https://tests.bitcoin.it/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Paraipan&feedformat=atomBitcoin Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T12:27:42ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Buying_bitcoins&diff=39577Buying bitcoins2013-07-16T11:21:33Z<p>Paraipan: /* Fixed Rate Exchanges & Others */</p>
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<div>There are various methods available for '''buying bitcoins'''. See [[Buying Bitcoins (the noob version)|here for a Newb-friendly version]] of this page.<br />
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{{Counterparty-warning}}<br />
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==Major Exchanges==<br />
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The least expensive methods for buying bitcoins involve transferring funds using a bank wire, ACH, bank transfer (ACH, EUR / SEPA).<br />
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Exchanges are listed in alphabetical order.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Exchange || Adding Funds || Withdrawing Funds || [[eWallet]] || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:BIPS.gif|20px|link=https://bips.me]] [https://bips.me BIPS] ([[BIPS|info]]) || BTC<br/>CAD (Cash deposits in Canada)<br/>Any Currency (Wire Transfer - Any Country)<br />USD || Danish Domestic Transfer<br/>Any Currency (ACH / Direct Deposit)<br/>Any Currency (Wire Transfer - Any Country)<br/>USD (Mt.Gox) || {{ Table Value Yes }} || <ul><li>DK-based</li><li>[https://github.com/BitcoinInternetPaymentSystem BIPS GitHub]</li><li>[https://bips.me/connect/BitcoinInternetPaymentSystemAPI.pdf REST API]</li></ul><br />
|-<br />
| [[BitBox]] || BTC<br/>USD (Wire Transfer - US) || BTC<br/>USD (Wire Transfer - US) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <ul><li>US-based</li><li>Two-factor Authentication</li><li>[http://inbitbox.github.io/rest/ BitBox REST API]</li><li>[https://github.com/inbitbox BitBox GitHub]</li></ul><br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin-24]] || BTC<br />USD (Credit card through LiqPay)<br />USD (International bank wire)<br />EUR (SEPA wire)<br />EUR (Sofort banking/Sofortuberweisung)<br />EUR (GIROPay)<br />GBP (International bank wire, converted to EUR)<br />PLN (International bank wire, converted to EUR) || BTC<br/>USD (Bank wire transfer)<br />USD ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers)<br />EUR (Cash, via DHL) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <ul><li>Second biggest Euro exchange</li><li>Instant registration and trading</li><li>Instant credit card deposits</li><li>Instant bank transfers from the EU</li><li>No trading fees for bitcoins</li><li>No restrictions and limits on withdrawals and deposits</li><li>Support chat</li><li>SMS notifications</li></ul><br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin-Central]] || BTC<br />GBP (Bank transfer)<br />EUR (SEPA)<br />International wire (any currency) || BTC<br />GBP (Bank transfer)<br />EUR (SEPA) || {{Table Value Yes}} || [https://github.com/davout/bitcoin-central Open-source], community reviewed platform<br />Available in French and English languages<br />
|-<br />
| [[bitNZ]] || BTC<br/>NZD (Cash depost as Westbank) || BTC<br/>NZD (Domestic bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitstamp]] || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />USD (Intl wire)<br />USD ([[Ripple]])<br />CHF || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />USD (Intl wire)<br />USD (Ripple)<br />CHF || {{Table Value Yes}} || EUR and CHF deposits converted to/from USD for trading<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC-E]] || BTC<br />BTC (BTC-e redeemable code)<br />USD (Cash deposit at Post of Russia)<br />USD (Cash deposit at banks including Privatbank, Savings Bank of Russia (Sberbank), RU/UA Terminals, & more)<br />USD (Interkassa)<br />USD (WebMoney - WMZ)<br />USD (Yandex)<br />USD (LiqPay)<br />USD (Perfect Money)<br />USD (QIWI)<br />USD (OKPay)<br />USD (RBK Money)<br />USD (Ditial currencies including НСМЭП (NSMEP), Единый Кошелек (Unified Purse), TeleMoney, & more)<br />USD (International bank wire)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />RUB (QIWI)<br />RUB (LiqPay)<br />RUB (WebMoney-WMR)<br />RUB (BTC-e Redeemable code)<br />RUB (Bank transfer) || BTC<br/>BTC (BTC-e redeemble code)<br />USD (Webmoney - WMZ)<br />USD (Perfect Money)<br />USD (LiqPay)<br />USD (QIWI)<br />USD (PayPal)<br />USD (OKPay)<br />USD (Payza/AlertPay)<br />USD (Privat, Privat UAH)<br />USD (Cash deposit into Savings Bank/Sberbank, Telebank, Alfa Bank)<br />USD (BTC-e Redeemable Code)<br />USD (International Wire Transfer)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />RUB (Cash delivery, possible in Moscow)<br />RUB (QIWI)<br />RUB (LiqPay)<br />RUB (WebMoney WMR)<br />RUB (Яндекс.Деньги Yandex)<br />RUB (RBK Money)<br />Cash deposit (into account at Сбербанка России!/Savings Bank/Sberbank, Телебанк (Telebank), and АльфаБанк (Alfa Bank)<br />RUB (Transfer to credit card VISA & MasterCard)<br />RUB (BTC-e Redeemable code)<br />RUB (Bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Language: English, Russian. Interkassa can be funded from Webmoney and many other methods.<br />BitInstant Can be funding option includes QIWI, Cyberplat.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Camp BX]] (CBX) || BTC <br/> USD ([[Dwolla]])<br/>USD (P2P bank transfer at Chase, B&nbsp;of&nbsp;A, Wells Fargo and ING. Credited after three business days).<br />USD (Personal Check)<br />USD (USPS Postal money order, Canada Post money order) || BTC<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br/>USD (ACH Direct Deposit)<br />USD (USPS Postal Money Order)<br/>USD (Domestic bank wire)<br/>USD (International bank wire) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <ul> <li> Security certification from McAfee</li><li> Advanced trading options with AON/FOK/Market</li> <li>STOPLOSS and Short-Selling in Pipeline</li><li> Trading API available</li><li> Wallet API available </li><li> CBX Instant Bitcoin Transfers Feature </li><li> Stoploss / Custom Order Expiry Date/Time </li><li> SMS (Text Message) Notifications </li> <li> Two-Factor Authentication </li> <li> Based in USA - Atlanta </li> </ul> <br />
|-<br />
| [[FYB-SG]] || BTC <br/> SGD(Internet Bank Transfer)<br/>SGD (Annonymous Cash Deposit at any UOB Cash Deposit Machine in Singapore).<br /> || BTC<br/>SGD(Internet Bank Transfer)<br/> || {{Table Value Yes}} || <ul><li> Based in Singapore </li> </ul> <br />
|-<br />
| [[Intersango]] || BTC<br />EUR (SEPA bank wire)<br />PLN (Bank Wire) || BTC<br />EUR (SEPA bank wire)<br />PLN (Bank Wire) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Operated by the [https://bitcoinconsultancy.com/ BitcoinConsultancy] <br/> [https://intersango.com Intersango] is a completely custom trading platform built from the ground up with security, scalability and extensibility in mind. [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43745.0 More Information]<br/><br/>Boasts an [https://bitcoinconsultancy.com/wiki/index.php/Intersango/API ever expanding API]. Started out as [[Britcoin]].<br />
|-<br />
| [[Kapiton.se]] || BTC<br/>SEK (Bankgiro Bank Transfer) || BTC<br/>SEK (Bankgiro Bank Transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[MtGox]] || BTC<br/><br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br />USD (International bank wire)<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />GBP (Bank wire)<br />GBP (Cash deposit, Barclays) || BTC<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br />AUD (Bank wire) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Oldest running exchange. Higest daily volume. Respecting AML laws, Restrictions and limits on withdrawals.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Rock Currency Exchange]] || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />SLL (Second Life)<br />USD (Dwolla) || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />SLL (Second Life)<br />USD (Dwolla) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[VirtEx]] || BTC<br/>CAD (cash deposit at Bank of Montreal or ScotiaBank)<br />CAD (Online bill payment)<br />CAD (Wire transfer) || BTC<br/>CAD (direct deposit)<br />CAD (Canada Xpress Post Bank Draft send by mail)<br />CAD Payza (formerly AlertPay) || {{Table Value Yes}} ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[VirWoX]] || BTC<br/>SLL (Second Life)<br/>ACD (Avination)<br/>OMC (OpenSim)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[PayPal]])<br/>USD,EUR,GBP (Credit & Debit cards via [[Skrill]]/Moneybookers)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP ([http://www.neteller.com NETELLER])<br/>EUR (DIRECTebanking / Sofortuberweisung)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([http://www.paysafecard.com PaySafe Card])<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />USD ([[UKash]] vouchers) || BTC<br/>SLL (Second Life)<br/>ACD (Avination)<br/>OMC (OpenSim)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[PayPal]])<br />USD,EUR,GBP ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP ([http://www.neteller.com NETELLER])<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Trading through Second Life Linden Dollars.<br/>Variable limits on PayPal and Credit Card deposits. <br />
|-<br />
| [http://wmeng.exchanger.ru WMeng.Exchanger.ru] || BTC<br />USD<br />EUR<br />RUB<br />UAH<br />Belorussian Roubles <br />Vietnamese Dongs || BTC<br />USD<br />EUR<br />RUB<br />UAH<br />Belorussian Roubles || {{Table Value Yes}} || The exchange service of WebMoney Transfer system. WMT has a special units named WMX to operate BTC, which can be exchanged and/or withdrawn<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.bitcointoyou.com BitcoinToYou] || BTC<br />BRL<br />USD<br />EUR<br /> || BTC<br />BRL<br />USD<br />EUR<br /> || {{Table Value Yes}} || Language: Portuguese (português), customer can buy in cash ou bank deposit at HSBC, SANTANDER, ITAÚ, CAIXA, BRADESCO and BANCO DO BRASIL.<br />
|}<br />
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==Fixed Rate Exchanges & Others==<br />
For smaller amounts, the options are limited due to bank transfer fees, conversion fees and transaction size restrictions. Options include:<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment Method || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.bitcoinbycc.com Bitcoin By CC] || Fixed Rate || Credit Card/Bank Transfer/Cash/Money Gram (International)|| Buy bitcoins instantly with your credit card. No registration needed and exquisite customer service. <br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.btc-dealer.com BTC-Dealer] || Fixed Rate || Credit Card || No signup required. Instant deposit to any bitcoin address.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.alfacashier.com ALFAcashier] || Market || QIWI RUB<Br/>Yandex Money RUB<br/>Litecoin<br/>PerfectMoney<br/>Visa || Instant exchanger. Supports major payment systems and visa funding is also available.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.getbitcoin.com.au Bitcoin (Australia)] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Bank Deposit) || Bitcoin (Australia) / [https://www.getbitcoin.com.au www.getbitcoin.com.au] offers rapid transfer at low rates.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://moneypaktrader.com MoneypakTrader.com] ([[MoneypakTrader.com|info]]) || Market Based || Moneypak (USD) <======> BTC <br /> BTC <======> Moneypak (USD) <br /> ReLoadit, etc. (USD) <====> BTC<br /> BTC <======> ReLoadit, etc. (USD) || Pays a bonus over market for your BTC <br /> Charges a fee over market for your Moneypak, etc. <br /> Only accepts codes from original purchaser <br /> Attempts to have regular customers processed within 24 hrs <br /> Available for discussion via TorChat<br />
|-<br />
| [https://bitbargain.co.uk BitBargain] ([[BitBargain|info]]) || Market || GBP || Quick transactions via Bank Transfer (fast payments support only), Pingit and Ukash. Deals happen between buyer and seller.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://bittylicious.com Bittylicious] ([[Bittylicious|info]]) || Fixed Rate || GBP || Near instant transactions via UK Bank Transfer (Faster Payments only). No sign up required but can buy more if registered.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://btc.pt BTC.pt] || Market Rate || EUR (Multibanco) || Anonymous transactions. Pay the amount on any Portuguese ATM(MB) or homebanking service, we'll deduce our fee and buy the coins for you at market rate and send them very fast to your wallet. Only available in Portugal.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://bitcointrader.com.au Bitcointrader (Australia)] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Cash deposit) || Buy and sell bitcoins quickly and easily! Cash deposit at any Westpac Bank and National Australia Bank branch in Australia.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bit Innovate]] || Fixed Rate || AUD, NZD (Cash deposit) || Australian Dollar cash deposit at any Commonwealth or Westpac Bank. New Zealand Dollar cash deposits at any ASB.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://blockchain.info/wallet/deposit-methods Blockchain] ([[BlockChain.info|info]]) || Fixed Rate || USD, GBP, EUR, BRL, AUD, CAD, JPY, EUR, CHF, PLN, CZK, RON, RUB, SEK, NOK, DKK || Purchased through [[BitInstant]] (U.S., Brazil, and Russia), Barclay's Pingit or Bank Transfer (GBP), Instant Bank Transfer (EUR) or SMS or premium phone call from a mobile. <br />
|-<br />
| [[BitInstant]] || Market Rate || USD (Cash deposit at banks, 7-11, Walmart, CVS, Moneygram locations)<br />USD (Dwolla)<br />BRL (Cash deposit at Banco Rendimento or through Boleto)<br />RUB (Cash deposit through Qiwi or Cyberplat) || Deposit cash at 700,000 locations around the world and have your Bitcoins within 30 minutes. Absolute fastest and easiest way to buy Bitcoins. <br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinapult]] || Fixed rate || Use [[BitInstant]] to use cash to purchase bitcoins sent to e-mail or SMS. Choose "Bitcoin to e-mail" service and enter either e-mail or SMS. ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinbase]] || Fixed rate || Buy bitcoins using a bank transfer (U.S.). || Instant verification available for new accounts.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://BitcoinIsrael.co.il BitcoinIsrael.co.il] || Fixed Rate || ILS (NIS - New Israeli Shekel)<br />
* via bank transfer<br />
* via Bank HaDoar /Post Office Bank (instant transfer)<br />
* via In Person<br />
|| Buy and sell your Bitcoins within minutes in person. Get "same day" service using Bank HaDoar /Post Office Bank. Get "next day" service using Bank Transfer.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Nordic]] || Fixed Rate<br />
|<br />
*EUR/DKK (SEPA and wire transfer)<br />
*USD, EUR, GBP, DKK, SEK, NOK (Cash or check in the mail)<br />
*AED, DZD, EGP, IQD, ILS, JOD, KWD, LGP, LYD, MRO, MYR, NGN, OMR, PKR, QAR, SAR, TRL, TZS, TND, YER ([[CashU]] card)<br />
*MXN, EYU, BOB, BRL, COP, SYP, MAD, GHC, ZAR, CNY, CAD, and more ([[UKash]] voucher)<br />
| For UKash, redeemed through CashU account.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Spend Bitcoins]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Cash deposit) || AUD cash deposit at NAB, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and ANZ.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://bitcoinmylife.com/jml/buy-bitcoins BitcoinMyLife] <br /> ([[BitcoinMyLife|info]]) || Fixed Rate || EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || Simple and Safe.<br />Pay first transaction fee with Twitter or Facebook post.<br />
|-<br />
| [[bitcoin.de]] || Market || EUR (bank wire)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers) || Varies (person to person)<br />0.01 free Bitcoins for every new user<br />eWallet<br />Affiliate program<br />Language: German, Englisch<br/> News<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoiny.cz]] || Market || CZK || Varies (person to person)<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.BitcoinZAP.com BitcoinZAP] || Market rate || SEPA bank transfer - EUR <br> International bank transfer - EUR, USD <br> Western Union <br> MoneyGram <br> Cash (in the mail) - EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, HKD, JPY, PLN, AUD, CHF, CZK, DKK, HUF, MOP, SEK, NOK || Bitcoins usually delivered in less than 24 hours after payment is received<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCX.se]] || Fixed Rate || SEK || Transfer to and banks in Sweden.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC China]] || Fixed Rate || || Converted to CNY for trading. <br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMarket.co]] || Market || COP (Colombian Peso) || Varies (person to person)<br />
|- <br />
| [[bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] || [http://bitcoin-otc.com/vieworderbook.php Order Book] || Varies (person to person) || IRC trading marketplace will usually have people willing to deal for small and larger amounts using various payment methods, including [[PayPal]], [[Dwolla]], [[Linden Dollars]], etc.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Canadian Bitcoins]] || Fixed Rate || CAD (Cash - XpressPost or Dropoff)<br />USD (Cash - Courier: UPS, FedEx, etc.) || For dropoff, office in Ottawa.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://dgtmkt.com Dgtmkt] ([[Dgtmkt|info]]) || Fixed Rate || Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)<br />Online bank transfers (Maybank2U, CIMB, MEPS, etc)<br />E-vouchers (Web Cash, Mobile Money) || Bitcoin merchant for Malaysians,. dealing in Malaysian Ringgit. Fully automated immediate transfers. https://dgtmkt.com<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.dagensia.eu Dagensia] ([[Dagensia|info]]) || Fixed Rate|| <br />
* SEPA Bank Transfer (EUR)<br />
* Reloadable Debit Card (EUR, USD)<br />
* Sofort Banking (EUR)<br />
* Direct Banking (EUR)<br />
* Payza (official Exchanger)<br />
|| Exchange Bitcoins '''instantly''' to and from Payza. Sell and buy your Bitcoins through Wire, or SEPA EUR transfer, [[UKash]], Direct Banking, Debit Cards. '''Fully licensed exchanger''', supervised by Czech National Bank<br />
|-<br />
| [[Lilion Transfer]] || Fixed Rate || Bank Transfer: USD, AUD, CAD, JPY, EUR, CHF, GBP, PLN, CZK, RON, BGN, HRK, RUB, SEK, NOK, DKK, LTL, LVL<br />Perfect Money<br />Monetto<br />OK Pay<br />Cosmic Pay<br />Pecunix<br />C-Gold<br />E-Pay Payments<br />PayPal|| 122 accounts worldwide.<br /> Support in 30 languages<br />
|-<br />
| [[Nanaimo Gold]] || Fixed Rate || Western Union money transfer<br />Moneygram money transfer<br />Cash in the mail || Digital Currency <--> Bitcoin exchange is automated<br />For cash in the mail send USD, EUR, CAD, or GBP. Canada mailing address.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Argentina]] || Fixed Rate || Cash: ARS, BRL, USD <br /> Bank transfer: ARS || No exchange fees!<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin.com.es]] || Fixed Rate || EUR (bank deposit) || Bank transfer or cash deposits at OpenBank in Spain.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bahtcoin]] || Fixed Rate || Cash, Webmoney || Will cash out to Thai mobile and gaming prepaid cards as well.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcoin.in.th Bitcoin Thailand] || Fixed Rate || THB: Cash/Bank Deposit || Same day service.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitPiggy]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Australian Dollar)|| Payment via bank transfer.<br />
|-<br />
| [[bitcoin.local]] || Directory || Varies (person to person) ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[bcchanger.com]] || Directory || Enables person to person purchases and sales via PayPal, [[Skrill]]/Moneybookers and other e-currency platforms ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoil]] || Fixed Rate || ILS (bank transfer) ||<br />
|- <br />
|[[btcnow]] || Market || USD (OKPay, Dwolla) || bitcoins transferred instantly<br />
|-<br />
| [http://localbitcoins.com LocalBitcoins.com] || Directory || Varies (person to person)<br/>Physical cash locally || Find your local bitcoin dealer! With dynamic pricing with equations.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.happycoins.nl HappyCoins] || Fixed Rate || EUR (iDEAL and SEPA bank transfer) || Buy and sell Bitcoins. Use the Dutch iDEAL payment system to receive Bitcoins within minutes. Prices are based on near real-time exchange prices (select the best out of multiple exchanges).<br />
|-<br />
| [[WM-Center]] || Fixed rate || BTC<br/>USD (International bank wire, Western Unon, Moneygram, Xoom etc, cash)<br />EUR (IBAN bank wire)<br />RUB (bank wire, WU, Anelik and etc, cash)<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />Perfect Money USD/EUR, Pecunix, Paxum, c-gold, Hoopay, GDP || 24/7/365 support in English, Spanish and Russian.<br />
|-<br />
| [[ECurrencyZone]] || Fixed Rate || BTC<br/>INR (Cash deposit of Indian rupee)<br />BDT (Cash deposit of Bangladeshi taka)<br />NPR (Cash deposit of Nepalese rupee)<br />MYR (Cash deposit of Malaysian ringitt)<br />SGD (Cash deposit of Singaporean dollar)<br />SGD (Net/Bank transfer)<br />USD (Western Union, Moneygram, Citibank global funds transfer, OKPay)<br />USD || Bank transfer considered at all locations with prior approval.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitCoinVend]] || Market || BTC<br/>USD (PayPal) || bitcoinvend@gmail.com, market variable with commission, quote based, verified paypal account with anti scammer verification<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins In Berlin]] || Fixed Rate || EUR (Cash in-the mail)<br />EUR (Cash in-person trade)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR (Western Union) || Cash in-the-mail is to a Berlin P.O. box. In-person trade is in Berlin.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.lojabitcoin.pt Loja Bitcoin] || Market Rate|| EUR (ATM/Multibanco) <br> EUR (bank transfer) <br> EUR (money order) <br> EUR (cash) || Several payment methods like the Portuguese "Multibanco" (ATM), "Vale postal CTT" (money order by mail), bank transfer and cash (in some locations) - Portugal only at the moment<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mang Sweeney]] || Fixed Rate || PHP (Cash)<br />PHP (Cash deposit at bank) || Languages: English, Pinoy.<br />PHP [https://localbitcoins.com/accounts/profile/mangsweeney cash trade method] in metro Manilla, Philappines.<br />
