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Network

2016-02-20T01:13:16Z

Stemby: fixing typo

Bitcoin uses a simple broadcast network to propagate transactions and blocks. All communications are done over TCP. Bitcoin is fully able to use ports other than 8333 via the -port parameter. IPv6 is [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81378.0 supported] with Bitcoind/Bitcoin-Qt v0.7.

== Messages ==
* ''version'' - Information about program version and block count. Exchanged when first connecting.
* ''verack'' - Sent in response to a version message to acknowledge that we are willing to connect.
* ''addr'' - List of one or more IP addresses and ports.
* ''inv'' - "I have these blocks/transactions: ..." Normally sent only when a ''new'' block or transaction is being relayed. This is only a list, not the actual data.
* ''getdata'' - Request a single block or transaction by hash.
* ''getblocks'' - Request an ''inv'' of all blocks in a range.
* ''getheaders'' - Request a ''headers'' message containing all block headers in a range.
* ''tx'' - Send a transaction. This is sent only in response to a ''getdata'' request.
* ''block'' - Send a block. This is sent only in response to a ''getdata'' request.
* ''headers'' - Send up to 2,000 block headers. Non-generators can download the headers of blocks instead of entire blocks.
* ''getaddr'' - Request an ''addr'' message containing a bunch of known-active peers (for bootstrapping).
* ''submitorder'', ''checkorder'', and ''reply'' - Used when performing an [[IP address|IP transaction]].
* ''alert'' - Send a network alert.
* ''ping'' - Does nothing. Used to check that the connection is still online. A TCP error will occur if the connection has died.

More information and in-depth technical information is in the [[Protocol Specification]].

== Connection ==

To connect to a peer, you send a ''version'' message containing your version number, block count, and current time. The remote peer will send back a ''verack'' message and his own ''version'' message if he is accepting connections from your version. You will respond with your own ''verack'' if you are accepting connections from his version.

The time data from all of your peers is collected, and the median is used by Bitcoin for all network tasks that use the time (except for other version messages).

You then exchange ''getaddr'' and ''addr'' messages, storing all addresses that you don't know about. ''addr'' messages often contain only one address, but sometimes contain up to 1000. This is most common at the beginning of an exchange.

== Standard relaying ==

When someone sends a transaction, they send an ''inv'' message containing it to all of their peers. Their peers will request the full transaction with ''getdata''. If they consider the transaction valid after receiving it, they will also broadcast the transaction to all of their peers with an ''inv'', and so on. Peers ask for or relay transactions only if they don't already have them. A peer will never rebroadcast a transaction that it already knows about, though transactions will eventually be forgotten if they don't get into a block after a while. The sender and receiver of the transaction will rebroadcast, however.

Anyone who is generating will collect valid received transactions and work on including them in a block. When someone does find a block, they send an ''inv'' containing it to all of their peers, as above. It works the same as transactions.

Everyone broadcasts an ''addr'' containing their own IP address every 24 hours. Nodes relay these messages to a couple of their peers and store the address if it's new to them. Through this system, everyone has a reasonably clear picture of which IPs are connected to the network at the moment. After connecting to the network, you get added to everyone's address database almost instantly because of your initial ''addr''.

Network alerts are broadcast with ''alert'' messages. No ''inv''-like system is used; these contain the entire alert. If a received alert is valid (signed by one of the people with the private key), it is relayed to all peers. For as long as an alert is still in effect, it is rebroadcast at the start of every new connection.

== Initial block download ==

At the start of a connection, you send a ''getblocks'' message containing the hash of the latest block you know about. If the peer doesn't think that this is the latest block, it will send an ''inv'' that contains up to 500 blocks ahead of the one you listed. You will then request all of these blocks with ''getdata'', and the peer will send them to you with ''block'' messages. After you have downloaded and processed all of these blocks, you will send another ''getblocks'', etc., until you have all of the blocks.

== Thin SPV Clients ==

[[BIP 0037]] introduced support for thin or lite clients by way of Simple Payment Verification. SPV clients do not need to download the full block contents to verify the existence of funds in the blockchain, but rely on the chain of block headers and bloom filters to obtain the data they need from other nodes. This method of client communication allows high security trustless communication with full nodes, but at the expensive of some privacy as the peers can deduce which addresses the SPV client is seeking information about.

[[MultiBit]] and [[Bitcoin Wallet]] work in this fashion using the library [[bitcoinj]] as their foundation.

== Bootstrapping ==

You choose which peers to connect to by sorting your address database by the time since you last saw the address and then adding a bit of randomization.

Bitcoin has three methods of finding peers.

=== Addr ===

The ''addr'' messages described above create an effect similar to the IRC bootstrapping method. You know reasonably quickly whenever a peer joins, though you won't know for a while when they leave.

Bitcoin comes with a list of addresses known as "seed nodes". If you are unable to connect to IRC and you've never connected to the network before, the client will update the address database by connecting to one of the nodes from this list.

The -addnode command line option can be used to manually add a node. The -connect option can force bitcoin to connect only to a specific node.

=== DNS ===

Bitcoin looks up the IP Addresses of several host names and adds those to the list of potential addresses. This is the default seeding mechanism, as of v0.6.x and later.

=== IRC ===

As-of version 0.6.x of the Bitcoin client, IRC bootstrapping is no longer enabled by default. The information below is accurate for most versions prior.

Bitcoin joins a random channel between #bitcoin00 and #bitcoin99 on irc.lfnet.org. Your nick is set to an encoded form of your IP address. By decoding all the nicks of all users on the channel, you get a list of all IP addresses currently connected to Bitcoin.

For hosts that cannot make outbound connections on port 6667, the lfnet servers are also [[FAQ#Do_I_need_to_configure_my_firewall_to_run_bitcoin?|listening on port 7777]].

== Heartbeat ==

If thirty minutes or more has passed since the client has transmitted any messages it will transmit a message to keep the connection to the peer node alive.

If ninety minutes has passed since a peer node has communicated any messages, then the client will assume that connection has closed.

== See Also ==

* [[Protocol Specification]]
* [[Satoshi Client Node Discovery]]
* [http://bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk/ Historical Network Status (no longer updated)]
* [http://getaddr.bitnodes.io/ Bitnodes.io's network size estimate]
* [http://fullnode.info/howto.html How to run your own cheap full bitcoin node]
* [https://www.bitcoinmining.com/ Bitcoin Mining]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmOzih6I1zs Video: What is Bitcoin Mining]

[[Category:Technical]]

[[pl:Sieć]]

Vanitygen

2014-07-13T16:41:37Z

Stemby: /* Expected keysearch rate */ + GTX 770

'''Vanitygen''' is a command-line vanity bitcoin address generator.

If you're tired of the random, cryptic addresses generated by regular bitcoin clients, you can use vanitygen to create a more personalized address.
Add unique flair when you tell people to send bitcoins to 1stDownqyMHHqnDPRSfiZ5GXJ8Gk9dbjO.
Alternatively, vanitygen can be used to generate random addresses offline.

Vanitygen accepts as input a pattern, or list of patterns to search for, and produces a list of addresses and private keys. Vanitygen's search is probabilistic, and the amount of time required to find a given pattern depends on how complex the pattern is, the speed of your computer, and whether you get lucky.

The example below illustrates a session of vanitygen. It is typical, and takes about 10 sec to finish, using a Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU on x86-64 Linux:
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
$ ./vanitygen 1Boat
Difficulty: 4476342
Pattern: 1Boat
Address: 1BoatSLRHtKNngkdXEeobR76b53LETtpyT
Privkey: 5J4XJRyLVgzbXEgh8VNi4qovLzxRftzMd8a18KkdXv4EqAwX3tS
</syntaxhighlight>

Vanitygen includes components to perform address searching on your CPU (vanitygen) and your OpenCL-compatible GPU (oclvanitygen). Both can be built from source, and both are included in the Windows binary package. Also included is oclvanityminer, the vanity address mining client. Oclvanityminer can be used to automatically claim bounties on sites such as [[User:ThePiachu|ThePiachu]]'s [[Vanity Pool]].

Current version: 0.22

Windows x86+x64 binaries [https://github.com/downloads/samr7/vanitygen/vanitygen-0.20-win.zip here]. PGP signature [http://insight.gotdns.org/~samr7/vanitygen-0.20-win.zip.asc here].

Get the source from [https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen GitHub]. Includes Makefiles for Linux and Mac OS X.

Main discussion at [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0 BitCoinTalk]

For AMD Catalyst 13.1+ you need to run the AMD APP SDK Runtime from Catalyst 12.10 in order to get this program to work. (So all your Catalyst drivers would be brand new except for the SDK Runtime.) This is discussed on [https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen/issues/19 GitHub]. Linux users try [https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen/issues/19#issuecomment-28689948 this solution].

Also the latest source doesn't work properly for high-end AMD cards (7XXX and greater). Solution is to change line 459 in oclengine.c from: return quirks; to: return quirks & ~VG_OCL_AMD_BFI_INT;
Windows x86+x64 binaries that solve this problem plus provide support for compressed keys [https://lifeboat.com/oclvanitygen here]. PGP signature [https://lifeboat.com/oclvanitygen.zip.sig here]. If you have any problems with the binaries, join the relevant [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=301068.0 BitCoinTalk discussion].

== Expected keysearch rate ==
Main article: [[Vanitygen keysearch rate]]

What key search rate can I expect from hardware X?

Detailed list forthcoming. Some ballpark estimates are listed below.

Dual-core desktop CPUs, 32-bit mode: 100-250 Kkey/s.
Dual-core desktop CPUs, 64-bit mode: 150-450 Kkey/s.
Quad-core desktop CPUs, 32-bit mode: 200-400 Kkey/s.
Quad-core desktop CPUs, 64-bit mode: 300-750 Kkey/s.
NVIDIA GT200 GPUs: up to 6.5 Mkey/s.
NVIDIA GTX 770 GPUs: around 29.5 Mkey/s.
AMD Radeon 58XX, 68XX GPUs: up to 23.5 Mkey/s.
AMD Radeon 69XX GPUs: up to 19.5 Mkey/s.

As vanitygen performs a lot of large integer arithmetic, running it in 64-bit mode makes a huge difference in key search rate, easily a 50% improvement over 32-bit mode. If you are using a 64-bit edition of Windows, and not using a GPU, be sure to use vanitygen64.exe.

Radeon 58XX outperforms Radeon 69XX by a very comfortable margin. Oclvanitygen is sensitive to integer multiply throughput, and Radeon 58XX can multiply concurrently with other operations. At similar clocks, a hobbled Radeon 5830 will outperform a Radeon 6970.

In custom builds, CPU performance will be less than expected if the OpenSSL library is an older version (<1.0.0d) or is not built with the appropriate optimizations enabled.

== See also ==
* [[Bitcoin Vanity Generation Website]]

[[Category:Vanity address]]

Technical background of version 1 Bitcoin addresses

2014-06-27T01:04:27Z

Stemby: 50 → 25 (halving)

[[File:PubKeyToAddr.png|thumb|right|Conversion from ECDSA public key to Bitcoin Address]]
This article may be too technical for some users. The more basic article on [[Address|Bitcoin Addresses]] may be more appropriate.

A [[Bitcoin address]] is a 160-bit hash of the public portion of a public/private [[Wikipedia:Elliptic_Curve_DSA|ECDSA]] keypair. Using [[Wikipedia:Public-key_cryptography|public-key cryptography]], you can "sign" data with your [[private key]] and anyone who knows your public key can verify that the signature is valid.

A new keypair is generated for each receiving address. Bitcoin addresses (the public keys) and their associated private keys are stored in the [[wallet]] data file. This is the only file you need to [[backup|back up]]. A "send" transaction to a specific Bitcoin address requires that the corresponding private key exist in the recipient's wallet. This has the implication that if you create a receiving address and receive coins to that address, then restore the wallet from an earlier backup, before the address was generated, then the coins associated with that address are lost. Addresses are added to an address [[key pool]] prior to being used for receiving coins. If you lose your wallet entirely, all of your coins are lost and can never be recovered.

"Generate" transactions happen in the same way as a send transaction: each batch of 25 (50 in the past) generated coins is "sent" to a unique address that you generate just for that purpose. These addresses are also stored in your wallet, but they are not shown in the "your receiving addresses" section.

