If anyone is willing to help me test liqpay can you please email me. info @ mtgox

gumtree: Is there a way to automate this?

You can set the budget of any proposal. So just make the one you want passed to be 50% of the total.

davidonpda: ACH is fine for the US. But I think less than half of the gox users are from the US. So I want to get a global solution up first.

I don't see how currency fair helps? They don't let you transfer to particular people.

> Would you consider getting a consortium of interested parties together to fund a merchant account so that you could accept direct bank transfers?
I don't think US banks do this. They have either wire transfers or ACH.

nanotube & cavden: LR is 1% to transfer between accounts. To convert cash to LR is 5% or more and to convert it back to cash is 5% or more. So it becomes quite expensive.

nanotube: I probably will still set up ACH. It takes more time though.

bitcoinex: I don't have a bank account in Europe so I can only do bank transfers in the US. I could wore to europe but this is expensive and I haven't found an automated way to do that.

I'm not saying liqpay is perfect. I haven't used them enough to know how shady they are. But there doesn't seem to be a good alternative at this point.



 

Do they allow you to send money between accounts or only do currency exchange?

I got liqpay to work finally so we will be using that. I should have it hooked up tuesday.

Kiba: It isn't an issue of time. It is that I haven't found a good alternative. Here are the only choices I have so far:
ACH (only works in the US)
LibertyReserve: (ok except expensive to transfer in and out)
Okpay: (Even more expensive than LR but possibly more funding and withdrawing options)

Ones that wont work:
AlertPay, Amazon: (still has chargebacks and mtgox isn't in their Acceptable Use Policy AUP)
liqpay: (I can't get the SMS from the 4 phones I tried)
Moneybookers: (violates their AUP)
click2pay: (No US sign-ups)
ikobo: No API
and more ...

I'm definitely not reversing any trades.

mcjohn why don't you email me your username and I'll see what I can do for you.

Sorry this is taking longer than I thought. All these payment processors have issues. It is actually very hard to find a good one. (All the more reason bitcoin needs to get widely adopted).
There are still a few more to investigate...

mcjohn: Like I said in the original post, I'm getting another payment processor. That doesn't happen instantly. I do this in my spare time for free so don't get all uppity.
If you have BTC in there that you bought with paypal this paypal issue doesn't even effect you. You have the same 30 day waiting period you had before paypal froze my account.
If you have USD in there you will be able to withdraw it once either paypal unfreezes my account or I get a new payment processor. Or if you are in a super big hurry just buy BTC on there and withdraw it.

Well alertpay still has chargebacks. so it will run into the same issue with stolen credit cards.

Has anyone dealt with these guys before? good, bad?

twobit: I can't issue checks anymore since I no longer live in the US.

The bulk of the rally seemed legitimate. I'd say only 5-10% was fraud.

Bimmerhead: Yeah I can repo their BTC so it isn't really a big deal. Just a hassle. In fact I'll make money if the price stays this high.

ribuck: These people are using stolen credit cards so the real card holder complains before 30 days. Anyway the point is moot since I can't use paypal anymore.

idev: your funds won't be tied up for 180 days. I only kept a portion in paypal for this very reason so as soon as I have another payment method you can withdraw your gox USD again.

Well PayPal decided to drop our account because of too many chargebacks. The funds in there now are frozen for 180 days. So we can't do any more paypal funding or withdrawing. 

But not to worry... I should have another payment processor set up shortly.

I'm also calling them on monday to hopefully get things unfrozen faster.

Anyway sorry guys, but don't worry things will be sorted out shortly.

Thanks I fixed. What do you want the name to be? you have 30 characters

There are a lot of threads out there collecting bounties and trying to raise BTC for various projects to promote bitcoins.
I just created a site that I think will make this process easier.
It allows people to form groups. These groups have a fee to join which goes into the group treasury. The group members then vote to determine how to spend the group treasury.
Basically it allows you to form a mini-democracy.

It is still in alpha so a lot of things don't work correctly yet. But the basic functionality does.

Anyway check it out and let me know what you think: http://FiveGrinder.com