|-<br />
| [[mercaBit.eu]] || Fixed Rate|| EUR (Ukash)<br/>EUR (Hal-Cash)<br/>EUR (Neteller)<br/>|| Buy bitcoins with ukash and more<br />
|-<br />
| [http://buyBTC.cz buyBTC.cz] ([[buyBTC.cz|info]]) || Fixed Rate|| CZK (Domestic bank transfer)<br />EUR (Bank transfer) || Buy bitcoins from the Czech Republic.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitonic.nl Bitonic.nl] || Fixed Rate|| EUR (iDeal) || Buy bitcoins instantly from the Netherlands.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.dragons.tl Dragon's Tale] ([[Dragon's Tale|info]]) || Other || Credit card (except in the U.S.) || Purchase bitcoins through this MMO casino with credit card, withdraw bitcoins (though a fee applies if withdrawn and no casino play.)<br />
|-<br />
| [https://buybitcoinbycreditcard.com buybitcoinbycreditcard.com] || Fixed Rate || JPY (Credit Card) || Buy bitcoins instantly with your credit card. No registration required. This site accept from the world.<br />
|-<br />
| [[OKPAY]] || Fixed Rate || BTC<br/>USD, EUR, GBP, RUB, CHF etc (Bank Wire Transfer)<br/>EUR (SofortBanking)<br/>USD, EUR (Liqpay)<br/>USD (CashU)<br/>USD, EUR, GBP, RUB, CHF etc (UWCFS)<br/>USD, RUB, UAH (Wallet1)<br/>RUB (Yandex Money)<br/>RUB (EasyPay)<br/>USD, EUR (CONTACT)<br/>USD, EUR (Migom)<br/>USD, EUR, CZK (Money Polo)<br/>USD, EUR (Intel Express)<br/>USD, EUR (Western Union via Exchange Partners)<br/>USD, EUR (Moneygram via Exchange Partners)<br/>USD, EUR (via Exchange Partners) || Support of 19 world currencies, 15 languages.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitplaats.nl Bitplaats.nl] || Fixed Rate|| EUR (iDEAL) || Buy bitcoins instantly, pay with iDEAL. Buy bitcoin from the Netherlands.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://artabit.com artaBit.com] ([[artaBit|info]]) || Fixed Rate|| IDR || Buy bitcoins in Indonesia.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.bitsofgold.co.il BitsOfGold.co.il] ([[Bits_of_Gold|info]]) || Fixed Rate|| ILS || Buy bitcoins from Israel.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.rugatu.com rugatu.com] || Fixed Rate (Mtgox EUR) || EUR || Buy bitcoins with Neteller.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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==Direct / Bulk Buying==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment Method || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87094.0 Bitcoins Direct] || Direct purchases, $1,000 and higher. || USD (Cash deposit at B of A, Wells Fargo or PNC Bank, max $3,000)<br />USD (Bank wire, domestic or international), max $6,000 unless prior authorization || BTC || Inventory varies based on market conditions.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87094.0 BitPay] ([[BitPay|info]]) || Direct purchases, $10,000 USD and higher || USD (Bank wire, domestic or international) || BTC || Contact for other payment methods. <br />
|-<br />
| [https://bitcoinbycc.com/BbCC/Bank.html Bank2Bit] (caution, newly added) || Direct Purchases, $1,000-$100,000 || Bank Transfer || BTC || Exquisite customer service and fast delivery.<br />
|}<br />
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==Other Financial Services==<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment || Settled || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[MPEx]] || Buy / Sell / Exercise CALLs / PUTs, American style.<br />52 strikes offered (by .5), current month + 2.<br /> No shorting available yet.|| BTC || BTC || Transactions encoded via amt.<br /> Must use non-rounding client<br />(0.3.24 or later)<br />
|-<br />
| [https://vircurex.com Vircurex] || Buy / Sell Options<br/>Loan / Borrow || BTC, NMC, LTC, DVC, GG, I0C, IXC, SC || BTC, NMC, LTC, DVC, GG, I0C, IXC, SC ||<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.indx.ru/?lang=en-US INDX] || Stock market, where BTC are also traded || - || - || Trader`s account can be withdrawn with BTC or with USD via WebMoney.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Physical Bitcoins==<br />
<br />
Physical Bitcoins are bearer tokens that have an embedded redeemable digital bitcoin value if torn open. While they are somewhat expensive if bought purely for the digital bitcoins, they are relatively easy to get, because they can be purchased with PayPal or credit card - payment methods typically not accepted for pure digital bitcoin purchases.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.memorydealers.com Memory Dealers] || Casascius Physical Bitcoins || USD (PayPal/Credit Card) || <br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.casascius.com Casascius.com] || Casascius Physical Bitcoins || BTC || <br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.bitbills.com Bitbills] || Bitbills cards || BTC || Not taking orders as of Nov 2011.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Paper-Bills-Electronic-Cryptocurrency/dp/B00CPCHACM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1368139204&sr=8-3&keywords=bitcoin+gift Amazon.com] || Bitcoin Bills || BTC|| It's a little high, but its due to amazon royalties. Will lower when more stock is sold.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Exchange Directories==<br />
* [http://howtobuybitcoins.com/ HowToBuyBitcoins.com] <br />
* [http://howtobuybitcoins.info/ HowToBuyBitcoins.info] <br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
* [[:Category:Digital_currencies|Digital Currencies]]<br />
* [[Selling bitcoins]]<br />
* [[Secure Trading]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ladder]]<br />
* [[:Category:Local|Local]] exchanges<br />
<br />
[[Category:Exchanges]]<br />
[[Category:Introduction]]<br />
[[zh-cn:购买bitcoins]]<br />
[[ru:Приобретение биткойнов]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Bitcoind&diff=36285Bitcoind2013-03-21T15:20:10Z<p>Paraipan: /* I get "Error loading blkindex.bat" when I try to run the client */</p>
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<div>Bitcoind is a program that implements the Bitcoin protocol for command line and remote procedure call (RPC) use. It is also the first Bitcoin client in the network's history. It is available under the [http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php MIT license] in 32-bit and 64-bit versions for Windows, GNU/Linux-based OSes, and Mac OS X.<br />
<br />
Prior to version 0.5, this service-provider client used a wxWidgets GUI as its default GUI. It is now instead bundled with [[Bitcoin-Qt]].<br />
<br />
=== Running ===<br />
<br />
See [[Running_bitcoind|running bitcoind]] for more detail and an example of the configuration file.<br />
<br />
Bitcoind is a headless daemon, and also bundles a testing tool for the same daemon. It provides a JSON-RPC interface, allowing it to be controlled locally or remotely which makes it useful for integration with other software or in larger payment systems. [[Original Bitcoin client/API Calls list|Various commands]] are made available by the API.<br />
<br />
To use locally, first start the program in daemon mode:<br />
:bitcoind -daemon<br />
<br />
<br />
Then you can use the same program to execute [[Original Bitcoin client/API Calls list|API commands]], e.g.:<br />
:bitcoind getinfo<br />
:bitcoind listtransactions<br />
<br />
<br />
To stop the bitcoin daemon, execute:<br />
:bitcoind stop<br />
<br />
==History of official bitcoind (and predecessor) releases==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Version<br />
! Date<br />
! Supported platforms<br />
! Reference<br />
|-<br />
| 0.7.2<br />
| 2012-Dec-14<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=130819.msg1399721#msg1399721 Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind version 0.7.2 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.5.7<br />
| 2012-Nov-23<br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 0.7.1<br />
| 2012-Oct-19<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119277.msg1283232#msg1283232 Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind version 0.7.1 released]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
| 0.7.0<br />
| 2012-Sep-17<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110243.msg1199467 Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind version 0.7.0 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.5.6<br />
| 2012-Jul-22<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 0.4.7<br />
| 2012-Jul-22<br />
| Windows32 <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 0.6.0.9<br />
| 2012-Jul-08<br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 0.6.3<br />
| 2012-Jun-25<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89877.msg989356#msg989356 Bitcoin-Qt / bitcoind version 0.6.3 released]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
| 0.6.2<br />
| 2012-May-08<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78829.msg888578#msg888578 Re: Version 0.6.1 release candidate 2]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
| 0.6.1<br />
| 2012-May-04<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| 0.6.0.7<br />
| 2012-May-04<br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 0.5.5<br />
| 2012-May-04<br />
| Windows32 <br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79651 Version 0.5.5 and 0.4.6 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.4.6<br />
| 2012-May-04<br />
| Windows32 <br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79651 Version 0.5.5 and 0.4.6 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.5.4<br />
| 2012-Apr-15<br />
| Windows32 / Linux<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=76808.0 Version 0.5.4 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.4.5<br />
| 2012-Apr-15<br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 0.6.0<br />
| 2012-Mar-30<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[http://www.bitcoinforum.com/bitcoin-discussion/bitcoin-org-bitcoin-version-0-6-0-released/ bitcoin.org: Bitcoin version 0.6.0 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.5.3.1<br />
| 2012-Mar-17<br />
| Windows32<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=69120.0 URGENT: Windows Bitcoin-Qt update]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
| 0.5.3<br />
| 2012-Mar-14<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68895.0 Bitcoin-Qt, bitcoind version 0.5.3 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.4.4<br />
| 2012-Mar-14<br />
| Windows32 <br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=70566.0 bitcoind version 0.4.4 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.5.2<br />
| 2012-Jan-09<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60146.0 Bitcoin-Qt, bitcoind version 0.5.2 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.4.3<br />
| 2012-Jan-09<br />
| Windows32 / Linux<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57734.0 bitcoind version 0.4.3 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.5.1<br />
| 2011-Dec-15<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54717.0 Bitcoin-Qt, bitcoind version 0.5.1 released]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
| 0.4.2<br />
| 2011-Dec-12<br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| 0.5.0<br />
| 2011-Nov-21<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52480.0 Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind version 0.5.0]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.4.1<br />
| 2011-Nov-21<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52503.0 wxBitcoin/bitcoind version 0.4.1]</ref><br />
|- <br />
| 0.4.0<br />
| 2011-Sep-23<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=45410.0 Bitcoin version 0.4.0 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.3.24<br />
| 2011-Jul-08<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=27187.0 Bitcoin version 0.3.24 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.3.23<br />
| 2011-Jun-13<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16553.0 Bitcoin version 0.3.23 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.3.22 <br />
| 2011-Jun-05<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=12269.0 Bitcoin version 0.3.22]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.3.21 <br />
| 2011-Apr-27<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/?topic=6642.0 Bitcoin version 0.3.21]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| 0.3.20<br />
| 2011-Feb-21<br />
| Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3704.0 Version 0.3.20]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.3.19 <br />
|2010-12-12 <br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2228.msg29479#msg29479 Added some DoS limits, removed safe mode (0.3.19)]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
|0.3.18<br />
|2010-12-08<br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2162.0 Version 0.3.18]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.3.17<br />
|2010-11-25<br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1946.0 Version 0.3.17]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.3.15<br />
|2010-11-13<br />
|Windows32 / Linux<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1780.0 Version 0.3.15]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
|0.3.14<br />
|2010-10-21<br />
|Windows32 / Linux<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1528.0 Version 0.3.14]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.3.13<br />
|2010-10-01<br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1327.0 Version 0.3.13, please upgrade]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
|0.3.12<br />
|2010-09-07<br />
|Windows32 / Linux<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=999.0 Version 0.3.12 is now available.]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.3.11<br />
|2010-08-27<br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=941.0 Version 0.3.11 is now available.]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.3.10<br />
|2010-08-15<br />
|Windows32 / Linux32/64 / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=820.msg9452#msg9452 tcatm's 4-way SSE2 for Linux 32/64-bit is in 0.3.10]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.3.8.1<br />
|2010-08-09<br />
|Linux64<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=765.0 Version 0.3.8.1 update for Linux 64-bit]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
|0.3.8<br />
|2010-08-03<br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=696.0 Please upgrade to 0.3.8!]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
|0.3.7<br />
|2010-08-01<br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=664.0 0.3.7 Changes]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
|0.3.6<br />
|2010-07-29<br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=626.0 *** ALERT *** Upgrade to 0.3.6]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.3.3<br />
|2010-07-25<br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=570.0 Bitcoin 0.3.3 released -- PLEASE UPGRADE]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.3.2.5<br />
|2010-07-24<br />
|Windows32 / Linux<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=556.0 Version 0.3.2.5 -- please test!]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.3.2<br />
|2010-07-17<br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
| <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=437.0 Bitcoin 0.3.2 released]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
|0.3.1<br />
|2010-07-15<br />
|Windows32 / Linux<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=383.0 Bitcoin 0.3.1 released]</ref> <br />
|-<br />
|0.3.0<br />
|2010-07-06<br />
|Windows32 / Linux / MacOS X<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=238.0 Bitcoin 0.3 released!]</ref><ref>[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=25686730 Bitcoin 0.3 released!]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.2.0<br />
|2009-12-17 06:52<br />
|Windows XP /Vista / Linux<br />
|<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16.0 Bitcoin 0.2 released!]</ref><ref>[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=24205662 Bitcoin 0.2 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.1.5<br />
|2009-02-04 19:46<br />
|Windows NT/2000/XP<br />
|<ref>[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=21500063 Bitcoin v0.1.5 released]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.1.3<br />
|2009-01-12 22:48<br />
|Windows NT/2000/XP<br />
|<ref>[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=21313152 Bitcoin v0.1.3]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.1.2<br />
|2009-01-11 22:32<br />
|Windows NT/2000/XP<br />
|<ref>[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=21303153 Bitcoin v0.1.2 now available]</ref><br />
|-<br />
|0.1.0<br />
|2009-01-09<br />
|Windows NT/2000/XP<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Up to and including version 0.3.19 is the "Satoshi code". The founder retired from development with end of 2010. [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68121.10;wap2/ Here] are three URLs given where you still(!) (2013-01-04) can download one of the [[Satoshi client|"original Satoshi codes"]]. So also this [http://www.antepedia.com/detail/p/237812136.html Bitcoin release history].<br />
<br />
==Theory of Operation==<br />
<br />
bitcoind is a multithreaded C++ program. It is designed to be portable across Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. The multithreaded aspect leads to some complexity and the use of certain code patterns to deal with concurrency that may be unfamiliar to many programmers. Also, the code is aggressive in the use of C++ constructs, so it will help to be fluent with map, multimap, set, string, vector, iostream, and templates. As is typical of a C++ program, a lot of code tends to end up in the header files so be sure to search both the .cpp and .h files when looking for a function.<br />
<br />
The client is oriented around several major operations, which are described in separate detailed articles and summarized in the following sections.<br />
<br />
<br />
===[[Satoshi Client Initialization and Startup|Initialization and Startup]]===<br />
Upon startup, the client performs various initialization routines including starting multiple threads to handle concurrent operations.<br />
<br />
===[[Satoshi Client Node Discovery|Node Discovery]]===<br />
The client uses various techniques to find out about other Bitcoin nodes that are currently connected to the network.<br />
<br />
===[[Satoshi Client Node Connectivity|Node Connectivity]]===<br />
The client initiates and maintains connections to other nodes.<br />
<br />
===[[Satoshi Client Sockets and Messages|Sockets and Messages]]===<br />
The client processes messages from other nodes and sends messages to other nodes using socket connections.<br />
<br />
===[[Satoshi Client Block Exchange|Block Exchange]]===<br />
Nodes advertise their inventory of blocks to each other and exchange blocks to build block chains.<br />
<br />
===[[Satoshi Client Transaction Exchange|Transaction Exchange]]===<br />
Nodes exchange and relay transactions with each other. The client associates transactions with bitcoin addresses in the local wallet.<br />
<br />
===Wallet Services===<br />
The client can create transactions using the local wallet. The client associates transactions with bitcoin addresses in the local wallet. The client provides a service for managing the local wallet.<br />
<br />
===RPC Interface===<br />
The client offers an JSON-RPC interface over HTTP over sockets to perform various operational functions and to manage the local wallet.<br />
<br />
===User Interface===<br />
Bitcoind's current user interface is the command line while it used to be based on [http://www.wxwidgets.org wxWidgets]. A graphical user interface is now provided by [[Bitcoin-qt]] in version 0.5+ for the reference client.<br />
<br />
==Troubleshooting==<br />
<br />
===I get "Error loading blkindex.dat" when I try to run the client===<br />
<br />
blkindex.dat is part of the database that stores the local copy of the blockchain which may have become corrupted. Open the Bitcoin data dir:<br />
<br />
Windows: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin<br />
Linux: ~/.bitcoin<br />
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/<br />
<br />
Make a backup of that entire folder, then delete everything EXCEPT wallet.dat. Start bitcoind again and it will download a fresh copy of the blockchain.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Original Bitcoin client/API calls list]]<br />
* [[Protocol specification|Bitcoin network protocol]]<br />
* [[Development process]]<br />
* [[Release process]]<br />
* [[Changelog]]<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
* [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/ Bitcoin Client project on Github]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /><br />
`<br />
[[es:Bitcoind]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Nodes]]<br />
[[Category:Wallets]]<br />
[[Category:User Interfaces]]<br />
[[Category:Clients]]<br />
[[Category:Developer]]<br />
[[Category:Technical]]<br />
[[Category:Free Software]]<br />
[[Category:License/MIT-X11]]<br />
[[Category:Open Source]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=MercaBit.eu&diff=35549MercaBit.eu2013-02-06T14:38:07Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>A [[currency exchange|exchange]] site where bitcoins may be bought using cash transfer methods [[UKash]] (EUR), HalCash (Hal-Cash) (EUR) and Neteller instant money transfers (EUR). More recently you can exchange your bitcoins for ukash vouchers.<br />
<br />
The price at which the bitcoins are bought is relative to the BTC/EUR market rate at the leading exchange.<br />
<br />
There may be restrictions when attempting to redeem UKash (EUR) vouchers from one country with a merchant in another. This includes Germany<ref>[http://www.ukash.com/de/de/alerts/waehrungsumwandlung-nicht-moeglich.aspx Currency conversion is not possible]</ref>, some vouchers from Brazil and possibly elsewhere as well.<br />
<br />
The service is attended to during weekday business hours, Central European Time (CET).<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
The service was revealed on August 2, 2012<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97491.0 Buy bitcoins with ukash on mercabit.eu]</ref>.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Buying bitcoins]]<br />
* [[Selling bitcoins]]<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://mercabit.eu mercaBit.eu] website<br />
