They're charts of the bid and ask depth. Taking a single cross-section, and plotting it as a regular graph, you have something that looks like this:

(but with different colours)

On the x-axis is the price, the order-volume is on the y-axis. The bids are on the left, the asks on the right. A steep slope in for example the bid-section means that it'll take a lot of coins sold to decrease the price. Similarly on the ask-side, where a steep or vertical slope indicates a resistance to a price increase by buyers.

These types of graphs give an impression of the market sentiment beyond what the price tells you. A high volume on the bid side, means that the price is unlikely to decrease a lot for example.

The graphs that ChartBuddy posts are the same type of graph, but then many snapshots combined into a single chart, allowing you to see both the development of the price (where the red and green curves meet is where the price is at) over the last hour as well as the development of the depth. Whether there were any walls created or removed, etc...

Keep it crypto, dude. Type out your predictions, hash the message and post the hash here.

In the meantime, BTCChina broke it's pre-correction high of 1334 CNY.

Well, Stamp deals in USD, Gox deals in GoxBux which you may or may not be able to convert into USD within 2 months.

Gox briefly visiting $320 again before dropping to more reasonable values.

Easy.

Yeah, screw this terrible investment if we can't even do 10% on a daily basis!

Unlike western financial institutions, they probably figured out that the automated electronic services that process all wire transfers don't have to stop to rest on weekends.

Tomorrow the banks decide that their automated electronic wiring systems have had enough rest over the weekend and will start to move fiat around again, new fiat will hit exchanges and folks will get cheaper entry-points.

Unless a crash happens on a weekday, I'm not convinced.

Not being able to exchange Bitcoins for GoxBux. Goxed.

My wife says "perhaps we should invest more in Bitcoin".

Me likes.

People go to banks to make wire transfers? Somewhere the memo that the 20th century is over didn't arrive or something?

Wow... that's just... wow.

In the Netherlands people are more and more incentivized to bank online, since it allows the bank to reduce the number of brick-and-mortar locations and personnel they have to maintain.

Gox is running away from Stamp and China at the moment, pushing ATHs while Stamp/China are still a bit below their ATH from earlier. Will Gox correct down or will it pull Stamp/China up?

Bitfinex more than $10 above BitStamp... Bitfinex ran out of USD on Stamp again, so we should see Stamp shoot up when the funds from Bitfinex clear tomorrow.

Add a paper with instructions to the paper wallet.

3700 breached on BTCChina. Meanwhile Stamp is still idling in the low 500s waiting for new fiat.

I'm guessing Stamp hasn't processed the wiretransfers from before the weekend yet and people have run out of USD to buy there. I know that Bitfinex doesnt have funds on Stamp anymore (BFX users can also trade on Stamp, but can only buy on Stamp when BFX has USD there, which they don't at the moment).

I'm expecting Stamp to pull back up in a few hours when the fiat lands there.

Belay that, carry on.

Satoshi = Al Gore confirmed.

Look at the guy that made those claims (haigtst) and his previous posts. He does nothing but spam nonsense (in this thread too).

While I can't rule out that he might be correct (if you throw shit at the wall long enough, eventually some of it will stick), I don't take anything he spams seriously and I'd recommend, for your sanity, that you do the same.

Yay, first time I see a bitcoinity gif as it happens ! Celebrate!

AFAIK withdrawals are not free on BTCChina. Either way, there are plenty of reasons for 0% fees, at least for now. BTC hasn't had much attention yet in China and if BTCChina can establish itself as the standard exchange that everyone uses and effectively get a monopoly, then they're free to raise their fees in the future when they've crushed the competition. Trying to corner the market by offering services or products below cost-price is a normal business strategy.

Nice panic-crash today. I have more BTC and more € than when I woke up this morning.

It's too bad that I can't move my € around between exchanges fast enough

USD deposits are working fine on Stamp, just had my SEPA deposit from yesterday credited, exactly the same <= 1day delay as always.

It appears it's an issue localized to bitcoin-transactions.

You've crossed a dimensional portal into an alternate dimension. In this dimension, Gox fiat withdrawals take only 2 days.

All aboard, the choo choo express is departing!

Bitstamp SEPA deposits typically land somehwere between 12:00 and 15:00 CET, so in 2-5 hours.

Or nice and early like today at 10:20.

Choo choo! All aboard!

Pfff. This is clearly a camel-pattern in formation. You can see the 2 lumps already and the current rise is forming the neck and head.

Can you back that claim up with a chart? Preferably with lines added manually.

Time to investigate the difference between november and december!

Chart astrology.

OMG IT'S ALIVE!

