Early next week you will be able to buy again through Blockchain.info with an instant bank transfer:

- https://blockchain.info/wallet/deposit-bank-transfer


You might want to post your offer in the following thread which is watched by other buyers and sellers in the UK -- and since the OP is currently without a bank account there are probably others willing to buy from you:

Well, it would probably leave them in the best position possible at this point.    I doubt there is a single person who would turn down the chance to receive BFL's 60 Ghash/s today versus waiting a month to be able to receive a 72 Ghash/s device in its place -- especially if that 72Ghash/s is competing against ASICs starting to be delivered from competitors like bASIC.

Except we have one last difficulty adjustment coming before block 210,000.

Interestingly, however, the estimate for the next difficulty is at about the same level as the current difficulty.   

So barring any changes in mining capacity (or extreme swing as the result of variance) it is looking like the halving will occur Wednesday afternoon/evening (U.S. timezones)  near the midnight hour for much of Europe and early morning Thursday in Asia.

The challenge is in getting past how Bitcoin mining consumes a fair amount of electricity.  Maybe with the efficiency of ASIC this will temper that argument for a while.

Do you know the "new difficulty coming in"?   Because if so, the knowledge of that is worth a lot more than anything you could make with 27 Ghash/s.

CPU mining for all of those combined might result in maybe a few tens of Mhash/s at best.  

A $1,000 ASIC shipping "real soon now" can mine at 2,000 times that.
A $100 GPU even can mine at ten times that.

From another thread:


And then, from the post on BFL's forum:

After the initial orders are shipped then units are produced and shipped daily.  Those shipments go out to the oldest unfilled orders (based on the payment date).

- https://forums.butterflylabs.com/blogs/bfl_jody/48-batches-really-we-dont-have-them.html


In the reference above limited the date range for the random orders was limited through July 23rd.  It appears at the time then that the initial batch was expected to be fully allocated and no orders paid for later than July 23rd would be in that batch.  (And thus all are spoken for).  That's just how I'm interpreting that and I could be probably am wrong.

Wire transfers from UK are not cheap like SEPA transfers are.  And international wires to UK banks are expensive also.

But which direction are you needing, to an exchange or from?

For buying bitcoins, Barclays Pingit through Blockchain.info seems to fill the gap for many:
 - https://blockchain.info/wallet/deposit-pingit

For cashing out I was going to suggest this one service but ...

It is an easy excuse.

Every few months I get called by a sales rep from an e-commerce service that I'm a long-time customer with.  When I am asked if I have any questions or if they can do anything to better serve me I ask about being able to pay with bitcoin (or even Dwolla).  Recently was the third time I've asked the exact same person and the response was no different from the first instance ... "Oh?  What's is it?   No, I'm not familiar with bitcoin.  I'll enter that request in your file though."

And yet every order I place, I have to go through PayPal once again.

Having WordPress onboard now though is huge. 

Also, as Square lands a few more bricks and mortar businesses to use their iPad tablet app, each of those businesses the are already equipped to accept bitcoin using either a payment processor or just an EWallet like Blockchain.info/wallet.

I don't see that in many places yet though ... merchants still like their old aging cash register / point of sale terminals and card swipe machines.  But these will get swapped out eventually so putting the bug in their ear that you'ld like for them to start accepting Bitcoin payment definitely won't hurt.

From the experience of GLBSE we know that there is an abundance of interest for equity crowdfunding using only bitcoins -- regardless of whether or not a platform to provide that is in compliance with securities laws of any jurisdictions.

There's really a stake in the ground that needs to be addressed in this discussion though.  Can (or should) a platform serve more than one jurisdiction?

In the U.S. the eagerly awaited crowdfunding bill is being castrated:

- http://www.cringely.com/2012/11/17/jobs-act-crowdfunding-is-unlikely-to-help-most-startups

So sure, a broker that is fully compliant could accept bitcoins from an investor just as that broker can accept cash / paper money.  But that broker would still need to do all the other legwork involved, and thus still does not serve the low end -- there will not be someone using crowdfunding under the new U.S. JOBS act to get their first $10K, for instance.

But maybe there are other jurisdictions that a platform could be registered in where there is no violation of securities laws there.

If the asset issuer does its entire financial dealings in bitcoin then there's no need for involvement of banks.  This asset issuer could register and operate in nearly any jurisdiction -- particularly one in which equity crowdfunding is not in violation of any securities laws there.

But there's a problem -- if that issuer accepts investment from investors from the U.S., that issuer is likely in violation of U.S. securities law.  Does that mean the equity crowdfunding platform must request (and verify) the identity of each investor in order to ensure that those from the U.S. are not becoming investors?   Or is it as simple as notifying the investor that the service is not offered to those in certain jurisdictions and then the investor must assert (e.g., marking a checkbox) that the investment is not coming from any of those jurisdictions?

Well, it is looking like it doesn't do a whole lot.


 - http://www.cringely.com/2012/11/17/jobs-act-crowdfunding-is-unlikely-to-help-most-startups

ICBIT.se provides leverage 1:10 leverage.  Obviously going 10X with a volatile currency like bitcoin is nutzoid but you can simply deposit 1 BTC and from those funds you get margin and from that buy a 1 BUZ2 contract. So if BTC/USD goes up a $1, the future might go up around $1 as well.

So you get the upside in value on 2 BTC, but only had 1 BTC deposited.  Again, that 1 BTC deposit has a lot more leverage, and you could actually buy multiple BUZ2 contracts with that 1 BTC (up to about 10 contracts).

Additionally, BUZ2 can be obtained at about 4% below the spot market at present so with less than a month from settlement on that even if BTC/USD doesn't gain you would realize that 4% difference.

Now the risks are, of course, that the exchange rate drops and if you are too far leveraged (and thus insufficient margin) you could possibly end up having your account liquidated.

Another risk is that ICBIT is operated anonymously, and the track record for exchanges and other services that hold coins and are operated anonymously is not good.

But I wanted to share this here in case it was of interest to you.

Yes, that impersonation of a trusted nick on IRC  (e.g., using a similar nick by appending a character to the end) is happening a lot.

If you haven't asked to be whitelisted you can try that.  Then you could move this thread to the Scam Accusations board.

Was this through IRC?  Do you by chance still have the IRC chat log for that?

Incidentally the IRC bot gribble will PM to anyone joining #bitcoin-otc with this message:

So if someone were to buy a gift card and sell it to you, you could pay that person with bitcoins.
 - https://secure.newegg.ca/GiftCard/EntryScreen.aspx

Perhaps there is someone on #bitcoin-cad who would do that (someone with a trust history, of course) :
 - http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#bitcoin-cad

Now that you have your "1 post" you can send a PM.  Try again.

I think the following, from another thread, answers your question:

Do you have a backup of your encrypted wallet?  Does this help?

It gets returned.  I think they even pay the transaction fee though I'm not sure.

You can search:

In looking up the last bunch of transactions, I don't see any that were ABOVE MAX.

You can search for the transaction here:
 - http://satoshidice.com/lookup.php?tx=&limit=10000&min_bet=0&status=ALL

Um ... no.  It happens because they don't hold CADs to back every bid on the BTC/CAD order book.   When you sell into those bids, and Mt. Gox's estimate of how much selling into the BTC/CAD would occur was too little, they then need to convert funds from some other currency they hold.

Scroll up.  It's all explained for you.

You probably are not seeing the error message.

Try just this.

 $ pywallet.py --dumpwallet

And if the wallet is encrypted, you'll need to add --password=PASSWORD