* [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104357.0 mercaBit.eu feedback thread]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<References /><br />
<br />
[[Category:Exchanges]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=MercaBit.eu&diff=35453MercaBit.eu2013-01-28T13:25:25Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>A [[currency exchange|exchange]] site where bitcoins may be bought using cash transfer methods [[UKash]] (EUR), HalCash (Hal-Cash) (EUR) and Neteller instant money transfers (EUR).<br />
<br />
The price at which the bitcoins are bought is relative to the BTC/EUR market rate at the leading exchange.<br />
<br />
There may be restrictions when attempting to redeem UKash (EUR) vouchers from one country with a merchant in another. This includes Germany<ref>[http://www.ukash.com/de/de/alerts/waehrungsumwandlung-nicht-moeglich.aspx Currency conversion is not possible]</ref>, some vouchers from Brazil and possibly elsewhere as well.<br />
<br />
The service is attended to during weekday business hours, Central European Time (CET).<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
The service was revealed on August 2, 2012<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97491.0 Buy bitcoins with ukash on mercabit.eu]</ref>.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Buying bitcoins]]<br />
* [[Selling bitcoins]]<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://mercabit.eu mercaBit.eu] website<br />
* [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104357.0 mercaBit.eu feedback thread]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<References /><br />
<br />
[[Category:Exchanges]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Buying_bitcoins&diff=35452Buying bitcoins2013-01-28T13:24:46Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>There are various methods available for buying bitcoins. See [[Buying Bitcoins (the noob version)|here for a Newb-friendly version]] of this page.<br />
<br />
<span style="color:red">Warning: Please be careful with your money. When sending money to an exchange or seller you are trusting that the operator will not abscond with your funds and that the operator maintains secure systems that protect against theft -- internal or external. It is recommended that you obtain the real-world identity of the operator and ensure that sufficient recourse is available. Exchanging or storing significant amounts of funds with exchanges is not recommended.</span><br />
<br />
==Major Exchanges==<br />
<br />
The least expensive methods for buying bitcoins involve transferring funds using a bank wire, ACH, bank transfer (ACH, EUR / SEPA).<br />
<br />
Exchanges are listed in alphabetical order.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Exchange || Adding Funds || Withdrawing Funds || [[eWallet]] || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin-24]] || BTC<br/>USD ([[MtGox]] redeemable code)<br />EUR ([[MtGox]] redeemable code)<br />USD (VouchX redeemable code)<br />EUR (VouchX redeemable code)<br />EUR (BTC24 redeemable code)<br />USD (Credit card through LiqPay)<br />EUR (Sofortuberweisung) || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR (VouchX redeemable code)<br />USD (VouchX redeemable code)<br />EUR (BTC24 redeemable code)<br />USD (BTC24 redeemable code<br />USD ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin-Central]] || BTC<br />GBP (Bank transfer)<br />EUR (SEPA)<br />Liberty Reserve USD<br />Liberty Reserve EUR<br />International wire (any currency) || BTC<br />GBP (Bank transfer)<br />EUR (SEPA)<br />Liberty Reserve USD<br />Liberty Reserve EUR || {{Table Value Yes}} || [https://github.com/davout/bitcoin-central Open-source], community reviewed platform<br />Available in French and English languages<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitfloor]] || BTC<br/>USD (bank wire transfer)<br />USD (ING Person2Person) || BTC<br/>USD (ACH, direct deposit) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMe]] || BTC<br/>USD (Cash deposits at Chase)<br/>USD (Wire Transfer - US Only)<br />USD (AurumXchange VouchX) || BTC<br/>USD (AurumXchange VouchX)<br/>USD (ACH / Direct Deposit)<br/>USD (Wire Transfer - US Only) || {{ Table Value Yes }} || <ul><li>US-based</li><li>Liquidity provider discounts</li><li>[https://github.com/bitme BitMe's GitHub]</li><li>[http://bitme.github.com/rest/ REST API]</li></ul><br />
|-<br />
| [[bitNZ]] || BTC<br/>NZD (Cash depost as Westbank) || BTC<br/>NZD (Domestic bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitstamp]] || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />USD (Intl wire)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />CHF || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />USD (Intl wire)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />CHF || {{Table Value Yes}} || EUR and CHF deposits converted to/from USD for trading<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC-E]] || BTC<br />BTC (BTC-e redeemable code)<br />USD (Cash deposit at Post of Russia)<br />USD (Cash deposit at banks including Privatbank, Savings Bank of Russia (Sberbank), RU/UA Terminals, & more)<br />USD ([[Liberty Reserve]])<br />USD (Interkassa)<br />USD (WebMoney - WMZ)<br />USD (Yandex)<br />USD (LiqPay)<br />USD (Perfect Money)<br />USD (QIWI)<br />USD (OKPay)<br />USD (RBK Money)<br />USD (Ditial currencies including НСМЭП (NSMEP), Единый Кошелек (Unified Purse), TeleMoney, & more)<br />USD (BTC-e Redeemable Code, available via BitInstant and AurumXChange)<br />USD (International bank wire)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />RUB (QIWI)<br />RUB (LiqPay)<br />RUB (WebMoney-WMR)<br />RUB (BTC-e Redeemable code)<br />RUB (Bank transfer) || BTC<br/>BTC (BTC-e redeemble code)<br />USD (Liberty Reserve)<br />USD (Webmoney - WMZ)<br />USD (Perfect Money)<br />USD (LiqPay)<br />USD (QIWI)<br />USD (PayPal)<br />USD (OKPay)<br />USD (Payza/AlertPay)<br />USD (Privat, Privat UAH)<br />USD (Cash deposit into Savings Bank/Sberbank, Telebank, Alfa Bank)<br />USD (BTC-e Redeemable Code)<br />USD (International Wire Transfer)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />RUB (Cash delivery, possible in Moscow)<br />RUB (QIWI)<br />RUB (LiqPay)<br />RUB (WebMoney WMR)<br />RUB (Яндекс.Деньги Yandex)<br />RUB (RBK Money)<br />Cash deposit (into account at Сбербанка России!/Savings Bank/Sberbank, Телебанк (Telebank), and АльфаБанк (Alfa Bank)<br />RUB (Transfer to credit card VISA & MasterCard)<br />RUB (BTC-e Redeemable code)<br />RUB (Bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Language: English, Russian. Interkassa can be funded from Webmoney and many other methods.<br />BitInstant Can be funding option includes QIWI, Cyberplat.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Camp BX]] (CBX) || BTC <br/> USD ([[Dwolla]])<br/>USD (P2P bank transfer at Chase, B&nbsp;of&nbsp;A, Wells Fargo and ING. Credited after three business days).<br />USD (Personal Check)<br />USD (USPS Postal money order, Canada Post money order) || BTC<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br/>USD (ACH Direct Deposit)<br />USD (USPS Postal Money Order)<br/>USD (Domestic bank wire)<br/>USD (International bank wire) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <ul> <li> Security certification from McAfee</li><li> Advanced trading options with AON/FOK/Market</li> <li>STOPLOSS and Short-Selling in Pipeline</li><li> Trading API available</li><li> Wallet API available </li><li> CBX Instant Bitcoin Transfers Feature </li><li> Stoploss / Custom Order Expiry Date/Time </li><li> SMS (Text Message) Notifications </li> <li> Two-Factor Authentication </li> <li> Based in USA - Atlanta </li> </ul> <br />
|-<br />
| [[FYB-SG]] || BTC <br/> SGD(Internet Bank Transfer)<br/>SGD (Annonymous Cash Deposit at any UOB Cash Deposit Machine in Singapore).<br /> || BTC<br/>SGD(Internet Bank Transfer)<br/> || {{Table Value Yes}} || <ul><li> Based in Singapore </li> </ul> <br />
|-<br />
| [[Intersango]] || BTC<br />EUR (SEPA bank wire)<br />PLN (Bank Wire) || BTC<br />EUR (SEPA bank wire)<br />PLN (Bank Wire) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Operated by the [https://bitcoinconsultancy.com/ BitcoinConsultancy] <br/> [https://intersango.com Intersango] is a completely custom trading platform built from the ground up with security, scalability and extensibility in mind. [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43745.0 More Information]<br/><br/>Boasts an [https://bitcoinconsultancy.com/wiki/index.php/Intersango/API ever expanding API]. Started out as [[Britcoin]].<br />
|-<br />
| [[Kapiton.se]] || BTC<br/>SEK (Bankgiro Bank Transfer) || BTC<br/>SEK (Bankgiro Bank Transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Mercado Bitcoin]] || BTC<br/>BRL (Bank transfer)<br />BRL (Bank transfer - MoIP)<br />Liberty Reserve USD || BTC<br/>BRL (Bank transfer - MoIP) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Language: Portugese<br />
|-<br />
| [[MtGox]] || BTC<br/>BTC (Redeemable code)<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br />USD (International bank wire)<br />USD (Wire to [[AurumXChange Company|AurumXChange]])<br />USD ([[OKPay]])<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />GBP (Bank wire)<br />GBP (Cash deposit, Barclays)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />Liberty Reserve USD (via AurumXChange) || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br />USD (Wire via [[AurumXChange Company|AurumXChange]])<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />Liberty Reserve USD (via AurumXChange) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Oldest running exchange. Higest daily volume. Respecting AML laws, Restrictions and limits on withdrawals.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Rock Currency Exchange]] || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />SLL (Second Life)<br />USD (Dwolla) || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />SLL (Second Life)<br />USD (Dwolla) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[VirtEx]] || BTC<br/>CAD (cash deposit at Royal Bank, Bank of Montreal or ScotiaBank)<br />CAD (Online bill payment)<br />CAD (Wire transfer) || BTC<br/>CAD (direct deposit)<br />CAD (Canada Xpress Post Bank Draft send by mail)<br />CAD Payza (formerly AlertPay) || {{Table Value Yes}} ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[VirWoX]] || BTC<br/>SLL (Second Life)<br/>ACD (Avination)<br/>OMC (OpenSim)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[PayPal]])<br/>USD,EUR,GBP (Credit & Debit cards via [[Skrill]]/Moneybookers)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP ([[NETELLER]])<br/>EUR (DIRECTebanking / Sofortuberweisung)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[paysafecard]])<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />USD ([[UKash]] vouchers) || BTC<br/>SLL (Second Life)<br/>ACD (Avination)<br/>OMC (OpenSim)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[PayPal]])<br />USD,EUR,GBP ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP ([[NETELLER]])<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Trading through Second Life Linden Dollars.<br/>Variable limits on PayPal and Credit Card deposits. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Fixed Rate Exchanges & Others==<br />
<br />
For smaller amounts, the options are limited due to bank transfer fees, conversion fees and transaction size restrictions. Options include:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment Method || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.aurumxchange.com AurumXchange] ([[AurumXchange|info]]) || Market || USD,EUR,GBP || Exchange Bitcoins '''instantly''' to and from Liberty Reserve, Perfect Money, Pecunix, C-Gold, VouchX, CosmicPay and more. Sell and buy your Bitcoins through USD or GBP Wire, or SEPA EUR transfer.<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.bitcoincanada.tk Bitcoincanada] ([[bitcoin canada|info]]) || Market || CAD || Exchange Bitcoins '''instantly''' to and from Interac email transfer. Sell and buy your Bitcoins through Interac email transfer instantly. <br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
| [https://bitbargain.co.uk BitBargain] ([[BitBargain|info]]) || Market || GBP || Quick transactions via Bank Transfer (fast payments support only), Pingit and Ukash. Deals happen between buyer and seller.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.bitcopia.com Bitcopia] ([[Bitcopia.com|info]]) || Fixed Rate || USD (Cash deposit) || Anonymous transactions via cash deposit at Wells Fargo or Bank of America, or send money via online banking with Wells Fargo. Instant quotes based on live Mt Gox prices.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://btc.pt BTC.pt] || Market Rate || EUR (Multibanco) || Anonymous transactions. Pay the amount on any Portuguese ATM(MB) or homebanking service, we'll deduce our fee and buy the coins for you at market rate and send them very fast to your wallet. Only available in Portugal.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.coinmarket.co.nz Coin Market] || Fixed Rate || NZD (NZ Bank deposit/Cash) || Cash deposit or bank transfer to domestic New Zealand bank. Cash payment to brokerage. Guest checkout available.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bit Innovate]] || Fixed Rate || AUD, NZD (Cash deposit) || Australian Dollar cash deposit at any Commonwealth or Westpac Bank. New Zealand Dollar cash deposits at any ASB.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://blockchain.info/wallet/ Blockchain] ([[BlockChain.info|info]]) || Fixed Rate || USD, BRL, AUD, CAD, JPY, EUR, CHF, GBP, PLN, CZK, RON, RUB, SEK, NOK, DKK || Purchased through [[BitInstant]] (U.S., Brazil, and Russia), Barclay's Pingit (GBP), or SMS or premium phone call from a mobile. Or Bank Deposit for UK Users.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitInstant]] || Market Rate || USD (Cash deposit at banks, 7-11, Walmart, CVS, Moneygram locations)<br />USD (Dwolla)<br />BRL (Cash deposit at Banco Rendimento or through Boleto)<br />RUB (Cash deposit through Qiwi or Cyberplat) || Deposit cash at 700,000 locations around the world and have your Bitcoins within 30 minutes. Absolute fastest and easiest way to buy Bitcoins. <br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinapult]] || Fixed rate || Use [[BitInstant]] to use cash to purchase bitcoins sent to e-mail or SMS. Choose "Bitcoin to e-mail" service and enter either e-mail or SMS. ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinbase]] || Fixed rate || Buy bitcoins using a bank transfer (U.S.). || Instant verification available for new accounts.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://BitcoinIsrael.co.il BitcoinIsrael.co.il] || Fixed Rate || ILS (NIS - New Israeli Shekel)<br />
* via bank transfer<br />
* via Bank HaDoar /Post Office Bank (instant transfer)<br />
* via In Person<br />
|| Buy and sell your Bitcoins within minutes in person. Get "same day" service using Bank HaDoar /Post Office Bank. Get "next day" service using Bank Transfer.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Nordic]] || Fixed Rate<br />
|<br />
*EUR/DKK (SEPA and wire transfer)<br />
*USD, EUR, GBP, DKK, SEK, NOK (Cash or check in the mail)<br />
*AED, DZD, EGP, IQD, ILS, JOD, KWD, LGP, LYD, MRO, MYR, NGN, OMR, PKR, QAR, SAR, TRL, TZS, TND, YER ([[CashU]] card)<br />
*MXN, EYU, BOB, BRL, COP, SYP, MAD, GHC, ZAR, CNY, CAD, and more ([[UKash]] voucher)<br />
| For UKash, redeemed through CashU account.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Omnicoins]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Cash deposit) || Deposit cash at any Commonwealth, NAB, or Westpac branch.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Spend Bitcoins]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Cash deposit) || AUD cash deposit at NAB, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and ANZ.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://bitcoinmylife.com/jml/buy-bitcoins BitcoinMyLife] <br /> ([[BitcoinMyLife|info]]) || Fixed Rate || EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || Simple and Safe.<br />Pay first transaction fee with Twitter or Facebook post.<br />
|-<br />
| [[bitcoin.de]] || Market || EUR (bank wire)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR (Liberty Reserve)<br />EUR ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers) || Varies (person to person)<br />0.01 free Bitcoins for every new user<br />eWallet<br />Affiliate program<br />Language: German, Englisch<br/> News<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoiny.cz]] || Market || CZK || Varies (person to person)<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCX.se]] || Fixed Rate || SEK || Transfer to and banks in Sweden.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC China]] || Fixed Rate || USD (Liberty Reserve) || Converted to CNY for trading. <br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMarket.co]] || Market || COP (Colombian Peso) || Varies (person to person)<br />
|- <br />
| [[bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] || [http://bitcoin-otc.com/vieworderbook.php Order Book] || Varies (person to person) || IRC trading marketplace will usually have people willing to deal for small and larger amounts using various payment methods, including [[PayPal]], [[Dwolla]], [[Linden Dollars]], etc.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Canadian Bitcoins]] || Fixed Rate || CAD (Cash - XpressPost or Dropoff)<br />USD (Cash - Courier: UPS, FedEx, etc.) || For dropoff, office in Ottawa.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://dgtmkt.com Dgtmkt] ([[Dgtmkt|info]]) || Fixed Rate || Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)<br />Online bank transfers (Maybank2U, CIMB, MEPS, etc)<br />E-vouchers (Web Cash, Mobile Money) || Bitcoin merchant for Malaysians,. dealing in Malaysian Ringgit. Fully automated immediate transfers. https://dgtmkt.com<br />
|-<br />
| [[Lilion Transfer]] || Fixed Rate || Bank Transfer: USD, AUD, CAD, JPY, EUR, CHF, GBP, PLN, CZK, RON, BGN, HRK, RUB, SEK, NOK, DKK, LTL, LVL<br /> Liberty Reserve<br />Perfect Money<br />Monetto<br />OK Pay<br />Cosmic Pay<br />Pecunix<br />C-Gold<br />E-Pay Payments<br />PayPal|| 122 accounts worldwide.<br /> Support in 30 languages<br />
|-<br />
| [[Nanaimo Gold]] || Fixed Rate || USD (Liberty Reserve)<br />Western Union money transfer<br />Moneygram money transfer<br />Cash in the mail || LR <--> Bitcoin exchange is automated<br />For cash in the mail send USD, EUR, CAD, or GBP. Canada mailing address.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Argentina]] || Fixed Rate || Cash: ARS, BRL, USD <br /> Bank transfer: ARS || No exchange fees!<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin.com.es]] || Fixed Rate || EUR (bank deposit) || Bank transfer or cash deposits at OpenBank in Spain.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bahtcoin]] || Fixed Rate || Cash, Webmoney<br />Liberty Reserve USD || Will cash out to Thai mobile and gaming prepaid cards as well.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Brasil]] || Fixed Rate || BRL (Brazilian Real)<br />USD || Cash exchange<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitPiggy]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Australian Dollar)|| Payment via bank transfer.<br />
|-<br />
| [[bitcoin.local]] || Directory || Varies (person to person) ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[bcchanger.com]] || Directory || Enables person to person purchases and sales via PayPal, [[Skrill]]/Moneybookers and other e-currency platforms ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoil]] || Fixed Rate || ILS (bank transfer) ||<br />
|- <br />
|[[btcnow]] || Market || USD (OKPay, Dwolla) || bitcoins transferred instantly<br />
|-<br />
| [http://localbitcoins.com LocalBitcoins.com] || Directory || Varies (person to person)<br/>Physical cash locally || Find your local bitcoin dealer! With dynamic pricing with equations.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.happycoins.nl HappyCoins] || Fixed Rate || EUR (iDEAL and SEPA bank transfer) || Buy and sell Bitcoins. Dutch bank account holders receive Bitcoins within minutes and bank payments same day. Other European IBAN bank account transactions take one or two working days. Prices based on near real-time MtGox exchange price.<br />
|-<br />
| [[WM-Center]] || Fixed rate || BTC<br/>USD (International bank wire, Western Unon, Moneygram, Xoom etc, cash)<br />EUR (IBAN bank wire)<br />RUB (bank wire, WU, Anelik and etc, cash)<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />Liberty Reserve USD/EUR, Perfect Money USD/EUR, Pecunix, Paxum, c-gold, Hoopay, GDP || 24/7/365 support in English, Spanish and Russian.<br />
|-<br />
| [[ECurrencyZone]] || Fixed Rate || BTC<br/>INR (Cash deposit of Indian rupee)<br />BDT (Cash deposit of Bangladeshi taka)<br />NPR (Cash deposit of Nepalese rupee)<br />MYR (Cash deposit of Malaysian ringitt)<br />SGD (Cash deposit of Singaporean dollar)<br />SGD (Net/Bank transfer)<br />USD (Western Union, Moneygram, Citibank global funds transfer, OKPay)<br />USD (Liberty Reserve, Mt. Gox redeemable code) || Bank transfer considered at all locations with prior approval.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitCoinVend]] || Market || BTC<br/>USD (PayPal) || bitcoinvend@gmail.com, market variable with commission, quote based, verified paypal account with anti scammer verification<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins In Berlin]] || Fixed Rate || EUR (Cash in-the mail)<br />EUR (Cash in-person trade)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR (Mt. Gox [[redeemable code]])<br />EUR (Western Union) || Cash in-the-mail is to a Berlin P.O. box. In-person trade is in Berlin.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mang Sweeney]] || Fixed Rate || PHP (Cash)<br />PHP (Cash deposit at bank) || Languages: English, Pinoy.<br />PHP [https://localbitcoins.com/accounts/profile/mangsweeney cash trade method] in metro Manilla, Philappines.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcoinvender.yolasite.com/ Bitcoin Vender] || Fixed Rate|| USD (Credit Card)<br/>USD (Debit Card)<BR />|| Buy bitcoins with your credit or debit card<br />
|-<br />
| [[mercaBit.eu]] || Fixed Rate|| EUR (Ukash)<br/>EUR (Hal-Cash)<br/>EUR (Neteller)<br/>|| Buy bitcoins with ukash and more<br />
|-<br />