Bitcoin allows you to create as many addresses as you want, and each one is completely separate. There is no "master address": the "Your Bitcoin address" area in the Bitcoin UI has no special importance. It's only there for your convenience, and it will change automatically from time to time to enhance your anonymity. All of your other addresses will continue to work forever. They're listed in the "your receiving addresses" section. Each address takes up only about 500 bytes, so having a large number of addresses in your wallet is generally not a problem.

Bitcoin addresses contain a built-in check code, so it's generally not possible to send Bitcoins to a mistyped address. However, if the address is well-formed but no one owns it (or the owner lost their wallet.dat), any coins sent to that address will be lost forever.

Hash values and the checksum data are converted to an alpha-numeric representation using a custom scheme: the [[Base58Check encoding]] scheme. Under Base58Check, addresses can contain all alphanumeric characters except 0, O, I, and l. Normal addresses currently always start with 1 (addresses from script hashes use 3), though this might change in a future version. Testnet addresses usually start with ''m'' or ''n''. Mainline addresses can be 25-34 characters in length, and testnet addresses can be 26-34 characters in length. Most addresses are 33 or 34 characters long.

It is also possible to send Bitcoins directly to an [[IP address]] but this method is never recommended as a man-in-the-middle attacks makes redirecting coins trivial.

Since Bitcoin addresses are basically random numbers, it is possible, although extremely unlikely, for two people to independently generate the same address. This is called a [[Wikipedia:Collision_(computer_science)|collision]]. If this happens, then both the original owner of the address and the colliding owner could spend money sent to that address. It would not be possible for the colliding person to spend the original owner's entire wallet (or vice versa). If you were to intentionally try to make a collision, it would currently take 2^107 times longer to generate a colliding Bitcoin address than to generate a block. As long as the signing and hashing algorithms remain cryptographically strong, it will likely always be more profitable to collect generations and [[transaction fee|transaction fees]] than to try to create collisions.

==How to create Bitcoin Address==
0 - Having a private [[ECDSA]] key
18E14A7B6A307F426A94F8114701E7C8E774E7F9A47E2C2035DB29A206321725
1 - Take the corresponding public key generated with it (65 bytes, 1 byte 0x04, 32 bytes corresponding to X coordinate, 32 bytes corresponding to Y coordinate)
0450863AD64A87AE8A2FE83C1AF1A8403CB53F53E486D8511DAD8A04887E5B23522CD470243453A299FA9E77237716103ABC11A1DF38855ED6F2EE187E9C582BA6
2 - Perform SHA-256 hashing on the public key
600FFE422B4E00731A59557A5CCA46CC183944191006324A447BDB2D98D4B408
3 - Perform RIPEMD-160 hashing on the result of SHA-256
010966776006953D5567439E5E39F86A0D273BEE
4 - Add version byte in front of RIPEMD-160 hash (0x00 for Main Network)
00010966776006953D5567439E5E39F86A0D273BEE
5 - Perform SHA-256 hash on the extended RIPEMD-160 result
445C7A8007A93D8733188288BB320A8FE2DEBD2AE1B47F0F50BC10BAE845C094
6 - Perform SHA-256 hash on the result of the previous SHA-256 hash
D61967F63C7DD183914A4AE452C9F6AD5D462CE3D277798075B107615C1A8A30
7 - Take the first 4 bytes of the second SHA-256 hash. This is the address checksum
D61967F6
8 - Add the 4 checksum bytes from stage 7 at the end of extended RIPEMD-160 hash from stage 4. This is the 25-byte binary Bitcoin Address.
00010966776006953D5567439E5E39F86A0D273BEED61967F6
9 - Convert the result from a byte string into a base58 string using [[Base58Check encoding]]. This is the most commonly used Bitcoin Address format
16UwLL9Risc3QfPqBUvKofHmBQ7wMtjvM

==See Also==
* [[Address]]
* [http://gobittest.appspot.com/Address Address testing suite]

[[Category:Technical]]

Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm

2014-06-27T00:23:16Z

Stemby:

'''Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm''' or '''ECDSA''' is a cryptographic algorithm used by Bitcoin to ensure that funds can only be spent by their rightful owners.

A few concepts related to ECDSA:
* [[private key]]: A secret number, known only to the person that generated it. A private key is essentially a randomly generated number. In Bitcoin, someone with the private key that corresponds to funds on the [[public ledger]] can spend the funds. In Bitcoin, a private key is a single unsigned 256 bit integer (32 bytes).
* [[public key]]: A number that corresponds to a private key, but does not need to be kept secret. A public key can be calculated from a private key, but not vice versa. A public key can be used to determine if a signature is genuine (in other words, produced with the proper key) without requiring the private key to be divulged. In Bitcoin, public key are either compressed or uncompressed. Compressed public keys are 33 bytes, consisting of a prefix either 0x02 or 0x03, and a 256-bit integer called ''x''. The older uncompressed keys are 65 bytes, consisting of constant prefix (0x04), followed by two 256-bit integers called ''x'' and ''y'' (2 * 32 bytes). The prefix of a compressed key allows for the ''y'' value to be derived from the ''x'' value.
* [[signature]]: A number that proves that a signing operation took place. A signature is mathematically generated from a [[hash]] of something to be signed, plus a private key. The signature itself is two numbers known as ''r'' and ''s''. With the public key, a mathematical algorithm can be used on the signature to determine that it was originally produced from the hash and the private key, without needing to know the private key. Signatures are either 73, 72, or 71 bytes long, with probabilities approximately 25%, 50% and 25% respectively, although sizes even smaller than that are possible with exponentially decreasing probability.

Read more about [[wikipedia:Elliptic_Curve_DSA|ECDSA on Wikipedia]].

Mt. Gox

2014-02-26T12:02:54Z

Stemby: note/disclaimer

'''MtGox''', called "Mount Gox" or "MTGOX", has been the most widely used bitcoin [[currency exchange]] market<ref>2011-06-07 on #bitcoin-otc: "MagicalTux: you could use the count of users on mtgox (went over 30k recently)"</ref> since it was started.

The market was closed February 25, 2014.

'''<THE FOLLOWING TEXT HAS TO BE VERIFIED AND UPDATED>'''

A registrant on MtGox has at least two sub-accounts: one for bitcoins (BTC), and one for US dollars (USD or MTGUSD) or other national currency. Bitcoins are bought using funds from the trader's national currency account, and the proceeds from the sale of bitcoins are deposited into the same account. Trading must always involve bitcoins as trading between different national currencies is not offered.

Trades on Mt. Gox's execute from balances on deposit with the exchange which in turn makes trading on the market instantaneous, compared to some other Bitcoin markets where a subsequent settlement occurs manually between the trading partners. The disadvantage of this is that a third party must be trusted with keeping the money safe.

MtGox was originally started by Jed McCaleb in July 2010, and was sold to [[Tibanne Co.]] in Japan in March 2011. It is currently operated by Tibanne Co., managed by Mark Karpeles (MagicalTux).

==Trading==
===Buying and selling===

Buying and selling Bitcoins is simple. A buy order is executed partially or in full when the price bid can be matched against a sell order that is at or below the bid amount. A sell order is executed partially or in full when the price asked can be matched against a buy order that is at or above the ask amount. Orders that cannot be matched immediately remain in the orderbook.

Unfunded orders do not appear in the order book, but are automatically readded if a deposit is credited. For example, Mt. Gox allows the entry of a "buy" order even if the account has insufficient funds. If possible, Mt. Gox will execute a portion of the order if it can be partially funded. If a deposit is later credited and the deposit resolves the insufficient funds status of an outstanding order, the order will be immediately activated, and if possible, executed.

===Fees===

Mt. Gox charges a trading fee of up to 0.6% from each party of successful trades made through the market. The fee appears in the account history next to each trade. The trading fee is discounted for larger customers based on volume, which is calculated as a sliding window over the last 720 hours (30 days).

The fees are, by default, subtracted from the proceeds of each trade (e.g., a buy of 1.0 BTC will add to the account balance 0.994 BTC when the exchange fee is 0.6%). An account setting will allow fees to be added to the purchase amount instead (e.g., buying 1.0 BTC at $5 will cost about $5.03 when the exchange fee is 0.6%).

==Adding Funds==

===BTC===
There are no fees incurred when transferring bitcoins to a Mt. Gox account.

Funds are available once [[confirmation|confirmed]] (6 blocks)<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3851.msg55220#msg55220 How long does it take to Deposit bitcoins to MtGox?]</ref>, a process that can take roughly an hour.

The deposit address is presented along with a QR code that can be scanned with a mobile. This address does not change with each deposit request.

The Add Bitcoins function experiences issues with some browser ad-blocking utilities even though no advertisements are displayed on the website.

====Redeemable Code====

Bitcoins from another Mt. Gox user sent by Mt. Gox [[redeemable code]] (A.K.A. "coupon") may be deposited and will be available for trading immediately.

===OKPay===

[[OKPay]] may be used for depositing funds to USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, and RUB<ref>[https://support.mtgox.com/entries/21034626-okpay OKPAY]</ref>.

===Cash Deposit===

====U.S. (USD)====
* BitInstant - Cash (U.S. dollars) may be deposited at any of thousands of banks, 7-11, Walmart, CVS, Moneygram and more that [[BitInstant]] uses to transfer funds to your Mt. Gox account.

====Brazil (BRL)====
* BitInstant - Cash (Brazilian real) may be deposited using Boleto or through Banco Recomendito.

====Brazil (BRL)====
* BitInstant - Cash (Russian rubles) may be deposited using QIWI or Cyberplat

====UK (GBP)====
* Barclays - Cash (British pound sterling) may be deposited at any Barclays location. There is a 1.5% fee on deposits made with this method<ref>[https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120806.html Introducing a new 1.5% fee on Barclays cash deposit]</ref>.

===Bank Wire===

====International USD====
Funds in USD may be wired to the exchange's bank in Japan. Each wire is subject to a per-wire fee plus any intermediate fees.

====International Wire====

An account can be configured with a wallet for each of the currencies that the exchange supports<ref>[https://mtgox.zendesk.com/entries/20413328-mt-gox-opens-15-new-currency-markets Mt.Gox Opens 15 New Currency Markets]</ref>. When a wire is received in one of these currencies, that account will be credited.

* USD - U.S. Dollar
* EUR - Euro (SEPA or Int'l wire)
* CAD - Canadian Dollar
* GBP - British Pound (Domestic or Int'l wire)
* CHF - Swiss Francs
* RUB - Russian Rubles
* AUD - Australian Dollars
* SEK - Swedish Krona
* DKK - Danish Krona
* HKD - Hong Kong Dollars
* PLN - Polish Zloty (Domestic or Int'l wire)
* CNY - Chinese Yuan
* SGD - Singapore Dollars
* TBH - Thai Baht
* NZD - New Zealand Dollars
* JPY - Japanese Yen (Domestic or Int'l wire)

===Direct Deposit===
====EU====

Funds in EUR may be added using SEPA Direct Debit for free, with funds convert to USD at the current ECB rate at the time the funds are received<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=5461.0 MTGox: Euro deposits]</ref>.

====U.S.====

Mt. Gox doesn't directly support an ACH-based (direct deposit) deposit method. Dwolla supports ACH-based fund transfers and those funds can then be deposited with Mt. Gox.

====UK====

Funds may be sent as a GBP direct deposit free of charge.

====Australia====

Funds may be sent using direct deposit (BPay) for a AU$2.00 per-deposit fee. The funds will be converted to USD at the current rate.

==Withdrawing Funds==

MtGox imposes a $1,000 USD limit for withdrawals per 24 hours and a $10,000 USD limit for withdrawals per month with most non-verified accounts. Bitcoins withdrawn are counted toward this limit as well and the USD value is calculated at the market rate at the time of the attempted withdrawal. Customers that have been Verified have higher limits and customers that have Trusted status have limits even higher<ref>[http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2442/mtgox-trusted-vs-verified MtGox - trusted vs verified]</ref>. Any [[MtGox#Transfers_to_Other_Customers|account-to-account transfers]] made also count toward this limit as well.

Requests for higher withdrawal limits may be submitted by email
* For higher limits for withdrawal of USD funds, email: aml@mtgox.com
* For higher limits for withdrawal of BTC funds, email: btcupd@mtgox.com

See the [[MtGox#AML|AML]] section regarding verification levels for AML purposes.