"Drink real beer, pay with virtual money."

Too bad that what Heineken makes can't really be called beer ^^

I'm Dutch.

Heineken is terrible. Belgian beer is typically superior to Dutch beer (though some nice Dutch beers exist).

796 is located in Hong Kong, which still has a great deal of autonomy.

In times like these, I channel my inner Lord of the Rings geek and let Aragorn inspire courage:

By being very, very patient. Either waiting for a withdrawal to clear or for one of the rare moments where Gox and Stamp are more or less equal for a little while and quickly hopping over.

BTCChina (and other Chinese exchanges) stopped accepting CNY deposits.

What? You're not predicting single digits anymore? That's super-bullish IMO.

The only thing communist about China these days is the name of the ruling party.

Don't mistake a totalitarian regime for the socio-economic policies of communism, even though these two went hand-in-hand for much of history.

There's a lot of rampant capitalism in China.

Seconded. Kraken is great, advanced features and fast deposits/withdrawals. Only downsides right now is that the volume is quite low and their support is a bit overwhelmed due to new users surging in.

Market depth: Currently bad, but improving steadily. If you're looking at trades of more than a couple of coins at a time, Kraken is not yet ready for you. BTC/EUR is currently their highest volume market.

Banking network & fiat withdrawals: I can only speak for the EUR side of things, but withdrawals only take 1 business day and cost a whopping 9 cents (that's almost as low as Bitcoin tx fees ).

+ Works fine.
+ Most advanced feature set at the moment (though margin-trading not enabled yet).
+ BTC & EUR move fluidly in and out with low fees (no experience with USD).
+ Low fees. 0.2% on trades, which decreases with 30d volume. Default Bitcoin tx fee, 0.09 EUR SEPA withdrawal fee.

- BTC/EUR volume is rather low, but increasing.
- BTC/USD volume is even lower.

Price went up for a decent part thanks to the Chinese pushing it. Then China banned fiat deposits to exchanges, after first giving more ambiguous statements and the price went down.

US hearings helped, but there were several factors that contributed to the rise. The drop was primarily caused by a combination of the Chinese gov't restricting Bitcoin access considerably and the normal correction after a sharp rise. No idea what the "btce issue" is, but it didn't play a role.

Cash no, Bitcoin yes. Gox screwed up again during one of the crashes, going on a loop where it would replay the last few minutes of trades over and over. Even more now wonder why people still trade there.

Choo?

A relic of a time long gone.

Gox is noticably falling behind Stamp on volume in this rally.

300 BTC, 1300 BTC, 200 BTC market buys directly after eachother on Gox.

Who let the Germans out of their corner of the forum?

Mine hasn't arrived yet. Typically wires arrive between 12:00 and 16:00 CET (it's 10:50 CET right now). Though I've had it as early as 10:00 and as late as 21:00.

You typically add whatever lines make the story work

Anyway, the ratio between two consecutive Fibonacci-numbers approaches phi as you traverse the Fibonacci-sequence.

Willy is the name used in this thread for the bot that has been buying bunches of Bitcoin periodically on Gox for the last few weeks or so. It's assumed to be the main reason why the Gox/Stamp difference has grown so much.

Another 500 btc buy on Gox.

There are 10 kinds of people... those who understand ternary, those who think confuse it for binary and those who don't understand it at all.

For the MACDs or for your girlfriend?

Big buys on Stamp, 500 coins scooped up.

And someone just bought 130 programmable moneys on Bitstamp. Good stuff! CCMF and such.

"That sounds like a terrible idea"

Stick it to the man, go!

*goes to claim CryptoCurrencyExpress domainnames*

Gotta love the annual yield estimates of those sites. Especially for deprecating assets like those derivatives.

They're good fun though, making a some coin with B.SELL is easier than taking candy from a baby thanks to the hordes of sheep buying anything that is related to mining at silly prices.

It's just that normal for Gox means 'not at all'.

Missed that point by just a few seconds with my $540 order

Bitfinex lost their link with Bitstamp due to insufficient funds in the BFX account on Stamp. So all liquidations were executed on the much shallower Bitfinex orderbook which caused other long positions to be liquidated as things started to snowball.

Gox blames Bitcoin for its problems. People panic thinking Bitcoin is broken. Price plummets. People realize Gox is full of shit and trying to shift the blame. Price recovers.

Bitstamp temporarily suspends BTC withdrawals due to ongoing transaction malleability ddos attack:
https://www.bitstamp.net/article/bitcoin-withdraws-suspended/

MtGox could learn a lesson or two about how to do a press release from Stamp.