| [http://buyBTC.cz buyBTC.cz] ([[buyBTC.cz|info]]) || Fixed Rate|| CZK (Domestic bank transfer)<br />EUR (Bank transfer) || Buy bitcoins from the Czech Republic.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://InstaWire.com InstaWire.com] ([[InstaWire|info]]) || Fixed Rate|| EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || No sign-up, just enter the amount and a Bitcoin address.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitonic.nl Bitonic.nl] || Fixed Rate|| EUR (iDeal) || Buy bitcoins instantly from the Netherlands.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://swissbitcoins.ch swissbitcoins.ch] ([[Swissbitcoins|info]]) || Fixed Rate|| CHF (Swiss Bank Transfer) || Buy Bitcoins in Switzerland. No registration required. Enter Bitcoin address, wire money and get your bitcoins within 24 hours. <br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.dragons.tl Dragon's Tale] ([[Dragon's Tale|info]]) || Other || Credit card (except in the U.S.) || Purchase bitcoins through this MMO casino with credit card, withdraw bitcoins (though a fee applies if withdrawn and no casino play.)<br />
|-<br />
| [https://buybitcoinbycreditcard.com buybitcoinbycreditcard.com] || Fixed Rate || JPY (Credit Card) || Buy bitcoins instantly with your credit card. No registration required. This site accept from the world.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Direct / Bulk Buying==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment Method || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87094.0 Bitcoins Direct] || Direct purchases, $1,000 and higher. || USD (Cash deposit at B of A, Wells Fargo or PNC Bank, max $3,000)<br />USD (Bank wire, domestic or international), max $6,000 unless prior authorization<br />USD (Liberty Reserve) || BTC || Inventory varies based on market conditions.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89757.msg996082#msg996082 BitPay] ([[BitPay|info]]) || Direct purchases, $10,000 USD and higher || USD (Bank wire, domestic or international) || BTC || Contact for other payment methods. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Other Financial Services==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment || Settled || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[MPEx]] || Buy / Sell / Exercise CALLs / PUTs, American style.<br />52 strikes offered (by .5), current month + 2.<br /> No shorting available yet.|| BTC || BTC || Transactions encoded via amt.<br /> Must use non-rounding client<br />(0.3.24 or later)<br />
|-<br />
| [https://vircurex.com Vircurex] || Buy / Sell Options<br/>Loan / Borrow || BTC, NMC, LTC, DVC, GG, I0C, IXC, SC || BTC, NMC, LTC, DVC, GG, I0C, IXC, SC ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Physical Bitcoins==<br />
<br />
Physical Bitcoins are bearer tokens that have an embedded redeemable digital bitcoin value if torn open. While they are somewhat expensive if bought purely for the digital bitcoins, they are relatively easy to get, because they can be purchased with PayPal or credit card - payment methods not typically not accepted for pure digital bitcoin purchases.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.memorydealers.com Memory Dealers] || Casascius Physical Bitcoins || USD (PayPal/Credit Card) || <br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.casascius.com Casascius.com] || Casascius Physical Bitcoins || BTC || <br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.giftcoin.net/card Bitcoin Gift Card] || Bitcioin Gift Card Physical Bitcoin Issued By GiftCoin || BTC || <br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.bitbills.com Bitbills] || Bitbills cards || BTC || Not taking orders as of Nov 2011.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[:Category:Digital_currencies|Digital Currencies]]<br />
* [[Selling bitcoins]]<br />
* [[Secure Trading]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ladder]]<br />
* [[:Category:Local|Local]] exchanges<br />
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[[Category:Exchanges]]<br />
[[Category:Introduction]]<br />
[[zh-cn:购买bitcoins]]<br />
[[ru:Приобретение биткойнов]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Buying_bitcoins&diff=35451Buying bitcoins2013-01-28T13:23:50Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>There are various methods available for buying bitcoins. See [[Buying Bitcoins (the noob version)|here for a Newb-friendly version]] of this page.<br />
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<span style="color:red">Warning: Please be careful with your money. When sending money to an exchange or seller you are trusting that the operator will not abscond with your funds and that the operator maintains secure systems that protect against theft -- internal or external. It is recommended that you obtain the real-world identity of the operator and ensure that sufficient recourse is available. Exchanging or storing significant amounts of funds with exchanges is not recommended.</span><br />
<br />
==Major Exchanges==<br />
<br />
The least expensive methods for buying bitcoins involve transferring funds using a bank wire, ACH, bank transfer (ACH, EUR / SEPA).<br />
<br />
Exchanges are listed in alphabetical order.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Exchange || Adding Funds || Withdrawing Funds || [[eWallet]] || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin-24]] || BTC<br/>USD ([[MtGox]] redeemable code)<br />EUR ([[MtGox]] redeemable code)<br />USD (VouchX redeemable code)<br />EUR (VouchX redeemable code)<br />EUR (BTC24 redeemable code)<br />USD (Credit card through LiqPay)<br />EUR (Sofortuberweisung) || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR (VouchX redeemable code)<br />USD (VouchX redeemable code)<br />EUR (BTC24 redeemable code)<br />USD (BTC24 redeemable code<br />USD ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin-Central]] || BTC<br />GBP (Bank transfer)<br />EUR (SEPA)<br />Liberty Reserve USD<br />Liberty Reserve EUR<br />International wire (any currency) || BTC<br />GBP (Bank transfer)<br />EUR (SEPA)<br />Liberty Reserve USD<br />Liberty Reserve EUR || {{Table Value Yes}} || [https://github.com/davout/bitcoin-central Open-source], community reviewed platform<br />Available in French and English languages<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitfloor]] || BTC<br/>USD (bank wire transfer)<br />USD (ING Person2Person) || BTC<br/>USD (ACH, direct deposit) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMe]] || BTC<br/>USD (Cash deposits at Chase)<br/>USD (Wire Transfer - US Only)<br />USD (AurumXchange VouchX) || BTC<br/>USD (AurumXchange VouchX)<br/>USD (ACH / Direct Deposit)<br/>USD (Wire Transfer - US Only) || {{ Table Value Yes }} || <ul><li>US-based</li><li>Liquidity provider discounts</li><li>[https://github.com/bitme BitMe's GitHub]</li><li>[http://bitme.github.com/rest/ REST API]</li></ul><br />
|-<br />
| [[bitNZ]] || BTC<br/>NZD (Cash depost as Westbank) || BTC<br/>NZD (Domestic bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitstamp]] || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />USD (Intl wire)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />CHF || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />USD (Intl wire)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />CHF || {{Table Value Yes}} || EUR and CHF deposits converted to/from USD for trading<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC-E]] || BTC<br />BTC (BTC-e redeemable code)<br />USD (Cash deposit at Post of Russia)<br />USD (Cash deposit at banks including Privatbank, Savings Bank of Russia (Sberbank), RU/UA Terminals, & more)<br />USD ([[Liberty Reserve]])<br />USD (Interkassa)<br />USD (WebMoney - WMZ)<br />USD (Yandex)<br />USD (LiqPay)<br />USD (Perfect Money)<br />USD (QIWI)<br />USD (OKPay)<br />USD (RBK Money)<br />USD (Ditial currencies including НСМЭП (NSMEP), Единый Кошелек (Unified Purse), TeleMoney, & more)<br />USD (BTC-e Redeemable Code, available via BitInstant and AurumXChange)<br />USD (International bank wire)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />RUB (QIWI)<br />RUB (LiqPay)<br />RUB (WebMoney-WMR)<br />RUB (BTC-e Redeemable code)<br />RUB (Bank transfer) || BTC<br/>BTC (BTC-e redeemble code)<br />USD (Liberty Reserve)<br />USD (Webmoney - WMZ)<br />USD (Perfect Money)<br />USD (LiqPay)<br />USD (QIWI)<br />USD (PayPal)<br />USD (OKPay)<br />USD (Payza/AlertPay)<br />USD (Privat, Privat UAH)<br />USD (Cash deposit into Savings Bank/Sberbank, Telebank, Alfa Bank)<br />USD (BTC-e Redeemable Code)<br />USD (International Wire Transfer)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />RUB (Cash delivery, possible in Moscow)<br />RUB (QIWI)<br />RUB (LiqPay)<br />RUB (WebMoney WMR)<br />RUB (Яндекс.Деньги Yandex)<br />RUB (RBK Money)<br />Cash deposit (into account at Сбербанка России!/Savings Bank/Sberbank, Телебанк (Telebank), and АльфаБанк (Alfa Bank)<br />RUB (Transfer to credit card VISA & MasterCard)<br />RUB (BTC-e Redeemable code)<br />RUB (Bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Language: English, Russian. Interkassa can be funded from Webmoney and many other methods.<br />BitInstant Can be funding option includes QIWI, Cyberplat.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Camp BX]] (CBX) || BTC <br/> USD ([[Dwolla]])<br/>USD (P2P bank transfer at Chase, B&nbsp;of&nbsp;A, Wells Fargo and ING. Credited after three business days).<br />USD (Personal Check)<br />USD (USPS Postal money order, Canada Post money order) || BTC<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br/>USD (ACH Direct Deposit)<br />USD (USPS Postal Money Order)<br/>USD (Domestic bank wire)<br/>USD (International bank wire) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <ul> <li> Security certification from McAfee</li><li> Advanced trading options with AON/FOK/Market</li> <li>STOPLOSS and Short-Selling in Pipeline</li><li> Trading API available</li><li> Wallet API available </li><li> CBX Instant Bitcoin Transfers Feature </li><li> Stoploss / Custom Order Expiry Date/Time </li><li> SMS (Text Message) Notifications </li> <li> Two-Factor Authentication </li> <li> Based in USA - Atlanta </li> </ul> <br />
|-<br />
| [[FYB-SG]] || BTC <br/> SGD(Internet Bank Transfer)<br/>SGD (Annonymous Cash Deposit at any UOB Cash Deposit Machine in Singapore).<br /> || BTC<br/>SGD(Internet Bank Transfer)<br/> || {{Table Value Yes}} || <ul><li> Based in Singapore </li> </ul> <br />
|-<br />
| [[Intersango]] || BTC<br />EUR (SEPA bank wire)<br />PLN (Bank Wire) || BTC<br />EUR (SEPA bank wire)<br />PLN (Bank Wire) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Operated by the [https://bitcoinconsultancy.com/ BitcoinConsultancy] <br/> [https://intersango.com Intersango] is a completely custom trading platform built from the ground up with security, scalability and extensibility in mind. [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43745.0 More Information]<br/><br/>Boasts an [https://bitcoinconsultancy.com/wiki/index.php/Intersango/API ever expanding API]. Started out as [[Britcoin]].<br />
|-<br />
| [[Kapiton.se]] || BTC<br/>SEK (Bankgiro Bank Transfer) || BTC<br/>SEK (Bankgiro Bank Transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Mercado Bitcoin]] || BTC<br/>BRL (Bank transfer)<br />BRL (Bank transfer - MoIP)<br />Liberty Reserve USD || BTC<br/>BRL (Bank transfer - MoIP) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Language: Portugese<br />
|-<br />
| [[MtGox]] || BTC<br/>BTC (Redeemable code)<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br />USD (International bank wire)<br />USD (Wire to [[AurumXChange Company|AurumXChange]])<br />USD ([[OKPay]])<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />GBP (Bank wire)<br />GBP (Cash deposit, Barclays)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />Liberty Reserve USD (via AurumXChange) || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br />USD (Wire via [[AurumXChange Company|AurumXChange]])<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />Liberty Reserve USD (via AurumXChange) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Oldest running exchange. Higest daily volume. Respecting AML laws, Restrictions and limits on withdrawals.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Rock Currency Exchange]] || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />SLL (Second Life)<br />USD (Dwolla) || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />SLL (Second Life)<br />USD (Dwolla) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[VirtEx]] || BTC<br/>CAD (cash deposit at Royal Bank, Bank of Montreal or ScotiaBank)<br />CAD (Online bill payment)<br />CAD (Wire transfer) || BTC<br/>CAD (direct deposit)<br />CAD (Canada Xpress Post Bank Draft send by mail)<br />CAD Payza (formerly AlertPay) || {{Table Value Yes}} ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[VirWoX]] || BTC<br/>SLL (Second Life)<br/>ACD (Avination)<br/>OMC (OpenSim)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[PayPal]])<br/>USD,EUR,GBP (Credit & Debit cards via [[Skrill]]/Moneybookers)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP ([[NETELLER]])<br/>EUR (DIRECTebanking / Sofortuberweisung)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[paysafecard]])<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />USD ([[UKash]] vouchers) || BTC<br/>SLL (Second Life)<br/>ACD (Avination)<br/>OMC (OpenSim)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[PayPal]])<br />USD,EUR,GBP ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP ([[NETELLER]])<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Trading through Second Life Linden Dollars.<br/>Variable limits on PayPal and Credit Card deposits. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Fixed Rate Exchanges & Others==<br />
<br />
For smaller amounts, the options are limited due to bank transfer fees, conversion fees and transaction size restrictions. Options include:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment Method || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.aurumxchange.com AurumXchange] ([[AurumXchange|info]]) || Market || USD,EUR,GBP || Exchange Bitcoins '''instantly''' to and from Liberty Reserve, Perfect Money, Pecunix, C-Gold, VouchX, CosmicPay and more. Sell and buy your Bitcoins through USD or GBP Wire, or SEPA EUR transfer.<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.bitcoincanada.tk Bitcoincanada] ([[bitcoin canada|info]]) || Market || CAD || Exchange Bitcoins '''instantly''' to and from Interac email transfer. Sell and buy your Bitcoins through Interac email transfer instantly. <br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
| [https://bitbargain.co.uk BitBargain] ([[BitBargain|info]]) || Market || GBP || Quick transactions via Bank Transfer (fast payments support only), Pingit and Ukash. Deals happen between buyer and seller.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.bitcopia.com Bitcopia] ([[Bitcopia.com|info]]) || Fixed Rate || USD (Cash deposit) || Anonymous transactions via cash deposit at Wells Fargo or Bank of America, or send money via online banking with Wells Fargo. Instant quotes based on live Mt Gox prices.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://btc.pt BTC.pt] || Market Rate || EUR (Multibanco) || Anonymous transactions. Pay the amount on any Portuguese ATM(MB) or homebanking service, we'll deduce our fee and buy the coins for you at market rate and send them very fast to your wallet. Only available in Portugal.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.coinmarket.co.nz Coin Market] || Fixed Rate || NZD (NZ Bank deposit/Cash) || Cash deposit or bank transfer to domestic New Zealand bank. Cash payment to brokerage. Guest checkout available.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bit Innovate]] || Fixed Rate || AUD, NZD (Cash deposit) || Australian Dollar cash deposit at any Commonwealth or Westpac Bank. New Zealand Dollar cash deposits at any ASB.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://blockchain.info/wallet/ Blockchain] ([[BlockChain.info|info]]) || Fixed Rate || USD, BRL, AUD, CAD, JPY, EUR, CHF, GBP, PLN, CZK, RON, RUB, SEK, NOK, DKK || Purchased through [[BitInstant]] (U.S., Brazil, and Russia), Barclay's Pingit (GBP), or SMS or premium phone call from a mobile. Or Bank Deposit for UK Users.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitInstant]] || Market Rate || USD (Cash deposit at banks, 7-11, Walmart, CVS, Moneygram locations)<br />USD (Dwolla)<br />BRL (Cash deposit at Banco Rendimento or through Boleto)<br />RUB (Cash deposit through Qiwi or Cyberplat) || Deposit cash at 700,000 locations around the world and have your Bitcoins within 30 minutes. Absolute fastest and easiest way to buy Bitcoins. <br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinapult]] || Fixed rate || Use [[BitInstant]] to use cash to purchase bitcoins sent to e-mail or SMS. Choose "Bitcoin to e-mail" service and enter either e-mail or SMS. ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinbase]] || Fixed rate || Buy bitcoins using a bank transfer (U.S.). || Instant verification available for new accounts.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://BitcoinIsrael.co.il BitcoinIsrael.co.il] || Fixed Rate || ILS (NIS - New Israeli Shekel)<br />
* via bank transfer<br />
* via Bank HaDoar /Post Office Bank (instant transfer)<br />
* via In Person<br />
|| Buy and sell your Bitcoins within minutes in person. Get "same day" service using Bank HaDoar /Post Office Bank. Get "next day" service using Bank Transfer.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Nordic]] || Fixed Rate<br />
|<br />
*EUR/DKK (SEPA and wire transfer)<br />
*USD, EUR, GBP, DKK, SEK, NOK (Cash or check in the mail)<br />
*AED, DZD, EGP, IQD, ILS, JOD, KWD, LGP, LYD, MRO, MYR, NGN, OMR, PKR, QAR, SAR, TRL, TZS, TND, YER ([[CashU]] card)<br />
*MXN, EYU, BOB, BRL, COP, SYP, MAD, GHC, ZAR, CNY, CAD, and more ([[UKash]] voucher)<br />
| For UKash, redeemed through CashU account.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Omnicoins]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Cash deposit) || Deposit cash at any Commonwealth, NAB, or Westpac branch.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Spend Bitcoins]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Cash deposit) || AUD cash deposit at NAB, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and ANZ.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://bitcoinmylife.com/jml/buy-bitcoins BitcoinMyLife] <br /> ([[BitcoinMyLife|info]]) || Fixed Rate || EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || Simple and Safe.<br />Pay first transaction fee with Twitter or Facebook post.<br />
|-<br />
| [[bitcoin.de]] || Market || EUR (bank wire)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR (Liberty Reserve)<br />EUR ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers) || Varies (person to person)<br />0.01 free Bitcoins for every new user<br />eWallet<br />Affiliate program<br />Language: German, Englisch<br/> News<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoiny.cz]] || Market || CZK || Varies (person to person)<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCX.se]] || Fixed Rate || SEK || Transfer to and banks in Sweden.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC China]] || Fixed Rate || USD (Liberty Reserve) || Converted to CNY for trading. <br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMarket.co]] || Market || COP (Colombian Peso) || Varies (person to person)<br />
|- <br />
| [[bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] || [http://bitcoin-otc.com/vieworderbook.php Order Book] || Varies (person to person) || IRC trading marketplace will usually have people willing to deal for small and larger amounts using various payment methods, including [[PayPal]], [[Dwolla]], [[Linden Dollars]], etc.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Canadian Bitcoins]] || Fixed Rate || CAD (Cash - XpressPost or Dropoff)<br />USD (Cash - Courier: UPS, FedEx, etc.) || For dropoff, office in Ottawa.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://dgtmkt.com Dgtmkt] ([[Dgtmkt|info]]) || Fixed Rate || Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)<br />Online bank transfers (Maybank2U, CIMB, MEPS, etc)<br />E-vouchers (Web Cash, Mobile Money) || Bitcoin merchant for Malaysians,. dealing in Malaysian Ringgit. Fully automated immediate transfers. https://dgtmkt.com<br />
|-<br />
| [[Lilion Transfer]] || Fixed Rate || Bank Transfer: USD, AUD, CAD, JPY, EUR, CHF, GBP, PLN, CZK, RON, BGN, HRK, RUB, SEK, NOK, DKK, LTL, LVL<br /> Liberty Reserve<br />Perfect Money<br />Monetto<br />OK Pay<br />Cosmic Pay<br />Pecunix<br />C-Gold<br />E-Pay Payments<br />PayPal|| 122 accounts worldwide.<br /> Support in 30 languages<br />
|-<br />
| [[Nanaimo Gold]] || Fixed Rate || USD (Liberty Reserve)<br />Western Union money transfer<br />Moneygram money transfer<br />Cash in the mail || LR <--> Bitcoin exchange is automated<br />For cash in the mail send USD, EUR, CAD, or GBP. Canada mailing address.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Argentina]] || Fixed Rate || Cash: ARS, BRL, USD <br /> Bank transfer: ARS || No exchange fees!<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin.com.es]] || Fixed Rate || EUR (bank deposit) || Bank transfer or cash deposits at OpenBank in Spain.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bahtcoin]] || Fixed Rate || Cash, Webmoney<br />Liberty Reserve USD || Will cash out to Thai mobile and gaming prepaid cards as well.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Brasil]] || Fixed Rate || BRL (Brazilian Real)<br />USD || Cash exchange<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitPiggy]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Australian Dollar)|| Payment via bank transfer.<br />
|-<br />
| [[bitcoin.local]] || Directory || Varies (person to person) ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[bcchanger.com]] || Directory || Enables person to person purchases and sales via PayPal, [[Skrill]]/Moneybookers and other e-currency platforms ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoil]] || Fixed Rate || ILS (bank transfer) ||<br />
|- <br />
|[[btcnow]] || Market || USD (OKPay, Dwolla) || bitcoins transferred instantly<br />
|-<br />
| [http://localbitcoins.com LocalBitcoins.com] || Directory || Varies (person to person)<br/>Physical cash locally || Find your local bitcoin dealer! With dynamic pricing with equations.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.happycoins.nl HappyCoins] || Fixed Rate || EUR (iDEAL and SEPA bank transfer) || Buy and sell Bitcoins. Dutch bank account holders receive Bitcoins within minutes and bank payments same day. Other European IBAN bank account transactions take one or two working days. Prices based on near real-time MtGox exchange price.<br />
