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Title: Buying Bitcoins on the road Post by: bitcoinrocks on June 23, 2013, 08:59:15 AM I'm American and my wife is Spanish and we've been traveling for a number of years. I'd like to buy some Bitcoins as an investment but I think I may be up against some difficulty.
1. I've opened an account with Mt.Gox but it looks like they require an ID and a utility bill issued within the last 6 months before I can deposit or withdraw to/from USD. The ID is no problem but a utility bill could be tricky. We lived in Australia for about 6 months and only left about a month ago, but a utility bill from our residence there will show an address that is not from the same country as my ID. I have a permanent (non-P.O. box) mailing address in the US which I always use as my permanent address but we have no personal utility bills. My business does have a utility bill and insurance statement going to that address and they might reference my name but they definitely also reference my business's name. I don't want to send out my tax return. Can we use the "Local Cash Deposit" option at BitInstant to avoid all of this? We're in northern Spain for the next couple months. I'd rather not use localbitcoins.com but it looks like there aren't any places to buy them very near here anyway. 2. I started bitcoin-qt on my laptop but it looks like it wants to synchronize with something over the internet and use a lot of data doing it. I connect to the internet by tethering my laptop to a cell phone connection and it costs 30 Euros per 3GB. How much data will it use if I let it complete synchronization? Title: Re: Buying Bitcoins on the road Post by: elasticband on June 23, 2013, 09:02:46 AM Use a different btc client..... the blockchain wiyh qt will yake close to 20gb
Title: Re: Buying Bitcoins on the road Post by: bitcoinrocks on June 23, 2013, 09:28:20 AM Which would you recommend for Linux? Or should I just use coinbase.com?
EDIT: I'll try electrum. Any ideas for problem #1? Title: Re: Buying Bitcoins on the road Post by: elasticband on June 23, 2013, 10:39:23 AM electrum is best for linux, light weight and has good security options........ local bitcoins is a good option i think, or find another private seller or smaller exchange than mtgox..... I am in EU so it is a bit different for me
Title: Re: Buying Bitcoins on the road Post by: HelpPlease on June 23, 2013, 11:15:12 AM Use blockchain.info, and buy off localbitcoins.com or from someone here
Title: Re: Buying Bitcoins on the road Post by: bitcoinrocks on June 23, 2013, 01:25:10 PM How about buying BTC on coinbase.com and then sending them to my local wallet?
Every time I open electrum it starts downloading a whole lot of data. How much will it download? Title: Re: Buying Bitcoins on the road Post by: Southpaw0 on June 23, 2013, 02:57:54 PM virwox
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