Here's a consideration:

Perhaps some people just hold the moral value that a persons worth and holdings should be based on their contribution to society.

Whilst I don't begrudge the people who have a dick load of coins, when compared to the rest of the world, I don't believe it's "fair" (but I also can't propose and alternative)

For someone to earn literally millions of dollars, for buying and hoarding some virtual currency is not "fair" when you consider how little teachers, nurses, civil servents and generally the rest of the world get paid for working their asses off day in day out.

If all the Mr Binmen and and all the Mrs Midwife who gets paid £50 a day were to stop turning up to work, we'd be up the creek without a metaphorical paddle. The world keeps spinning if people don't buy bitcoins.

It doesn't take skill, and it doesn't contribute anything towards society buying and sitting on a boat load of Bitcoins, although actively trading is a slightly different matter.

"but footballers get paid more" or "but <insert retarded celebrity> gets paid more" is not a valid counter argument.

In general, too many people are jealous of what other people have that they don't have themselves. This is an indication of being a 'small' person. Typically the same persons would look at some rich dude depicted in a magazine and think he's repulsive. His crime: Being rich.

I think it's part of human nature, most of us want everything, but we don't want to do much for it. Those taking the risk of investing early on, or using the system in the very beginning was visionaries, or risk-takers or high stake gamblers. The definition is for you to decide.

The point is that wherever and whenever somebody has gained something that's outside that of the norm, someone somehow is bound to complain.

The same people complaining about early adopter unfariness would've not complained if they were an early adopter themselves (then they would be happy...), and if somebody had told them: Invest now, and reap the benefits later, they would've probably not've invested anyway. What - internet play money ? Ponzi - pyramid scheme - hell no!

Full disclosure: Not an early adaptor, and not jealous of anyone with a lot of money. 

Failed again. Sending Pm with info now.

I'm glad that BitInstant is able to anonymously process Dwolla payments, but I was wondering if anyone knew how they get away with circumventing Dwolla's STRICT policy regarding identity requirements.

For example I recently applied for a merchant account at Dwolla and was sent these instructions regarding their requirements:


As a test, I just bought $20 in bitcoins using Dwolla to Bitcoin Address and there was no verification requirements whatsoever.

If anyone can help me understand why this is the case I will show my appreciation with a little bitcoin confetti! Cheers!

Sorry, I thought the issue had to be resolved with Dwolla and Bitinstant. So I ment when that was resolved everything will work fine?
Also the link doesn't lead anywhere. After I log in it shows a blank Funding Sources page. Then I click Funding Sources again and my verified account shows up.

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Yep, got the same error around 12pm today.
My Account is verified on Dwolla so when its back up I should be good to go right?

print out the payment slip and go to cvs or walmart. they will know what to do with it

We're not psychologists, so I would try not to "diagnose" him with disorders.  I think it's more likely that aethero (Ryan) posted this, and his wife saw it and deleted it.

Anything's possible, but let's look at all the possibilities.

Thanks for the reply!

That's what I thought too initially.

If you type in a zip code on cashpayment.com (which *is* ZipZap) you can find plenty of payment centers. Further more, if I go to ZipZap from BitInstant the website shows that there are NO payment centers in the Entire US, which I know is wrong. There is something like 700,000 different places in the US to use ZipZap. Hell, I've even heard about on NPR one afternoon.

-Frank

If this has already been answered please excuse me, I tried searching google and ended up here, tried searching here and still no answers.

Today I tried to make my first bitcoin purchase.  My original intent was to use dwolla to buy from mgtox, but today once my deposit at dwolla had cleared I discovered mgtox requires ID on file to buy bitcoins with dwolla.  Not wanting to wait until after Monday to make my purchase I discovered I could use dwolla at bitinstant and transfer them to mtgox.  So I selected the dwolla to mtgox option and everything seemed to go fine until the third line in my event history at bitinstant.  It shows that the data from dwolla was received, then the next line in my event history says "Dwolla IPN failure" and nothing has occurred since then.

I'm not exactly panicking, the money is still in my dwolla account so I haven't lost anything.  However it would be nice to know if the order will process at some point or if I have to make a new one?  I don't want to create a new order and be out twice as much money if the first one goes through as well.  Can anyone tell me what the issue is?  If there's something I did wrong on my end (I put in all account numbers properly so it's not that) it'd be nice to know what I did wrong.

Thank you.

i sent 720 between two payments today. on each occasion i had my coins in my gox account by time i was home and wally mart is literally across the street. bitistant is slowly regaining my faith but time will tell.

Yeah I know they keep linking me to blockchain where it says transaction complete yet i still have not received my bitcoins i honestly dont believe i will ever see them by the way it's going. And Danny to be honest im not sure but im going to be damn sure i do way more research cause the amount of complaints i have seen about the same thing i am experiencing is astounding for such a popular used exchange. It sucks but i am glad that i was not one of the people who are thousands of dollars that are getting the run around like i have been.

Are online bank transfers not allowed for US customers yet? I don't see the option in the drop down menu. I hate using moneygram at CVS. Their internet went down last time I sent money and I had to wait there 30 minutes to confirm the transaction went through. If it's not allowed yet, is there an ETA?