I've always have dealt with the larger places to get my bitcoin. And since they are larger, they have limits. If I wanted to buy some bitcoin I had to buy $500 worth. No less. I don't need $500 worth all the time. I have an account at coinbase, dwolla, both with verified bank account but never used them before. Some people have told me to go to the trading pages, like a page where private people are making trades and all that. I'm guessing they tack on a hefty % to get a profit. What's the best kind of places to get coin for a few hundred dollars with not getting rapped by fees. I think the place that has the $500 min there is a %2 charge. Would love to know what people have to say. Any good trading places out there that are reputable? Thanks!

So if I was able to get money into my coinbase account after waiting however many days it takes I would be able to buy bitcoin right away and have that bitcoin that day?

I've used basically one place to buy my bitcoins, but want to be able to have a backup plan. In the past they haven't always been available to me when I needed them.

I already have an account with Dwolla and a verified bank account.

I have an account with bitfloor, but for some reason they don't have anymore cash deposit method. I refuse to have to pay someone to take my money.

I have an account with coinbase, but never used them before. Can I out right buy BTC using coinbase with my bank account? Still waiting for verification there.

Any other suggestions out there to buy bitcoins?


Also, in the near future I will also be selling some bitcoins. I guess that's a whole new ball game.

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Are you still using BOA for current customer's that buy BTC from you? I saw in another thread that BOA will no longer be used on your other site.

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For everyone that has used this service, which type of payout method do you prefer? I won't be a huge bitcoin seller, but a small one so I'm thinking bank account transfer. I do like Paypal but once it gets into the Paypal account Paypal tacks on their fees also. I refuse to add a bank account to Paypal. I have an account at Dwolla, with my bank account verified. I wonder if Dwolla charges any fees to go from my Dwolla account to my bank account. Have to keep an eye out, cause there are fees in every step of the game.

Thanks Tangible.

Thank you!

I was really looking forward to this automated type process. Maybe I'm lucky it is not here, too easy to buy bitcoins.

I have purchased bitcoins myself and have the directions on how to, but I wanted to ask about a friend of mine that asked me about it. Is he allowed to use this service or is it closed to new people?
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I've dealt with TC several times in buying bitcoins. It has always been a fast and reliable way for me. I can't wait for the new service.

Holy shit, this is how rumors start big time. Work, school? Who said anything about that? Steal power? Lose a job? Dude, you must be a fiction writer or just a dude that likes to spread rumors? I'm now a guy who stole from young kids at a school who is killing all their graphics hardware running a rig at work which I got fired from. What a story.

I have an "in" the ATI/AMD company and able to get "test" video cards. Which means basically free video cards.

Since Butterfly labs posted that they bought a static amount of chips and can only make x number of rigs does this mean if you miss the first batch that gets sent out you have to wait until the second batch is made? What I mean, since I cannot get in touch with BFL at all have they already used up all their purchased chips/hardware from their pre-orders or there are spots left? I've asked BFL several times and called them several times but nothing. Kind of makes me weary a little that a company that is literally "holding" everyone's money I can't even get a hold of on the phone.

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How many rigs can you plug into that small computer? As many as you wanted if you had a large AC powered USB hub right?

You control on what you want to do. Transfer your coins to multiple addresses as many times as you wish. Use online/offline wallets, even split up the coin. After throwing coin around to multiple places its almost impossible for someone to track back. I know some people that have over 50 addresses and "wash" their coin by themselves. Not sure why since they don't tell me what they are doing with their coin. I guess if you mine and get good payouts then transfer to real currency and don't pay taxes on that income it would be "illegal".

We all know the guys operating those machines and all the people in that building will be grabbing ASIC boards soon as they are done and be mining at home that night. If there is one thing you can count on and trust in it is people being GREEDY. There will be many ASIC boards out there mining away probably weeks before the official ones are shipped out. Also, if they are just getting delivered the hardware that makes the boards then from experience it takes a few months to get everything configured and up and running.

Crazy pictures on this thread. Didn't even know what I was looking at with some of them. I have a question. I saw lots of pictures where people had multiple video cards just sitting outside or strapped to a board. Then I just saw the power connections on those cards but didn't see any data connections. How are these cards connected to the mainboard? How many video cards can a mainboard have? There are only 1 or 2 PCI-E slots usually on a mainboard, right? I have the ability to get some high end ATI cards. I also won't be paying for any electric, which makes it fairly good for me. I have a few mainboards not being used but find it difficult to know how to connect 4 GPU's to one mainboard, or even more if possible.
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Anyone know the payout of this particular card? I find it hard to find that information on such a new card. I may be able to get several of them. They retail for about $3500 each.

What does this have to do with anything relating to my original post?

I'm waiting for that ASIC hardware myself.

Ok, just to familairze myself with how things work and before my real hardware does come in I want to try the waters with my single Nvidia GTX580 video card. Right now I'm using GUIMiner and using defaults and getting 142Mhash/s. I didn't put in any special flags or anything. Is there anything else I could be doing to get more out of this one card or join a different pool? Right now I'm joined with DEEPBIT pool. I just picked one out of a list. Are there any particular pools better then others for a single card like myself just learning the ropes?

I read that RPCMiner is good for Nvidia. I'm basically willing to play and try anything to familairize myself with what's out there and get some conversations going at least. I doubt I'll even see one BTC in 30 days.

I've been using Blockchain for a couple of months now. I've sent/received bitcoin on many occassions with no problems. All of sudden today I an unable to log in with my password. I am aware that Blockchain does not store your password locally so I wrote my password down on paper and put it in my safe. It is the same password I use on several of my banking sites, so I know the password well. For some reason I'm unable to log into my Blockchain account and there is no way they are able to help me!! I have this funny little feeling that they maybe have something to do with this. Since I'm unable to get to my money now and that account will just go stale I'm pretty sure that Blockchain will get that money eventually. Maybe they do this on purpose for random accounts? I'm %100 sure that I know my password. It is a little ironic that they don't store your password on their server and can't help me. Strange. So, if you have a lot of money tied up on Blockchain I would send it to your local wallet instead. I'm finding out that the best place to keep your bitcoin is your local wallet and NONE of these online places.

So what do they do? I checked the site out and pretended to buy some bitcoin and took me all the way to my paypal account. Do they just take your money and not even give you the bitcoin? I don't get it.