Americans are waking up and going "oh shit, better jump on the train before it leaves the station".
And I note that since Gox changed their rules about placing orders without actually having the funds in your account (you can't do that any more - so the money is really there), that's even more impressive.
Is it? The total volume of one weekday's trading is around USD 20m.
It should be there. Gox changed the rules effective - I think - April 17th.
AFAIK nothing has been changed yet. The new trading engine was postponed when Gox did their 12 hour unplanned downtime for system upgrades.
And I note that since Gox changed their rules about placing orders without actually having the funds in your account (you can't do that any more - so the money is really there), that's even more impressive.
Is it? The total volume of one weekday's trading is around USD 20m.
It should be there. Gox changed the rules effective - I think - April 17th.
AFAIK nothing has been changed yet. The new trading engine was postponed when Gox did their 12 hour unplanned downtime for system upgrades.
The rules change has nothing to do with the trading engine.
TOKYO - JAPAN - April 09, 2013
Orders will only be accepted when there are enough funds available in your wallet!
Dear users, starting on April 17th we will be rolling out a minor change on how people place orders via the Mt.Gox interface.
Until recently, anyone could place a buy or sell order for Bitcoin, regardless of how much funds were actually available in their wallet, resulting in an order showing a "Not enough funds" error status in the Open Orders list.
Starting on April 17th, this counter productive scenario will no longer be possible and will be automatically rejected before validating your order; until you have enough funds in your wallet to match the order value.
While this change should only affect a minority of users, it will however have a major impact on our trading platform and improve our system overall performance.
Regards
Mt.Gox Co. Ltd Team.
https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130409.htmlAFAIK, that press release is about the new engine, but they're keeping it non-technical and only talking about "rules" instead.
That's IMHO the real cause of the recent price uptake over 130 ... Not sure if I like disclosing such information ...
Is it just me or does MT.Gox use Clarkmoody to check the market?!?!?!
In one of the shots you can also see that Bitcoinity is open in another tab...
Waiter! I'd like to order the "Flashcrash", with a side order of "Goxlag", please.
BTCChina is down. DDoS?
Edit: Just as I was about to post, a CloudFlare page appeared...
Gox has now deleted their first response to the DHS news from their web site and facebook page.
Someone please tell Mark that you can't take back what you've posted on the Internet.
You didn't think all these hallucinations were real did you? A billion dollars made of math traded on a magic card exchange in Japan by a French maniac on a yoga ball being attacked by the US Goverment & Russian Mafia? Does any of this remotely make any sense outside of a context of heavy psychiatric medication?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hnzHtm1jhL4Someone is running a bot on BitStamp that buys exactly 1 BTC at the lowest ask price every minute. (If there is 1 BTC available, otherwise it buys whatever is there.)
Costs about $7700 to run that bot for an hour, let's see how much ammo it's got.
New Chinese search ATHs on November 19th! Baidu hit a peak over 50% higher than the old one from May:
http://index.baidu.com/main/word.php?word=%B1%C8%CC%D8%B1%D2...and Chinese Wikipedia also hit an ATH:
http://stats.grok.se/zh/latest90/%E6%AF%94%E7%89%B9%E5%B8%81Woohoo, green daily candle on Bitstamp.
UPDATE: Even higher numbers on November 20th.
Good morning HK,
Friday, 22 November 2013, 07:04:47 HKT
A good day to make history?
50th anniversary of the JFK assassination...
Hello from China.
Buy up all those cheap coins!
There is a nice wall of 2169 coins available for 2619 Yuan right now.
The Mongols are taking down that great wall quickly now.
