Author Topic: Best way to get BTC asset starting with real BTC?  (Read 1700 times)

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Offline noisy

I wrote here about a Liquidity Event. That day chance to buy a bitBTC in a good price should be much higher. I hope :)
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,21265.0.html
Take a look on: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,19625.msg251894.html - I have a crazy idea - lets convince cryptonomex developers to use livecoding.tv

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if you look into the market you will find, that bitBTC is trading with a premium of 10-20% so it is really unlikly that you can convert 1:1

what you can do it BTC/BTS or BTC/METAEX:BTC on www.metaexchange.info

internal you can try BTS/bitBTC or METAEX:BTC/BTC

Offline monsterer

It would obviously be good if the providers of secondary BTC tokens (not sure the correct name for these) like OPENBTC, METAEX.BTC and TRADE.BTC maintained more liquidity for their backed versions of BTC and other assets

METAEX.BTC has 9,999,991 BTC of buy side liquidity. The sell side just represents how many METAEX.BTC are in the wild.
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We currently don't have a bridge from Bitcoin into bitBTC unfortunatelly. As for the liquidity, we are working hard to bring in more liquidity providers and traders and are revising our fee schedule to encourage more market makers.

Thanks for your reply.

It seems the best route was to buy BTS and either trade them on the DEX for bitBTC or find pairs that used BTS for the asset I wanted I wanted to buy, instead trying to use bitBTC .

It would obviously be good if the providers of secondary BTC tokens (not sure the correct name for these) like OPENBTC, METAEX.BTC and TRADE.BTC maintained more liquidity for their backed versions of BTC and other assets, but I understand that may not always be practical. Aside from the liquidity issues it causes it's also a little confusing to have so many tokens representing the same thing (in this case BTC) but I guess it makes sense that each exchange needs it's own version and can't all just use bitBTC.

Cheers.


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We currently don't have a bridge from Bitcoin into bitBTC unfortunatelly. As for the liquidity, we are working hard to bring in more liquidity providers and traders and are revising our fee schedule to encourage more market makers.

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Hi.

I want to try some trading on the DEX in pairs that use the asset "BTC", but not sure the best way to get the asset in the first place, starting with real BTC.

I have looked at going through OPENBTC, METAEX.BTC and TRADE.BTC. None of these seem to have very high liquidity. I am fairly new to Bitshares2.0 but don't see any way to easily turn a few BTC into the BTC asset.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I'm looking for the most efficient way to turn real BTC into the "BTC" asset on Bitshares, preferably with a 1:1 exchange rate.
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