totally bad at song writing.. anyone else wanna have a go

oops you did it again,
you made us believe, you're more secure then the rest.

oh goxy...
it might seem like a crash,
you say it does not mean, that its serious.

but to lose all my investments,
is just so typically MT
oh goxy, goxy

oops you did it again, you didnt play your part, as if its a game
oh goxy goxy

you think that were so in love,
with you the coin god abooove,

but your not that innocent..

you see our problem is this,
our faith is fading away.
wishing that security truly exists

i cry watching the trades.
i can see were the fools in so many ways

just to lose all my investments
is the fault of us obviously

ok all of you eager beavers. please contact the customer services departments of the food websites listed that cover your country and simply say

"do you accept bitcoins? and if not how long until you do because https://www.foodler.com/user/Bitcoin.do have already begun accepting it. please pass this request onto your head office if there is no current plans for bitcoin at the moment. as its a 1.6billion dollar (convert to your native currency amount) currency, growing by the day"

i have found merchants move faster if they see a demand for it.

so if you want it. ask for it.

lol HSBC i facepalm when i hear a customer is with them.

especially when their "faster payments" are a majority of the time only working during business hours. it maybe time for you to move banks.

nope.. its not illegal to freeze funds without reason..

please read the EU wire transfer regulations. it clearly states a transaction looks to be odd or exceeding the regulated limts they can freeze the funds and more importantly they should NOT disclose why..

so whether its because your on a terrorist black list or you simply sent more then 1000euro equivalent (£850) to a euro account in one shot, they will not give you a straight answer.

but the main thing i have found is UK banks only truly love and trust UK banks.
Although connected via regulation, the communications and data availability is less fluid from euro< ->UK so theres a slight higher issue moving money to euro banks. but the worse culprit is non euro banks.

i stick to my 3 tips and "touch wood" never had a problem and my bank manager in my local branch loves it

actually by law if you read the HMRC guidelines on the wire transfer regulations. money transmitters who end up in a situation where they have slight doubts about the transaction freeze the funds to first internally investigate the matter, before deciding what to do next. the regulations state that you cannot inform the customer that they are being investigated for specific reasons.

might be worth you reading some of the regulations so that you know what to do and how to handle situations that arrise, to atleast prevent them arrising.

tip 1

dont do deals over roughly £850 in one go (1000euro -EU wire transfer regulations)
dont do deals over roughly £12750 combined within a year (15000euro -EU wire transfer regulations)

tip 2
if using a business bank account to deal with large volume(under £3mill a month -payment services regulations). get FSA authorised.
if using a business bank account to deal with large volume(over £3mill a month -payment services regulations). get FSA accredited

tip 3
keep the funds cycling between business and customers based in the UK. as soon as funds go to foreign countries flags start to fly.. literally

tip 4
if your a single guy under the age of 25, without a sheep heard of customer service employee's, accountants and a corporation logo (think intersango/bitcoinica/blockchain.info) the banks will wonder where soo much money is passing in and out of your account. so develop a business relationship with your bank manager

well having spoken to FSA and also to my bank they dont mind bitcoin. but as soon as i mentioned that half my funds may go to out of country banks, they started to sound less then pleased.

banks in the UK know your whole life story when you set up a bank account so the AML/KYC (which us brits call AML/CDD) is a small/negligable problem for SOCA to investigate money movements. but as soon as money moves out of country its alot harder to trace who is behind foreign bank accounts and if they are known terrorists as its not in their juristiction,

FSA HMRC etc only care about fiat.

so as long as they see dave in london pay steve in manchester £1000, its all tracable.. what dave and steve buy and sell each other using the FIAT is not important. all FSA/HMRC care about is the FIAT money trail

so the main problem banks have is money moving abroad, which becomes less tracable without alot of paperwork and communications with other governments........ not the purchase of bitcoins.

if in doubt speak to HMRC, FSA and your bank yourself.