Continued uncertainty regarding the transaction malleability issue.

On the 1d chart ^^

Another 900 dumped on Gox.

Bitstamp to resume withdrawals later today:

2 moons and 1 mars.

He paid for membership, not for the board seat.

Confirming that Bitstamp withdrawals work. I just had a small test-withdrawal hit the blockchain (in this tx: https://blockchain.info/nl/tx/63ba1435848137853d71bdd88329a243c7017c62d7fd84417570fea44a0c7f98).

Check the date for that Pastebin, it was posted saturday.

Check their previous update, they said a new update would come on monday.

No, they're saying that we'll be updated on thursday (or earlier) and that they're working on withdrawals. There isn't anything new in this announcement in that regard, because the previous one had a similar message "working on withdrawals, next update monday".

The only actual bit of news is that there will be tighter withdrawal limits after withdrawals are back up. And that's bad news. Either Gox doesn't have enough coins or they're preventing the mass exodus that we all know is coming. Either way, they'll be restricting access to customer funds even after the technical obstacles have been removed.

The update will come in the evening Japan-time. No reason to give the update early when you can postpone it until the last possible moment, right?

Seems unlikely that this would confuse people unaware of timezones, because in most parts of the world, thursday has just started. Europe is now waking up on thursday morning while the US is sleeping or about to sleep.

Agreed. The only thing that this little crisis is still lacking is a good 2 hours of GoxLooping.

Only if MtGox keeps a good archive with backups. And with Gox and their technical prowess, I'm not convinced.

Where are the chart astrologists technical analysts? I need to see the dinosaur-formations in the MtGox charts!

Considering that Gox again did not push out the update during regular business hours, I feel that it is unlikely that they've fixed withdrawals. If they'd be done, why delay?

Bitcoin-withdrawals to a Gox-deposit-address work normally. Gox detects one of their own addresses in the withdrawal request and updates the balance in their database, keeping the transaction off-chain.

So for the bitcoinbuilder site, you withdraw your GoxBTC to a deposit-address belonging to bitcoinbuilder, after which it's credited to your bitcoinbuilder account. Withdrawals work the other way around, bitcoinbuilder withdraws to your Gox-deposit-address.

RealBTC deposits and withdrawals work in the normal way.

Not quite.
1) Deposit fiat on Gox (yes, I know it sounds crazy).
2) Buy GoxBTC at ~25% of the Stamp price.
3) Sell GoxBTC on BitcoinBuilder for ~0.5 RealBTC.
4) Sell RealBTC on Stamp.

Since today I've been having very quick auto-logouts on Bitstamp. Normally I could stay logged in for many hours without doing anything, but today it seems to kick me out after a short while.

Other than that, everything works just fine.

Make sure you sync the clock on your phone. If it's out-of-sync, it will generate incorrect codes.

Crisis averted, all is well again in the world (except for Gox).

Better yet, print first and then scan the QR code from the print. That ensures that your print is of sufficient quality.

One of the core devs.

Meh, an IRC message from a support agent. Not sure how much weight that carries. If I were running a company that faced similar issues, I'd be screaming from the rooftops that all funds are safe, because in a situation like this, that is exactly what customers want to hear. Unless of course, funds are not safe...

Don't worry, they'll take that one down once they notice it's still up. Can't leave any evidence that they were ever here.

Yes, they changed that recently, around the same time that they had a minor withdrawal scare since they blocked withdrawals for part of their customers after some phishing mails had gone out.

"devoured" is probably more accurate.

Almost 50 minutes since the last block. No wonder you didn't get a confirmation yet.

It's an issue with blockchain.info, their Bitcoin daemon must've gotten stuck again. Other block explorers seem to be just fine and blocks are still coming in.

Blockchain.info is kaput. Blocks are coming in just fine.

Kraken has both BTC and LTC.

I never got any of the phishing emails that people are talking about. The alias I use for Bitstamp has spam-filtering disabled.

Splitting up coins for a hot wallet is a good idea because if you just use a single huge output, you can process one withdrawal and then have to wait for it to confirm before you can use the remaining funds, since they're all in a change address. Or you can send unconfirmed change out, but then you're susceptible to malleability abuse. If you're going to deposit coins from a cold into a hot wallet, it is good practice to split them up in many small outputs.

Look at the date.

Bitfinex mirrors its orders to Bitstamp (with a slight shift in price to cover the fee-difference). So you're likely seeing the same order.

My deposit (SEPA) from friday hasn't been credited yet either. But I've noticed that Bitstamp has become a bit slower with SEPA deposits recently unfortunately.