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jl2012

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The volume of BTC China is reset everyday at midnight of China (16:00 UTC)

Quote from: buddhacoiner on April 08, 2013, 12:29:58 PM

Quote from: dextryn on April 08, 2013, 12:24:10 PM

China is dumping

Welcome to BTCChina!
Bitcoin Price Ticker (BTCChina, Realtime)
    CNY
Last BTC Price:    ¥1,225.50
High:    ¥1,329.01
Low:    ¥1,205.00
Last Bid:    ¥1,210.00
Last Ask:    ¥1,227.10
Volume:    320.478

Bitcoin Price Ticker (Mtgox, Updated every 5 min)
    USD   CNY
Last BTC Price:    $185.49   ¥1152.52
High:    $194.9   ¥1210.99
Low:    $155   ¥963.08
Last Bid:    $183.65   ¥1141.09
Last Ask:    $185.49   ¥1152.52
Volume:    99923

....bit of a difference in volume

buddhacoiner

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Quote from: dextryn on April 08, 2013, 12:24:10 PM

China is dumping

Welcome to BTCChina!
Bitcoin Price Ticker (BTCChina, Realtime)
    CNY
Last BTC Price:    ¥1,225.50
High:    ¥1,329.01
Low:    ¥1,205.00
Last Bid:    ¥1,210.00
Last Ask:    ¥1,227.10
Volume:    320.478

Bitcoin Price Ticker (Mtgox, Updated every 5 min)
    USD   CNY
Last BTC Price:    $185.49   ¥1152.52
High:    $194.9   ¥1210.99
Low:    $155   ¥963.08
Last Bid:    $183.65   ¥1141.09
Last Ask:    $185.49   ¥1152.52
Volume:    99923

....bit of a difference in volume

Spaceman_Spiff

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Ok, europe is now officially considering the Cyprus template for all bank failures in the future. Bitcoin about to get even crazier !
Anyone know when this was announced?

Richy_T

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1RichyTrEwPYjZSeAYxeiFBNnKC9UjC5k

Just bought some more. Let's head on up!

humanitee

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Quote from: dextryn on April 08, 2013, 12:24:10 PM

China is dumping

Most likely arbitrage.
There was a difference of $45 earlier. Made me wish I had setup an account there. Then I gotta deal with LR though, which I do not have.

Spaceman_Spiff

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Quote from: mccorvic on April 08, 2013, 12:17:47 PM

Quote from: Spaceman_Spiff on April 08, 2013, 12:15:23 PM

crap, missed the dip. Stupid work Roll Eyes

We're still in the dip, so not too late

Yeah, but I first need to sell to pick them back up later, wasn't online when the coins were $190-195. Right now I am not sure which way it ll go, so I do nothing.

dextryn

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China is dumping

ManBearPig

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Quote from: BitcoinTate on April 08, 2013, 12:18:29 PM

This dip was not nearly as much as I expected. Is it that A ) People are getting smarter and not messing around when Gox starts lagging, or B) We could see a double dip later today or tomorrow before jumping back on the BTC rocket to $300 next week?

Could it be that it's stabilising on its mad rush upwards?

BitcoinTate

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DigiByte Founder

Quote from: Spaceman_Spiff on April 08, 2013, 12:15:23 PM

crap, missed the dip. Stupid work Roll Eyes

EDIT: double crap, I had $240 sell orders at bitcoin24, none went through. Should have put it a dollar lower

.

My sell order on gox was $195.00..... should have put it 10 cents lower. lol Just 1 BTC for fun, no way I would risk losing anymore.

BitcoinTate

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This dip was not nearly as much as I expected. Is it that A ) People are getting smarter and not messing around when Gox starts lagging, or B) We could see a double dip later today or tomorrow before jumping back on the BTC rocket to $300 next week?

mccorvic

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Quote from: Spaceman_Spiff on April 08, 2013, 12:15:23 PM

crap, missed the dip. Stupid work Roll Eyes

We're still in the dip, so not too late

Spaceman_Spiff

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crap, missed the dip. Stupid work Roll Eyes

EDIT: double crap, I had $240 sell orders at bitcoin24, none went through. Should have put it a dollar lower

.

mccorvic

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Quote from: thezerg on April 08, 2013, 12:10:17 PM

yes, for all you newbies looking at this and the "crash" the media reported last week, think about trying to trade this. For example, you could sell at the ATH, and keep the money in USD with a bid trailing the ATH by (say) 10%. But if you do that, you miss the normal weekly runup, in this case from $140. So this catch-the-dip strategy nets you half the profit as buy-and-hold. But the risk profile of fiat-on-exchange is pretty similar to btc-on-exchange so the risk reduction is not worth the profitability loss. And traders can't reliably react to a dump (sell then buy) due to the lag.

