I actually have a good amount of experience with a bunch of other languages... I just wanted to use R for its statistical upper-hand on virtually ever other language. So no dice on R advice? I guess R's not too popular with the BTC crowd, then

On further thought, the question to be asked here in the newbie forum is: does anyone have a bitmarket.eu account who can advise newbies on getting validated?

I hear ya on the validation / approval woes... sort of in the same boat here. It would be nice if they'd be more explicit about what kind of creds are needed to be validated.

Also, because they are a larger exchange, it seems unreasonable to me that users need to be validated before ALL transactions... why not just have a strict delivery-vs-payment policy using sites like Dwolla and immediate BTC transfers...

Does anyone have advice on connecting to the trade APIs through R? It looks like R doesn't support the URl structure for APIs like TradeHill etc... I'm trying to work with the ReadLines function but to no avail... I simply get output that looks like this:

 

> readLines("https://api.tradehill.com/APIv1/USD/Orderbook")
Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
In addition: Warning message:
In file(con, "r") : unsupported URL scheme



I've deduced that this function needs a file suffix (ie it would have to be something like orderbook.php) to be able to download the data.

Does anyone have any workarounds that they've used, and/or does anyone have any tricks for connecting to these APIs using R?

Great! Thanks for your reply!

Hello,

I'm new to bitcoin and wanted to hear some feedback from other people who have experience trading. Below are a few preliminary questions. Thanks so much!

-Are all of the Bitcoin brokers listed on:http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/ safe to use? I instinctively am fearful of wiring money to foreign bank accounts!
-Where do bitcoins i purchase on these sites get delivered? Do these brokers custodian my coins for me?
-What's the fastest way to complete transactions? If I want to buy/sell from/to ~10 dealers, am I stuck sending them each a sum of money via wire a few days in advance of when I want to trade?

Thanks a lot! Sorry if these are basic, boring questions... I want to make sure I'm staying safe before i start using bitcoin!

Robert