===Dwolla===

[[Dwolla]] is among the fastest and least expensive methods for withdrawing USD funds from a Mt. Gox account. The transaction fee to do so is just $0.25.
[[Dwolla]] withdrawals are processed every hour during business hours (Japan time) and every 12 hours on weekends.

As of 25 May 2012, MtGox requires account holders to be "verified (level 1) - 'see below'" to withdraw via Dwolla. <ref>https://support.mtgox.com/entries/21503347-new-aml-policy-for-all-dwolla-users</ref>

The status of the withdrawal request will show one of the following status codes:

* Preparing: System is running checks to see if the transfer can be executed.
* Confirmed: Transfer can be executed and is pending in queue.
* Todo: Transfer is near the top of the queue and will be executed soon.
* Processed: Transfer has been processed.

===BTC===

Bitcoins may be withdrawn at no charge.

A [[green address]] option is available though this type of transaction could experience a delay if the exchange's wallet funding level for green address transactions is insufficient. The withdrawal form also offers an "open transaction" option which forces the transaction to go through the blockchain. If the recipient of a BTC withdrawal happens to also be from Mt. Gox's [[EWallet]], then that transfer would occur instantly and the transaction would not be broadcast to the Bitcoin network. This "open transaction" option forces a withdrawal to be broadcast to the Bitcoin network.

====Redeemable Code====

Mt. Gox no longer allows bitcoins or other currency to be withdrawn using a [[redeemable code]].

===Direct Deposit===
====U.S.====

There is currently no option for withdrawing funds through a direct deposit bank transaction. Funds withdrawn to Dwolla may then, in turn, be withdrawn with bank funds deposited as an ACH transaction.

====EU====

You may withdraw any amount as a direct deposit to your bank. There is a 2% fee on these withdrawals. Contact the exchange by e-mail for this service.

====Australia====

A per-withdrawal fee (2,000 JPY) is subtracted and the remaining amount is sent via international wire in the chosen currency. If not AUD then an exchange fee of 2.5% will be charged.

===International Wire===

To any IBAN, SWIFT/BIC and ABA routable bank<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/343372689080478 Mt.Gox now offers international wire transfer to all US Banks]</ref>. Fee applies.

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==Customer Service==

The preferred method for obtaining service is to place a request through the exchange's [https://mtgox.zendesk.com help desk]. Another method is to send e-mail with the request.

==Wallet/Banking==

An account at this exchange can be considered to be an [[eWallet]]. This service also offers [[:Category:ECommerce|eCommerce]] merchant [https://mtgox.com/merch/about payment services].

==Security Center==

The Security Center allows an account to be secured through the use of one or more One Time Password (OTP) solutions such as what YubiKey and Google Authenticator offer. Features can be protected where the OTP must be provided for each action and are configured independently.

For example, a typical configuration is to set OTP as being required for both withdrawals and security center changes but not for login. With that configuration, the worst damage that can happen from a compromised account or session would be that bitcoins would be bought or sold (though they could also be bought and sold over and over until funds are depleted).

* Login - The OTP must be provided for each login.
* Withdraw - The OTP must be provided for each withdrawal request.
* Security - The OTP must be provided during each configuration change to be performed.

==AML==

Varying degrees of verification will allow for greater per-day and per-month total amounts to be withdrawn<ref>[http://support.mtgox.com/entries/20919111-aml-account-statuses AML Account Statuses]</ref>.

===Unverified (Level 0)===

Designed for basic users, consumers and Bitcoin enthusiasts where 10,000 USD (monthly) is enough for most needs.

===Verified (Level 1)===

The "verified" status is designed for active traders and/or small companies.

===Trusted (Level 2)===

The “trusted” status is designed for day traders, professionals, and companies.

==API==

Mt Gox offers an [[MtGox/API|API]] which can be used to automate operations.

==Data Services==

===Web===
* Bitstock live watcher for trades, depth, history [http://bitstock.info bitstock.info] (Websockets browser required)
* [[Bitcoin Charts]]
* Clark Moody's [[Real Time Bitcoin Market Data]] including Ticker, Order Book and Time Sales (Websockets browser support required)
* [[MtGox Live]] (Websockets browser support required)
* [[Bitcoin Arbitrage Opportunities]] (Websockets browser support required)
* [[Bitcoin Prices]] market rates in multiple currencies
* [https://mtgox-viz.appspot.com MtGox-Viz], a visualization of your MtGox account history

===Windows===
* [[Sierra Chart MtGox Bridge]] trading and charting tool.
* [[ToyTrader]] command line trading tool

===Mac OS X===
* [[BitTicker]] for Mac OS X
* [http://sneak.datavibe.net/20110613/mtgoxwatcher MtGox Watcher] for Mac OS X

===Mobile===
* [[BitcoinX]] mobile app with bid, ask and 24 hour history. For Android
* [[MtGox Live]] Bitcoin Trader with buy, sell, send, chart and depth for Android and iOS
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.veken0m.cavirtex Bitcoinium] for Android on Google Play

=== firefox addon ===
* [https://github.com/joric/mtgox-ticker] firefox ticker addon

===Linux===
* [http://www.goxsh.info goxsh] command line ticker / depth chart

==E-Commerce==

Online sellers can accept bitcoins for payment using the Mt. Gox's E-commerce Solution, which is an interface to the exchange's [[MtGox/API/HTTP/v1#Merchant_System|Merchant System API]].

==History==
The exchange went online on July 18, 2010.<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=444.0 MtGox announcement on forum]</ref>

On October 10, 2010 the exchange switched from [[PayPal]] to Liberty Reserve as the main funding option as a result of this attack. Former PayPal customers still had the possibility to withdraw their USD using alternative methods.

On March 6th, 2011 ownership of the exchange changed hands<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4187.0 Mtgox is changing owners]</ref>. Tibanne publishes their [http://legal.tibanne.com/docs/20110801_company_certificate.pdf company certificate] from the Japanese government.

On June 19, 2011 the service experienced a significant security breach<ref>[https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20224998-huge-bitcoin-sell-off-due-to-a-compromised-account-rollback Huge Bitcoin sell off due to a compromised account - rollback]</ref>. The incident caused a selloff down to BTC/USD of $0.01 due to fraudulent trading. The site was disabled and all trading following the point that fraudulent trading began was rolled back. Complicating this breach was the release of a list of the exchange's accounts including username, email address and a password hash, which forced the exchange to implement an account recovery method for customers to regain control of their accounts.

In July, 2011 it was observed that the exchange no longer allows new registrations to occur without having a valid e-mail address.

On July 19, 2011 a press release announced that MtGox had acquired [[MtGox Live]].<ref>[https://mtgox.com/press_release_20110719.html World's Leading Bitcoin Exchange, Mt.Gox, acquires MtGoxLive.com]</ref>

Announced on March 6, 2012 was the Merchant Solution and API<ref>[https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120306.html Mt.Gox launches the definitive bitcoin checkout solution]</ref>

==See Also==

* [[Buying bitcoins]]
* [[Selling bitcoins]]
* [[MtGox/API|API]]
* [[Bitcoin Ladder]]

==External Links==

* [https://mtgox.com MT. Gox exchange] website
* [https://mtgox.com/merch/about Mt. Gox Merchant Services]
* [https://mtgox.zendesk.com Customer Service Help Desk]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Exchanges]]
[[Category:eWallets]]
[[Category:Shopping Cart Interfaces]]
[[ru:MtGox]]

Mt. Gox

2014-02-26T12:01:17Z

Stemby:

'''MtGox''', called "Mount Gox" or "MTGOX", has been the most widely used bitcoin [[currency exchange]] market<ref>2011-06-07 on #bitcoin-otc: "MagicalTux: you could use the count of users on mtgox (went over 30k recently)"</ref> since it was started.

The market was closed February 25, 2014.

A registrant on MtGox has at least two sub-accounts: one for bitcoins (BTC), and one for US dollars (USD or MTGUSD) or other national currency. Bitcoins are bought using funds from the trader's national currency account, and the proceeds from the sale of bitcoins are deposited into the same account. Trading must always involve bitcoins as trading between different national currencies is not offered.

Trades on Mt. Gox's execute from balances on deposit with the exchange which in turn makes trading on the market instantaneous, compared to some other Bitcoin markets where a subsequent settlement occurs manually between the trading partners. The disadvantage of this is that a third party must be trusted with keeping the money safe.

MtGox was originally started by Jed McCaleb in July 2010, and was sold to [[Tibanne Co.]] in Japan in March 2011. It is currently operated by Tibanne Co., managed by Mark Karpeles (MagicalTux).

==Trading==
===Buying and selling===

Buying and selling Bitcoins is simple. A buy order is executed partially or in full when the price bid can be matched against a sell order that is at or below the bid amount. A sell order is executed partially or in full when the price asked can be matched against a buy order that is at or above the ask amount. Orders that cannot be matched immediately remain in the orderbook.

Unfunded orders do not appear in the order book, but are automatically readded if a deposit is credited. For example, Mt. Gox allows the entry of a "buy" order even if the account has insufficient funds. If possible, Mt. Gox will execute a portion of the order if it can be partially funded. If a deposit is later credited and the deposit resolves the insufficient funds status of an outstanding order, the order will be immediately activated, and if possible, executed.

===Fees===

Mt. Gox charges a trading fee of up to 0.6% from each party of successful trades made through the market. The fee appears in the account history next to each trade. The trading fee is discounted for larger customers based on volume, which is calculated as a sliding window over the last 720 hours (30 days).

The fees are, by default, subtracted from the proceeds of each trade (e.g., a buy of 1.0 BTC will add to the account balance 0.994 BTC when the exchange fee is 0.6%). An account setting will allow fees to be added to the purchase amount instead (e.g., buying 1.0 BTC at $5 will cost about $5.03 when the exchange fee is 0.6%).

==Adding Funds==

===BTC===
There are no fees incurred when transferring bitcoins to a Mt. Gox account.

Funds are available once [[confirmation|confirmed]] (6 blocks)<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3851.msg55220#msg55220 How long does it take to Deposit bitcoins to MtGox?]</ref>, a process that can take roughly an hour.

The deposit address is presented along with a QR code that can be scanned with a mobile. This address does not change with each deposit request.

The Add Bitcoins function experiences issues with some browser ad-blocking utilities even though no advertisements are displayed on the website.

====Redeemable Code====

Bitcoins from another Mt. Gox user sent by Mt. Gox [[redeemable code]] (A.K.A. "coupon") may be deposited and will be available for trading immediately.

===OKPay===

[[OKPay]] may be used for depositing funds to USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, and RUB<ref>[https://support.mtgox.com/entries/21034626-okpay OKPAY]</ref>.

===Cash Deposit===

====U.S. (USD)====
* BitInstant - Cash (U.S. dollars) may be deposited at any of thousands of banks, 7-11, Walmart, CVS, Moneygram and more that [[BitInstant]] uses to transfer funds to your Mt. Gox account.

====Brazil (BRL)====
* BitInstant - Cash (Brazilian real) may be deposited using Boleto or through Banco Recomendito.

====Brazil (BRL)====
* BitInstant - Cash (Russian rubles) may be deposited using QIWI or Cyberplat

====UK (GBP)====
* Barclays - Cash (British pound sterling) may be deposited at any Barclays location. There is a 1.5% fee on deposits made with this method<ref>[https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120806.html Introducing a new 1.5% fee on Barclays cash deposit]</ref>.

===Bank Wire===

====International USD====
Funds in USD may be wired to the exchange's bank in Japan. Each wire is subject to a per-wire fee plus any intermediate fees.

====International Wire====

An account can be configured with a wallet for each of the currencies that the exchange supports<ref>[https://mtgox.zendesk.com/entries/20413328-mt-gox-opens-15-new-currency-markets Mt.Gox Opens 15 New Currency Markets]</ref>. When a wire is received in one of these currencies, that account will be credited.

* USD - U.S. Dollar
* EUR - Euro (SEPA or Int'l wire)
* CAD - Canadian Dollar
* GBP - British Pound (Domestic or Int'l wire)
* CHF - Swiss Francs
* RUB - Russian Rubles
* AUD - Australian Dollars
* SEK - Swedish Krona
* DKK - Danish Krona
* HKD - Hong Kong Dollars
* PLN - Polish Zloty (Domestic or Int'l wire)
* CNY - Chinese Yuan
* SGD - Singapore Dollars
* TBH - Thai Baht
* NZD - New Zealand Dollars
* JPY - Japanese Yen (Domestic or Int'l wire)

===Direct Deposit===
====EU====

Funds in EUR may be added using SEPA Direct Debit for free, with funds convert to USD at the current ECB rate at the time the funds are received<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=5461.0 MTGox: Euro deposits]</ref>.