This should be printed on cards and issued to all newbies. Cheesy

samson

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Quote from: mp420 on April 08, 2013, 12:08:32 PM

Quote from: chriswilmer on April 08, 2013, 12:02:16 PM

Hey, I have a naive question about this whole DDOS thing. Would it help if Mt. Gox doubled (or x10) the number of servers they have? Even an extra 100 machines can't be that expensive (probably ~$200 K).

Won't work. The trades must be executed sequentially, that can't be parallelized much. The lag is not about the DDOS, it's mostly about the trading.

Their trading engine is implemented poorly. They have enough hardware but their engine just doesn't cut it. They should hire a team of $300k+/year programmers with extensive experience about these kinds of high performance financial systems and get them to rewrite their trading engine.

Maybe they should hire the guy who won the 'quantcup' matching engine competition.

thezerg

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Quote from: NamelessOne on April 08, 2013, 11:52:54 AM

Quote from: Piper67 on April 08, 2013, 11:52:08 AM

Damn. We crashed all the way down to 85% above the price a week ago today Grin

LOL! +1 !

yes, for all you newbies looking at this and the "crash" the media reported last week, think about trying to trade this. For example, you could sell at the ATH, and keep the money in USD with a bid trailing the ATH by (say) 10%. But if you do that, you miss the normal weekly runup, in this case from $140. So this catch-the-dip strategy nets you half the profit as buy-and-hold. But the risk profile of fiat-on-exchange is pretty similar to btc-on-exchange so the risk reduction is not worth the profitability loss. And traders can't reliably react to a dump (sell then buy) due to the lag.

Of course, people can use their intuition and knowledge of fiat bank transfers to make informed guesses and narrowing this profitability gap. But that is hard and ultimately devolves into guesswork rather then a strategy.

tl;dr; these dips happen because its more profitable to buy-and-hold then to sell-early-to-fiat-and-catch-the-dip.

BitcoinTate

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DigiByte Founder

Quote from: mp420 on April 08, 2013, 12:08:32 PM

Quote from: chriswilmer on April 08, 2013, 12:02:16 PM

Hey, I have a naive question about this whole DDOS thing. Would it help if Mt. Gox doubled (or x10) the number of servers they have? Even an extra 100 machines can't be that expensive (probably ~$200 K).

Won't work. The trades must be executed sequentially, that can't be parallelized much. The lag is not about the DDOS, it's mostly about the trading.

Their trading engine is implemented poorly. They have enough hardware but their engine just doesn't cut it. They should hire a team of $300k+/year programmers with extensive experience about these kinds of high performance financial systems and get them to rewrite their trading engine.

Perhaps adding Solid State server drives might help though.

mp420

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Quote from: chriswilmer on April 08, 2013, 12:02:16 PM

Hey, I have a naive question about this whole DDOS thing. Would it help if Mt. Gox doubled (or x10) the number of servers they have? Even an extra 100 machines can't be that expensive (probably ~$200 K).

Won't work. The trades must be executed sequentially, that can't be parallelized much. The lag is not about the DDOS, it's mostly about the trading.

Their trading engine is implemented poorly. They have enough hardware but their engine just doesn't cut it. They should hire a team of $300k+/year programmers with extensive experience about these kinds of high performance financial systems and get them to rewrite their trading engine.

buddhacoiner

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Quote from: deeplink on April 08, 2013, 11:55:06 AM

What? Bitcoin-24 at $240 ?!

...1 coin

btce $166

mccorvic

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Quote from: chriswilmer on April 08, 2013, 12:02:16 PM

Hey, I have a naive question about this whole DDOS thing. Would it help if Mt. Gox doubled (or x10) the number of servers they have? Even an extra 100 machines can't be that expensive (probably ~$200 K).

Well, I don't think adding any X number of machines would help with a DDOS as the line would still just be as clogged.

But it doesn't matter as the DDoS excuse is just MtGox trying to cover for it's failure to have a decent database.

humanitee

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Quote from: chriswilmer on April 08, 2013, 12:02:16 PM

Hey, I have a naive question about this whole DDOS thing. Would it help if Mt. Gox doubled (or x10) the number of servers they have? Even an extra 100 machines can't be that expensive (probably ~$200 K).

My understanding is that the engine is written with the competency of an undergraduate CS student.
No amount of hardware improvements can fix errors associated with bad coding practices. The gain would be measly.

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