Bitcoin Forum

https://www.facebook.com/IndiaBitcoin can also be used to direct people to the forum for trading starting from today.
Please PM me with the thread URL of your trading advert on bitcointalk and I will get it shared with our Facebook users as well.
Can also send a message to the admin with the URL.
I have posted https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=199432.0 to gauge the response.
Please try to keep all discussions on the forum rather than the FB page.
I am starting this service for free.
May move into a tiny revenue model if the outcome is good. Any suggestions for a revenue model?
Edit: All forum members can advertise for free whether from a commercial request or individuals.
I am also open to any other adverts being SEO'd through the page directly from Commercial Bitcoin Companies outside the forums. 0.01 BTC for posting, sharing, etc.

Escrow
A lot of Escrow requests have been pushed to me over the past few days, so I was hoping to set out a short contract here. Escrow may only be needed for the first trade.

I will only handle Crypto-Escrows. No INR, USD, CAD, etc
The wallet that I will be using is Coinbase. I find them to be the most reliable so far apart from Bitcoin-QT. However due to security, I would not be using a QT wallet. Hence, I will be a bit reliant on Coinbase's network.
The Seller first posts an intent to sale along with the escrow request on the bitcointalk forum.
The seller then needs to send across the Bitcoin to the address that will be provided.
Once the BTC is received, I will inform the buyer to send out the payment to the sellers account.
BTC will be sent as soon as seller confirms to me that the payment has reached his bank account.
Buyer sends me the BTC address to pay and payment is made after final check with seller and buyer.
BTC will be held by me for a period of 72 Hours after which, I will return them to seller unless instructed to hold.
The amount paid out will be minus the network fee.
All discussions and proof of sale can be vetted on the same thread as the intent to sale.
All discussions in PM will include buyer and seller.

1% fee.

americandesi joins as the co-mod of the FB page.

Any other content creators interested to help engage the FB community?

Thanks you very much choosing me..!!
Will do my best to keep it as active as possible.

Suggestions / Advice / Ideas are welcome..!!

Legendster also joins as a mod on the Indiabitcoin FB page.

+1

Changed the model a bit in terms of pricing and access points.
This is now a 'live' service.

Bump up for June 2013.

I do not want to cause a confusion(About market competition, etc), so was wondering if I could get some community votes on whether I can sticky my Escrow thread in the Marketplace subforum.

I do get requests from people who want a sticky on their business/ trade posts, so I felt that it would be right if I asked as well.

That should not be an issue I guess. Also sticky will help people to find it easily.

Cheers

@benson

can you direct me to your escrow thread?

i am looking to buy bitcoins and can pay with bank transfer

thanks

Coinbase is not a good wallet. You don't control the bitcoin addresses there. You don't get private keys. They send out bitcoins from different addresses every time - making it hard to track.

Why not just use blockchain.info/wallet/ with 2 factor authentication on for security?

You can sign messages too if required from inside blockchain.

Your in the Escrow Thread.

I prefer Coinbase or QT. Blockchain does not work well for me. Too many corrupt wallets.

+1. I use both coinbase and Blockchain. I like both of them. The fact that i can link my USA bank account to coinbase and buy coins within coinbase is the USP of the service and ironically it works out cheaper than mtgox or anywhere else.

Bump up for July.

Bump up for August.

Facebook India hits the 1K member milestone :)

Awesome :)

Cheers

Fantastic. Credit goes you Benson.!
Kudos.

Congrats Benson...When are we hitting 10k ? Given India's size that should be achievable.

Joined...


And invited my 550+ friends too.

As soon as you do your first sponsorship for us :)

Very nice. I have been trying paid promotions over the past 2 days and they have been going really great.

Am open to doing boosted promo's for any Bitcoin business trying to grow in India at FB's credit cost with no margin for the launch.

The boosted promo results are:

buysellbitco.in: Spend: Rs 1900. 31K views on the FB page, 250 Clicks to the site, 270 post likes.
usb miners: Spend: Rs 1900. 18K views on the FB page, 100 Clicks to the forum thread, 50 post likes.

and that is with just 1100 members.

Looking for sponsors to run 1 month of promotions on the FB page across India. Anyone interested?
The rates start from Rs 350 a day to Rs 2K per day.

As a sponsorship benefit, FB IndiaBitcoin will waive 1 BTC from the cost of USB miners pack of 10. So instead of 3 BTC for 10 miners, we will pay 1 BTC towards your purchase of the first 10 miners.

Bump up for October!

Bump up for November!

Bump up for December!

Been an awesome awesome year :)