BTC-e has just added GBP but only via OKpay as far as I can see

Don't you just love online banking….

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Wasn't a surprise to me either. I withdrew 2 yesterday too and I've never had a problem withdrawing BTC from BTC-e, but theres a lot of people in this thread saying you can't withdraw from ANY exchange. As far as I know - Only GOX is the black hole and I don't know why people even care what the price is there.

For what it's worth - I just withdrew 13 BTC from BTC-e and it appeared in the Blockchain almost instantly.

I think that even if Mark stepped down and allowed a qualified CEO run Gox it would have give a significant confidence boost to Gox customers. Whilst he remains in the driving the seat, it's not going to improve.

I only used Gox once (during May 13) when BTCE temporarily stopped taking OKpay deposits. I deposited via Okpay and managed to withdraw my BTC within minutes.

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I know this is an old topic, but I was talking to someone recently and guestimated at around 100,000 Bitcoin users worldwide. I then did a search and this August 2013 came up.

Does anyone else have any differing ideas?

I just tried to use overstock in the UK and bitcoin was not available.

That's an excellent idea as I have trouble keeping up :-) even this evening I decided to skip 20 pages.

Haha! Dogecoins. I set it up on a spare 1&1 server last night (using cpu mining) but getting a pretty poor result (200 so Doges in 12 hours)

Its the first time I've tried mining anything (and it's not particularly profitable)

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Day 11

Nothing from BTC-e for four days.

FIXED: BTC-e support found the money (Day 11) and it's now in my account

I discovered Bitcoin by accident in February 2013. I needed to pay someone USD10. At the time, you could buy Bitcoins easily using block chain.info in the UK I paid GBP25 via bank transfer (approx USD40) and bought 1.7BTC within a few minutes. As you know, the banks have now made this infinitely more difficult and bank transfers take days. Even then, I loved how easy they were to use... and also the fact that (at that time) they kept rising in value and it seemed to be a never ending supply of USD... I kept spending it... but there was always at least $50 in BTC.

Now lets compare it to traditional banking...

I do business in several different countries and several different currencies. In order to transfer GBP to a GBP account in a different country... my bank charges me GBP17.00 (approx USD30) .The transfer is usually instant as its within HSBC. - I then need to ask them via a contact form to convert the funds into local currency (takes a further 24 hours as their business hours are different to mine) - Once converted, I pay various recipients and they charge me around $5 per transfer (and the recipient pays a further $3 to receive)- These transfers usually take 1 to 2 days to get to the recipients banks and exclude weekends.

There is also a limit to how much I can transfer per day using the online system. Anything over their threshold requires me to "contact them directly"

Transferring this way takes around 4 business days and requires me to perform a number of different steps at different times. I pay considerable bank charges each month and I'm restricted by the differing public holidays, working weeks and business hours of the respective countries.

This morning, I realised I needed to make some payments and would need to spread this over two days as I  would exceed my daily maximum.

However - My bank is only open for one more working day until the end of the year as Thursday was already over in that country.

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As such, we will be unable to reply to your messages nor process any requests received after banking hours of Monday, 23 December 2013; Friday, 27 December 2013 and Thursday, 30 January 2014, respectively. Normal operations will resume on Thursday, 26 December 2013; Thursday, 02 January 2014 and Monday, 03 February 2014, accordingly. "
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Bitcoin is vastly superior. No bank. No fees. No Holidays. No Working Hours. No inflation. No physical storage.

As they become easier to convert, and people become more understanding of what they really are, the 21 million coin limit makes them look seriously undervalued right now....

I particularly like this post -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=176049.0

Me too. Haven't bought anything from the 11th December until today. Bought a little bit  @ 690 and 710 (BTC-e)

even now.. I'm still sitting on the fence.. (hodling 90/10)

BTC-e deposits via OKpay are not guaranteed!

Usually it's instant. I have sent quite a few times with no problems - but sometimes they lose the transaction.

This has happened to me 3 times so far. Usually they find the transaction within a few days when you open a support ticket and they reply with a simple one liner "Hello. Fixed"

However - I have currently got an outstanding problem which they've fixed three times.... but not actually fixed.

As such my funds have been lost for 7 days and I'm losing faith in BTC-e finding it.

#CQU-870-12978

Day 7

BTC-e sent me my third "Hello. Fixed" message today ... but funds are still not in my account.

As such, I've reopened the ticket yet again..

FIXED: BTC-e support found the money (Day 11) and it's now in my account

$4000 deposit from OKpay lost: 12/17/2013 4:32 PM GMT

Ticket #CQU-870-12978

Six days and still not there. BTC-e told me they'd 'fixed' it twice and yet still no funds in my account.

How come some deposits from OKPAY to BTCE are instant... and others go missing?

FIXED: BTC-e support found the money (Day 11) and it's now in my account

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Very interesting post. Thank you.

Sadly. I believed him... but that didn't stop me buying more @ 770 and 955 .. just in case