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Economy => Trading Discussion => Topic started by: smickles on March 25, 2012, 02:04:44 AM



Title: Why does it seem like 'everyone' needs bitcoins urgently?
Post by: smickles on March 25, 2012, 02:04:44 AM
It just strikes me as odd that most of the requests, which I see, to buy bitcoins, always come with some grave need for the transaction to happen 'nao!!!'


Title: Re: Why does it seem like 'everyone' needs bitcoins urgently?
Post by: rTech on March 25, 2012, 02:06:09 AM
cause they are prepairing 420 :) and want to have freshly minted bitcoins :D


Title: Re: Why does it seem like 'everyone' needs bitcoins urgently?
Post by: DeathAndTaxes on March 25, 2012, 02:32:58 AM
drugs.  when you need em you got to have right now.


Title: Re: Why does it seem like 'everyone' needs bitcoins urgently?
Post by: Xmufa23X on March 25, 2012, 03:55:23 AM
I always figured Drugs or some sort of Organized Crime operation. I picture a typical person finding Silk Road for the first time, and suddenly willing to spend anything to get his hands on it. Figure the quicker he can buy it, the quicker it comes triple vacuum sealed to his front door. And if the cops ever track the package to his house, he can always claim he doesn't know who sent it to him or way. There is no trail. It's a junkies haven.

So that and maybe some sort of Nigerian Scamming gang shifting funds around. But I'll put my chip on the junkie.


Title: Re: Why does it seem like 'everyone' needs bitcoins urgently?
Post by: zer0 on March 25, 2012, 09:42:41 PM
Everything is needed 'right now' which is why paypal and credit cards are so successful. People don't want to wait for payment to clear or have to wait around a few hours/days for their coins. I still think if you can buy bitcoins within 24 hours that's pretty fast considering the years I spent buying/selling LR and Pecunix and having to wait forever for wires to clear


Title: Re: Why does it seem like 'everyone' needs bitcoins urgently?
Post by: rjk on March 25, 2012, 10:36:00 PM
Everything is needed 'right now' which is why paypal and credit cards are so successful. People don't want to wait for payment to clear or have to wait around a few hours/days for their coins. I still think if you can buy bitcoins within 24 hours that's pretty fast considering the years I spent buying/selling LR and Pecunix and having to wait forever for wires to clear
Not only that, but some users may never have had to worry about a wire or any such thing, and have never known anything other than PayPal's "instant" transfers. They would then be expecting the same thing.


Title: Re: Why does it seem like 'everyone' needs bitcoins urgently?
Post by: Tomatocage on March 26, 2012, 01:08:06 AM
It just strikes me as odd that most of the requests, which I see, to buy bitcoins, always come with some grave need for the transaction to happen 'nao!!!'

It's not "everyone" that needs Bitcoins urgently.  It's only people who registered in the last couple weeks who just broke out of Newbie status.


Title: Re: Why does it seem like 'everyone' needs bitcoins urgently?
Post by: guruvan on March 26, 2012, 06:14:31 AM
Instant gratification is really slow. NAO is over 9000X sooner.