your assets bro.
Thanks for your concern Scott; It is appreciated.
Please don't worry about me either way; my non-btc savings are enough to see me through the worst of btc crashes.
However, the more I read about the rate of growth and the size of the potential BTC market, the more I'm convinced BTC will grow way past $1000 a coin... Maybe a past $1 million. I'm not the first to come up with that number, either. The math is there for it, you just have to see all of the drive.
So even if it went back to $3 again tomorrow, It would only be a temporary setback, because there are too many ppl wanting btc to happen too much.
Check out the latest post on my blog to see what I'm talking about.
When did bitcoins jump so much? I got them for like $11-17 in december if I remember correctly...
Right on Luke.
I'm not telling you what to do (hell, I've only recently taken your BTC posts seriously - and wished I had earlier).
I just read that as "100% of my moniez is going into bitcoin", and I misunderstood. I just see it as a hugely volatile risk (either way) and wouldn't want to see anyone put that much trust into Bitcoin.
I LOVE bitcoin for many reasons. But a secure investment vehicle isn't one of them. I trust that you know what you're doing though.
I just don't want to see people going all-in on it. Which you made clear that you're not. I hope it keeps growing too.
In case you haven't heard it yet, Ron Paul briefly discusses his view on bitcoin in this interview (although he admits he doesn't know enough about it to jump to conclusions)... Interesting nonetheless.
[ame="www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9nOTLS6q-4"]Ron Paul on The Stateless Man - YouTube[/ame]