|-<br />
| [[WM-Center]] || Fixed rate || BTC<br/>USD (International bank wire, Western Unon, Moneygram, Xoom etc, cash)<br />EUR (IBAN bank wire)<br />RUB (bank wire, WU, Anelik and etc, cash)<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />Liberty Reserve USD/EUR, Perfect Money USD/EUR, Pecunix, Paxum, c-gold, Hoopay, GDP || 24/7/365 support in English, Spanish and Russian.<br />
|-<br />
| [[ECurrencyZone]] || Fixed Rate || BTC<br/>INR (Cash deposit of Indian rupee)<br />BDT (Cash deposit of Bangladeshi taka)<br />NPR (Cash deposit of Nepalese rupee)<br />MYR (Cash deposit of Malaysian ringitt)<br />SGD (Cash deposit of Singaporean dollar)<br />SGD (Net/Bank transfer)<br />USD (Western Union, Moneygram, Citibank global funds transfer, OKPay)<br />USD (Liberty Reserve, Mt. Gox redeemable code) || Bank transfer considered at all locations with prior approval.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitCoinVend]] || Market || BTC<br/>USD (PayPal) || bitcoinvend@gmail.com, market variable with commission, quote based, verified paypal account with anti scammer verification<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins In Berlin]] || Fixed Rate || EUR (Cash in-the mail)<br />EUR (Cash in-person trade)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR (Mt. Gox [[redeemable code]])<br />EUR (Western Union) || Cash in-the-mail is to a Berlin P.O. box. In-person trade is in Berlin.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mang Sweeney]] || Fixed Rate || PHP (Cash)<br />PHP (Cash deposit at bank) || Languages: English, Pinoy.<br />PHP [https://localbitcoins.com/accounts/profile/mangsweeney cash trade method] in metro Manilla, Philappines.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcoinvender.yolasite.com/ Bitcoin Vender] || Fixed Rate|| USD (Credit Card)<br/>USD (Debit Card)<BR />|| Buy bitcoins with your credit or debit card<br />
|-<br />
| [[mercaBit.eu]] || Fixed Rate|| EUR (ukash)<br/>EUR (halcash)<br/>EUR Neteller<br/>|| Buy bitcoins with ukash and more<br />
|-<br />
| [http://buyBTC.cz buyBTC.cz] ([[buyBTC.cz|info]]) || Fixed Rate|| CZK (Domestic bank transfer)<br />EUR (Bank transfer) || Buy bitcoins from the Czech Republic.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://InstaWire.com InstaWire.com] ([[InstaWire|info]]) || Fixed Rate|| EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || No sign-up, just enter the amount and a Bitcoin address.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitonic.nl Bitonic.nl] || Fixed Rate|| EUR (iDeal) || Buy bitcoins instantly from the Netherlands.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://swissbitcoins.ch swissbitcoins.ch] ([[Swissbitcoins|info]]) || Fixed Rate|| CHF (Swiss Bank Transfer) || Buy Bitcoins in Switzerland. No registration required. Enter Bitcoin address, wire money and get your bitcoins within 24 hours. <br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.dragons.tl Dragon's Tale] ([[Dragon's Tale|info]]) || Other || Credit card (except in the U.S.) || Purchase bitcoins through this MMO casino with credit card, withdraw bitcoins (though a fee applies if withdrawn and no casino play.)<br />
|-<br />
| [https://buybitcoinbycreditcard.com buybitcoinbycreditcard.com] || Fixed Rate || JPY (Credit Card) || Buy bitcoins instantly with your credit card. No registration required. This site accept from the world.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Direct / Bulk Buying==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment Method || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87094.0 Bitcoins Direct] || Direct purchases, $1,000 and higher. || USD (Cash deposit at B of A, Wells Fargo or PNC Bank, max $3,000)<br />USD (Bank wire, domestic or international), max $6,000 unless prior authorization<br />USD (Liberty Reserve) || BTC || Inventory varies based on market conditions.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89757.msg996082#msg996082 BitPay] ([[BitPay|info]]) || Direct purchases, $10,000 USD and higher || USD (Bank wire, domestic or international) || BTC || Contact for other payment methods. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Other Financial Services==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment || Settled || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[MPEx]] || Buy / Sell / Exercise CALLs / PUTs, American style.<br />52 strikes offered (by .5), current month + 2.<br /> No shorting available yet.|| BTC || BTC || Transactions encoded via amt.<br /> Must use non-rounding client<br />(0.3.24 or later)<br />
|-<br />
| [https://vircurex.com Vircurex] || Buy / Sell Options<br/>Loan / Borrow || BTC, NMC, LTC, DVC, GG, I0C, IXC, SC || BTC, NMC, LTC, DVC, GG, I0C, IXC, SC ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Physical Bitcoins==<br />
<br />
Physical Bitcoins are bearer tokens that have an embedded redeemable digital bitcoin value if torn open. While they are somewhat expensive if bought purely for the digital bitcoins, they are relatively easy to get, because they can be purchased with PayPal or credit card - payment methods not typically not accepted for pure digital bitcoin purchases.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.memorydealers.com Memory Dealers] || Casascius Physical Bitcoins || USD (PayPal/Credit Card) || <br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.casascius.com Casascius.com] || Casascius Physical Bitcoins || BTC || <br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.giftcoin.net/card Bitcoin Gift Card] || Bitcioin Gift Card Physical Bitcoin Issued By GiftCoin || BTC || <br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.bitbills.com Bitbills] || Bitbills cards || BTC || Not taking orders as of Nov 2011.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[:Category:Digital_currencies|Digital Currencies]]<br />
* [[Selling bitcoins]]<br />
* [[Secure Trading]]<br />
* [[Bitcoin Ladder]]<br />
* [[:Category:Local|Local]] exchanges<br />
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[[Category:Exchanges]]<br />
[[Category:Introduction]]<br />
[[zh-cn:购买bitcoins]]<br />
[[ru:Приобретение биткойнов]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=MercaBit.eu&diff=34608MercaBit.eu2013-01-05T02:17:36Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>A [[currency exchange|exchange]] site where bitcoins may be bought using cash transfer methods [[UKash]] (EUR), Neosurf (EUR) and HalCash (Hal-Cash) (EUR).<br />
<br />
The price at which the bitcoins are bought is relative to the BTC/EUR market rate at the leading exchange.<br />
<br />
There may be restrictions when attempting to redeem UKash (EUR) vouchers from one country with a merchant in another. This includes Germany<ref>[http://www.ukash.com/de/de/alerts/waehrungsumwandlung-nicht-moeglich.aspx Currency conversion is not possible]</ref>, some vouchers from Brazil and possibly elsewhere as well.<br />
<br />
The service is attended to during weekday business hours, Central European Time (CET).<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
The service was revealed on August 2, 2012<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=97491.0 Buy bitcoins with ukash on mercabit.eu]</ref>.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Buying bitcoins]]<br />
* [[Selling bitcoins]]<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://mercabit.eu mercaBit.eu] website<br />
* [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104357.0 mercaBit.eu feedback thread]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<References /><br />
<br />
[[Category:Exchanges]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Buying_bitcoins&diff=30092Buying bitcoins2012-08-25T19:28:02Z<p>Paraipan: /* Fixed Rate Exchanges & Others */</p>
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<div>There are various methods available for buying bitcoins. See [[Buying Bitcoins (the noob version)|here for a Noob-friendly version]] of this page.<br />
<br />
<span style="color:red">Warning: Please be careful with your money. When sending money to an exchange or seller you are trusting that the operator will not abscond with your funds and that the operator maintains secure systems that protect against theft -- internal or external. It is recommended that you obtain the real-world identity of the operator and ensure that sufficient recourse is available. Exchanging or storing significant amounts of funds with exchanges is not recommended.</span><br />
<br />
==Major Exchanges==<br />
<br />
The least expensive methods for buying bitcoins involve transferring funds using a bank wire, ACH, bank transfer (ACH, EUR / SEPA).<br />
<br />
Exchanges are listed in alphabetical order.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Exchange || Adding Funds || Withdrawing Funds || [[eWallet]] || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin-24]] || BTC<br/>USD ([[MtGox]] redeemable code)<br />EUR ([[MtGox]] redeemable code)<br />USD (VouchX redeemable code)<br />EUR (VouchX redeemable code)<br />EUR (BTC24 redeemable code)<br />USD (Credit card through LiqPay)<br />EUR (Sofortuberweisung) || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR (VouchX redeemable code)<br />USD (VouchX redeemable code)<br />EUR (BTC24 redeemable code)<br />USD (BTC24 redeemable code<br />USD ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin-Central]] || BTC<br />EUR (SEPA)<br />Liberty Reserve USD<br />Liberty Reserve EUR<br />PGAU [[Pecunix]] Gold || BTC<br />EUR (SEPA)<br />Liberty Reserve USD<br />Liberty Reserve EUR<br />[[Pecunix]] Gold || {{Table Value Yes}} || [https://github.com/davout/bitcoin-central Open-source], community reviewed platform<br />Available in French and English languages<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitfloor]] || BTC<br/>USD (Cash deposit at Chase, Wells Fargo)<br />USD (bank wire transfer)<br />USD (ING Person2Person) || BTC<br/>USD (ACH, direct deposit) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMe]] || BTC<br/>USD (AurumXchange's VouchX) || BTC<br/>USD (AurumXchange's VouchX) || {{ Table Value Yes }} || <ul><li>US-based</li><li>Liquidity rebates</li><li>[https://github.com/bitme BitMe's GitHub]</li><li>[http://bitme.github.com/rest/ REST API]</li></ul><br />
|-<br />
| [[bitNZ]] || BTC<br/>NZD (Domestic bank transfer) || BTC<br/>NZD (Domestic bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitstamp]] || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />USD (Intl wire)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />CHF || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />USD (Intl wire)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />CHF || {{Table Value Yes}} || EUR and CHF deposits converted to/from USD for trading<br />
|-<br />
| [[Brasil Bitcoin Market]] || BTC<br/>BRL (Bank transfer - MoIP) || BTC<br/>BRL (Bank transfer - MoIP) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Language: Portugese<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC-E]] || BTC<br/>USD ([[Liberty Reserve]])<br />USD (Interkassa)<br />USD (WebMoney - WMZ)<br />USD (BTC-e Redeemable Code, available via BitInstant and AurumXChange)<br />USD (International bank wire) || BTC<br/>USD (Liberty Reserve)<br />USD (Webmoney - WMZ, WMR)<br />USD (Perfect Money)<br />USD (LiqPay)<br />USD (QIWI)<br />USD (BTC-e Redeemable Code) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Language: English, Russian. Interkassa can be funded from Webmoney and many other methods.<br />BitInstant Can be funding option includes QIWI, Cyberplat.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Camp BX]] (CBX) || BTC <br/> USD ([[Dwolla]])<br/>USD (Personal Check)<br />USD (USPS Postal Money Order)<br />USD (Bill Pay - Using your bank) || BTC<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br/>USD (ACH Direct Deposit)<br />USD (USPS Postal Money Order)<br/>USD (Domestic bank wire)<br/>USD (International bank wire) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <ul> <li> Security certification from McAfee</li><li> Advanced trading options with AON/FOK/Market</li> <li>STOPLOSS and Short-Selling in Pipeline</li><li> Trading API available</li><li> Wallet API available </li><li> CBX Instant Bitcoin Transfers Feature </li><li> Stoploss / Custom Order Expiry Date/Time </li><li> SMS (Text Message) Notifications </li> <li> Two-Factor Authentication </li> <li> Based in USA - Atlanta </li> </ul> <br />
|-<br />
| [[CryptoXchange]] || BTC<br/>USD (Redeemable code from Mt. Gox)<br />USD (Redeemable code from CryptoXChange)<br/>USD (BitInstant)<br />USD (AurumXChange)<br />AUD (Cash deposit at Westpack)<br/>NMC || BTC<br/>USD (Redeemable code from Mt. Gox)<br />USD (Redeemable code from CryptoXChange)<br/>USD (International bank wire)<br />NMC || {{Table Value Yes}} || <ul> <li> Buy Gold,Silver,Palladium and Casascius physical bitcoins plus other items in the store.</li> <li> Affiliate program.</li> <li> Mining Pool integration program.</li> <li> Bitcoin, Namecoin and Litecoin </li> <li>Multiple Authentication Levels</li> <li> API </li> <li> Free Yubikey's to High Volume Traders </li> <li> An Australian Owned and Operated Registered Company.</li> <li><br />
Inquiries: contact@cryptoxchanger.com or Phone: +61280050602 </li> </ul><br />
|-<br />
| [[HelloBitcoin]] || BTC<br/>USD (Dwolla)<br />USD (Bank wire)<br />USD (Check) || BTC<br/>USD (Check)<br />USD (Bank wire)<br />USD (ACH) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Offers margin trading and shorting.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Intersango]] || BTC<br />GBP (bank deposit)<br/>USD ([[Dwolla]])<br />EUR (SEPA bank wire)<br />PLN (Bank Wire) || BTC<br />GBP (bank transfer)<br/>USD ([[Dwolla]])<br />EUR (SEPA bank wire)<br />PLN (Bank Wire) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Operated by the [https://bitcoinconsultancy.com/ BitcoinConsultancy] <br/> [https://intersango.com Intersango] is a completely custom trading platform built from the ground up with security, scalability and extensibility in mind. [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43745.0 More Information]<br/><br/>Boasts an [https://bitcoinconsultancy.com/wiki/index.php/Intersango/API ever expanding API]. Started out as [[Britcoin]].<br />
|-<br />
| [[Kapiton.se]] || BTC<br/>SEK (Bankgiro Bank Transfer) || BTC<br/>SEK (Bankgiro Bank Transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Mercado Bitcoin]] || BTC<br/>BRL (Bank transfer)<br />BRL (Bank transfer - MoIP)<br />Liberty Reserve USD || BTC<br/>BRL (Bank transfer - MoIP) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Language: Portugese<br />
|-<br />
| [[MtGox]] || BTC<br/>BTC (Redeemable code)<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br />USD (International bank wire)<br />USD (Wire to [[AurumXChange Company|AurumXChange]])<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />GBP (Bank wire)<br />GBP (Cash deposit, Barclays)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />Liberty Reserve USD (via AurumXChange) || BTC<br />BTC (Redeemable code)<br />USD ([[Dwolla]])<br />USD (Wire via [[AurumXChange Company|AurumXChange]])<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />USD (Redeemable code)<br />Liberty Reserve USD (via AurumXChange) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Oldest running exchange. Higest daily volume. Respecting AML laws, Restrictions and limits on withdrawals.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Rock Currency Exchange]] || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />SLL (Second Life)<br />USD (Dwolla) || BTC<br/>EUR (SEPA transfer)<br />SLL (Second Life)<br />USD (Dwolla) || {{Table Value Yes}} || <br />
|-<br />
| [[VirtEx]] || BTC<br/>CAD (cash deposit at Royal Bank, Bank of Montreal or ScotiaBank)<br />CAD (Online bill payment)<br />CAD (Wire transfer) || BTC<br/>CAD (direct deposit)<br />CAD (Canada Xpress Post Bank Draft send by mail)<br />CAD Payza (formerly AlertPay) || {{Table Value Yes}} ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[VirWoX]] || BTC<br/>SLL (Second Life)<br/>ACD (Avination)<br/>OMC (OpenSim)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[PayPal]])<br/>USD,EUR,GBP (Credit & Debit cards via [[Skrill]]/Moneybookers)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP ([[NETELLER]])<br/>EUR (DIRECTebanking / Sofortuberweisung)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[paysafecard]])<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || BTC<br/>SLL (Second Life)<br/>ACD (Avination)<br/>OMC (OpenSim)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP,CHF ([[PayPal]])<br />USD,EUR,GBP ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers)<br/>USD,EUR,GBP ([[NETELLER]])<br/>EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || {{Table Value Yes}} || Trading through Second Life Linden Dollars.<br/>Variable limits on PayPal and Credit Card deposits. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Fixed Rate Exchanges & Others==<br />
<br />
For smaller amounts, the options are limited due to bank transfer fees, conversion fees and transaction size restrictions. Options include:<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment Method || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bit Innovate]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Cash deposit) || AUD cash deposit at Commonwealth Bank.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitInstant]] || Market Rate || USD (Cash deposit at banks, 7-11, Walmart, CVS, Moneygram locations)<br />USD (Dwolla)<br />BRL (Cash deposit at Banco Rendimento or through Boleto)<br />RUB (Cash deposit through Qiwi or Cyberplat) || Deposit cash at 700,000 locations around the world and have your Bitcoins within 30 minutes. Absolute fastest and easiest way to buy Bitcoins. <br />
|-<br />
| [[Coinapult]] || Fixed rate || Use [[BitInstant]] to use cash to purchase bitcoins sent to e-mail or SMS. Choose "Bitcoin to e-mail" service and enter either e-mail or SMS.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Nordic]] || Fixed Rate || EUR/DKK (SEPA and wire transfer)<BR />USD/EUR/GBP/DKK/SEK/NOK (Cash or check)<BR >AED/DZD/EGP/IQD/ILS/JOD/KWD/LGP/LYD/MRO/MYR/NGN/OMR/PKR/QAR/SAR/TRL/TZS/TND/YER ([[CashU]] card)<BR />MXN/EYU/BOB/BRL/COP/SYP/MAD/GHC/ZAR/CNY/CAD and more ([[UKash]] voucher) || For UKash, redeemed through CashU account.<br />
|-<br />
| [https://blockchain.info/wallet/sms-phone-deposits Blockchain.info] || Fixed Rate || USD, AUD, CAD, JPY, EUR, CHF, GBP, PLN, CZK, RON, RUB, SEK, NOK, DKK || Purchased using SMS or premium phone call from a mobile.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Omnicoins]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Cash deposit) || Deposit cash at any Commonwealth, NAB, or Westpac branch.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Spend Bitcoins]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Cash deposit) || AUD cash deposit at NAB, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and ANZ.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Quick Bitcoins]] || Fixed Rate || USD (Cash in the mail)<br />USD (Prepaid debit card in the mail)<br />USD (Money order via mail)<br />USD (Cashier check by mail)<br />USD (Cash deposit at a bank, 7-11, Walmart, CVS)<br />USD (MoneyGram or Western Union)<br />EUR (VISA/MasterCard credit card)<br />EUR (Cash in the mail)<br />EUR (Perpaid debit card in the mail) || U.S. mailing address.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://buybitcoin.com BuyBitcoin] || Market || USD (Cash)<BR />USD (Western Union)<BR />USD (Credit Card)<BR />USD (Dwolla)<BR />USD (Cash deposit)<br />USD (Bank wire)<BR />USD (Cash in the mail)<BR />USD (Money Order)<BR />USD (Cashier's Check/Certified Check)<BR />USD (Traveler's Check)<BR />USD (Prepaid Debit Card)<BR /> || Instant Bitcoin delivery over the phone.<br/><br/>Public office address: 290 5th Ave, 5th floor, New York, NY 10001<br/><br/>Telephone or SMS text message 24 hours: +1 646-580-0044<br />
|-<br />
| [[bitcoin.de]] || Market || EUR (bank wire)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR (Liberty Reserve)<br />EUR ([[Skrill]]/Moneybookers) || Varies (person to person)<br />0.01 free Bitcoins for every new user<br />eWallet<br />Affiliate program<br />Language: German, Englisch<br/> News<br />
|-<br />
| [[Blizzcoin]] || Fixed Rate || EUR (SEPA bank transfer) || Buy Bitcoins within minutes. Instant exchange. <br />No registration.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMarket.eu]] || Market || EUR (Euro)<br />GBP (British Sterling Pound)<br />USD (U.S. Dollar)<br>PLN (Polish złoty)<br />AUD (Australian Dollar)<br />CAD (Canadian Dollar)<br />ZAR (South African Rand)<br />ILS (Israeli Shekel)<br />CHF (Swiss Franc)<br>RUB (Russian Ruble) || Varies (person to person)<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoiny.cz]] || Market || CZK || Varies (person to person)<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mr Bitcoins]]|| Fixed Rate || AUD (Cash deposit - Westpack and Commonwealth Bank)<br />USD (Major banks, 7-11, Walmart, CVS, etc. through BitInstant)<br />RUB (Qiwi and Cyberplat through BitInstant)<br />BRL (Boleto through BitInstant)<br />INR (Cash deposit - HDFC Bank)|| 100% Anonymous Cash Deposits<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTCX.se]] || Fixed Rate || SEK || Transfer to and banks in Sweden.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BTC China]] || Fixed Rate || USD (Liberty Reserve) || Converted to CNY for trading. <br />
|-<br />
| [[BitMarket.co]] || Market || COP (Colombian Peso) || Varies (person to person)<br />
|- <br />
| [[bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] || [http://bitcoin-otc.com/vieworderbook.php Order Book] || Varies (person to person) || IRC trading marketplace will usually have people willing to deal for small and larger amounts using various payment methods, including [[PayPal]], [[Dwolla]], [[Linden Dollars]], etc.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Canadian Bitcoins]] || Fixed Rate || CAD (Cash - XpressPost or Dropoff)<br />USD (Cash - Courier: UPS, FedEx, etc.) || For dropoff, office in Ottawa.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Dgtmkt]] [https://dgtmkt.com] || Fixed Rate || Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)<br />Online bank transfers (Maybank2U, CIMB, MEPS, etc)<br />E-vouchers (Web Cash, Mobile Money) || Bitcoin merchant for Malaysians, dealing in Malaysian Ringgit. Fully automated immediate transfers. https://dgtmkt.com<br />