====U.S.====

Mt. Gox doesn't directly support an ACH-based (direct deposit) deposit method. Dwolla supports ACH-based fund transfers and those funds can then be deposited with Mt. Gox.

====UK====

Funds may be sent as a GBP direct deposit free of charge.

====Australia====

Funds may be sent using direct deposit (BPay) for a AU$2.00 per-deposit fee. The funds will be converted to USD at the current rate.

==Withdrawing Funds==

MtGox imposes a $1,000 USD limit for withdrawals per 24 hours and a $10,000 USD limit for withdrawals per month with most non-verified accounts. Bitcoins withdrawn are counted toward this limit as well and the USD value is calculated at the market rate at the time of the attempted withdrawal. Customers that have been Verified have higher limits and customers that have Trusted status have limits even higher<ref>[http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2442/mtgox-trusted-vs-verified MtGox - trusted vs verified]</ref>. Any [[MtGox#Transfers_to_Other_Customers|account-to-account transfers]] made also count toward this limit as well.

Requests for higher withdrawal limits may be submitted by email
* For higher limits for withdrawal of USD funds, email: aml@mtgox.com
* For higher limits for withdrawal of BTC funds, email: btcupd@mtgox.com

See the [[MtGox#AML|AML]] section regarding verification levels for AML purposes.

===Dwolla===

[[Dwolla]] is among the fastest and least expensive methods for withdrawing USD funds from a Mt. Gox account. The transaction fee to do so is just $0.25.
[[Dwolla]] withdrawals are processed every hour during business hours (Japan time) and every 12 hours on weekends.

As of 25 May 2012, MtGox requires account holders to be "verified (level 1) - 'see below'" to withdraw via Dwolla. <ref>https://support.mtgox.com/entries/21503347-new-aml-policy-for-all-dwolla-users</ref>

The status of the withdrawal request will show one of the following status codes:

* Preparing: System is running checks to see if the transfer can be executed.
* Confirmed: Transfer can be executed and is pending in queue.
* Todo: Transfer is near the top of the queue and will be executed soon.
* Processed: Transfer has been processed.

===BTC===

Bitcoins may be withdrawn at no charge.

A [[green address]] option is available though this type of transaction could experience a delay if the exchange's wallet funding level for green address transactions is insufficient. The withdrawal form also offers an "open transaction" option which forces the transaction to go through the blockchain. If the recipient of a BTC withdrawal happens to also be from Mt. Gox's [[EWallet]], then that transfer would occur instantly and the transaction would not be broadcast to the Bitcoin network. This "open transaction" option forces a withdrawal to be broadcast to the Bitcoin network.

====Redeemable Code====

Mt. Gox no longer allows bitcoins or other currency to be withdrawn using a [[redeemable code]].

===Direct Deposit===
====U.S.====

There is currently no option for withdrawing funds through a direct deposit bank transaction. Funds withdrawn to Dwolla may then, in turn, be withdrawn with bank funds deposited as an ACH transaction.

====EU====

You may withdraw any amount as a direct deposit to your bank. There is a 2% fee on these withdrawals. Contact the exchange by e-mail for this service.

====Australia====

A per-withdrawal fee (2,000 JPY) is subtracted and the remaining amount is sent via international wire in the chosen currency. If not AUD then an exchange fee of 2.5% will be charged.

===International Wire===

To any IBAN, SWIFT/BIC and ABA routable bank<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/343372689080478 Mt.Gox now offers international wire transfer to all US Banks]</ref>. Fee applies.

=

==Customer Service==

The preferred method for obtaining service is to place a request through the exchange's [https://mtgox.zendesk.com help desk]. Another method is to send e-mail with the request.

==Wallet/Banking==

An account at this exchange can be considered to be an [[eWallet]]. This service also offers [[:Category:ECommerce|eCommerce]] merchant [https://mtgox.com/merch/about payment services].

==Security Center==

The Security Center allows an account to be secured through the use of one or more One Time Password (OTP) solutions such as what YubiKey and Google Authenticator offer. Features can be protected where the OTP must be provided for each action and are configured independently.

For example, a typical configuration is to set OTP as being required for both withdrawals and security center changes but not for login. With that configuration, the worst damage that can happen from a compromised account or session would be that bitcoins would be bought or sold (though they could also be bought and sold over and over until funds are depleted).

* Login - The OTP must be provided for each login.
* Withdraw - The OTP must be provided for each withdrawal request.
* Security - The OTP must be provided during each configuration change to be performed.

==AML==

Varying degrees of verification will allow for greater per-day and per-month total amounts to be withdrawn<ref>[http://support.mtgox.com/entries/20919111-aml-account-statuses AML Account Statuses]</ref>.

===Unverified (Level 0)===

Designed for basic users, consumers and Bitcoin enthusiasts where 10,000 USD (monthly) is enough for most needs.

===Verified (Level 1)===

The "verified" status is designed for active traders and/or small companies.

===Trusted (Level 2)===

The “trusted” status is designed for day traders, professionals, and companies.

==API==

Mt Gox offers an [[MtGox/API|API]] which can be used to automate operations.

==Data Services==

===Web===
* Bitstock live watcher for trades, depth, history [http://bitstock.info bitstock.info] (Websockets browser required)
* [[Bitcoin Charts]]
* Clark Moody's [[Real Time Bitcoin Market Data]] including Ticker, Order Book and Time Sales (Websockets browser support required)
* [[MtGox Live]] (Websockets browser support required)
* [[Bitcoin Arbitrage Opportunities]] (Websockets browser support required)
* [[Bitcoin Prices]] market rates in multiple currencies
* [https://mtgox-viz.appspot.com MtGox-Viz], a visualization of your MtGox account history

===Windows===
* [[Sierra Chart MtGox Bridge]] trading and charting tool.
* [[ToyTrader]] command line trading tool

===Mac OS X===
* [[BitTicker]] for Mac OS X
* [http://sneak.datavibe.net/20110613/mtgoxwatcher MtGox Watcher] for Mac OS X

===Mobile===
* [[BitcoinX]] mobile app with bid, ask and 24 hour history. For Android
* [[MtGox Live]] Bitcoin Trader with buy, sell, send, chart and depth for Android and iOS
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.veken0m.cavirtex Bitcoinium] for Android on Google Play

=== firefox addon ===
* [https://github.com/joric/mtgox-ticker] firefox ticker addon

===Linux===
* [http://www.goxsh.info goxsh] command line ticker / depth chart

==E-Commerce==

Online sellers can accept bitcoins for payment using the Mt. Gox's E-commerce Solution, which is an interface to the exchange's [[MtGox/API/HTTP/v1#Merchant_System|Merchant System API]].

==History==
The exchange went online on July 18, 2010.<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=444.0 MtGox announcement on forum]</ref>

On October 10, 2010 the exchange switched from [[PayPal]] to Liberty Reserve as the main funding option as a result of this attack. Former PayPal customers still had the possibility to withdraw their USD using alternative methods.

On March 6th, 2011 ownership of the exchange changed hands<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4187.0 Mtgox is changing owners]</ref>. Tibanne publishes their [http://legal.tibanne.com/docs/20110801_company_certificate.pdf company certificate] from the Japanese government.

On June 19, 2011 the service experienced a significant security breach<ref>[https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20224998-huge-bitcoin-sell-off-due-to-a-compromised-account-rollback Huge Bitcoin sell off due to a compromised account - rollback]</ref>. The incident caused a selloff down to BTC/USD of $0.01 due to fraudulent trading. The site was disabled and all trading following the point that fraudulent trading began was rolled back. Complicating this breach was the release of a list of the exchange's accounts including username, email address and a password hash, which forced the exchange to implement an account recovery method for customers to regain control of their accounts.

In July, 2011 it was observed that the exchange no longer allows new registrations to occur without having a valid e-mail address.

On July 19, 2011 a press release announced that MtGox had acquired [[MtGox Live]].<ref>[https://mtgox.com/press_release_20110719.html World's Leading Bitcoin Exchange, Mt.Gox, acquires MtGoxLive.com]</ref>

Announced on March 6, 2012 was the Merchant Solution and API<ref>[https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120306.html Mt.Gox launches the definitive bitcoin checkout solution]</ref>

==See Also==

* [[Buying bitcoins]]
* [[Selling bitcoins]]
* [[MtGox/API|API]]
* [[Bitcoin Ladder]]

==External Links==

* [https://mtgox.com MT. Gox exchange] website
* [https://mtgox.com/merch/about Mt. Gox Merchant Services]
* [https://mtgox.zendesk.com Customer Service Help Desk]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Exchanges]]
[[Category:eWallets]]
[[Category:Shopping Cart Interfaces]]
[[ru:MtGox]]

Mt. Gox

2014-02-26T12:00:56Z

Stemby: MtGox closed

'''MtGox''', called "Mount Gox" or "MTGOX", has been the most widely used bitcoin [[currency exchange]] market<ref>2011-06-07 on #bitcoin-otc: "MagicalTux: you could use the count of users on mtgox (went over 30k recently)"</ref> since it was started.

The market was closed fFbruary 25, 2014.

A registrant on MtGox has at least two sub-accounts: one for bitcoins (BTC), and one for US dollars (USD or MTGUSD) or other national currency. Bitcoins are bought using funds from the trader's national currency account, and the proceeds from the sale of bitcoins are deposited into the same account. Trading must always involve bitcoins as trading between different national currencies is not offered.

Trades on Mt. Gox's execute from balances on deposit with the exchange which in turn makes trading on the market instantaneous, compared to some other Bitcoin markets where a subsequent settlement occurs manually between the trading partners. The disadvantage of this is that a third party must be trusted with keeping the money safe.

MtGox was originally started by Jed McCaleb in July 2010, and was sold to [[Tibanne Co.]] in Japan in March 2011. It is currently operated by Tibanne Co., managed by Mark Karpeles (MagicalTux).

==Trading==
===Buying and selling===

Buying and selling Bitcoins is simple. A buy order is executed partially or in full when the price bid can be matched against a sell order that is at or below the bid amount. A sell order is executed partially or in full when the price asked can be matched against a buy order that is at or above the ask amount. Orders that cannot be matched immediately remain in the orderbook.

Unfunded orders do not appear in the order book, but are automatically readded if a deposit is credited. For example, Mt. Gox allows the entry of a "buy" order even if the account has insufficient funds. If possible, Mt. Gox will execute a portion of the order if it can be partially funded. If a deposit is later credited and the deposit resolves the insufficient funds status of an outstanding order, the order will be immediately activated, and if possible, executed.

===Fees===

Mt. Gox charges a trading fee of up to 0.6% from each party of successful trades made through the market. The fee appears in the account history next to each trade. The trading fee is discounted for larger customers based on volume, which is calculated as a sliding window over the last 720 hours (30 days).

The fees are, by default, subtracted from the proceeds of each trade (e.g., a buy of 1.0 BTC will add to the account balance 0.994 BTC when the exchange fee is 0.6%). An account setting will allow fees to be added to the purchase amount instead (e.g., buying 1.0 BTC at $5 will cost about $5.03 when the exchange fee is 0.6%).

==Adding Funds==

===BTC===
There are no fees incurred when transferring bitcoins to a Mt. Gox account.

Funds are available once [[confirmation|confirmed]] (6 blocks)<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3851.msg55220#msg55220 How long does it take to Deposit bitcoins to MtGox?]</ref>, a process that can take roughly an hour.

The deposit address is presented along with a QR code that can be scanned with a mobile. This address does not change with each deposit request.

The Add Bitcoins function experiences issues with some browser ad-blocking utilities even though no advertisements are displayed on the website.

====Redeemable Code====

Bitcoins from another Mt. Gox user sent by Mt. Gox [[redeemable code]] (A.K.A. "coupon") may be deposited and will be available for trading immediately.

===OKPay===

[[OKPay]] may be used for depositing funds to USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, and RUB<ref>[https://support.mtgox.com/entries/21034626-okpay OKPAY]</ref>.

