I am trying to contact Tradehill. Did anyone have success with it?

I had sent them an email a few months ago, no response.
I have just tried to contact them via phone, but the line seems to be always busy.

Best regards,
Gabriel.

LOL, anybody like myself being a SF native knows that's a bogus or at best an incomplete address.

10000 USD arrived. A submitted it a week before the freeze out. Arrived yesterday. Will post up some pics when I get to a desktop. Other success cases welcome!

Looking at the bitcoin futures chart at 796.com i can see volume for yesterday was more then 140.000 BTC while only 16.500 BTC have been traded on MtGox.
I don't know how is that possible,

Without any personal experience with 796 or even any knowledge of the exact terms of the futures contract you've mentioned, I can't offer any insights specific to this example.

a5m0 said that selling drugs was only allowed on #bitcoin-drugs on freenode so I just asked him if I can sell Coke Soda and he banned me!

How undeserved was that? The channel is even called #bitcoin-otc, the otc means over the counter, as in you don't need a prescription for those products!

I didn't wanted to waste my time to post on his "self moderated" thread so i am going to post my opinion here now.


First thing i would like to say that it's a clever scam.

Make a altcoin with some new function and then make a new thread saying it's gonna be next big thing.
After that you just need some 1000+ coins to grab peoples attention and tempt them to invest in that shitty coin.

That exodous address and whatever it is doesn't have any fucking value.

Author needs bitcoins because it's real money.

So simply he's asking you to send him bitcoins and in return he will give you a shitty coin,


I will advice administrator to ban this kind of scam here and it's against bitcoin.
It's like amazon guys advertising their site on ebay.


When satoshi made bitcoin he did not asked for  money to give bitcoins.

SO DON'T BE A FOOL. OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES AND DON'T SEND A PENNY.

UPDATE FINAL:

(Ethan Burnside) Hi all, I'm posting this somewhat blind.  (haven't caught up with the last 10 or so pages...)

TheSwede75 and I have talked a bit and here's what we've come up with:

- 3 PM CST/4 PM EST is the cutoff for bidding.  (EDITED!)
- Sometime shortly after that time I will lock the asset.
    - All bids below 0.001 will be thrown out.
    - All bids posted after the cutoff will be thrown out.
- We will then add up all the bids and use the total to create a ratio of number of shares ordered to number of shares available.  (eg, 9,000,000 ordered, 7,000,000 available gives us a ratio of 0.777)
- We will multiply everyone's orders times the ratio and extract a whole number of shares on a per order basis.  The orders will then be filled according to the result at 0.001 BTC.  (regardless of what they actually bid.)
- This will leave some number of shares available due to rounding down to a whole number on every calculation.  We'll figure out a way to deal with these fairly.  Most likely recipients will be chosen at random from the pool of bidders but they will be a very small portion of the overall issue.
- 8 PM CST/9 PM EST we remove the admin lock and everyone can start trading.

Wednesdays are already full days for me with ASICMINER-PT related duties and my day job.  So please be patient today.  Responses to customer service and related requests will unfortunately be delayed significantly so that I can write and test all the code necessary to execute the plan above.

sounds sane
Cheers.

THIS IS OUR SOLTION. TRADING WILL START AT 8 PM CST/9 PM EST

UPDATE:

There is an update coming shortly from Ethan Burnside. The situation as it is is very hard to solve fairly, and as BTCT.CO has never encountered a IPO where committed investments outweighs the amount of available shares Ethan is constructing a solution to the problem customized. The solution will mimic the behavior of regular IPO's and will be presented by Ethan himself here shortly!

NEW UPDATE:

We are working with Ethan Burnside of BTCT.CO on a solution to the overwhelming demand. IF we can find a solution that does not involve resetting the order book and opening the sale at previously announced time (8 PM CENTRAL TIME - US) we will communicate this here in advance (at least a few hours). If the solution is found to be 'good' by a majority of investors we may release share-sale earlier then previously communicated.

