There are at least two exchanges that will accept that, VirWoX and MercaBit.eu. 

Mercabit.eu shows as having a day free of fees today due to it being Bitcoin Friday:
 - http://www.Mercabit.eu

Close, ... how about:

Tomorrow's money, today.

Incidentally, another thread on this topic:
 - http://www.rugatu.com/questions/4259

Do you have a Chase bank near?  You might find a few coins using a cash deposit through Chase for BitMe:
 - http://www.BitMe.com

Also BitcoinsDirect accepts cash deposits at Wells Fargo, but there isn't enough sellers so they don't have many coins to sell:
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87094.0

If the blockchain for the client running the old wallet has completed updating to the latest block and there still are no confirmations showing that could mean the client determined that the transaction is a double spend.  (It could also mean that it just hasn't been confirmed yet, no miners have included it in a block yet).

Does the spend transaction appear on Blockchain.info for instance?  If not, then it is likely a double spend and you'll need to perform a little wallet surgery to get the balance on the old wallet to reappear correctly (by using pywallet to delete the offending transaction, then -rescan.)

Each of the Bitcoin.org clients are backward compatible.  You simply can run setup on top of an existing installation.  With linux, you can simply overwrite the existing executable with the latest.

The wallet.dat is not touched during the installation process.  It is still advisable that you make a backup of the wallet.dat from right before updating though.

I did end up doing this.  The free $25 got added by the time I checked my balance a couple hours later.  So it does work.

You can  then spend the funds from the Serve card at an ATM and wherever AmEx is accepted. Or you can withdraw the funds to your own bank account.  You can also send the funds to another Serve customer (person-to-person, like you can with PayPal).  

Just an update for this thread:

- http://www.quickbitcoins.net

Just an update for this thread:

- http://www.quickbitcoins.net

I am now seeing some relatively decent order depth and the spreads narrowing on BitMe! (i.e., can buy or sell several hundred dollars worth of coins without being hurt due to slippage).
 - http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/bitmeUSD_depth.html

That's just about all that I'ld need to do more trading here.  Except not having two-factor authentication kind of puts a damper on things.


Any update on this?

What ways do you see this type of use occurring?

- http://shadowlife.cc/2012/11/necessary-conditions-for-the-long-term-success-of-bitcoin

While that is a lofty goal, until the density of local traders increases these methods help as an intermediate step.  For instance, last month when the majority of cash deposit methods available in the U.S. (BitInstant, Bitcoins Direct, BitFloor, BitMe) went down at the same time (temporarily, fortunately) there were some people really in dire straights.  These are people who are now using bitcoins as a substitute for cash.   They've come to rely on the ability to visit a bank or 7-11  and convert cash into bitcoins.

Unless there already was an easy method that allowed them to use cash to acquire bitcoins, they would never have gotten to the point where they rely on there being a supply of bitcoins.  If the only way to convert cash to bitcoins was to locate and transact with a local trader, most of these people would never have gotten started.  But now that there is a demand for bitcoins this volume is now becoming sufficient to make it worth the effort for individuals to become local traders and begin offering to do OTC exchange.

The network had to build up before the network effect began to yield much value.

But we're seeing that now.

Look at the growth of offers to trade through Local Bitcoins for instance.
 - http://www.LocalBitcoins.com

Yes, the exchange rate moves and you may get less or more than you would have gotten had the trade executed immediately. 

This situation exists for many companies who do commerce in multiple nations, though Bitcoin's exchange rate volatility exacerbates the problem.

If your selling prices have sufficient markup, the exchange rate risk should normally not be that significant and probably evens out over time between the times the rate goes up versus the times it goes down.

If there is a larger transaction or the need to lock in at the exact rate  from when the sale occurred, API calls to handle hedge trading using a custom approach rather than autosale is one solution. 

Are you trying to conceal the source of money obtained by illicit means?   

If not, then what legal risk might you believe you are exposing yourself to?

That's definitely a concern if it does save the print output to a hard drive.

HP says they don't:

Standard print and copy jobs print directly without storing information on the HDD.

Advanced output options can use the HDD for temporary files.

 - http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02164443&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=3673580&prodTypeId=18972


I've added a mention to the Wki article.

Good luck finding a source for that law.  It doesn't exist.

If such a law did exist, you or I couldn't accept Euros, or Pesos, or Yen, Ithica Hours, or bus tokens even.

If you are referring to the Bernard von Nothaus conviction, he was not convicted of "competing with the USD".  He was convicted of issuing metal coins that were considered to be counterfeits of U.S. coinage.

The U.S. prosecutor made a statement following the case that "It is a violation of federal law for individuals… to create private coin or currency systems to compete with the official coinage and currency of the United States.".  That was not in the charges that the jury decided.  The prosecutor's statement is not the law.

Bill Rounds of How To Vanish wrote this post:
 - http://www.lewrockwell.com/rounds/rounds35.1.html

and Anthony Wile wrote this post:
 - http://lewrockwell.com/wile/wile64.1.html

For those preferring a web-viewer:


Chapter 3:
 - http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crimecommission.gov.au%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffiles%2Fannual_reports%2F1112%2FACC_AR_2011-2012_chapter3.pdf

Full report:
 - http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crimecommission.gov.au%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffiles%2Fannual_reports%2F1112%2FACC_AR_2011-2012.pdf

If you are implying that they aren't delivering because they are mining while the sun shines (while the blocks are still 50 BTC), we'ld be seeing a lot more than 24.5 Thash/s if that were the case.

You didn't include the election or the upcoming tax changes in the U.S. as one of the reasons.

- http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2012/10/17/no-matter-who-wins-the-election-higher-taxes-are-certain/


- http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204789304578088931525397120.html

So there could be additional amounts of cash newly available for investing and some of that might end up at Bitcoin exchanges.  Today's selloff in the stock markets includes some who are dumping so that their capital gains occur in 2012.

If you were already going to a 7-Eleven, why wouldn't you just have used BitInstant (Moneygram) instead and saved yourself this hassle?  MoneyPak is a horrible payment method for buying bitcoins.

There's an opportunity for someone to build a standalone app to redeem private keys.

All the app (or mobile-enabled web app) needs to do is simply let you scan a QR code with a private key, and then scan the QR code of the destination Bitcoin address (or allow entry of the bitcoin address / paste from clipboard).

From there the app needs only to send an API call to Blockchain.info:


(Well, technically two calls, one to get the unspent balance and the second call for the spend transaction.)

This could be a pretty easy app (or mobile-enabled website) to build.   To see how a mobile-enabled website can do a field for scanning via a QR code, see EasyWallet.org' site:
 - http://www.EasyWallet.org

I'ld love to see someone build this capability for mobiles.