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monsterer

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Quote from: roy7 on June 10, 2013, 02:00:19 PM

In the case of something like BTC there's no centralized single exchange they'd be front us, so they would need to match buy/sell orders and act as their own exchange, basically.

I highly doubt that. It's quite likely they'll just use MtGox for the feed and for the orders as that is the biggest exchange, as the other forex brokers trading bitcoin have.

The only exchange/broker combo that I know of is Kraken.

Abdussamad

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Wow bitcoins on xe. That is big news. I think it deserves its own thread!

roy7

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Quote from: monsterer on June 10, 2013, 01:52:47 PM

I like Oanda, but you've got to remember that a broker != an exchange.

A broker has a price-feed which they take from an exchange - they act as a middle-man between you and the exchange they post your trades on, which has limited value when you can trade directly with the exchange yourself.

That is correct but for retail customers who trade Forex on Oanda, it isn't like you can go to a forex exchange to trade more directly. ie: ETrade is a middle man between you and the NYSE, but you can't go to the NYSE directly to bypass the broker.

In the case of something like BTC there's no centralized single exchange they'd be front us, so they would need to match buy/sell orders and act as their own exchange, basically.

monsterer

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I like Oanda, but you've got to remember that a broker != an exchange.

A broker has a price-feed which they take from an exchange - they act as a middle-man between you and the exchange they post your trades on, which has limited value when you can trade directly with the exchange yourself.

bernard75

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Quote from: Gabi on June 10, 2013, 12:42:18 PM

It is BTC, not XBT

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/six-interbank-clearing-include-a-symbol-for-bitcoin-in-iso-4217
Not saying it should be this or that, but obviously the market leaders have a different approach to it.

Gabi

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If you want to walk on water, get out of the boat

It is BTC, not XBT

doom309

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cool, btc on xe

bernard75

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Obviously XE followed in their footsteps and even though they got the XBT wrong(or not? iso?), they are doing a much better job at it(and will let you choose your language Wink

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cbeast

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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

Quote from: roy7 on April 27, 2013, 07:12:03 PM

Just need one legitimate forex provider to start trading BTC and all of the other ~~exchanges~~ currencies can go away.

FTFY

roy7

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Just need one legitimate forex provider to start trading BTC and all of the other exchanges can go away.

m3ta

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Selling 130.000 USD
   you get 1.00086 BTC
Buying 130.000 USD
   you pay 1.00086 BTC

Warning: converter full of FAIL.

jubalix

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The historical prices by graph are really wrong.....must be daily averaged? Huh

but even that seems wrong

ghostshirt

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Quote from: miernik on April 27, 2013, 09:06:00 AM

Great. Is there anyone for whom it works who uses any kind of a GNU/Linux system?

Works fine on Ubuntu 13.04 with Chrome.

miernik

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Great. Is there anyone for whom it works who uses any kind of a GNU/Linux system?

cbeast

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Let's talk governance, lipstick, and pigs.

http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/ works for me. Using Mozilla Firefox on Win7.

miernik

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Is it showing up for anyone right now?

Not working for me any time I try.

I created a ticket with OANDA Technical Support, and they are asking for operating system and browser, but before I reply them, lets see if its working for anyone at all?

jubalix

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Quote from: chris_oanda on April 22, 2013, 12:58:40 PM

Thanks Mageant! As the product manager for the OANDA currency converter, I'm excited that we've added Bitcoin to our currency converter. You can read more about our announcement on our blog: http://www.oanda.com/corp/forex-lab-notes/2013/apr/22/why-we-added-bitcoin-oanda-currency-converter-1920/.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments! I'm looking forward to feedback from the community.

Chris

I would love BTC on OANDA, I have used your platform over many years and its generally very good, and stable

You can make a killing with gox which is at best a "part time" competitor.....

as long as you let people transfer BTC out easily

metabyte

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It is not showing for me either.

DublinBrian

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Quote from: chris_oanda on April 22, 2013, 04:08:24 PM

Strange, it should be there.

Do you mind clearing your cache? If that doesn't work, can you fill out http://www.oanda.com/site/contact/feedback? I'll reply and try to figure out why it's not showing up for you.

I tried clearing cache. Still not showing bitcoin in dropdown box. Also I tried two different browsers Firefox and Chrome coming from two different IP numbers. Still not showing.

chris_oanda

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Strange, it should be there.

Do you mind clearing your cache? If that doesn't work, can you fill out http://www.oanda.com/site/contact/feedback? I'll reply and try to figure out why it's not showing up for you.

Thanks!

Chris

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