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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: omghormel on August 16, 2012, 09:15 am

Title: Dollars / BTC
Post by: omghormel on August 16, 2012, 09:15 am
Personally, I would like to see the BTC equilivant next the the cost of the item. Perhaps it could be in brackets. With the price of BTC changing so fast it's hard to keep track, so I have to keep switching back and forth between BTC / Dollars. I think this would be a handy feature.


eg/

$199 (16.58BTC)

What do you guys think?
Title: Re: Dollars / BTC
Post by: Shroomeister on August 16, 2012, 09:29 am
I think if you know what the current market price for 1BTC is, then you can just do some multiplication. Im not sure why you would be switching back and forth. I honestly can not think of a good reason.

Under settings, but your accnt to USD.

Shop around.

If you are trying to make sure you load BTC (from an external funding source) you could switch back to BTC I guessssss ...but it would still be not needed.

Maybe you are doing something I can not even think of. Want to explain some more?
Title: Re: Dollars / BTC
Post by: username100 on August 17, 2012, 03:13 pm
I'd like too see the euro equivalent in brackets.
Title: Re: Dollars / BTC
Post by: Soccerpros on August 19, 2012, 04:12 am
I agree with omghormel, the majority of sites that we get our BTC from don't use the same conversions, and can even be a couple of dollars different/BTC. With a big BTC purchase this can dramatically effect how many $ u spend compared to how may BTC u get; by up to 20% i presume. :-[
Title: Re: Dollars / BTC
Post by: mindman on August 20, 2012, 09:57 pm
I think if you know what the current market price for 1BTC is, then you can just do some multiplication. Im not sure why you would be switching back and forth. I honestly can not think of a good reason.

Under settings, but your accnt to USD.

Shop around.

If you are trying to make sure you load BTC (from an external funding source) you could switch back to BTC I guessssss ...but it would still be not needed.

Maybe you are doing something I can not even think of. Want to explain some more?

i see no simple multiplication. fee's and all other bull shit. plus bc fluctuate so often that even while on SR they change. so really i have to agree with the bracket idea. why should you have to switch back and forth?
Title: Re: Dollars / BTC
Post by: Soccerpros on August 21, 2012, 02:24 pm
SR isnt synced with mtgox, i forget the site they use but im pretty sure its a collaborative btc price site, can anyone help out on the site?
Title: Re: Dollars / BTC
Post by: club on August 22, 2012, 02:14 pm
A 1000 times this. Yes you can switch the display in your preferences to BTC or USD, so why not just have it show both? It sounds like it would be very easy to code.
Title: Re: Dollars / BTC
Post by: fl0gg3r on August 28, 2012, 03:19 pm
i wrote a script to fix this problem specifically:
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=38797.0