===Cash Deposit===

====U.S. (USD)====
* BitInstant - Cash (U.S. dollars) may be deposited at any of thousands of banks, 7-11, Walmart, CVS, Moneygram and more that [[BitInstant]] uses to transfer funds to your Mt. Gox account.

====Brazil (BRL)====
* BitInstant - Cash (Brazilian real) may be deposited using Boleto or through Banco Recomendito.

====Brazil (BRL)====
* BitInstant - Cash (Russian rubles) may be deposited using QIWI or Cyberplat

====UK (GBP)====
* Barclays - Cash (British pound sterling) may be deposited at any Barclays location. There is a 1.5% fee on deposits made with this method<ref>[https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120806.html Introducing a new 1.5% fee on Barclays cash deposit]</ref>.

===Bank Wire===

====International USD====
Funds in USD may be wired to the exchange's bank in Japan. Each wire is subject to a per-wire fee plus any intermediate fees.

====International Wire====

An account can be configured with a wallet for each of the currencies that the exchange supports<ref>[https://mtgox.zendesk.com/entries/20413328-mt-gox-opens-15-new-currency-markets Mt.Gox Opens 15 New Currency Markets]</ref>. When a wire is received in one of these currencies, that account will be credited.

* USD - U.S. Dollar
* EUR - Euro (SEPA or Int'l wire)
* CAD - Canadian Dollar
* GBP - British Pound (Domestic or Int'l wire)
* CHF - Swiss Francs
* RUB - Russian Rubles
* AUD - Australian Dollars
* SEK - Swedish Krona
* DKK - Danish Krona
* HKD - Hong Kong Dollars
* PLN - Polish Zloty (Domestic or Int'l wire)
* CNY - Chinese Yuan
* SGD - Singapore Dollars
* TBH - Thai Baht
* NZD - New Zealand Dollars
* JPY - Japanese Yen (Domestic or Int'l wire)

===Direct Deposit===
====EU====

Funds in EUR may be added using SEPA Direct Debit for free, with funds convert to USD at the current ECB rate at the time the funds are received<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=5461.0 MTGox: Euro deposits]</ref>.

====U.S.====

Mt. Gox doesn't directly support an ACH-based (direct deposit) deposit method. Dwolla supports ACH-based fund transfers and those funds can then be deposited with Mt. Gox.

====UK====

Funds may be sent as a GBP direct deposit free of charge.

====Australia====

Funds may be sent using direct deposit (BPay) for a AU$2.00 per-deposit fee. The funds will be converted to USD at the current rate.

==Withdrawing Funds==

MtGox imposes a $1,000 USD limit for withdrawals per 24 hours and a $10,000 USD limit for withdrawals per month with most non-verified accounts. Bitcoins withdrawn are counted toward this limit as well and the USD value is calculated at the market rate at the time of the attempted withdrawal. Customers that have been Verified have higher limits and customers that have Trusted status have limits even higher<ref>[http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2442/mtgox-trusted-vs-verified MtGox - trusted vs verified]</ref>. Any [[MtGox#Transfers_to_Other_Customers|account-to-account transfers]] made also count toward this limit as well.

Requests for higher withdrawal limits may be submitted by email
* For higher limits for withdrawal of USD funds, email: aml@mtgox.com
* For higher limits for withdrawal of BTC funds, email: btcupd@mtgox.com

See the [[MtGox#AML|AML]] section regarding verification levels for AML purposes.

===Dwolla===

[[Dwolla]] is among the fastest and least expensive methods for withdrawing USD funds from a Mt. Gox account. The transaction fee to do so is just $0.25.
[[Dwolla]] withdrawals are processed every hour during business hours (Japan time) and every 12 hours on weekends.

As of 25 May 2012, MtGox requires account holders to be "verified (level 1) - 'see below'" to withdraw via Dwolla. <ref>https://support.mtgox.com/entries/21503347-new-aml-policy-for-all-dwolla-users</ref>

The status of the withdrawal request will show one of the following status codes:

* Preparing: System is running checks to see if the transfer can be executed.
* Confirmed: Transfer can be executed and is pending in queue.
* Todo: Transfer is near the top of the queue and will be executed soon.
* Processed: Transfer has been processed.

===BTC===

Bitcoins may be withdrawn at no charge.

A [[green address]] option is available though this type of transaction could experience a delay if the exchange's wallet funding level for green address transactions is insufficient. The withdrawal form also offers an "open transaction" option which forces the transaction to go through the blockchain. If the recipient of a BTC withdrawal happens to also be from Mt. Gox's [[EWallet]], then that transfer would occur instantly and the transaction would not be broadcast to the Bitcoin network. This "open transaction" option forces a withdrawal to be broadcast to the Bitcoin network.

====Redeemable Code====

Mt. Gox no longer allows bitcoins or other currency to be withdrawn using a [[redeemable code]].

===Direct Deposit===
====U.S.====

There is currently no option for withdrawing funds through a direct deposit bank transaction. Funds withdrawn to Dwolla may then, in turn, be withdrawn with bank funds deposited as an ACH transaction.

====EU====

You may withdraw any amount as a direct deposit to your bank. There is a 2% fee on these withdrawals. Contact the exchange by e-mail for this service.

====Australia====

A per-withdrawal fee (2,000 JPY) is subtracted and the remaining amount is sent via international wire in the chosen currency. If not AUD then an exchange fee of 2.5% will be charged.

===International Wire===

To any IBAN, SWIFT/BIC and ABA routable bank<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/MtGox/posts/343372689080478 Mt.Gox now offers international wire transfer to all US Banks]</ref>. Fee applies.

=

==Customer Service==

The preferred method for obtaining service is to place a request through the exchange's [https://mtgox.zendesk.com help desk]. Another method is to send e-mail with the request.

==Wallet/Banking==

An account at this exchange can be considered to be an [[eWallet]]. This service also offers [[:Category:ECommerce|eCommerce]] merchant [https://mtgox.com/merch/about payment services].

==Security Center==

The Security Center allows an account to be secured through the use of one or more One Time Password (OTP) solutions such as what YubiKey and Google Authenticator offer. Features can be protected where the OTP must be provided for each action and are configured independently.

For example, a typical configuration is to set OTP as being required for both withdrawals and security center changes but not for login. With that configuration, the worst damage that can happen from a compromised account or session would be that bitcoins would be bought or sold (though they could also be bought and sold over and over until funds are depleted).

* Login - The OTP must be provided for each login.
* Withdraw - The OTP must be provided for each withdrawal request.
* Security - The OTP must be provided during each configuration change to be performed.

==AML==

Varying degrees of verification will allow for greater per-day and per-month total amounts to be withdrawn<ref>[http://support.mtgox.com/entries/20919111-aml-account-statuses AML Account Statuses]</ref>.

===Unverified (Level 0)===

Designed for basic users, consumers and Bitcoin enthusiasts where 10,000 USD (monthly) is enough for most needs.

===Verified (Level 1)===

The "verified" status is designed for active traders and/or small companies.

===Trusted (Level 2)===

The “trusted” status is designed for day traders, professionals, and companies.

==API==

Mt Gox offers an [[MtGox/API|API]] which can be used to automate operations.

==Data Services==

===Web===
* Bitstock live watcher for trades, depth, history [http://bitstock.info bitstock.info] (Websockets browser required)
* [[Bitcoin Charts]]
* Clark Moody's [[Real Time Bitcoin Market Data]] including Ticker, Order Book and Time Sales (Websockets browser support required)
* [[MtGox Live]] (Websockets browser support required)
* [[Bitcoin Arbitrage Opportunities]] (Websockets browser support required)
* [[Bitcoin Prices]] market rates in multiple currencies
* [https://mtgox-viz.appspot.com MtGox-Viz], a visualization of your MtGox account history

===Windows===
* [[Sierra Chart MtGox Bridge]] trading and charting tool.
* [[ToyTrader]] command line trading tool

===Mac OS X===
* [[BitTicker]] for Mac OS X
* [http://sneak.datavibe.net/20110613/mtgoxwatcher MtGox Watcher] for Mac OS X

===Mobile===
* [[BitcoinX]] mobile app with bid, ask and 24 hour history. For Android
* [[MtGox Live]] Bitcoin Trader with buy, sell, send, chart and depth for Android and iOS
* [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.veken0m.cavirtex Bitcoinium] for Android on Google Play

=== firefox addon ===
* [https://github.com/joric/mtgox-ticker] firefox ticker addon

===Linux===
* [http://www.goxsh.info goxsh] command line ticker / depth chart

==E-Commerce==

Online sellers can accept bitcoins for payment using the Mt. Gox's E-commerce Solution, which is an interface to the exchange's [[MtGox/API/HTTP/v1#Merchant_System|Merchant System API]].

==History==
The exchange went online on July 18, 2010.<ref>[http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=444.0 MtGox announcement on forum]</ref>

On October 10, 2010 the exchange switched from [[PayPal]] to Liberty Reserve as the main funding option as a result of this attack. Former PayPal customers still had the possibility to withdraw their USD using alternative methods.

On March 6th, 2011 ownership of the exchange changed hands<ref>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4187.0 Mtgox is changing owners]</ref>. Tibanne publishes their [http://legal.tibanne.com/docs/20110801_company_certificate.pdf company certificate] from the Japanese government.

On June 19, 2011 the service experienced a significant security breach<ref>[https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20224998-huge-bitcoin-sell-off-due-to-a-compromised-account-rollback Huge Bitcoin sell off due to a compromised account - rollback]</ref>. The incident caused a selloff down to BTC/USD of $0.01 due to fraudulent trading. The site was disabled and all trading following the point that fraudulent trading began was rolled back. Complicating this breach was the release of a list of the exchange's accounts including username, email address and a password hash, which forced the exchange to implement an account recovery method for customers to regain control of their accounts.

In July, 2011 it was observed that the exchange no longer allows new registrations to occur without having a valid e-mail address.

On July 19, 2011 a press release announced that MtGox had acquired [[MtGox Live]].<ref>[https://mtgox.com/press_release_20110719.html World's Leading Bitcoin Exchange, Mt.Gox, acquires MtGoxLive.com]</ref>

Announced on March 6, 2012 was the Merchant Solution and API<ref>[https://mtgox.com/press_release_20120306.html Mt.Gox launches the definitive bitcoin checkout solution]</ref>

==See Also==

* [[Buying bitcoins]]
* [[Selling bitcoins]]
* [[MtGox/API|API]]
* [[Bitcoin Ladder]]

==External Links==

* [https://mtgox.com MT. Gox exchange] website
* [https://mtgox.com/merch/about Mt. Gox Merchant Services]
* [https://mtgox.zendesk.com Customer Service Help Desk]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Exchanges]]
[[Category:eWallets]]
[[Category:Shopping Cart Interfaces]]
[[ru:MtGox]]

BIP 0033

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{{bip}}

<pre>
BIP: 33
Title: Stratized Nodes
Author: Amir Taaki <genjix@riseup.net>
Status: Draft
Type: Standards Track
Created: 15-05-2012
</pre>

== Abstract ==

As the Bitcoin network scales, roles are fast becoming specialised. In the beginning, a single Bitcoin user would perform the synonymous roles of miner, merchant and end-user. With the growth however of this system, these functions are being abstracted away to specialised services as a natural part of Bitcoin's growth.

Bitcoin's blockchain becomes more unwieldy for end users over time, negatively affecting the usability of Bitcoin clients. As it grows, it becomes ever more impractical to deal with on portable devices or low end machines. Several proposals have been put forward to deal with this such as lightweight (headers-only) clients and skipping validation for blocks before the last checkpoint. However these measures are at best stop-gap workarounds to stave off a growing problem.

This document will examine a proposal which will be termed ''stratized nodes'', a modification of an earlier concept termed ''blockchain service''.

== History ==

Jan Moller created BCCAPI in 2011. BCCAPI allowed a user's client to delegate blockchain interaction to a remote server. This server would store and manage the blockchain while the user client would run queries against that server.

ThomasV later created Electrum server. BCCAPI's server backend was proprietary, and Electrum required a full Free Software stack. Electrum's server was an adhoc temporary replacement. As it grew and became used, issues started to appear in its design.

Marek Palatinus (slush) drafted a new standard called Stratum to replace Electrum's server. Stratum has multiple transports and is usable as a blockchain server by merchants, miners and user-clients. Electrum moved to using a Stratum implementation first relying on ABE/bitcoind and more recently libbitcoin.