The reason for this would be (among many):
- Avoid possible technical malfunction of BTCT.CO
- Release the shares at IPO price and allow fair distribution among investors unable to place their orders at exactly 8 pm Central
- Avoid a situation where a large investor buys a majority of available shares at EXACTLY 8 pm Central

Once again, we are sorry for the situation at hand but had very little options in how to handle the sale as we had no control over the approval process.  

UPDATE

THE IPO SHARE SALE HAS NOT YET STARTED!

We had MANY requests to not start the IPO at an arbitrary time, but give advanced notice of a time. This could NOT be done until voting was over and while we slept the IPO was approved. We will release ALL IPO shares for sale at IPO price at 8 PM CENTRAL TIME tonight (12 hours from NOW!)

We hope people understand that we are doing this to guarantee a 'fair' start to the IPO. I will communicate with Burnside on how to best release the shares.

UPDATE

LABCOIN asset is now open for vote on BTCT.CO


Excecutive summary:

Labcoin started out as a privately funded experiment, managed by iTec-Pro Limited back in September/October 2012, with the aim of exploring the development of novel mining technologies.

In early 2013 development of a 180 nm ASIC chip was started and in late spring this chip design became the foundation for the current development of and production of a highly competative and cost effective 130 nm ASIC chip. This is the chip that the company now has secured production of for it's first ASIC Bitcoin miner product.

ASIC is an acronym that stands for "Application Specific Integrated circuit", and indeed, in our case, the specific application we are interested in, is Bitcoin mining.

The company is running two separate development teams in both Europe and China, enabling the paralell development and production of 130 nm ASIC and the future 65 nm ASIC chips.

Developing a custom integrated circuit is no simple task, requires time, highly skilled, trained team of engineers, and a deep, low-level knowledge of hardware, and Bitcoin mining process.

Currently many companies are attempting at cutting a share of the market but only a few of them actually shipped real hardware (though intermittently) and proved as real competitors.

It is our ultimate future goal to control a "fair share" (approx 10-15% or more) of the Bitcoin network global hashrate, and position us both in the market of IC manufacturing, Bitcoin mining and mining hardware sales, for profit and benefit of the Bitcoin community and network decentralization / security.

Through our strategy, hard work and good communication channels with several foundries, (eased by one of the key team members being a researcher at the `Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen`) we believe to possess the right combination of skills, know-how and industry connections for being able to compete successfully in this niche segment, where time-to-market is critical.

The planned IPO, if filled will vitalize Labcoin with between $600.000-$650.000 (at a bitcoin/USD value of between $80-$90) enabling first run and mass production of 130nm chips and miners as well as continued development of 65 nm ASIC technology and miners.

In our mind there is no doubt that the funds raised will enable labcoin to become a power player in ASIC chip production, ASIC Miner sales as well as Bitcoin mining. Enabling Labcoin to thrive as a profitable company for investors and owners old and new.


Latest development news (latest we are ready to release pre-IPO at least).

Chip Specs: Multi-core 130 nm chip with power consumption of: 2.7 w/Ghash. Each chip runs at 4.7 GH/s @ 12.8W
Chip estimated cost (full production run post First-run): $9-$10 USD per chip or $2 per GH

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Kinda like Bitcoin.

When you think you understand Bitcoin completely ... you have stopped trying.

convincing the other members to forgive Microsoft and reinstall virtual Windows on their Linux machines so we can all play.

It runs well in Wine.

Will anyone trust BFL anymore, even with a different product range?

Best thing for them is to pack it in or sell the company off to some rich idiot.

There was a topic on the BFL forum on Sunday which was deleted by,presumably, Josh (as he was online and was Last Activity: Moderating according to his profile).

