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Re: [ANN] You liked instawallet.org ? You'll love instawire.org !
by
davout
on 11/10/2012, 13:26:24 UTC
Note that I was specifically addressing the page you get when your coins are "Ready to deliver" and the confirmation page that you see after your coins have been delivered.
Fair enough, this should now be fixed. Thank you very much for the report !

From what I understand the exchange rate is set once a day, therefore the information on the page doesn't "update often". That's a pretty convenient thing, IMHO.
We usually update it once in the morning (unless wild price swings happen during the day), sometimes you'll end up paying a little less on Instawire than the average price on bitcoin charts, sometimes a little more. At the end of the day that's not what Instawire is about. Instawire is about bridging the gap between the traditional banking system and the Bitcoin world in the most possible elegant way Smiley

Still, I'd like to know what the price was at Mt.Gox. at the exact time that the exchange rate was set, so that I can compare them.
Instawire offers no such feature, there are no plans to implement it. That's how we roll.

Do you support firstbits addresses?
We will probably never support firstbits addresses, think about it for a minute, by inputting someone's address I can instantly find out whether this person transacted with Instawire, what this person's IBAN and name are. Probably not the best idea when firstbits are often part of forum signatures.

Additionnally, we rely a lot on bank wire references, these references can get truncated along the way, with a regular address that's not an issue, you can immediately see if it's valid or not and complete it at the moment the user inputs his full address. Truncating firstbits could be catastrophic since truncated firstbits could possibly resolve to a completely different address than the one originally intended.