Stratum is unmaintained by Marek Palatinus, suffers from easy resource starvation and denial of service attacks, and is insecure. The proposal specified here is intended to replace the Stratum's role as a blockchain for user-clients. The proposal here is solely concerned with removing the onus of blockchain validation and lookups from user-clients to specialised services in a secure manner. Any secondary benefits or uses are purely incidental.

== Overview ==

During the initial handshake between Bitcoin nodes, a version packet is sent. version packets have a bitfield called services. Nodes can fill this field to tell the network how they behave and which services they support. NODE_NETWORK (1) means a node can be asked for full blocks for example.

We propose two more values of NODE_SERVICE (2) and NODE_STRATIZED (4).

=== NODE_SERVICE ===

* A blockchain service which supports the additional messages "getoutputs" and "getspends".
* Does not respond to "getdata" messages by itself (unless NODE_NETWORK is specified)
* If NODE_NETWORK is specified, then "getdata" for transactions will retrieve them not only from the memory pool but also check the blockchain if necessary.

=== NODE_STRATIZED ===

* A node which uses the stratized strategy specified in this document.
* NODE_STRATIZED will relay inventories for accepted transactions.
* Does not support "getblocks" as stratized nodes do not contain the entire blockchain.

Apart from the differences noted above, the nodes are otherwise unchanged in their behaviour from NODE_NETWORK.

== Specification ==

=== Initialisation ===

Four new messages are defined which are represented below in C-like pseudocode.

"getoutputs"
<pre>
struct decoded_address
{
uint8_t payment_type;
uint8_t address_hash[16];
};

struct get_outputs
{
decoded_address dest;
};
</pre>

"outputs"
<pre>
struct point_t
{
uint8_t hash[32];
uint32_t index;
};

struct outputs
{
decoded_address dest;
uint64_t number_outputs; // variable uint
point_t outpoints[];
};
</pre>

"getspend"
<pre>
struct get_spend
{
point_t outpoint;
};
</pre>

"spend"
<pre>
struct spend
{
point_t outpoint, inpoint;
};
</pre>

These four messages allow a node to discover the history of a Bitcoin address without needing direct access to the blockchain.

A typical use case might look like:
# Send "getoutputs" for a decoded Bitcoin address.
# Receive "outputs", and loop through each contained output point:
## Send "getdata" to download the transaction for that point.
## Send "getspend" for each output point.
# Receive "spend":
## Send "getdata" to download the transaction for that input point.

This sequence allows the gradual but fast build up of history for an address.

=== Updates ===

Nodes receive "inv" messages as normal from service nodes, issuing "getdata" to download the block or transaction data. From this they check for newly sent (in the input points) or received (in the output points) payments in the transaction data.

Note that blocks must at minimum have their merkle root validated and transactions must be checked for uniqueness by stratized nodes.

== Security ==

The concern here is that stratized nodes are at the mercy of blockchain services. This proposal deals with that issue by designing this protocol in such a way that the implementation can resolve the common history between multiple services.

A stratized node will typically connect to 8 blockchain services. It will only accept an output, spend or inventory vector that has been sent by a common subset of all those services (6 in our example). This spreads the risk between all services, and does not make a node vulnerable to any one rogue blockchain service.

== Privacy ==

The other strategy for thin clients termed ''headers-only'' or ''Simplified. Payment. Verification.'' have the same privacy issues as this proposal. SPV resolves this problem by sending out fake requests for transaction data which obfuscates the client data. By sending out a sufficient number of fake requests, privacy can be kept to a sufficient level.

== Rationale ==

NODE_SERVICE does not respond to "getdata" requests by itself (unless used in conjunction with NODE_NETWORK) to prevent starvation attacks. This allows a single trusted NODE_SERVICE architecture (possibly acting as a front-end to multiple backends) to service very many nodes while externalising the costs to the Bitcoin network.

NODE_STRATIZED tries its best to maintain the facade and help upkeep the Bitcoin network (see relaying), but cannot support "getblocks" as it does not have the entire blockchain.

== Backwards Compatibility ==

This proposal is an addon to the current Bitcoin network, and is completely backwards compatible.

Bitcoin Wiki:Community portal

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== Bitcoin Community Forums on various platforms ==

* [http://bitcointalk.org/ Bitcointalk]
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ /r/Bitcoin]
* [http://bitcoin.org.uk/forums Bitcoin Forums]
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ The Bitcoin StackExchange]
* [http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/ Bitcoin group on Quora]
* [http://bitcointrading.com Bitcoin Trading Forum]
* [http://tweetforum.com/bitcoin TweetForum Bitcoin Community]
* [http://www.bitcoin-board.com/ Bitcoin-Board Forum]
* [http://www.bitcoinforums.net BitcoinForums.Net]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/bitcoin-discussion Bitcoin google group]
* [http://goo.gl/2PncY Bitcoin Portal p2p (on Osiris platform)]
* [http://www.btclog.com btc::log]
* [http://www.facebook.com/bitcoins Facebook page]
* [http://www.facebook.com/groups/136003253120130 Facebook Group]
* [https://plus.google.com/107581642674912229828/ Bitcoin Google+]
* [http://www.bitcointribe.com Bitcoin Tribe Social Network]

===Regions / Languages===

* [https://www.bitcoin-italia.org Bitcoin Italia]
* [http://forum.bitcoin.com.au/ Bitcoin Australia Forum]
* [http://www.bitcoin.org.il Isreali Bitcoin community forum]
* [http://bitcoin.pl/forum/ Polish Bitcoin community forum]
* [http://btcsec.com/ BTCsec.com] Russian website about Bitcoin
* [https://forum.btcsec.com/ BTCsec.com Bitcoin community forum (Russian)]
* [http://rubitcoin.com/ Russian bitcoin community forum]

== Bitcoin Community Groups on Bitcoin Wiki platform ==

=== Special interests ===
* [[Bitcoin Wiki]]-group

=== Geographically ===
* [[Espagna]] / [[Spain]] (E.)
* [[France]] / [[France]] (F.)
* [[Germany]] / [[Deutschland]] (D.)
* [[Netherlands]] (NL) and [[Belgium]] (B.)
* [[United Kingdom]] of Great Brittain (GB) and Northern Ireland
* [[United States]] of America (USA)

====Clusters====
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:

* [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66832.0 Free State Project] New Hampshire
* [http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2012/05/bitcoins-hogwarts-san-francisco-tech.html 20 Mission] San Francisco, CA
* [http://bitcoinmagazine.net/bitcoin-kiez-rollout-3-new-btc-accepting-stores-and-restaurants-in-berlin-more-to-come Bitcoin Kiez] Berlin, Germany

== IRC Chat ==

* See [[IRC_channels|IRC channels]]

==Wiki Users==

* [http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Special:ListUsers List of Users] registered on the Bitcoin wiki.

== Events ==
Periodic events where Bitcoin community meets include PorcFest, Chaos Computer Camp, Burning Man, Bitcoin conferences and more.

* [[Meetups]]
* [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4526.0 Events, conferences and other events]

==Bitcoin Related Publications==

* [http://bitcoinmagazine.net Bitcoin Magazine] periodical printed publication
* [http://twitter.com/bitcoinnews/bitcoin @BitcoinNews/bitcoin] Twitter list
* [[Bitcoin Weekly]] weekly newspaper by [[User:Kiba|Kiba]]
* See [[:Category:Blogs|Blogs]] category
* See [[:Category:Directories|Directories]] category
* See [[Press]]

==Education==

* [[:Category:Educational|Educational category]]

== Maps ==
* [http://coinmap.org/ CoinMap], collaborative map based on OpenStreetMap data and rendering
* [[Bitcoin.local]] Local exchanges
* The [[Bitcoin Map (Collaborative map)|Bitcoin Map]] collaborative map
* [[Bitcoin Users Worldwide]] - Find nearby Bitcoin users • Engage in local trade • Add your own offers • Get notifications

== Monitoring ==
* [http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ Bitcoin Charts] displays an overview of Bitcoin exchange markets.
* The [http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ Bitcoin Monitor] visualizes transactions, new blocks and trades on markets as they are happening.
* [http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ Bitcoin Watch] has various statistics on things like the size of the economy or the number of transactions.

== Portfolio ==
* [http://my-btc.info MY-BTC.INFO] A free profit/loss portfolio manager for Bitcoins and other digital currencies.

== Bitcoin Project ==
* [http://www.bitcoin.org Bitcoin.org] Official project site
* [[:Category:Developer|Developer]] pages

== Non-profit Organizations ==

* [[Bitcoin Foundation]]
* [http://www.bitcoin-austria.at/ Bitcoin Austria]

== External Communities ==
* [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bitcoin Bitcoin Group on Steam] platform by Valve
* [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3413928 Bitcoin on SomethingAwful]
* [http://AnonCoin.org AnonCoin.org]
* [http://forum.guildminers.com/ Guildminers Forum]
* [http://www.Ogrr.com Ogrr]
* [http://www.coinconnect.org/ CoinConnect] bitcoin social network
* [http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu] Q&A Community

Bitcoin Wiki:Community portal

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== Bitcoin Community Forums on various platforms ==

* [http://bitcointalk.org/ Bitcointalk]
* [http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ /r/Bitcoin]
* [http://bitcoin.org.uk/forums Bitcoin Forums]
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ The Bitcoin StackExchange]
* [http://www.quora.com/Bitcoin/ Bitcoin group on Quora]
* [http://bitcointrading.com Bitcoin Trading Forum]
* [http://tweetforum.com/bitcoin TweetForum Bitcoin Community]
* [http://www.bitcoin-board.com/ Bitcoin-Board Forum]
* [http://www.bitcoinforums.net BitcoinForums.Net]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/bitcoin-discussion Bitcoin google group]
* [http://goo.gl/2PncY Bitcoin Portal p2p (on Osiris platform)]
* [http://www.btclog.com btc::log]
* [http://www.facebook.com/bitcoins Facebook page]
* [http://www.facebook.com/groups/136003253120130 Facebook Group]
* [https://plus.google.com/107581642674912229828/ Bitcoin Google+]
* [http://www.bitcointribe.com Bitcoin Tribe Social Network]

===Regions / Languages===

* [https://www.bitcoin-italia.org Bitcoin Italia]
* [http://forum.bitcoin.com.au/ Bitcoin Australia Forum]
* [http://www.bitcoin.org.il Isreali Bitcoin community forum]
* [http://bitcoin.pl/forum/ Polish Bitcoin community forum]
* [http://btcsec.com/ BTCsec.com] Russian website about Bitcoin
* [https://forum.btcsec.com/ BTCsec.com Bitcoin community forum (Russian)]
* [http://rubitcoin.com/ Russian bitcoin community forum]

== Bitcoin Community Groups on Bitcoin Wiki platform ==

=== Special interests ===
* [[Bitcoin Wiki]]-group

=== Geographically ===
* [[Espagna]] / [[Spain]] (E.)
* [[France]] / [[France]] (F.)
* [[Germany]] / [[Deutschland]] (D.)
* [[Netherlands]] (NL) and [[Belgium]] (B.)
* [[United Kingdom]] of Great Brittain (GB) and Northern Ireland
* [[United States]] of America (USA)

====Clusters====
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:

* [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=66832.0 Free State Project] New Hampshire
* [http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2012/05/bitcoins-hogwarts-san-francisco-tech.html 20 Mission] San Francisco, CA
* [http://bitcoinmagazine.net/bitcoin-kiez-rollout-3-new-btc-accepting-stores-and-restaurants-in-berlin-more-to-come Bitcoin Kiez] Berlin, Germany

== IRC Chat ==

* See [[IRC_channels|IRC channels]]

==Wiki Users==

* [http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Special:ListUsers List of Users] registered on the Bitcoin wiki.

== Events ==
Periodic events where Bitcoin community meets include PorcFest, Chaos Computer Camp, Burning Man, Bitcoin conferences and more.

