
For obvious reasons, I am a fair fan of the theory of
crypto-anarchism , and the emergence and development of the anonymous decentralized currency Bitcoin especially inspires me. But recently, one after another, several unpleasant incidents have occurred, which generally reduce people's confidence in this currency:
habrahabr.ru/post/122350 Electronic Frontier Foundation explained why he stopped taking Bitcoin.
habrahabr.ru/post/136130 and
habrahabr.ru/post/136063 Qiwi blocks the wallets of Bitcoin users
habrahabr.ru/post/138153 Bitcoin: the first wave of banking pressure (MasterCard)
habrahabr.ru/post/139314 The servers on Linode were hacked, about 50K BTC ($ 250K) were stolen. Affected: Bitcoinica (lost more than 43,000 bitcoins of client money), Czech mining slush pool, etc.
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All this caused my concern, because it creates the feeling that it was impossible to reliably exchange cyber-currency for banknotes of any country. But, being a tireless enthusiast, I, in order to prove to myself and others that everything is not so bad, decided to make a small amateur review of the currently existing stock exchanges and exchangers. First of all, I was interested in whether new trading platforms appear, which indirectly indicates the continuation of the development of the bitcoin movement.
Here are the resources that can be found in the process of wandering through specialized forums:
1. MtGox is the leading exchange in terms of volume, also the oldest. It has been hacked several times in a row. Known for its brakes with the execution of transactions during periods of peak loads (measured in minutes, and sometimes dozens of minutes). Commission is measured by the user's trading volume. You trade more - you pay less.
2. BTC-e - supports the Russian language and various methods of I / O funds, as well as alternative cryptocurrencies.
3. Intersango - British Exchange, 0.65% commission from all transactions. The scripts responsible for the work of the exchange are open.
4. CryptoXChange is a relatively young Australian stock exchange. Actively developed at the end of last year, but with the advent of volumes began to slow down in work. Supports Aussie dollars. A fixed commission of 0.5%.
5. Bitcoinica is not exactly a stock exchange, but rather a forex office. Allows you to perform operations on the temporary sale of bitcoins against the US dollar with a large shoulder, which makes it possible to earn (lose) a lot of money. Has gained great popularity. At this office the exchanger works with a fixed rate.
6. CampBX is a platform that many expected to open in 2011. However, despite all that, despite the beautiful website, which assured of total safety of work with him, she did not gain much popularity due to the inconvenience of use and the brakes in work.
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ICBIT is one of the youngest and most progressive exchanges. According to the forum bitcointalk.org, the development of this exchange began almost a year ago, as a market for derivatives (futures contracts), but then the developers reported that the trading platform was universal, and the first step would be to launch the currency exchange section. After correspondence with the technical support of the exchange, I found out that the launch of beta testing with real transactions took place just a couple of weeks ago. In fact, trading is already underway. Its partners are the largest pool of deepbit.net and the leading payment gateway aurumxchange.com
I urge all sympathizers in the comments to share their experiences in this field, as well as reviews of the specified or unmentioned me Stokeschangerv. Comments from the point of view of information security auditing are very welcome.