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Questions tagged [exchange-rate]

refers to the rate at which two currencies are exchanged one-for-another.

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How does bitcoin's price volatility compare to commodities/stocks with comparable market capitalizations?

Bitcoin's long term (after 21 million units have been created) market cap is about $102 million. Price volatility of individual commodities/stocks is inversely correlated with their market cap, so price volatility is to be expected with bitcoin,…
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Where is the BTC price "stored"?

If I want to know the price of bitcoin, I can go to coinmarketcap, but where do they take it from? Where does the coinmarketcap provider get it from, and what is the ultimate source of this value? Everyone seems to agree upon roughly the same BTC to…
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What is the Bitcoin spot price and how is it calculated?

I was offered to buy Bitcoin for today's spot price (MtGox to be specific). So, I am wondering, what is the spot price and how is it calculated? Is there a standard tool to look it up?
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What determines a bitcoin's value?

I've been talking with my friend about this, and apparently, it seems that Bitcoins have some sort of value that is given to them. On some websites like bitstamp, there are graphs and charts that indicate what the value is of a bitcoin in USD. My…
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$10 worth of DRK

With https://blockchain.info/tobtc?currency=USD&value=10 I find that $10 = 0.01724138 BTC And with https://data.bter.com/api/1/ticker/drk_btc I find that 1 DRK = 0.017669 BTC How can I get from those two bits of info $10 worth of DRK? Also, Is there…
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do you think bitcoin futures exchanges (CBOE/CME) are a positive or negative for bitcoin price and why?

do you think bitcoin futures exchanges (CBOE/CME) are a positive or negative for bitcoin price and why?
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What's a good site to see bid/ask walls?

I'm currently using Mtgoxlive to view ask and bid walls. But ... I can't see the chart beyond about $1.5 +- the current price. Is there another site for viewing ask/bid walls graphically, in a similar fashion to Mtgoxlive, that is limiting in the…
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What would kill Bitcoin?

Other than banning it, what is the biggest risk to the price of Bitcoin? What circumstances may kill Bitcoin or bring it down to less than $10?
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How do I calculate the value of some amount of bitcoins in my native currency?

If I know the exchange rate, how can I calculate the value of some amount bitcoins in my native currency?
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Buying 100 kilobitcoins

This is a hypothetical question. Assuming that the price of bitcoin is $8,250 (as of current writing) and I had 25 billion dollars at my disposal, what would happen to the price of bitcoin if I successfully bought 100,000 bitcoins? Would I have…
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How much are bitcoins worth?

I'm new to this bitcoin thing-I am trying to find out what is the conversion of bitcoins to US money? I.E. a bitcoin is equal to how much US dollars? Thank you for your help.
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How to calculate cryptocurrency pair to usd

I understand how to calculate pair like BTC/GBP or ETH/JPY to usd. But i cant understand how to calculate pairs like XMR/LTC or LTC/BNB. Help me please with calculate itThanks!
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how is the price of crypto currency computed

how is the price of any cryptocurrency computed, how is the math equation and who actually does it? if you would say a trading site like Coinbase then i say there are also currencies that are i guess not listed in any trading site and still they…
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On Cryptowatch (or equivalent): see percentage change to custom reference point

Given that I bought a certain amount of BTC at a given point in time. Is there a way on cryptowat.ch or an equivalent platform, to mark the price and point of time at which I bought the BTCs and get information about how the current price is to the…
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How does bitcoin conversion (to/from $) handle round off error?

If the transaction rate were $300 for each Bitcoin, and I try to convert $100 to Bitcoins then : $100 x 1 BTC/ 300= 1/3 of a bitcoin (.33333 repeating) How does conversion between Fiat and Bitcoin work when truncating recurring decimals?
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