* [[Meetups]]
* [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4526.0 Events, conferences and other events]

==Bitcoin Related Publications==

* [http://bitcoinmagazine.net Bitcoin Magazine] periodical printed publication
* [http://twitter.com/bitcoinnews/bitcoin @BitcoinNews/bitcoin] Twitter list
* [[Bitcoin Weekly]] weekly newspaper by [[User:Kiba|Kiba]]
* See [[:Category:Blogs|Blogs]] category
* See [[:Category:Directories|Directories]] category
* See [[Press]]

==Education==

* [[:Category:Educational|Educational category]]

== Maps ==
* [[http://coinmap.org/ CoinMap]]
* [[Bitcoin.local]] Local exchanges
* The [[Bitcoin Map (Collaborative map)|Bitcoin Map]] collaborative map
* [[Bitcoin Users Worldwide]] - Find nearby Bitcoin users • Engage in local trade • Add your own offers • Get notifications

== Monitoring ==
* [http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ Bitcoin Charts] displays an overview of Bitcoin exchange markets.
* The [http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ Bitcoin Monitor] visualizes transactions, new blocks and trades on markets as they are happening.
* [http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ Bitcoin Watch] has various statistics on things like the size of the economy or the number of transactions.

== Portfolio ==
* [http://my-btc.info MY-BTC.INFO] A free profit/loss portfolio manager for Bitcoins and other digital currencies.

== Bitcoin Project ==
* [http://www.bitcoin.org Bitcoin.org] Official project site
* [[:Category:Developer|Developer]] pages

== Non-profit Organizations ==

* [[Bitcoin Foundation]]
* [http://www.bitcoin-austria.at/ Bitcoin Austria]

== External Communities ==
* [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bitcoin Bitcoin Group on Steam] platform by Valve
* [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3413928 Bitcoin on SomethingAwful]
* [http://AnonCoin.org AnonCoin.org]
* [http://forum.guildminers.com/ Guildminers Forum]
* [http://www.Ogrr.com Ogrr]
* [http://www.coinconnect.org/ CoinConnect] bitcoin social network
* [http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu] Q&A Community

User talk:MagicalTux

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Hey MagicalTux, The WikiBot is not following the post-February 20th protocol change and the Fallback nodes page is not functioning. [[User:Atheros|Atheros]] 07:37, 20 February 2012 (GMT)

Wikibot currently malfunctioning, makring all the nodes as down when they arn't.
There is a steady trickle of spammers adding junk pages. How about granting delete and ban privileges to some established editors, it works for some other wiki's. [[User:Ziv|Ziv]] 14 April 2012

== BitcoinPayment ==
Hi MagicalTux. I have a problem with the new BitcoinPayment system. I've decided to contact you through your talk page because nobody seems to be available in the #bitcoin-wiki chatroom. Last week Nanotube read my questions and I think he asked you to have a look at this issue but I don't know if you got the chance to read that. Basically, the problem is that I made the payment to become a trusted member and now I find that the non-English wikis are off-limits to me. It seems as if not even trusted members can edit them. This is a bit frustrating since my activity was in the Spanish wiki, where I have translated some of the technical articles. I'd like to continue enlarging the Spanish wiki, but it seems to be impossible for anyone to edit the articles at the moment. Could you have a look at this? [[User:Nubarius|Nubarius]] ([[User talk:Nubarius|talk]]) 20:47, 31 January 2013 (GMT)

== project:todo ==

Hi! I have some ideas for improving this wiki. See [[project:todo]]. I hope you like it. [[User:Guaka|Guaka]] ([[User talk:Guaka|talk]]) 12:27, 14 July 2013 (GMT)

== CoinMap ==
Hi,
could you look at [[Talk:Real_world_shops#Please_use_CoinMap|this discussion]], please?

Thank you!--[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 11:35, 16 July 2013 (GMT)

Bitcoin Wiki:Todo

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{{project}}

Some things '''to do''' on this wiki:

* create a community talk page, e.g. [[Bitcoin talk:Community_portal]]
* add links to [[Special:DeadendPages]]
* set up a pywikipediabot for:
** linking between wikis in different languages
** fixing [[Special:DoubleRedirects]]
* category tree
* geographic categorization?
* replace the current buggy map in [[Real world shops]] with [http://coinmap.org/ CoinMap]

Bitnavigator

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Bitcoin Navigator is a Google Maps-based visual directory of physical locations which accept and deal with Bitcoins.

The creators of Bitcoin Navigator felt that as the number of physical places that accept Bitcoins has grown, other locator services have listed bitcoin users side by side with stores and locations which has made the maps cluttered and difficult to navigate. With the lead up to the Bitcoin conference in New York City, they thought it would be a good idea to create a site with the sole purpose of listing local businesses that accept bitcoin.

Visitors can inform the site operators of new bitcoin-accepting spots for inclusion into the directory via a contact form on the site.

==External Links==

* [http://www.bitnavigator.info Bitnavigator.info] web site. Currently (July 12 2013) the web site doesn't work (403 Forbidden).

[[Category:Local]]
[[Category:Directories]]

Talk:Real world shops

2013-07-08T15:57:47Z

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note: the parser does not always include all markers. 
use action=purge if necessary: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Real_world_shops?action=purge

== Cyberspace is not imaginary ==

Maybe the term "real world" should be replaced by "physical world"? The fact that bitcoin is a virtual currency doesn't make it any less real....

== https for the google map ==

When I load the page in chrome it says that the map cannot be loaded, however it loads up just fine after allowing insecure content through (albeit causing the green https to go red and have a nasty red line through it)

== Please use CoinMap ==

Hi,
please use [http://coinmap.org/#zoom=4&lat=42.39&lon=3.25&layer=OpenStreetMap CoinMap] instead of the current map.--[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 16:33, 1 July 2013 (GMT)
:I added a note for every entry with geographical coordinates. Example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?note=11792 --[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 11:06, 6 July 2013 (GMT)
::I manually added also a note for every entry without geographical coordinates; example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?note=12189
::I think the current buggy map should be replaced by CoinMap right now. Thank you!--[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 12:13, 8 July 2013 (GMT)

Talk:Real world shops

2013-07-08T12:20:09Z

Stemby: /* Please use CoinMap */ please replace the current map

note: the parser does not always include all markers. 
use action=purge if necessary: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Real_world_shops?action=purge

== Cyberspace is not imaginary ==

Maybe the term "real world" should be replaced by "physical world"? The fact that bitcoin is a virtual currency doesn't make it any less real....

== https for the google map ==

When I load the page in chrome it says that the map cannot be loaded, however it loads up just fine after allowing insecure content through (albeit causing the green https to go red and have a nasty red line through it)

== Please use CoinMap ==

Hi,
please use [http://coinmap.org/#zoom=4&lat=42.39&lon=3.25&layer=OpenStreetMap CoinMap] instead of the current map.--[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 16:33, 1 July 2013 (GMT)
:I added a note for every entry with geographical coordinates. Example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?note=11792 --[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 11:06, 6 July 2013 (GMT)
::I manually added also a note for every entry without geographical coordinates; example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?note=12189
::I think the current buggy map should be replaced by CoinMap now. Thank you!--[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 12:13, 8 July 2013 (GMT)

User talk:ThomasV

2013-07-08T12:16:57Z

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== CoinMap ==
Hi,
I saw that you created [[Real_world_shops|this page]].

Could you look at [[Talk:Real_world_shops#Please_use_CoinMap|this discussion]], please?

Thank you!--[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 12:16, 8 July 2013 (GMT)

Talk:Real world shops

2013-07-08T12:13:56Z

Stemby: /* Please use CoinMap */ added other notes on OSM

note: the parser does not always include all markers. 
use action=purge if necessary: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Real_world_shops?action=purge

== Cyberspace is not imaginary ==

Maybe the term "real world" should be replaced by "physical world"? The fact that bitcoin is a virtual currency doesn't make it any less real....

== https for the google map ==

When I load the page in chrome it says that the map cannot be loaded, however it loads up just fine after allowing insecure content through (albeit causing the green https to go red and have a nasty red line through it)

== Please use CoinMap ==

Hi,
please use [http://coinmap.org/#zoom=4&lat=42.39&lon=3.25&layer=OpenStreetMap CoinMap] instead of the current map.--[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 16:33, 1 July 2013 (GMT)
:I added a note for every entry with geographical coordinates. Example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?note=11792 --[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 11:06, 6 July 2013 (GMT)
::I manually added also a note for every entry without geographical coordinates, Example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?note=12189 --[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] ([[User talk:Stemby|talk]]) 12:13, 8 July 2013 (GMT)

Talk:Real world shops

2013-07-06T11:06:32Z

Stemby: /* Please use CoinMap */ added notes on OSM

Talk:Real world shops

2013-07-01T16:33:08Z

Stemby: /* Please use CoinMap */ new section

Software

2012-12-18T03:23:40Z

Stemby: /* Bitcoin clients */ adding 2 web interfaces

List of Bitcoin-related software. See also [[:Category:Software|Category:Software]].

Be sure to keep on top of the latest [[CVEs|security vulnerabilities]]!

==Bitcoin clients==
===Bitcoin clients===
*[[Bitcoin-Qt]] - C++/Qt based tabbed UI for Bitcoin, Linux/MacOSX/Windows, full-featured
*[[bitcoind]] - GUI-less version of the standard Bitcoin client, providing [[API reference (JSON-RPC)|JSON-RPC]] interface
*[[Bitcoin-js-remote]] - JavaScript RPC client, support for QR codes
*[https://github.com/TheSeven/Bitcoin-WebUI Bitcoin WebUI] - JavaScript RPC client
*[https://github.com/zamgo/bitcoin-webskin Bitcoin Webskin] - PHP web interface to bitcoind and namecoind
* [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50721.0 subvertx] - Command line bitcoin tools
*[[Electrum]] - A blazing fast, open-source, multi-OS Bitcoin client/wallet with a very active community
*[[MultiBit]] - a secure, lightweight, international Bitcoin wallet for Windows, MacOS and Linux
*[[Bitcoiner]] - Java RPC client (Android)
*[[Spesmilo]] - Python/PySide RPC client (abandoned)
*[[Armory]] - Python-based client currently an alpha-level release, the beta version is being crowdfunded

====Frontends to eWallet====
*[[BitPay]] - Android application
*[https://blockchain.info/wallet Blockchain] - Javascript bitcoin client with client side encryption.

====Experimental====
*[[Freecoin]] - C++ client, supports alternative currencies like [[Beertoken]]
*[[BitDroid]] - Java client
*[[Bitdollar]] - C++/Qt client, unstable beta version

===Libraries===
*[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=30646.0 libbitcoin]
*[[BitCoinJ]] - Java client library, early development stage but used in live projects already
*[[BCCAPI]] (Bitcoin Client API) - a java library designed for making secure light-weight bitcoin clients.

==Bitcoin Trade Data==
*[[Bitcoin Charts]] – Prices, volume, and extensive charting on virtually all Bitcoin markets.
*[[MtGox Live]] - An innovative chart showing a live feed of [[MtGox]] trades and market depth. (Must Use Chrome)
*[http://btccharts.com BTCCharts] - An innovative chart showing a live feed of multiple markets, currencies and timeframes.
*[http://BitcoinExchangeRate.org BitcoinExchangeRate.org] - Bitcoin and USD converter with convenient URL scheme and Auto-updating Portfolio Spreadsheet.
*[[Bitcoin Sentiment Index]] - A financial index that collects and disseminates sentiment data about bitcoin.
*[[Preev]] - Bitcoin converter with live exchange rates.

==Bitcoin software==

===Web interfaces for merchants===
*[[Bitcoin Evolution]] - Non wallet-based Buy Now button to insert into websites (handles sales tracking; client must be used for actual transaction)
*[[BitPay]] - Buy Now buttons, Checkout posts/callbacks, Mobile Checkout, JSON API
*[[Btceconomy]] - a JavaScript widget listing items for sale
*[[Javascript Bitcoin Converter]] - currency conversion
*[[WalletBit]] - Easy JavaScript Buy Now buttons, Instant Payment Notification, Application Programming Interface (JSON API), Mobile Checkout, QR-Code
*[[BitUtils Merchant]] - Customizable Buy Now buttons with hosted checkout interface. No programming skills required to set up.