|-<br />
| [[Lilion Transfer]] || Fixed Rate || Bank Transfer: USD, AUD, CAD, JPY, EUR, CHF, GBP, PLN, CZK, RON, BGN, HRK, RUB, SEK, NOK, DKK, LTL, LVL<br /> Liberty Reserve<br />Perfect Money<br />Monetto<br />OK Pay<br />Cosmic Pay<br />Pecunix<br />C-Gold<br />E-Pay Payments<br />PayPal|| 122 accounts worldwide.<br /> Support in 30 languages<br />
|-<br />
| [[Nanaimo Gold]] || Fixed Rate || USD (Liberty Reserve)<br />Western Union money transfer<br />Moneygram money transfer<br />Cash in the mail || LR <--> Bitcoin exchange is automated<br />For cash in the mail send USD, EUR, CAD, or GBP. Canada mailing address.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Argentina]] || Fixed Rate || Cash: ARS, BRL, USD <br /> Bank transfer: ARS || No exchange fees!<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin.com.es]] || Fixed Rate || EUR (bank deposit) || Bank transfer or cash deposits at OpenBank in Spain.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bahtcoin]] || Fixed Rate || Cash, Webmoney<br />Liberty Reserve USD || Will cash out to Thai mobile and gaming prepaid cards as well.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoin Brasil]] || Fixed Rate || BRL (Brazilian Real)<br />USD || Cash exchange<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitPiggy]] || Fixed Rate || AUD (Australian Dollar)|| Payment via bank transfer.<br />
|-<br />
| [[GetBitcoin]] || Fixed Rate || USD (Dwolla)<BR />USD (Cash deposit, through [[BitInstant]])<br />USD (Cash in the mail)<BR />USD (Money Order)<BR />USD (Cashier's Check/Certified Check)<BR />USD (Moneygram through [[BitInstant]])<BR />USD (Traveler's Check)<BR />USD (Prepaid Debit Card)<BR /> || For cash in mail, send USD. U.S. mailing address.<br />
|-<br />
| [[bitcoin.local]] || Directory || Varies (person to person) ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[bcchanger.com]] || Directory || Enables person to person purchases and sales via PayPal, [[Skrill]]/Moneybookers and other e-currency platforms ||<br />
|-<br />
| [[anonXchange]] || Fixed Rate || EUR<br />GBP || Liberty Reserve, Paysafecard and Ukash to Bitcoin<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoil]] || Fixed Rate || ILS (bank transfer) ||<br />
|- <br />
|[[btcnow]] || Market || USD (OKPay, Dwolla) || bitcoins transferred instantly<br />
|-<br />
| [http://localbitcoins.com LocalBitcoins.com] || Directory || Varies (person to person)<br/>Physical cash locally || Find your local bitcoin dealer! With dynamic pricing with equations.<br />
|-<br />
| [[WM-Center]] || Fixed rate || BTC<br/>USD (International bank wire, Western Unon, Moneygram, Xoom etc, cash)<br />EUR (IBAN bank wire)<br />RUB (bank wire, WU, Anelik and etc, cash)<br />AUD (Bank wire)<br />Liberty Reserve USD/EUR, Perfect Money USD/EUR, Pecunix, Paxum, c-gold, Hoopay, GDP || 24/7/365 support in English, Spanish and Russian.<br />
|-<br />
| [[ECurrencyZone]] || Fixed Rate || BTC<br/>INR (Cash deposit of Indian rupee)<br />BDT (Cash deposit of Bangladeshi taka)<br />NPR (Cash deposit of Nepalese rupee)<br />MYR (Cash deposit of Malaysian ringitt)<br />SGD (Cash deposit of Singaporean dollar)<br />SGD (Net/Bank transfer)<br />USD (Western Union, Moneygram, Citibank global funds transfer, OKPay)<br />USD (Liberty Reserve, Mt. Gox redeemable code) || Bank transfer considered at all locations with prior approval.<br />
|-<br />
| [[BitCoinVend]] || Market || BTC<br/>USD (PayPal) || bitcoinvend@gmail.com, market variable with commission, quote based, verified paypal account with anti scammer verification<br />
|-<br />
| [[Bitcoins In Berlin]] || Fixed Rate || EUR (Cash in-the mail)<br />EUR (Cash in-person trade)<br />EUR (SEPA bank transfer)<br />EUR (Mt. Gox [[redeemable code]])<br />EUR (Western Union) || Cash in-the-mail is to a Berlin P.O. box. In-person trade is in Berlin.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Mang Sweeney]] || Fixed Rate || PHP (Cash)<br />PHP (Cash deposit at bank) || Languages: English, Pinoy.<br />PHP [https://localbitcoins.com/accounts/profile/mangsweeney cash trade method] in metro Manilla, Philappines.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcoinvender.yolasite.com/ Bitcoin Vender] || Fixed Rate|| USD (Credit Card)<br/>USD (Debit Card)<BR />|| Buy bitcoins with your credit or debit card<br />
|-<br />
| [http://mercabit.eu/ mercaBit.eu] || Fixed Rate|| EUR (ukash)<br/>EUR (paysafecard)<br/>EUR (neosurf)<br/>EUR (halcash)<br/>EUR (teleingreso)<br/>|| Buy bitcoins with ukash and more<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Direct / Bulk Buying==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment Method || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87094.0 Bitcoins Direct] || Direct purchases, $500 to $5,000 USD. || USD (Cash deposit at B of A or Wells Fargo<br />USD (Bank wire, domestic or international)<br />USD (Western Union or Moneygram transfer)<br />USD (Cashier check, by mail)<br />USD (Liberty Reserve)<br />USD ([[OKPay]]) || BTC || Inventory varies based on market conditions.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89757.msg996082#msg996082 BitPay] ([[BitPay|info]]) || Direct purchases, $10,000 USD and higher || USD (Bank wire, domestic or international) || BTC || Contact for other payment methods. <br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Other Financial Services==<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment || Settled || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[MPEx]] || Buy / Sell / Exercise CALLs / PUTs, American style.<br />52 strikes offered (by .5), current month + 2.<br /> No shorting available yet.|| BTC || BTC || Transactions encoded via amt.<br /> Must use non-rounding client<br />(0.3.24 or later)<br />
|-<br />
| [https://vircurex.com Vircurex] || Buy / Sell Options<br/>Loan / Borrow || BTC, NMC, LTC, DVC, GG, I0C, IXC, SC || BTC, NMC, LTC, DVC, GG, I0C, IXC, SC ||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Physical Bitcoins==<br />
<br />
Physical Bitcoins are bearer tokens that have an embedded redeemable digital bitcoin value if torn open. While they are somewhat expensive if bought purely for the digital bitcoins, they are relatively easy to get, because they can be purchased with PayPal or credit card - payment methods not typically not accepted for pure digital bitcoin purchases.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
| Service || Type || Payment || Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.memorydealers.com Memory Dealers] || Casascius Physical Bitcoins || USD (PayPal/Credit Card) || <br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.casascius.com Casascius.com] || Casascius Physical Bitcoins || BTC || <br />
|-<br />
| [https://www.giftcoin.net/card Bitcoin Gift Card] || Bitcioin Gift Card Physical Bitcoin Issued By GiftCoin || BTC || <br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.bitbills.com Bitbills] || Bitbills cards || BTC || Not taking orders as of Nov 2011.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[:Category:Digital_currencies|Digital Currencies]]<br />
* [[Selling bitcoins]]<br />
* [[Secure Trading]]<br />
* [[:Category:Local|Local]] exchanges<br />
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[[Category:Exchanges]]<br />
[[Category:Introduction]]<br />
[[zh-cn:购买bitcoins]]<br />
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<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* July 22, 2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [[Bitcoin Forum]] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /></div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=29160Category:History2012-07-28T11:11:14Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu Q%26A Community]], the first successful q&a service based on bitcoins, is launched in beta.<br />
* July 22, 2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [[Bitcoin Forum]] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /></div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=29158Category:History2012-07-28T11:10:49Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu Q%26A Community]], the first successful q&a service based on bitcoins is launched in beta.<br />
* July 22, 2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [[Bitcoin Forum]] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /></div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=29146Category:History2012-07-27T15:44:06Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu Q%26A Community]] based on Bitcoin was launched in beta.<br />
* July 22, 2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [[Bitcoin Forum]] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /></div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=29145Category:History2012-07-27T15:43:23Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu Q&A community]] based on Bitcoin was launched in beta.<br />
* July 22, 2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [[Bitcoin Forum]] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /></div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=29144Category:History2012-07-27T13:27:39Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu]], Q&A community based on bitcoin was launched in beta.<br />
* July 22, 2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [[Bitcoin Forum]] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /></div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=29143Category:History2012-07-27T13:27:11Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu]], Q&A community based on bitcoin, was launched in beta.<br />
* July 22, 2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [[Bitcoin Forum]] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /></div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=29142Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-27T13:25:40Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most other Q&A sites, with an economic incentive, the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
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=Specific use cases=<br />
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==Specialized answers==<br />
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Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.<br />
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==Freelance job board==<br />
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Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
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==Collaborative work platform==<br />
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If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed. The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
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There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works]), but one can still do it manually.<br />
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Examples of collaborative work:<br />
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[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
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In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
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==Crowd-funding with bitcoin==<br />
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If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
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The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
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However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.<br />
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=Comparing with other paid Q&A sites=<br />
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==Low fees==<br />
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Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
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Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
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However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
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==Reward adaptation==<br />
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There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
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For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
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You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows specific use of Rugatu to help solve a question if is of importance to other members at the same time.<br />
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=Community=<br />
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At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
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A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
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However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
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Cars:<br />
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http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
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Ecology:<br />
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http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
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History:<br />
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http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
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http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
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Fitness:<br />
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http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
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Others:<br />
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http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
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http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
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http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=29141Category:History2012-07-27T13:23:13Z<p>Paraipan: Undo revision 28991 by Sgornick (talk) Rugatu Q&A is an experimental project based on bitcoin, not a commercial service</p>
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<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu Q&A Community]] was launched in beta.<br />
* July 22, 2012<br />
** One millionth topic reply was posted on the unofficial [[Bitcoin Forum]] <ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94608.0 Topic about one millionth forum post]</ref>.<br />
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==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
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==References==<br />
<references /></div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin_Wiki:Community_portal&diff=28987Bitcoin Wiki:Community portal2012-07-24T00:17:02Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>== Bitcoin Community Forums on various platforms ==<br />
<br />
* [http://bitcointalk.org/ Bitcointalk]<br />
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ /r/Bitcoin]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.org.uk/forums Bitcoin Forums]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ The Bitcoin StackExchange]<br />
* [http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/group Bitcoin group on Quora]<br />
* [http://bitcointrading.com Bitcoin Trading Forum]<br />
* [http://tweetforum.com/bitcoin TweetForum Bitcoin Community]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoin-board.com/ Bitcoin-Board Forum]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoinforums.net BitcoinForums.Net]<br />
* [http://groups.google.com/group/bitcoin-discussion Bitcoin google group]<br />
* [http://goo.gl/2PncY Bitcoin Portal p2p (on Osiris platform)]<br />
* [http://www.btclog.com btc::log]<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/bitcoins Facebook page]<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/groups/136003253120130 Facebook Group]<br />
<br />
===Regions / Languages===<br />
<br />
* [http://forum.bitcoin.com.au/ Bitcoin Australia Forum]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoin.org.il Isreali Bitcoin community forum]<br />
* [http://bitcoinitalia.com/forum/ Bitcoin Italia ]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.pl/forum/ Polish Bitcoin community forum]<br />
* [http://btcsec.com/ BTCsec.com] Russian website about Bitcoin<br />
* [https://forum.btcsec.com/ BTCsec.com Bitcoin community forum (Russian)]<br />
* [http://rubitcoin.com/ Russian bitcoin community forum]<br />
<br />
== Bitcoin Community Groups on Bitcoin Wiki platform ==<br />
<br />
=== Special interests ===<br />
* [[Bitcoin Wiki]]-group<br />
<br />
=== Geographically ===<br />
* [[Espagna]] / [[Spain]] (E.) <br />
* [[France]] / [[France]] (F.)<br />
* [[Germany]] / [[Deutschland]] (D.) <br />
* [[Netherlands]] (NL) and [[Belgium]] (B.)<br />
* [[United Kingdom]] of Great Brittain (GB) and Northern Ireland<br />
* [[United States]] of America (USA)<br />
<br />
====Clusters====<br />
There are various temporary and permanent clusters where bitcoin-friendly communities form. Temporary clusters are listed in [[Bitcoin:Community_portal#Events|events]]. Permanent communities include:<br />
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* [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66832.0 Free State Project] New Hampshire<br />
* [http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2012/05/bitcoins-hogwarts-san-francisco-tech.html 20 Mission] San Francisco, CA<br />
<br />
== IRC Chat ==<br />
<br />
* See [[IRC_channels|IRC channels]]<br />
<br />
==Wiki Users==<br />
<br />
* [http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Special:ListUsers List of Users] registered on the Bitcoin wiki.<br />
<br />
== Events ==<br />
Periodic events where Bitcoin community meets include PorcFest, Chaos Computer Camp, Burning Man, Bitcoin conferences and more.<br />
<br />
* [[Meetups]]<br />
* [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4526.0 Events, conferences and other events]<br />
<br />
==Bitcoin Related Publications==<br />
<br />
* [http://bitcoinmagazine.net Bitcoin Magazine] periodical printed publication<br />
* [http://twitter.com/bitcoinnews/bitcoin @BitcoinNews/bitcoin] Twitter list<br />
* [[Bitcoin Weekly]] weekly newspaper by [[User:Kiba|Kiba]]<br />
* See [[:Category:Blogs|Blogs]] category<br />
* See [[:Category:Directories|Directories]] category<br />
* See [[Press]]<br />
<br />
== Maps ==<br />
* [[Bitcoin.local]] Local exchanges<br />
* The [[Bitcoin Map (Collaborative map)|Bitcoin Map]] collaborative map<br />
* [[Bitcoin Users Worldwide]] - Find nearby Bitcoin users • Engage in local trade • Add your own offers • Get notifications<br />
<br />
== Monitoring ==<br />
* [http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ Bitcoin Charts] displays an overview of Bitcoin exchange markets.<br />
* The [http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ Bitcoin Monitor] visualizes transactions, new blocks and trades on markets as they are happening.<br />
* [http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ Bitcoin Watch] has various statistics on things like the size of the economy or the number of transactions.<br />
<br />
== Bitcoin Project ==<br />
* [http://www.bitcoin.org Bitcoin.org] Official project site<br />
* [[:Category:Developer|Developer]] pages<br />
<br />
== Non-profit Organizations ==<br />
* [http://www.bitcoin-austria.at/ Bitcoin Austria]<br />
<br />
== External Communities ==<br />
* [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bitcoin Bitcoin Group on Steam] platform by Valve<br />
* [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3413928 Bitcoin on SomethingAwful]<br />
* [http://AnonCoin.org AnonCoin.org]<br />
* [http://forum.guildminers.com/ Guildminers Forum]<br />
* [http://www.Ogrr.com Ogrr]<br />
* [http://www.coinconnect.org/ CoinConnect] bitcoin social network<br />
* [http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu] Q&A Community</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Category:History&diff=28979Category:History2012-07-23T14:43:17Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>See the discussion page regarding what is suitable for inclusion here.<br />
<br />
* August 18, 2008<br />
** Domain name "bitcoin.org" registered. <br />
* October 31, 2008<br />
** [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.general/12588/ Bitcoin design paper] published<br />
* November 09, 2008<br />
** Bitcoin project registered at SourceForge.net<br />
* January 3, 2009<br />
** [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/0 Genesis block] established at 18:15:05 GMT<br />
* January 11, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.1 released and announced on the [http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10152.html cryptography mailing list]<br />
* January 12, 2009<br />
** First Bitcoin transaction, [http://www.BlockExplorer.com/b/170 in block 170] - from [[Satoshi]] to Hal Finney<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=91806.msg1012234#msg1012234 Earliest Block With A Spend]</ref>.<br />
* December 16, 2009<br />
** Bitcoin v0.2 released<br />
* December 30, 2009<br />
** First difficulty increase at 06:11:04 GMT<br />
* February 6, 2010<br />
** [[Bitcoin Market]] established<br />
* May 22, 2010<br />
** laszlo first to buy pizza with Bitcoins [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.msg1195#msg1195 agreeing] upon paying 10,000 BTC for ~$25 worth of pizza courtesy of jercos<br />
* July 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 released<br />
* July 11, 2010<br />
** Bitcoin v0.3 release [http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/07/11/1747245/Bitcoin-Releases-Version-03 mentioned on slashdot], bringing a large influx of new bitcoin users.<br />
* July 12, 2010<br />
** Beginning of a 10x increase in exchange value over a 5 day period, from about $0.008/BTC to $0.08/BTC<br />
* July 17, 2010<br />
** [[MtGox]] established<br />
* July 18, 2010<br />
** ArtForz generated his first block after establishing his personal OpenCL GPU hash farm<br />
* August 15, 2010<br />
