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Google Finance Now Showing Bitcoin Price

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75 pointsduvok14 comments

This is a nice surprise since Google finance is essentially a dead product. I don't think it has changed for 5+ years. Not to mention the awful Android app that can't even sync a large set of portfolios...

Google Finance is largely useless when compared to Yahoo Finance, however Google Now and Google Search have become remarkably good at providing quick and relevant stock data.

A much better alternative is http://www.bitcoinwisdom.com

Here's what it looks like: http://i.imgur.com/RttHnFO.png

Here are the settings I use:

http://i.imgur.com/AYYIDW7.png

http://i.imgur.com/6a4jy4z.png

Better is subjective. There are many people who will find Google's much easier to understand and use for simple needs.

This is some trader setup (which layman needs Stoch RSI?).

Google matches news with the timeline, which might be much more convenient for some people.

Anyone know where they're getting their market data for price history and volume? Perhaps not as important after the collapse of Gox, but the market is still illiquid enough that there can be substantial spreads between exchanges.

if they are doing the same thing as yahoo, then bitstamp

When you ask for the "All" range in Time, you get a very strange chart. I wonder what's wrong.

Same thing happens if you drag the date selector past 2013.

It's too bad the Android Google Finance app errors out when attempting to add Bitcoin (ticker CURRENCY:BTC) to a portfolio.

Xe.com has been doing that for at least a couple of weeks as well. I'm not sure where they're getting the numbers from though.

Here's an Onion headline for you:

Google Finance Now Showing Bitcoin Price inside Flash Widget.

Oh wait.

Here's another one:

US Naval Research published the TorCoin protocol last week to encourage growth of the dark web. When asked how TorCoins would develop enough value to compensate the nefarious relays, one author stated that he hoped the public would speculate on it as an investment, "just like Dogecoin".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7850492

That's nothing. I get tulip prices on my Bloomberg terminal.

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