===Shopping Cart Integration in eCommerce-Systems===
*[[Zen Cart Bitcoin Payment Module]] - a payment module that interacts with bitcoind for the Zen Cart eCommerce shopping chart.
*[[Karsha Shopping Cart Interface]] - is a mobile payment-interface which enables its users to accept payments.
*[[Bitcoin-Cash]] - an easy to use payment module for xt:Commerce
*[[BitPay]] - bitcoin plugins for Magento, Opencart, Zencart, PHP, JSON API
*[[WalletBit]] - Plugins for PrestaShop, OpenCart, PHP, JSON API
*[[OpenCart Bitcoin]] - An OpenCart payment module that communicates with a bitcoin client using JSON RPC.
*[[OsCommerce_Bitcoin_Payment_Module|OsCommerce Bitcoin Payment Module]] - a payment module that uses a python monitoring script to interact with bitcoind for OsCommerce
* [http://drupal.org/project/uc_bitcoin Drupal Ubercart Bitcoin payment method] enables you to accept Bitcoin as payment for your Drupal/Ubercart enabled website product/services.

===Web apps (opensource)===
*[[Bitcoin Central]] - currency exchange
*[[Bitcoin Poker Room]] - poker site
*[[Abe]] - block chain viewer
*[[Simplecoin]] - PHP web frontend for a pool
*[[bitcoin_simple_php_tools]] simple php tools for webmasters

===Browser extensions===
*[[Bitcoin Extension]] - check balance and send bitcoins (Chrome)
*[[Bitcoin Prices (extension)]] - monitoring price (Firefox)
*[[Bitcoin Ticker]] - monitoring price (Chrome)
*[[Biticker]] - Bitcoin ticker, currency converter and history price graph (Chrome)

===PC apps===
*[[http://www.mybtc-trader.com MyBTC-Trader.com]] - a MtGox Bitcoin trading client for windows with GUI
*[[Mining Explorer]] - monitoring tool for bitcoin mining
*[[Bitcoin SMS Alert]] - sends SMS text alerts to a user's phone based on BTC price / percent thresholds.
*[[BTConvert]] - currency conversion
*[[Sierra Chart MtGox Bridge]] - real-time charting
*[[BitTicker]] - monitoring price (Mac OS X)
*[[ToyTrader]] - a command line trading tool for [[MtGox]]
*[[goxsh]] - a command-line frontend to the [[MtGox|Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchange]] (Python)
*[[MyBitcoins gadget]] - monitoring pool earnings / price (Windows gadget)
*[[Bitcoin QR Popup]] - streamlined interface to bitcoin for POS systems (Windows)
*[http://gnome-help.org/content/show.php/Bitcoin+Rate?content=138572 Bitcoin Rate] - Desktop widget with BTC exchange rate (KDE)
*[http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=142344 Bitcoin Monitor] - Desktop widget to monitor status of your Bitcoin miners on mining pools (KDE)

===Mobile apps===
==== iPhone / iPad ====
*[https://blockchain.info/wallet/iphone-app Blockchain] - Fully featured iphone bitcoin app.
*[[Bitcoin Ticker (iPhone)]] - monitoring price w/push notifications
*[[BitCoins Mobile]] - First iPad native app! Live market data, news feeds, mining pool statistics, full screen exchange price charts, bitcoin network statistical charts. (iPad only, iPhone/iPod Touch coming soon!)
*[https://github.com/teeman/BitcoinTrader BitcoinTrader] - Spend/receive BTC via QR codes, trade, deposit/withdraw, etc. Supports Mt. Gox, TradeHill, ExchB, CampBX, and InstaWallet.
*[[Bit-pay]] - Mobile Checkout, set prices in any currency and receive mobile-to-mobile payment
*[[Easywallet.org]] - Web based wallet, works with QR Code scanner on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch

==== Android ====
* Direct link to Android Market bitcoin apps. https://play.google.com/store/search?q=bitcoin
*[[BitCare]] - Track bitcoin wallet balance, trade on Mt.Gox, monitor mining pool hashrate, balance, worker status.
*[[BtcMobile]] - monitoring price and mining pool statistics (iPhone/iPad, Android)
*[[Bitcoin Alert]] - monitoring price (Android)
*[[Bitcoin-android]] - Does not appear to be being maitained anymore. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bitcoinandroid
*[[Bitcoin Wallet Balance]] - view your balance in real time on your android phone
*[[Bitcoin Wallet for Android]] - This is the most functional android bitcoin wallet application. https://market.android.com/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet
*[[BitcoinSpinner]] - Single address, easy to use, lightweight and open source client. Keys stored on device.
*[[BitcoinX]] - monitoring price (Android)
*[[BitPay]] - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bitcoin.bitpay (Is not related to the bit-pay.com online payment processor.)
*[https://blockchain.info/wallet/android-app Blockchain] - Lightweight Android Bitcoin Client - Also works with blockchain.info web interface and iphone app.
*[[BtcMobile]] - monitoring price and mining pool statistics (iPhone/iPad, Android)
*[[Easywallet.org]] - Web based wallet, works with QR Code scanner on Android devices
*[[Miner Status]] - monitoring miner status (Android)
*[[SMS Bitcoins]] - transactions by SMS

==== Windows Phone 7 ====
*Direct link to Windows Phone Marketplace Bitcoin apps: [http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/search?q=bitcoin]

see also [[Bitcoin Payment Apps]]

===Operating systems===
*[[BAMT]]
*[[LinuxCoin]] - a lightweight Debian-based OS, with the Bitcoin client and GPU mining software

===Mining apps===
*[[50Miner]] - A GUI frontend for Windows(Poclbm, Phoenix, DiabloMiner)
*[[BFGMiner]] - Modular FPGA/GPU miner in C
*[[BTCMiner]] - Bitcoin Miner for ZTEX FPGA Boards
*[[Bit Moose]] - Run Miners as a Windows Service.
*[[Poclbm]] - Python/OpenCL GPU miner ([[Poclbm-gui|GUI(Windows & MacOS X)]])
*[[Poclbm-mod]] - more efficient version of [[Poclbm]] ([[Poclbm-mod-gui|GUI]])
*[[DiabloMiner]] - Java/OpenCL GPU miner ([[DiabloMiner.app|MAC OS X GUI]])
*[[RPC Miner]] - remote RPC miner ([[RPCminer.app|MAC OS X GUI]])
*[[Phoenix miner]] - miner
*[[Cpu Miner]] - miner
*[[Ufasoft miner]] - miner
*[[Pyminer]] - Python miner, reference implementation
*[[Remote miner]] - mining pool software
*[[Open Source FGPA Bitcoin Miner]] - a miner that makes use of an FPGA Board
*[https://github.com/mkburza/Flash-Player-Bitcoin-Miner Flash Player Bitcoin Miner] - A proof of concept Adobe Flash Player miner

===Mining Pool Servers (backend)===
Main page: [[Poolservers]]

*[[ecoinpool]] - Erlang poolserver
*[[Eloipool]] - Fast Python3 poolserver
*[[Pushpoold]] - Old mining poolserver in C (not maintained)
*[[Poold]] - Old Python mining poolserver (not maintained)
*[[PoolServerJ]] - Java mining poolserver (not maintained)

===Utilities, libraries, and interfaces:===
*[[BitcoinCrypto]] - a lightweight Bitcoin crypto library for Java/Android
*[[Bitcoin Dissector]] - a wireshark dissector for the bitcoin protocol
*[[Bitcointools]] - a set of Python tools accessing the transaction database and the wallet
*[[Finance::MtGox]] - a Perl module which interfaces with the Mt. Gox API
*[[libblkmaker]] - C library implementation of [[getblocktemplate]] decentralized mining protocol
*[[python-blkmaker]] - Python module implementation of [[getblocktemplate]] decentralized mining protocol

===Lists of software===
*[[BitGit]] - list of Bitcoin-related opensource projects hosted at Git

===Developer resources===
*[[:Category:Developer|Category:Developer]]
*[[:Category:Technical|Category:Technical]]
*[[Original Bitcoin client/API calls list]]
*[[API reference (JSON-RPC)]]
*[[PHP_developer_intro|PHP Developer Introduction]]

===Other===
*[[Namecoin]] - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin technology
*[[Bitcoin Consultancy]] - an organization providing open source software and Bitcoin-related consulting
*[[Open Transactions]] - a financial crypto and digital cash software library, complementary to Bitcoin
*[[Moneychanger]] - Java-based GUI for [[Open Transactions]]
*[http://btcnames.org/ BTCnames] - a webbased aliasing service which allows to handle unlimited names for your BTC deposit hashes
*[[Devcoin]] - the open source developer coin

Talk:BIP 0010

2012-02-17T02:36:51Z

Stemby: signature

== Typo ==
There is a little typo:
multi-signature transcations → multi-signature transactions
Bye --[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] 02:36, 17 February 2012 (GMT)

Talk:BIP 0010

2012-02-17T02:35:59Z

Stemby: Created page with "== Typo == There is a little typo: multi-signature transcations → multi-signature transactions"

== Typo ==
There is a little typo:
multi-signature transcations → multi-signature transactions

BIP 16

2012-02-04T09:49:52Z

Stemby: Redirected page to BIP 0016

#REDIRECT[[BIP 0016]]

Bitcoin-python

2011-06-07T23:02:27Z

Stemby: bitcoin-python

Friendly bitcoin API binding for Python.

bitcoin-python is a set of Python libraries that allows easy access to the bitcoin peer-to-peer cryptocurrency client API.

This software is Open Source.

==Documentation==
Documentation can be found here, or in the source archive. It is built using Sphinx:

http://toomanysecrets0.github.com/bitcoin-python/doc/

==See Also==
* [[Original Bitcoin client]]

==External Links==
* [https://github.com/toomanysecrets0/bitcoin-python bitcoin-python] project

[[Category:Open Source]]
[[Category:Clients]]

Talk:Python Bitcoin

2011-06-07T22:57:33Z

Stemby: signature

The link (gitorious) is broken.

Here is a very similar project: https://github.com/toomanysecrets0/bitcoin-python
--[[User:Stemby|Stemby]] 22:57, 7 June 2011 (GMT)

Talk:Python Bitcoin

2011-06-07T22:56:56Z

Stemby: bitcoin-python

The link (gitorious) is broken.

Here is a very similar project: https://github.com/toomanysecrets0/bitcoin-python

IRC channels

2011-06-06T12:15:50Z

Stemby: /* Local communities */ + Italian community

The following Bitcoin-related IRC channels are available on [http://www.freenode.net Freenode]:

==Bitcoin Project==
{| class="wikitable"
! Channel !! Description
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin}} || General Bitcoin-related discussion.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-otc|text=[[bitcoin-otc|#bitcoin-otc]]}} || Over-the-counter trading marketplace and discussion.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-otc-ticker|bitcoin-otc-ticker}} || Streaming market data form the [[#bitcoin-otc]] order book.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-pit}} || Only over-the-counter trading.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-auction}} || Live auctions over IRC.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-market}} || Streaming market data (only), no chat.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-watch|text=[[Bitcoin-Watch|#bitcoin-watch]]}} || Streaming Bitcoin transactions, including market data.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-dev}} || Bitcoin software development.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-mining}} || Discussion and support related to mining.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-politics}} || Discuss politics with other Bitcoin users.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bc-news}} || RSS News related to Bitcoin.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-marketing}} || Marketing and promotion of bitcoin
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-gentoo}} || Gentoo community.
|}

===Local communities===

{| class="wikitable"
! Channel !! Description
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-otc-eu}} || European OTC trading marketplace.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-otc-ru}} || Russian OTC trading marketplace.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-aus}} || Aussie bitcoin community.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-br}} || Brazilian bitcoin community.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-cad}} || Canadian bitcoin community.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-cn}} || Chinese bitcoin community.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-de}} || German bitcoin community.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-dk}} || Danish bitcoin community.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-nederland}} || Dutch bitcoin community.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-es}} || Spanish-speaking bitcoin community.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-fr}} || French bitcoin community.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|bitcoin-it}} || Italian bitcoin community.
|}

==Related Communities==

{| class="wikitable"
! Channel !! Description
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|eligius}} || [[Eligius]] pool community
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|namecoin}} || [[Namecoin]] and the [[Dot-bit]] project.
|-
| {{Freenode IRC|witcoin}} || [[Witcoin]] social news and user generated content.
|-
| [irc://irc.foonetic.net/xkcd-bitcoin IRC] #xkcd-bitcoin || [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/XKCD_Pool XKCD Pool]
|-
| [irc://irc.quakenet.org/bitcoins.lc IRC] #bitcoins.lc @ Quakenet || [http://www.bitcoins.lc Bitcoins.lc Pool]
|}