** Bug in the bitcoin code allows a bad transaction into block 74638. Users quickly adopt fixed code and the "good" block chain overtook the bad one at a block height of 74691, 53 blocks later ([[Incidents#Value_overflow]]).<br />
* September 14, 2010<br />
** jgarzik [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg12921#msg12921 offered] 10,000 BTC (valued at ~$600-650) to puddinpop to open source their windows-based CUDA client<br />
* September 18, 2010<br />
** puddinpop [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133.msg13135#msg13135 released] source to their windows-based CUDA client under MIT license<br />
* September 29, 2010<br />
** kermit [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306.0 discovered] a microtransactions exploit which precipitated the Bitcoin v0.3.13 release<br />
* October 01, 2010<br />
** First public OpenCL miner released<br />
* October 04, 2010<br />
** Original Bitcoin History wiki page (this page) established (ooh so meta) on Bitcoin.org's wiki.<br />
* October 07, 2010<br />
** Exchange rate started climbing up from $0.06/BTC after several flat months.<br />
* October 28, 2010<br />
** First bitcoin short sale transaction initiated, with a loan of 100 BTC by nanotube to [[User:Kiba|kiba]], facilitated by the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* November 6, 2010<br />
** The [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1672 Bitcoin economy passed US $1 million]. The MtGox price touched USD $0.50/BTC.<br />
* December 7, 2010<br />
** Bitcoind was compiled for the Nokia N900 mobile computer by doublec. The following day, ribuck sent him 0.42 BTC in the first portable-to-portable Bitcoin transaction.<br />
* December 9, 2010<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 10,000.<br />
** First bitcoin call option contract sold, from nanotube to [[User:Sgornick|sgornick]], via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* December 16, 2010<br />
** [http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ Bitcoin Pooled Mining], operated by slush, found its first block<br />
* January 2, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal BitCoin]] units standardized.<br />
* January 8, 2011<br />
** [[History of Bitcoin]] page (this page) created after replicating from original Bitcoin History page on Bitcoin.org.<br />
** Bitcoin Pooled Mining reached a total of 10,000 Mhash/s<br />
* January 27, 2011<br />
** Largest numeric value ever traded for bitcoins thus far occurred on this date. Three currency bills from Zimbabwe, known as Zimdollars, were traded on [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] at the rate of 4 BTC for each of the one-hundred trillion dollar ($100,000,000,000,000) Zimbabwe notes<ref>Serial numbers for Zimdollars sold: AA1669317, AA1669318 and AA1669319</ref><br />
* January 28, 2011<br />
** Block 105000 was generated. This means that 5.25 million bitcoins have been generated, which is just over one-quarter of the eventual total of nearly 21 million.<br />
* February 9, 2011<br />
** Decimal Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at [[MtGox]].<br />
* February 10, 2011<br />
** Bitcoin.org website struggles to handle [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3444.0 traffic] resulting from mentions on Slashdot<ref>[http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/02/10/189246/Online-Only-Currency-BitCoin-Reaches-Dollar-Parity Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity]</ref>, Hacker News and Twitter following the news that parity had been reached.<br />
* February 14, 2011<br />
** A vehicle was, for the first time, offered in exchange for a certain number of bitcoins<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3485.0 Car for Sale - Australia]</ref>.<br />
* March 6, 2011<br />
** Total Bitcoin network computation speed for a short time reached a new high of almost 900Ghash/sec, dropping to 500Ghash/sec soon after. Some speculate that this was due to some supercomputer or bot-net that joined the network ([http://bitcoin.atspace.com/mysteryminer.html mystery miner]).<br />
* March 18, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches a 6-week low point at almost $0.70/BTC, after what appeared to be a short burst of, possibly automated, BTC sales at progressively lower prices. BTC price had been declining since the February 9 high.<br />
* March 25, 2011<br />
** Difficulty decreased nearly 10%. A decrease has only occurred once before, and this decrease of nearly 10% was the largest.<br />
* March 27, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the British Pound Sterling BTC/GBP, [[Britcoin]], opens.<br />
* March 31, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from Brazilian Reals, [[Bitcoin Brazil]], opens.<br />
* April 5, 2011<br />
** The first market for exchanging bitcoins to and from the Polish złoty, [[BitMarket.eu]], opens.<br />
* April 12, 2011<br />
** First bitcoin put option contract sold via the [[Bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]] market.<br />
* April 16, 2011<br />
** TIME does [http://techland.time.com/2011/04/16/online-cash-bitcoin-could-challenge-governments/ an article on Bitcoin].<br />
* April 23, 2011<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the Euro (EUR) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** BTC/USD exchange rate reaches and passes parity with the British Sterling Pound (GBP) on [[MtGox]] exchange.<br />
** Value of the Bitcoin money stock at current exchange rate passes $10 million USD threshold.<br />
* April 27, 2011<br />
** [[VirWoX]] opens first market to trade bitcoins against a virtual currency on BTC/SL (Second Life Lindens) exchange.<br />
* April 28, 2011<br />
** Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/120630 120,630] is first to be mined using split allocation of the generation reward.<br />
* April 30, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 100,000.<br />
* June 2, 2011<br />
** The exchange rate at [[MtGox]] touched 10 USD per BTC.<br />
* June 3, 2011<br />
** [[Tonal Bitcoin]] reached parity with the US cent, touching 1¢ per TBC at [[Bitcoin Market]].<br />
* June 8, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate peaked at 31.91 USD, at a "market capitalization" of about $206 M [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2047/market-capitalization-over-time].<br />
* June 12, 2011<br />
** The [[MtGox]] exchange rate briefly dropped to near 10 USD four days after the peak, in its largest percentage price retreat to date.<br />
* June 13, 2011<br />
** Forum user allinvain claimed to have had [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=16457.0 25,000 BTC stolen] from his Bitcoin wallet (approx. USD equivalent $375,000).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** The MtGox database was compromised and the user table was leaked, containing details of 60,000 usernames, email addresses and password hashes, some of which were based on a highly vulnerable hashing algorithm.<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Someone was able to access an admin account at MtGox and issue sell orders for hundreds of thousands of fake bitcoins, forcing the MtGox price down from $17.51 per bitcoin to $0.01. MtGox announced that these trades would be reversed. Trading was halted at MtGox for 7 days (and also briefly at TradeHill and Britcoin while their security was reviewed).<br />
* June 19, 2011<br />
** Some of the users on the leaked MtGox database had used the same username at MyBitcoin and had their passwords hacked. About 600 of them had their balance [http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=22221.msg279396#msg279396 stolen from their MyBitcoin accounts]. One user lost over 2000 BTC.<br />
* June 20, 2011<br />
** The EFF announced that it was no longer accepting Bitcoin donations due to legal uncertainties.<br />
* June 24, 2011<br />
** The generation difficulty passed 1,000,000 with Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/133056 133056].<br />
* July 22, 2011<br />
** [[BitCoins Mobile]], the first Bitcoin application for iPad was released by [http://www.intervex.net Intervex Digital].<br />
* August 20, 2011<br />
** First Bitcoin Conference and World Expo held -- in NYC.<br />
* August 23, 2011<br />
** [[P2Pool]], the first P2P decentralized pool, mines its first Bitcoin mainnet block (Block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/142312 142,312]).<br />
* August 30, 2011<br />
** Difficulty adjustment at block [http://blockexplorer.com/b/143136 143,136] marks the first back-to-back drop.<br />
* November 15, 2011<br />
** First CVE (CVE-2011-4447) assigned to a Bitcoin client exploit.<br />
* December 12, 2011<br />
** Largest amount of fees, to-date, in a single transaction, and most fees in a single block. A [http://blockexplorer.com/tx/1d7749c65c90c32f5e2c036217a2574f3f4403da39174626b246eefa620b58d9 transaction] paid 171 BTC in fees in [http://blockexplorer.com/b/157235 block 157235]<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88423.msg973509#msg973509 Largest fee ever?]</ref>.<br />
* March 1, 2012<br />
** Largest theft of bitcoins to-date occurred (near 50K BTC) after security breach at web host Linode.<br />
* May 08, 2012<br />
** A single service, [[SatoshiDICE]] becomes responsible for over half the transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain.<br />
* June 3, 2012<br />
** Largest block (most transactions), to-date (June 3, 2012), is [http://BlockExplorer.com/b/181919 block 181919] with 1322 transactions<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85353.msg939859#msg939859 Largest block to date]</ref>.<br />
* June 9, 2012<br />
** [[Rugatu Q&A Community]] was launched in beta.<br />
<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Bitcoin Firsts]]<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
<references /></div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28499Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T20:27:19Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Specialized answers==<br />
<br />
Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.<br />
<br />
==Freelance job board==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed. The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works]), but one can still do it manually.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Crowd-funding with bitcoin==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.<br />
<br />
=Comparing with other paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows specific use of Rugatu to help solve a question if is of importance to other members at the same time.<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28498Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T19:01:50Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Specialized answers==<br />
<br />
Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.<br />
<br />
==Freelance job board==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed. The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works]), but one can still do it manually.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Crowd-funding with bitcoin==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.<br />
<br />
=Comparing with other paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28497Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T18:32:33Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Specialized answers==<br />
<br />
Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.<br />
<br />
==Freelance job board==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Crowd-funding with bitcoin==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.<br />
<br />
=Comparing with other paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28496Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T17:45:56Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Comparing with other paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Specialized answers==<br />
<br />
Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.<br />
<br />
==Freelance job board==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Crowd-funding with bitcoin==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28493Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T16:57:10Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Compared with paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Specialized answers==<br />
<br />
Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.<br />
<br />
==Freelance job board==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Crowd-funding with bitcoin==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28492Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T16:46:47Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Compared with paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Specialized answers==<br />
<br />
Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.<br />
<br />
==Freelance job board==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Crowd-funding with bitcoin==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28491Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T16:46:17Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Compared with paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Specialized answers==<br />
<br />
Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.<br />
<br />
==Freelance Job platform==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Crowd-funding with bitcoin==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28490Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T16:45:55Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Compared with paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Specialized answers=<br />
<br />
Getting custom help for any problem one may have, in one place and reasonably fast, without the need to spend hours or even days documenting the issue and then searching for solutions.<br />
<br />
==Freelance Job platform==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Crowd-funding with bitcoin==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28488Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T16:39:32Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Compared with paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Freelance Job platform==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Bitcoin crowd-funding==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28487Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T16:38:13Z<p>Paraipan: /* Freelance Job platform */</p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Compared with other paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Freelance Job platform==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no taxes.<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Bitcoin crowd-funding==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28486Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T16:36:18Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
=Compared with other paid Q&A sites=<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Freelance Job platform==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no tax (as long as governments are not interested in taxing bitcoin-paid jobs).<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Bitcoin crowd-funding==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28485Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T16:34:05Z<p>Paraipan: /* Collaborative work platform */</p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
Comparing with other paid Q&A sites:<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Freelance Job platform==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no tax (as long as governments are not interested in taxing bitcoin-paid jobs).<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be [http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option in the works])<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Bitcoin crowd-funding==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28484Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T16:33:39Z<p>Paraipan: /* Collaborative work platform */</p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
Comparing with other paid Q&A sites:<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Freelance Job platform==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no tax (as long as governments are not interested in taxing bitcoin-paid jobs).<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be in the works http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option)<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Bitcoin crowd-funding==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28483Rugatu Q&A Community2012-07-07T16:32:24Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br /><br />
<br />
=Description=<br />
<br />
Rugatu is a Question and Answer site, where the asker offers a bitcoin reward to the person who will give the best answer. Like in most of the paid Q&A site the questions are prepaid, so the winner is sure to get his reward. There is a voting system, but to prevent vote spamming, the best answer is determined only by the person who asks. A system of reputation (karma) points, independent from the reward system, is used to represent the commitment of each user in the community. You get karma by voting/being voted, and it grants you some privilege (commenting, editing, down-voting...)<br />
<br />
Comparing with other paid Q&A sites:<br />
<br />
==Low fees==<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes 0.5 % of the reward for each question + the transaction cost of withdrawals (usually less than 1 %). As a comparison: justanswer.com takes 50% of the reward or more, and studentoffortune.com 18%, to which must be added the PayPal transaction fees, which are more than 1%.<br />
<br />
Rugatu takes advantage of how bitcoin works, thus, there is no minimum withdrawal limit and transactions are executed immediately as you order them. You get your money in less than a few minutes.<br />
<br />
However, there is no guarantee that this low percentage of 0.5% will stay in the future, as the community grows and the site become better-known.<br />
<br />
==Reward adaptation==<br />
<br />
There is no restriction on the reward amount for a question. It is only determined by "the market". You can ask a question for 1 satoshi or even nothing at all, and hope that people will give an answer only for fame and karma. Rugatu can be used as a free Q&A site, like Yahoo Answers, or to ask questions with prizes where users can increase the reward, even after it has been asked. It's an important feature, because it allows negotiations between users.<br />
<br />
For example, you could see an unanswered question worth 20 mBTC. You know the answer, but think it deserves more. You could post a comment and tell the asker to raise the reward. Then, the asker can do the raise or wait for another user that could give the answer immediately for the initial reward.<br />
<br />
You can donate to a question even if you are not the original asker. This feature allows a specific use of Rugatu (see below: crowd-funding)<br />
<br />
=Community=<br />
<br />
At the current date (June 2012) the Rugatu Community, like the whole bitcoin community, is quite young, and not so visible. Thus, a majority of the questions are about Bitcoin itself (mining, economy, other bitcoin-related sites, ...)<br />
<br />
A system of tags exists, but currently there's not enough questions to arrange them in global categories. So, for the moment, the site would have difficulties to attract experts in any domain (except the domain of bitcoins itself).<br />
<br />
However, you can already ask a question about anything, and reasonably hope for an answer of quality. Here are some examples of various themes:<br />
<br />
Cars:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1384/what-are-the-most-reliable-model-years-for-vw-gti<br />
<br />
Ecology:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/46/does-wind-power-generation-disrupt-the-wind-currents-at-a-global-scale-and-cause-global-warming<br />
<br />
History:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/999/ancient-swimming-styles<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/203/first-country-to-declare-indpendence-from-spain<br />
<br />
Fitness:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/493/what-is-a-good-quick-workout-i-can-do<br />
<br />
Others:<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/47/what-is-the-name-of-the-cat-breed-that-produces-no-allergies<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1097/what-is-the-name-of-every-video-in-this-clip<br />
<br />
http://www.rugatu.com/questions/947/if-you-think-that-you-are-good-in-physics-solve-this-one<br />
<br />
=Specific use cases=<br />
<br />
==Freelance Job platform==<br />
<br />
Instead of asking questions, one could ask for a job to be done. The advantages compared to existing job-platform sites would be very low fees and no tax (as long as governments are not interested in taxing bitcoin-paid jobs).<br />
<br />
==Collaborative work platform==<br />
<br />
There is currently no possibility to split the reward of a question between many answerers (though this feature seems to be on schedule : http://rugatu.uservoice.com/forums/165024-general/suggestions/2936860-add-a-flattr-like-option)<br />
<br />
But one can still do it manually. If a user who answers a question was inspired by a previous answer, he can publicly announce he will share the reward. If the reward goes to that user, he has to make the transaction manually, to the previous answerer. The first weak point of that method is that the public announcement can not be guaranteed (the sharer could lie). The second weak point is that the asker is not the one who decides to split the reward, it is the winner of the reward.<br />
<br />
Examples of collaborative work:<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/questions/452/can-you-pimp-rugatus-logo The creation of the Rugatu logo]<br />
or [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/739/wi-fi-hotspot-enabled-by-bitcoin WiFi hotspot enabled by Bitcoin]<br />
<br />
In the logo example, the winner won 5 BTC, and is supposed to have given 2.5 BTC to another contributor. (Which may be true, because this contributor commented the question, after it was closed, and did not say he did not receive bitcoins). The admins of the site also decided to give a second price of 1 BTC to a third contributor.<br />
