You might want to try Localbitcoin and pay cash. I've never used an exchange to buy Bitcoin, but then I'm fortunate to live in an area where it is more common.

I would never use an exchange where it takes several days for the credit to show up. Someone's making a lot of money from that float. There is no legitimate reason for a customer not to have immediate access to his funds. I took a risk buying Bitcoin to have on hand when the pre-sales started, and it has declined in value during the delays. I'd rather not risk further decline to crutch slow exchanges and those who want to purchase BTC right at the time of pre-sale. What this amounts to is me being made to assume more risk due to additional delay to reduce risk for someone else.

I do agree there should be a couple of days notice before the pre-sale. It should also let everyone buy in at the same rate during a set time period, .02% of total distribution per Bitcoin, no limit, instead of limiting to 50 BTC for 1%, which could go pretty fast.

I'd rather have the pre-sale sooner than later given the volatility of Bitcoin. I don't see an advantage to waiting, other than maybe BTC will increase.

I agree. People are overreacting. It's another stampede at the ostrich farm. Mt Gox has been clearly insolvent for over half a year, when they started delaying withdrawals.

I don't trust account based systems, try to avoid them. I've seen 3 different situations where account holders were forced to carry the losses of the exchange or unable to withdraw their funds - mt gox for the 10 months, coingrounds with Protoshares last fall, and Poloniex with XCP just last week.

The name of this coin is so cool I have to buy some. It has stuck in my head since I first saw it a couple of months ago. The project is quite interesting from a technical perspective as well.

WTB 2 BTC, please PM offers, .0011 BTC/CGB or less. Reputation thread at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=436065.0 . Escrow or seller goes first, smaller increments OK.

+1 That's why I'm here. Anyone have any suggestions of other "B" type opportunities? I'm still waiting for Etherium to do its pre-sale.

I want one! Print-on-Demand currency is the future. Best thing I've seen since ALFII (Americans for Lawful Financial Independence - long since raided and shut down) let customers print out their own money orders drawn against their accounts at ALFII.

So Robocoin has a roll or stack of the same paper used by the Canadian Mint along with the same inks, and will print out ones, fives, or ten dollar Canadian bills for the user? This is amazing if it really works that way.

I wasn't aware that any country allowed ATM machines to print its national currency. ATMs normally only dispense notes printed by by a national mint.

I think there would be a problem with this in most countires.

Those are the three. I also meant to load up on some more Protoshares with the leftover change, but looks like other people are catching on that they have been way undervalued.

looking to join. thanks.

I would rather have the pre-sale sooner. I purchased BTC to have on hand for 3 pre-sales, all of which have been delayed.

+1

I avoid using account based systems for this reason. That is why I invest in DEX projects, so that one day I may trade on platforms I feel comfortable with. I have sacrificed the opportunity to quickly buy and sell at advantageous prices in the markets, and the convenience of placing orders on exchanges, to avoid counter party and performance risk. I buy during pre-sale and in the threads, or if I do use an exchange, it is only if I can immediately deposit, execute the trade, and just as quickly withdraw. My feelings are the same about banks - the only use I have for them is to cash checks and make the occasional online purchase. I also do not store much value in fiat, as I consider it to be just as insolvent as the global banking system.

Operating in this manner can be inconvenient, incurs costs, and even causes hardship at times. Since I cover my own extra overhead and absorb the risks for the way I choose to conduct my business, I feel others should absorb the risks for the way they choose to do business.

I am adamantly opposed to any proposal to tax XCP holders or inflate XCP to cover losses at a third party account based system.

I would like nothing better than to see discussion of NXT confined to its own threads. However, the statement that everyone who wanted to invest in NXT was able to is not true, as is shown by the evidence I posted, taken from the directly for the original NXT announcement thread. I would love to see an explanation how ending the pre-sale early with out advance notice and then selling it a week layer at a 4762% markup from the pre-sale average price allowed "Nxt to be launched by the community, not by a single person. Success of Nxt is supposed to be achieved by work of a LOT of PEOPLE. " .

Ending the pre-sale abruptly without advance notice while a potential investor was inquiring about the deadline prevented further dilution of existing investment, which is the real reason I am sure is why the pre-sale was actually ended in this manner.

This is not true. I was not allowed to invest in the NXT presale. It was abruptly terminated without advance notice when I posted a message asking for clarification on the deadline to invest.

From https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=303898.480 :

I expect .05 in a month or 2. It will take a little while for people selling off part of their holdings quickly to recover the original investment, then building up to getting listed on an exchange.

Yes, there will be an announcement thread for the successor project soon with links to info and contact info to join in the project. There is a need for one or more developers to assist the existing lead. The whitepaper is mostly written, along with a development plan.

uh-oh. a project is DOA once lawyers get involved. I liked Ethereum a lot, but this is not a good sign.