The topic was raising awarenesss that Kansas police were investigating BFL and contained information such as contact information for the detective in charge.
It was promptly deleted and the user (Angelito) was permanently banned.
Several users in the shoutbox noticed it was removed and the IRC room was also aware as Angelito (under the handle Captain_Atom) came into the room looking for BFL Staff.

I'm not a big fan of censorship, especially as:

a) The refusal of refunds is wrong and, in some countries, highly illegal,
b) Pretty sure its in contravention of the FTC rules on shipping for 30 days or refund (unless the customer is given specific shipping dates to which they agree),
c) If people want a refund, they should be given a refund simply for ethical reasons
d) They're abusing the 'No refunds once shipping has commenced' rule. That rule is used for when a company ship YOUR order, not any order. Even in the UK that would be illegal (you can receive a refund for upto 7 days after you've received the order).

Nah, we're keeping this here for the sake of the community. Think of this being Level 1 of surviving in the Internet.

I am a japanese prince, nephew of an important and rich daimyo, I need your money in order to "unlock" the family gold, please send me your money I will give you like a guaranteed return of 500%, this isn't a nigerian scam, srsly.

And who is that exactly?

Indeed, this is a laudable service - but not one that does people looking to short ACTIVEMINING or ASICMINER or, for that matter any mining "stock" a damned bit of good... let alone many of the funds and other companies that seem to be hitting the markets more than once per week as of late.


edit: I should add - it's not just about the existence of the opportunity. The opportunity to short already exists OTC, and always has. That doesn't mean it has been very well exploited other than by those who are willing/able to go through those extra steps. The idea behind the paired funds is that it provides a matchmaking service between long-holders interested in earning something on top of their dividends and capital gains - and short sellers willing to put down collateral and pay interest on the borrowed shares.

Such a service - regardless of who operates it - is a sort of dedicated escrow to a specific transaction type: facilitating the lending and borrowing of shares. Realistically such a service could be entirely automated - and it would probably be more effective if it were. That would be something I would look into (were I running such assets) after a period of time - depending on what sort of volume the early funds saw in that regard.

I played for years starting in '04 IIRC. I think I enjoyed the chat more than the game itself. Eve attracts intelligent people. Eve and Bitcoin make a good team. I could see an Eve/Bitcoin radio station as quite entertaining.

Always wanted to try EVE. Maybe this is it.

There's an argument to be made that a rational price of a steady dividend paying asset in the bitcoin markets should appear like a HYIP.

People pricing securities even to a 1-year P:E are probably overpricing them by under-estimating the various headline, regulatory, competitive, and trust risks - among likely others.

The fact that many (perhaps most) of the securities being traded are issuing near-100% of their profit as dividends is somewhat telling of this fact, although it's still a bit troubling that many of these securities are trading with P/E ratios and Yields of established corporations in the fiat markets - which doesn't reflect the various risks involved as well as might be desired.

A short fund would help this a great deal - as there are likely intelligent people watching these markets for a good opportunity - but are avoiding investing in most or all of the issues available because they find most or all of them overpriced against the risk.

I filed a formal complaint against GBBG with the SEC. Apparently fraudulent ponzi schemes involving bitcoin are in their jurisdiction now.

Have fun with that.

ok, the withdrawel-issue is annoying, and you're right, it seems they don't offer this service for real. But they have a lag machine, that's a service ...

TOKYO - JAPAN - May 30, 2013

Statement Regarding Account Verifications

 The Bitcoin market continues to evolve, as do regulations and conditions of compliance for Mt. Gox to continue bringing secure services to our customers. It our responsibility to provide a trusted and legal exchange, and that includes making sure that we are operating within strict anti-money laundering rules and preventing other malicious activity.

 As a result, beginning May 30th, 2013 all Mt. Gox user accounts are required to be verified in order to perform any currency deposits and withdrawals.Bitcoin deposits do not need verification, and at this time we are not requiring verification for Bitcoin withdrawals.


has this changed sometime in the past 2 months with an official announcement?

Your an idiot.