<br />
==Bitcoin crowd-funding==<br />
<br />
If you have a project and need initial funding for it, you can present it as a question in Rugatu. Thanks to the feature of adding donations to a question, other users can give funds to your project. Discussing about the project is made via the answers and the comments.<br />
<br />
The project initiator decides when the fund raising period ends. Then, he has to ask the site admins to get the reward back to himself, and not to anyone who gave any answer.<br />
<br />
However, Rugatu is currently not very practical for this use. The admins have to manually operate on the question, to attribute the funds. The time limit is not shown, which is not a problem for a simple question, but a problem for crowd funding. There is no clear difference between real questions and crowd-funding questions. The donators are not publicly listed, so they can not get any fame or karma from the community for their funding action. An improvement of the site interface would be needed, to get the true potential of a crowd-funding platform.</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Earning_bitcoins&diff=28406Earning bitcoins2012-07-04T00:08:07Z<p>Paraipan: /* Bonus Program Websites */</p>
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<div>These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, answering questions, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).<br />
<br />
== Bonus Program Websites ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoins Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 1000 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. No account is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[http://www.freebitcoins.org/24320/ freebitcoins.org] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 10 offers available. All offers are free. Bitcoins are added to your balance immediately after you participate in an offer and you can request a payout at any time. The referral program pays 20% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account with a valid email address is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[http://www.iwantfreebitcoins.com/9785/ iWantFreeBitCoins] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 700 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. You receive a currency called BitPoints added to your balance immediately after you participate in each offer. Your BitPoints can be converted to bitcoins when you request a payout, which will be processed the following Wednesday or Sunday. The referral program pays 25% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[https://bitcoinbonus.com/ Bitcoin Bonus] Get cash back in bitcoins by making purchases on other websites using the provided links and codes. There are approximately 300 offers available. All offers generally require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. The referral program pays an unspecified one-time commission for each user you refer. An email address is needed to create an account.<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu Q&A] Get bitcoins by answering questions that other members have posted. A great way to do some freelancing job if you have an area of expertise and help support the bitcoin community. Sometimes higher value bounties are posted for programmers or media artists. You can login with your existing google, facebook, yahoo or openid account.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin_Jobs&diff=28389Bitcoin Jobs2012-07-02T17:20:40Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>'''Bitcoin Jobs''' is a collaborative job board.<br />
<br />
Job listings include work that compensates with bitcoins or are Bitcoin related in some other way.<br />
<br />
Listings have included full-time and part-time listings however most Bitcoin jobs are targeted to the freelancer.<br />
<br />
<br />
Users can submit a:<br />
* Text post with Title and Post<br />
* Photo post with Photo (with optional link) and Caption<br />
* Link post with Title, URL and Description<br />
* Quote post with Quote and Source<br />
* Video post with Embed code and Caption<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Work For Bitcoin]] Full functional and free freelance website. <br />
* [[:Category:Freelancers|Freelancers]]<br />
* [[BitGigs]] task-sized jobs board<br />
* [[Bitcoiners]] job board and freelancer directory<br />
* [http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu Q&A Community] Ask questions with bitcoin, or have a bitcoin freelance job.<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.bitcoinjobs.com BitcoinJobs.com] web site<br />
* Twitter: [http://twitter.com/bitcoinjobs @BitcoinJobs]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoinjobs.com/submit Submit a job listing]<br />
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[[Category:For Hire]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin_Jobs&diff=28387Bitcoin Jobs2012-07-02T17:18:00Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>'''Bitcoin Jobs''' is a collaborative job board.<br />
<br />
Job listings include work that compensates with bitcoins or are Bitcoin related in some other way.<br />
<br />
Listings have included full-time and part-time listings however most Bitcoin jobs are targeted to the freelancer.<br />
<br />
<br />
Users can submit a:<br />
* Text post with Title and Post<br />
* Photo post with Photo (with optional link) and Caption<br />
* Link post with Title, URL and Description<br />
* Quote post with Quote and Source<br />
* Video post with Embed code and Caption<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Work For Bitcoin]] Full functional and free freelance website. <br />
* [[:Category:Freelancers|Freelancers]]<br />
* [[BitGigs]] task-sized jobs board<br />
* [[Bitcoiners]] job board and freelancer directory<br />
<br />
==External Links==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.bitcoinjobs.com BitcoinJobs.com] web site<br />
* Twitter: [http://twitter.com/bitcoinjobs @BitcoinJobs]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoinjobs.com/submit Submit a job listing]<br />
* [http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu Q&A Community] Ask questions with bitcoin, or have a bitcoin freelance job.<br />
<br />
[[Category:For Hire]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Earning_bitcoins&diff=28384Earning bitcoins2012-07-02T12:55:07Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, answering questions, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).<br />
<br />
== Bonus Program Websites ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoins Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 1000 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. No account is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[http://www.freebitcoins.org/24320/ freebitcoins.org] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 10 offers available. All offers are free. Bitcoins are added to your balance immediately after you participate in an offer and you can request a payout at any time. The referral program pays 20% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account with a valid email address is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[http://www.iwantfreebitcoins.com/9785/ iWantFreeBitCoins] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 700 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. You receive a currency called BitPoints added to your balance immediately after you participate in each offer. Your BitPoints can be converted to bitcoins when you request a payout, which will be processed the following Wednesday or Sunday. The referral program pays 25% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[https://bitcoinbonus.com/ Bitcoin Bonus] Get cash back in bitcoins by making purchases on other websites using the provided links and codes. There are approximately 300 offers available. All offers generally require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. The referral program pays an unspecified one-time commission for each user you refer. An email address is needed to create an account.<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu Q&A] Get bitcoins by answering questions that other members have posted. A great way to do some freelancing job if you have an area of expertise and help support the bitcoin community. Sometimes higher value bounties are posted for programmers or media artists. You can login with your existent google, facebook, yahoo or openid account.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Earning_bitcoins&diff=28383Earning bitcoins2012-07-02T12:53:38Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
<hr />
<div>These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, answering questions, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).<br />
<br />
== Bonus Program Websites ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoins Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 1000 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. No account is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[http://www.freebitcoins.org/24320/ freebitcoins.org] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 10 offers available. All offers are free. Bitcoins are added to your balance immediately after you participate in an offer and you can request a payout at any time. The referral program pays 20% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account with a valid email address is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[http://www.iwantfreebitcoins.com/9785/ iWantFreeBitCoins] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 700 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. You receive a currency called BitPoints added to your balance immediately after you participate in each offer. Your BitPoints can be converted to bitcoins when you request a payout, which will be processed the following Wednesday or Sunday. The referral program pays 25% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[https://bitcoinbonus.com/ Bitcoin Bonus] Get cash back in bitcoins by making purchases on other websites using the provided links and codes. There are approximately 300 offers available. All offers generally require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. The referral program pays an unspecified one-time commission for each user you refer. An email address is needed to create an account.<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu Q&A] Get bitcoins by answering questions that other members have posted. A great way to do some freelancing job if you have an area of expertise and help support the bitcoin community. Higher value bounties are posted for programmers or media artists sometimes.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Earning_bitcoins&diff=28382Earning bitcoins2012-07-02T12:49:55Z<p>Paraipan: /* Bonus Program Websites */</p>
<hr />
<div>These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).<br />
<br />
== Bonus Program Websites ==<br />
<br />
[http://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoins Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 1000 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. No account is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[http://www.freebitcoins.org/24320/ freebitcoins.org] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 10 offers available. All offers are free. Bitcoins are added to your balance immediately after you participate in an offer and you can request a payout at any time. The referral program pays 20% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account with a valid email address is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[http://www.iwantfreebitcoins.com/9785/ iWantFreeBitCoins] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 700 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. You receive a currency called BitPoints added to your balance immediately after you participate in each offer. Your BitPoints can be converted to bitcoins when you request a payout, which will be processed the following Wednesday or Sunday. The referral program pays 25% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account is needed to participate in offers.<br />
<br />
[https://bitcoinbonus.com/ Bitcoin Bonus] Get cash back in bitcoins by making purchases on other websites using the provided links and codes. There are approximately 300 offers available. All offers generally require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. The referral program pays an unspecified one-time commission for each user you refer. An email address is needed to create an account.<br />
<br />
[http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu Q&A] Get bitcoins by answering questions that other members have posted. A great way to do some freelancing job if you have an area of expertise and help support the bitcoin community.<br />
<br />
==See Also==<br />
<br />
* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28357Rugatu Q&A Community2012-06-30T12:19:48Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
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([http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1249/add-to-rugatu-wiki-page Get bitcoins for adding content to this page])</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Forums&diff=28328Forums2012-06-29T00:00:07Z<p>Paraipan: /* General Bitcoin Discussion */</p>
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<div>== General Bitcoin Discussion ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.bitcointalk.org BitcoinTalk Forum]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.org.uk Bitcoin.org.uk Forum]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoin-board.com Bitcoin-Board]<br />
* [http://btcstocktrader.com/ Bitcoin Stock Trader]<br />
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin Bitcoin subreddit]<br />
* [http://bit-coin-trading.com/forum/index.php Bitcoin Trading Forum]<br />
* [http://tweetforum.com/?board=51.0 Bitcoin Tweet Forum @Bitcoin]<br />
* [http://coinconnect.org/ CoinConnect]<br />
* [http://www.rugatu.com Rugatu Q&A Community]<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bitcoin/133067610063481 Facebook - Bitcoin]<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/bitcoins Facebook - Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency]<br />
* [http://groups.google.com/group/bitcoin-discussion Google groups - bitcoin-discussion]<br />
* [http://groups.google.com/group/bitcoinpeople Google groups - Bitcoin People]<br />
* [http://forum.mtgoxlive.com/forum.php MtGox Live]<br />
* [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bitcoin Steam - Bitcoin]<br />
* [http://www.talkgold.com/forum/f513-.html Talkgold - Bitcoin Forum]<br />
* [http://www.ugbit.com/forums/forum.php UgBit - Bitcoin Trading & Mining Forum]<br />
<br />
== Language/Region Specific ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forum.bitcoin.com.au Australian Bitcoin forum]<br />
* [http://www.bitecoin.com/bbs/ Chinese Bitcoin forum]<br />
* [http://nordcoin.org/ Danish Bitcoin forum]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoinitalia.com/forum Italian Bitcoin community forum]<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bitcoin-New-Zealand/189769464405632 New Zealand Facebook community]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.pl/forum/ Polish Bitcoin community forum]<br />
* [http://rubitcoin.com Russian Bitcoin community forum]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.rs Serbian Bitcoin community forum]<br />
* [https://bitcoin.org.uk/forums/ United Kingdom Bitcoin forum]<br />
* [http://blog.bitcoin-portugal.com/ Portugal Bitcoin Blog]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoin.si/ Slovenian bitcoin community]<br />
<br />
== Other ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forum.mtgoxlive.com/ MtGox Live Traders Forum]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com Bitcoin StackExchange] - Q&A site, currently in public beta<br />
* [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development Developer mailing list]<br />
<br />
[[pl:Fora dyskusyjne]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Forums&diff=28325Forums2012-06-28T23:09:11Z<p>Paraipan: /* General Bitcoin Discussion */</p>
<hr />
<div>== General Bitcoin Discussion ==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.bitcointalk.org BitcoinTalk Forum]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.org.uk Bitcoin.org.uk Forum]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoin-board.com Bitcoin-Board]<br />
* [http://btcstocktrader.com/ Bitcoin Stock Trader]<br />
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin Bitcoin subreddit]<br />
* [http://bit-coin-trading.com/forum/index.php Bitcoin Trading Forum]<br />
* [http://tweetforum.com/?board=51.0 Bitcoin Tweet Forum @Bitcoin]<br />
* [http://coinconnect.org/ CoinConnect]<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bitcoin/133067610063481 Facebook - Bitcoin]<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/bitcoins Facebook - Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency]<br />
* [http://groups.google.com/group/bitcoin-discussion Google groups - bitcoin-discussion]<br />
* [http://groups.google.com/group/bitcoinpeople Google groups - Bitcoin People]<br />
* [http://forum.mtgoxlive.com/forum.php MtGox Live]<br />
* [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bitcoin Steam - Bitcoin]<br />
* [http://www.talkgold.com/forum/f513-.html Talkgold - Bitcoin Forum]<br />
* [http://www.ugbit.com/forums/forum.php UgBit - Bitcoin Trading & Mining Forum]<br />
<br />
== Language/Region Specific ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forum.bitcoin.com.au Australian Bitcoin forum]<br />
* [http://www.bitecoin.com/bbs/ Chinese Bitcoin forum]<br />
* [http://nordcoin.org/ Danish Bitcoin forum]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoinitalia.com/forum Italian Bitcoin community forum]<br />
* [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bitcoin-New-Zealand/189769464405632 New Zealand Facebook community]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.pl/forum/ Polish Bitcoin community forum]<br />
* [http://rubitcoin.com Russian Bitcoin community forum]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.rs Serbian Bitcoin community forum]<br />
* [https://bitcoin.org.uk/forums/ United Kingdom Bitcoin forum]<br />
* [http://blog.bitcoin-portugal.com/ Portugal Bitcoin Blog]<br />
* [http://www.bitcoin.si/ Slovenian bitcoin community]<br />
<br />
== Other ==<br />
<br />
* [http://forum.mtgoxlive.com/ MtGox Live Traders Forum]<br />
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com Bitcoin StackExchange] - Q&A site, currently in public beta<br />
* [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development Developer mailing list]<br />
<br />
[[pl:Fora dyskusyjne]]</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28236Rugatu Q&A Community2012-06-27T15:41:57Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28197Rugatu Q&A Community2012-06-27T01:11:10Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage<br />
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( [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1249/add-to-rugatu-wiki-page Add to this page and win bitcoins])</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28196Rugatu Q&A Community2012-06-27T01:10:53Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. Project was launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage<br />
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( [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1249/add-to-rugatu-wiki-page Add to this page and win bitcoins])</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28195Rugatu Q&A Community2012-06-27T01:10:30Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services. The project was launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage<br />
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( [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1249/add-to-rugatu-wiki-page Add to this page and win bitcoins])</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28194Rugatu Q&A Community2012-06-27T01:10:14Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, to raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services.<br />
<br />
The project was launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage<br />
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( [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1249/add-to-rugatu-wiki-page Add to this page and win bitcoins])</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28193Rugatu Q&A Community2012-06-27T01:04:33Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, raise bitcoin awareness through useful online services.<br />
<br />
The project was launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
( [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1249/add-to-rugatu-wiki-page Add to this page and win bitcoins])</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28192Rugatu Q&A Community2012-06-27T01:02:34Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can share information and learn in exchange for bitcoins. The project was founded by three individuals working together and pooling their resources for a common goal, raise bitcoin awareness through an easy to use and useful service.<br />
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The project was launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage<br />
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( [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1249/add-to-rugatu-wiki-page Add to this page and win bitcoins])</div>Paraipanhttps://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Rugatu_Q%26A_Community&diff=28189Rugatu Q&A Community2012-06-26T23:06:26Z<p>Paraipan: </p>
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<div>Online community that aims to be a place where members can learn or share information in exchange for bitcoins.<br />
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The service was launched on June 9th, 2012 in beta (experimental) stage.<br />
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( [http://www.rugatu.com/questions/1249/add-to-rugatu-wiki-page Add to this page and win bitcoins])</div>Paraipan