UK banks dont mind money transfers to other UK banks. what they do mind though is money going out of the country to european/US banks/exchanges.

so your funds will be frozen alot and i mean alot less if you do bitbargain, bitcoinfridge, speedybitcoin, local bitcoin transactions

the problem is with the banks is that they do not mind you passing money to other people in the UK such as local bitcoins or bitbargain.

what they dont like is seeing the good old UK pound sterling leaving the UK for a european/US bank (exchange).

as for the proposed UK exchange that max keiser is involved in. i will just reveal this....

Amir Taaki is also involved.......

im not personally judging amirs lifestyle choices.. but from a business prospective. the guy behind intersango which flopped, who was behind the bitcoin london conference which made alot of profit .. but is now living in abandoned offices... is not someone whom i would have alot of trust in.

but that being said he is a good coder

sub domains which link to 20 different ip's to gain access to the service.

s1.mtgox.com
s2.mtgox.com
s3.mtgox.com
s4.mtgox.com
s5.mtgox.com
and so on

each Sx wont api call the login/trading servers unless a valid login session exists. So S1-S20 only contains this one script:
echo Catcha
request response
IF CAPTCHA=VALID  create session & api login/trade servers ELSE nothing
theres a 21st server that handles logins which doesnt talk directly to useers but it uses API's for client data through S1-s20 so no one knows the IP of the login server (unless they hacked the S hosts)

wouldnt that dilute the potential kill power of a DDOS attack?

i think mtgox can afford maybe 30 servers with all their profits over the last year to atleast dilute the public accessible side of mtgox using 20 of the servers. to then have a stable trading and login servers and the last couple servers are sending out ticker information

good to hear. and um maybe not so good to hear in the future. but there is ample oppertunity tofind the contact details of just-eat spain

http://www.just-eat.es/contact

show them your service that you already offer and ask if you can become their background exchanger. where they use your exchange rate prices on their official page and they simply send you the coin and you send them the cash.

the only difference maybe is that if you get contracts signed you send them batch payments once a night instead of individual payments throughout the day. freeing up the rest of your day for other projects/expansion.

the beauty of the open market. YOU can be the next big thing

"We are all in it together"

so if you cannot see any local shops accepting bitcoin, then this is an ample opportunity for you. speak to local shops tell them about bitcoin, find someone locally that has enough "reserve" that would happily exchange bitcoins for local currency to become the shops exchanger.

there is no magic company out there that will do this for you. it involves finding some like minded guys that live near you and forming your own little bitcoin group to then establish local services.

become the local economy.

meanwhile in the USA 12,000 restaurants can now deliver fastfood to people with thanks to their online gateway.
https://www.foodler.com/user/Bitcoin.do

so look for any online services that connect to local restaurants and persuade them to accept bitcoin which then ripple effects down to the individual places in towns without the local shops having to do much work or even realsie their customer paid via bitcoin.

kind of. but i think the OP is more of live location data rather then a generalised town that a localbitcoin member lists when they register.

so if im at home, work or stopping at a petrol station it wil show a half mile radius my current location that way if there is 5 people in my town the customer will see the person closes to them in walking distance.

might be worth presenting this to localbitcoins as a new feature to add geolocating

sorry not a high end coder, so i will write this as a layman.

have like cloudflare, have mtgox.com as just a public page display server with a hidden backbone server (ip not revealed) that the public server is just php scripted to echo a page from a different server that actually does the trading.

thus separating the engines and trading platform server from the public viewing server.

have some code in the public viewing server that if X attempts are done a second per ip without a session ID (logged in user) = no function and where under x attempts that have a validated captcha or valid session ID belonging to a member, would then call the backbone server.

thirdly have another server that grabs the live market data to echo out to different places like clark moody. so that that clarkmoody and the other thousands of ticker services are not also draining resources directly off the main trading engine server

atleast then, those that are already logged in don't have page freezes and it reduces some of the lag on places like clarkmoody. especially if they tighten up tcp/ip access methods.

