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"I won't send first because I've been scammed before" is a very common scammer pattern. Same goes for "paying way above market because I don't want to use the exchanges".
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You should buy some meat. I've always liked the idea of being able to buy meat from the internet, even before bitcoin was around.
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Also note that I will not go first!
I underwent trust issues with my first transaction and ended up being scammed $400. That is why. If you are not willing to go first do not contact me.
Sounds shady. If you've already got money in Dwolla, why don't you just buy from one of the exchanges? |
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I was actually just thinking about posting something on facebook about buying and selling bitcoins today. I also want to post an ad on craigslist and sell to/buy from people that I don't know. Anyone who's done that have advice for me? I posted some questions here: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=25086.0Also, Bruce, that page needs a weusecoins link. |
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Imo, diversification increases the risk rather than decreases it. (if you have money on 2 exchanges the chance of any of them being hacked/taken down increases by 100%).
While you do double your risk of losing some of your coins, your risk of losing all of them becomes much lower. SJ: I believe the next release of the Bitcoin client (0.3.24) is supposed to include support for wallet encryption. You may want to wait for that, so that you don't have to figure out some other method of encrypting your wallet. This should make for a relatively secure setup if you don't access the wallet after creating it. Wallet-stealing malware would have to wait until you enter your wallet passphrase before it could get at your coins. |
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use Ubitex.org to do your match ups.
Is this something that you actually do? I've been watching Ubitex since it opened, and honestly it doesn't seem very useful at the moment. At the very least, I'd want the ability to tie my prices on there to the prices on other exchanges, like you can in #bitcoin-otc. For advertising, I was planning on just putting something up on craigslist; maybe mentioning it on facebook too. |
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I'm thinking of buying and selling bitcoins locally, mainly as a way to make it easier for people to get involved in the bitcoin economy. I know some other bitcoiners are doing this as well, so I'm interested in getting some advice on how to go about it. - Do your customers come to your home, do you go to them, or do you meet somewhere?
- What safety precautions do you take?
- What kind of fees do you charge?
- How much business do you get, and what kind of area are you located in, population-wise?
- Where do you advertise?
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To be clear, I don't support killing the Politics subforum. I want to see this entire forum either moved to a separate domain and completely disassociated from bitcoin.org; or shut down and archived. This place is full of crazies, trolls, and drama queens. It's poorly run, and it makes the Bitcoin project look bad. I believe it would be far better to let a handful of unofficial forums compete for users, rather than having a single official forum which has no incentive to compete.
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The sad thing is that I think you are already defeated. It looks like you quit. They enemy has already won, in your mind.
Case in point. Bind, I mean no offense by this, and I have no idea what you're like in person, but your posts make you sound somewhat unhinged. Keep in mind that this observation is coming from someone who shares a lot of your political views. To someone that doesn't share your views, you probably come off as downright crazy. Talking about "believers" doesn't help. That makes it sound like Bitcoin actually is a Ponzi scheme. Hell, worse than that. It makes us sound like a cult. |
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the first step is to make the dumb masses think that it is safe to bring our Trojan horse inside their city.
To put it more diplomatically, most people are operating from different premises than we are, and changing those premises is hard. It's not likely to happen though arguing with them on the internet. In fact, that's a great way to harden their current beliefs. Our primary argument, when talking to non-libertarians, should be that Bitcoin is useful. If it continues to exist and grow, that itself will eventually serve as a solid challenge to their worldviews. |
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IF bitcoin cannot succeed because of its political baggage, than it is a poorly designed currency.
I'm sure that it can succeed, but that doesn't mean that it will succeed. I believe a Trojan Horse analogy is appropriate here. Good marketing: Hey, check out this awesome giant wooden horse that we made for you guys! Please accept it as a token of our good will. Bad marketing: Hey, check out this awesome giant wooden horse that we made for you guys! It's full of Roman soldiers! They're going to help us conquer your city! |
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Saying that bitcoin has no political/economical view built-in at all is just wrong. It does.
This is true, but irrelevant. Do you want Bitcoin to be used by those who do not share your political beliefs? If so, then don't present it as "the libertarian currency". Present it as politically neutral, even if it's not. |
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 Mouseover text: "The safe is empty except for an unsolved 5x5 Rubik's cube." |
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Updated the original post with the full list of what's in my binder.
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You could try bitcoinforums.net. There may be others out there as well.
This forum needs to be removed from the bitcoin.org domain and moved to its own domain. It shouldn't have any official sanction from the main site. Let the various forums compete for users based on quality, rather than having a single poorly-run official forum.
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received cards, in good condition...and very nice packaging...was a little worried because of the massive amounts of rain, but were completely enclosed in bubble wrap. Thanks for the cards  Sure thing.  |
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Bump. Priced in USD instead of BTC now. $12 per coin didn't last.
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