How the "price" of a currency on a currency exchange, or market, is set or can be obtained.
Questions tagged [price-discovery]
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How does Mt.Gox calculate high and low price?
How does Mt.Gox. calculate high and low price? How can last price, over time, be higher than the high price?
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How do I get bitcoin price without any external source?
I have searched the Internet for solution but could not find the one I was looking for.
I want to get bitcoin price (in usd) without using any external website (meaning not getting the price using api or something)
I want to "calculate" it myself,…
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Why is Bitcoin gaining value while so many other cryptocurrencies are not?
Every time I find a new cryptocurrency, I look at the price charts and almost every time it's constantly losing value. Ether and Bitcoin are the only exceptions, and have gained value on the long term. Why is that?
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Why does my bitcoin "to US dollar" worth change when the stock market is closed?
My bitcoin wallet "US dollar" amount is changing. It's Saturday the market is closed. How is this happening?
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What if someone owns 51% of all bitcoins?
Would it be possible to manipulate the exchange rate of Bitcoin, if a single entity controlled the majority of all available currency?…
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Are market prices listed by exchanges weighted by transaction size?
Suppose I buy 0.0001 BTC for $1.23 on some hypothetical exchange. Does that mean that the market price on that exchange at that time is $12,300? The reason I ask is that there is a huge difference between the willingness of buyers to pay inflated…
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Who determines the value of BTC vs USD?
How is the data collected to determine Bitcoin's value? And who determines the exchange value of Bitcoin in USD?
This question isn't really answered, no matter how much I research. I want to know the evaluation process of Bitcoin. If possible can…
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Why would people buy bitcoin these days if its too expensive?
I'm curious on why would bitcoin rise in the near future since its not affordable anymore. It's actually but for wealthy people only. How could it even reach mass adoption because of its extreme price?
It seems reasonable that people will switch to…
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How Do I Calculate the profit of the value of my bitcoin?
Lets say I buy $50 of a bitcoin for 3916.74, And then the price goes up to $4200. How Do I calculate how much I have made in profit?
As in What type of formula do I use to see how much more my $50 is worth now that the price is higher than when I…
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Does any exchange provide API to call callback function on each transaction?
Does any exchange provide API to call callback function on each transaction?
I would like to build a auto trade platform based on the tick event, but instead of pulling the price, I would like to use the push mechanism.
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Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin value graph look very similar
I don't know much about cryptocurrencies, but I was looking at the Coinbase value graphs of bitcoin and ethereum, and noticed that even on one day, every single dip and peak affect all three currencies displayed. Why is that?
Value graph
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Transaction for real use / transaction for changin Bitcoin in other currencies?
How can I calculate the ratio between this two type of bitcoin transaction?
Is it correct divide the total volume USD of the data at this link:
http://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/5y?c=e&r=week&t=a&volume_unit=btc
by the total transaction…
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Do exchange rates between countries' currencies have an influence on Bitcoin exchange rates?
Are the exchange rates of each country a factor in the worth of a Bitcoin? Is the use of Bitcoin similar to traveling to another country and having a exchange rate between paper monies?
Basically, are bitcoins affected by the exchange rates of each…
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starting price of bitcoin
I tried to google "Who decided the first price of bitcoin", "How was decided the first price of bitcoin" but the only answer I get is almost the same everytime: "In July 2010, bitcoin began trading at a value of US$0.0008".
Now my question is:
why?…
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The impact of Mining relativne to supply and therefore the price of Bitcoin
What impact does Bitcoin Mining have to on the supply of the coin, and how does it reflect on the price per coin on the exhange. I am trying to understand better the Bitcoin Mining instituons and the price movement of Bitcoin relative to Mining and…