id even go to the extent of having 20 domain names that once your logged in you can access it through mtgox1.com or mtgox2.com that way unless these script kiddies had enough power to DDOS 20 ip addresses at once, people could still log in and trade

couple months ago walletbit said they were in contact with justeat in their Hungary, Europe office thanks to my suggestions, but then walletbit went quiet. No updates if a meeting ever happened. so it looks like it has to be a community effort and not a payment gateway effort.
kinda strange though

so my list so far for me and a few people i know to pester.

thailand
http://www.chefsxp.com/restaurants.php
http://foodbyphone.com

UK
http://just-eat.co.uk
http://hungryhouse.co.uk

europe
http://just-eat.com

canada
http://just-eat.ca

USA
http://seamless.com

anymore to add??

i know.. very great news
I'm using the foodler as an example link to show the other delivery companies that bitcoin is not just for investing in, that they should jump aboard the band wagon and get free press advertising them such as
http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130417-908270.html

cant get bigger then the wall street journal to tempt the late night office workers into ordering food from their computers.

if you have listings of national websites that link to many retailers/grocery stores that deliver, ill draft, redraft and triple check my grammar and spelling (like i do on any business communications) to then use this great example as the president to snowball more merchants onboard

(my forum grammar is generally a relaxed rush job after a few shots of whisky. so don't use my forum grammar as a example of how i professionally talk to businesses)

after months of tempting different online food delivery sites.. guess what

you can now buy fast food with bitcoin
https://www.foodler.com/user/Bitcoin.do

boom 12,094 restaurants across america now accepting bitcoin. boom

i started rambling about it last year and kept it in a few peoples minds to keep pushing people to hammer it home to merchants over the months to think about accepting bitcoins. and it seems one of them has listened so far,

next stage is if a restaurant in your town is linked to the foodler service you can use it to spread the word to other places locally to you that arn't yet accepting bitcoin, but would benefit from it..

so tell you local 7-11 that your local restaurant xyz(whatever it maybe) is accepting bitcoin and allow the other retailers to start looking into bitcoin as the information moves up the chain of command. aswell as any keep and smart guys out there to contact the HQ's of national/international retailers direct

my next step is to keep pushing
http://www.chefsxp.com/restaurants.php
and
http://foodbyphone.com/
and
http://just-eat.com/

first of all. get yourself registered as a charity with your government then people may start seeing you as legit.

second of all. get yourself registered as a charity with your government then people may start seeing you as legit.

thirdly. show exactly how the money will be used wisely EG having a photo gallary of you personally handing out bottles of water/food/clothing/blankets to those affected

fourthly. see the funds roll in as those, like me that do have a heart donate a lot when they see the money being used wisely. but big donators don't just throw money at every hand that comes begging, just because they ask for it.

the things i look for are:
1. for a long term charity : registration numbers
2. for short term disaster relief: plan of how the funds wil be converted to local currency, then how the local currency will be used. and preferably if its a local disaster relief. someone that actually lives in the area to be hands on in the project and not just a middle man taking a cut on the income.

instead of after 5 minutes getting paranoid and writing a post claiming thief id advise you to go here

https://bips.me/contact

and contact them

if no positive result after 48 hours, then allow the standard paranoia people would feel after not having access to their coins to begin.

 (reasonable time to expect a response from any business whether online or bricks & mortar)

satoshi wrote a paper with some clever maths in it. then helped develop V1 of the client.....

so why would the CIA/FBI want to find him?

all of his calculations and coding is open source so its not like he has any coding secrets that prevent governments doing anything differently..(thats the beauty of open source)

and if the governments want to take over bitcoin they would just start paying gavin andresen and chums a salary.

Satoshi's importance from a government prospective is irrelevant.

but from a Nobel prize or historical point of view only there would be reason to want to know who satoshi is, just to give the guy a pat on the back for a job well done

this guy https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=17928

owns the true blockchain.info service