Account name on Mt.Gox is 'sblman78'. I started trading with Bitcoin to get some experience with trading on the real stock exchanges and forex, which is what I've been doing since. After I left Bitcoin trading, I got into mining and coding.  As a result, I haven't used Gox in a while, but my first trade was on 8/17/2011. Because Mt.Gox hosts this forum, I may have an account from way back that would corroborate my involvement in Bitcoin. I'll do some digging and see if I can find it. 

If i'm missing anything, call me out on it!

Hello!

I came across this thread while looking for coin loans, which is why my account is less than a day old (can provide proof of ID).  At any rate, my team is in need of quite a robust loan -- 65 BTC -- in order to begin work on a specialized group-source collaborative Mining program project at my university.  We're a team of 12 computer science students who have been active in bitcoin mining and trading from the early days.  Our goal is to "cannibalize" the framework of one of the larger mining programs and redesign the internals to streamline and enhance the end-user experience, which we hope will generate a greater interest in mining.  

We've calculated our predicted expenses and it comes to about $850 for the hardware alone; we're going out-of-pocket for everything else.  If the project goes as expected, we plan on introducing the software around late March of this year and monetizing it to 1. reimburse our potential financiers and 2. to fund the operation (with bux fixes, support, updates) and projects further down the road.

Now to the nuts and bolts.  We know $850 is a $&!#-ton of money, but that's low-end for the project.  We need a loan of 65-70 BTC to finance our project, so we can begin working right away.  We can work out the terms over private message, and we'll look at both loan and investment offers to keep things moving. Even a donation would be incredibly appreciated!  Transparency in communication is vital in this process, so please feel free to ask us anything about our plans in the space below.  We appreaciate you taking the time!

Cheers,

Jake G.
The TurMine Accelerated Mining Project


TurMine Project Wallet Address:
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I had the same issue with Mt. Gox when I first started using them.  The first thing is DON'T PANIC.  They'll get to you eventually, but the squeaky wheel gets the grease, so do what you have to do to get in touch with customer service or whoever.  The first time I funded my account, I did so through Dwolla with $85 or something small and it didn't show up until the next day for whatever reason. 

I highly recommend you use Dwolla, as it's as user-friendly and transparent as anything i've seen.  I have accounts with LibertyReserve and Pecunix, but something just seems... off about those sites.  Dwolla is reasonably fast, cheap as hell, and insured.  Can't really go wrong with it.  At any rate, good luck!

You could buy premade from Butterfly labs

It can take a few hours sometimes for the shares to show up.  When I first started, I used bitminter in order to just get a feel for the whole process.  I typically didn't see the shares for an hour or so.  Patience is a virtue, you know.

I've had an account with Gox since July of 2011 and have been a pool member since early last year.

Let me out of here?

Saw this while waiting for the block chain to download, so might as well give it a shot!

A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus driver says: ''Ugh, that's the ugliest baby I've ever seen!'' The woman walks to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: ''The driver just insulted me!'' The man says: ''You go up there and tell him off. Go on, I'll hold your monkey for you.''

I'll be here all week.

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