Many of you must have dealt with Anthariksh V (wilson) - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=116554

I paid him 1,50,000 /- (One Lakh Fifty Thousand) for 3.937 BTC on 19th March, 2014 but he has still not given me the BTC always coming up with one excuse or the other and now his phone is unreachable. He first said he will pay me after receiving the money, then he said 48 hours, later he said  24th March, then 25th and then 27th but now he has not replied for 2 days and his phone is unreachable.

I have actually dealt with him a couple of times since 2013 but lately he seemed desperate for money and was acting weird. But i still paid him because i had bought from him many times. EDIT - HE IS A SCAMMER. No BTC/Money for close to a month now.

Maybe I can report this scam to the IT Department and the Police. On earlier occasions,  I have paid him for BTC to many different accounts.

This time, i paid the 1,50,000/- to
abhijith venkataraman


Potential Scammer Details:
Name : Anthariksh V
City : Bangalore
Forum Profile : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=116554

Update April 11, 2014: This guy is a scammer. No news from him and no BTC till date. He was even asking for more money for investment in contract work he was doing in Bangalore.

How can you just come up with random numbers related to Bitcoins?

It's highly unlikely (actually almost impossible) that India has 8% of Bitcoins. Even countries with high end miners easily accessible and with high percentage of early adopters may not have such high percentage of Bitcoins. The Indian forum hardly has any activity. 4000+ crores is a lot of money. Even a few million dollars can cause wild swings in Bitcoin prices but announcements in India have no effect on Bitcoin because there are hardly any coins here in India.

India may have 15% of world population but only 1% of that has broadband access. Compared to world broadband access, India may have about 3% share. Also consider that broadband users from other countries have much higher income. If they come up with a list of users and approximate Bitcoins with them, they will wonder where the rest of the Bitcoins have gone! Better not to get authorities to react based on speculation.

I need to learn some of your Math. We could make good profits

Bought 15 BTC.

Smooth and quick

This is a bears thread. There's nothing for the bears at present with the raging prices lol

Anyway the party will come to an end some day and some may be left with worthless coins if they don't enjoy the present and the few months ahead! Technology progresses rapidly once a start is made somewhere.

In the near future, even 1 second maybe too long a wait! It's not about the past - it's about the future.

I don't think Bitcoin will be the future crypto currency. With the instant internet age, people don't have the time to wait even 1+ minutes for transactions to take place and then there's no solution for the ever increasing Blockchain size. No way Bitcoin will be able to handle 100,000+ transactions per second. Bitcoin is experimental and has too many flaws to be successful.

I believe a better digital currency will come to replace Bitcoin and it may even be made by some government. All merchants will probably flock to use a government's digital currency.

However, there's still no competition for Bitcoin yet except maybe Ripple so Bitcoin will keep rising in value for some more months (years?). Till then the bulls can enjoy the ride but don't forget to unload some coins on the way!

Games are just for some fun. The easiest way would be the Offers and trade-ins

The wiki at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bonus_Programs seems to be missing one of the best sites that offer Bitcoins as payout. The site is http://www.tremorgames.com

Tremor Games not only has the most amount of Offers available but they also have many other ways in which you can earn Tremor Coins which can then be redeemed for Bitcoins. $1 is about 900 Tremor Coins on the site. They not only have Bitcoins but also have about a 1000+ other items (mostly Steam Games) at http://www.tremorgames.com/index.php?action=shop (you need to be logged in to view the rewards)

You can earn Tremor Coins by :

1. Completing Offers like in other offer sites. But they seem to have the most offers compared to other Bitcoin offer sites.

2. Earning achievements in flash games at http://www.tremorgames.com/categories/161/achievement-games.html. These are not simple flash games available in other offer sites but most are of very high quality. I have not seen offer sites with such high quality games anywhere. They were a site focussed on only on gaming earlier and so have high quality games. They have many games developed/sponsored by them at http://www.tremorgames.com/index.php?action=gamesforsite

3. Trading in Steam Trading Cards, Steam Emoticons, TF2 Items, CS:Go items. They are adding to their list of items that can be traded regularly. You can see how much you can earn by trading in here http://www.tremorgames.com/?action=tradeinprices Using this method, you can actually go and buy from the Steam marketplace and then trade in the items to get Tremor Coins and use them to redeem Bitcoins.

4. Earning trophies at http://www.tremorgames.com/?action=showalltrophies

5. Loggin in daily gives you a small Tremor Coins bonus.

6. They also have giveaways regularly at http://www.tremorgames.com/?action=viewgiveaways You can see the last 300 closed giveaways at http://www.tremorgames.com/?action=viewgiveaways&status=0

If you like to join the site and help me out, here is my referral link
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Non referral link : http://www.tremorgames.com/

Bought 200 BTC from Wilson

EDIT : Scammer Alert!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=547733

I have actually bought legal stuff worth $2000+ with Bitcoins (that i bought with fiat) and it was not payable by traditional methods. I never mined any Bitcoins. The world is big

Thanks for the Bitcoins.

I'd like to buy some BTC with Paypal. How are your rates?

Right.

Want to warn users of a scam:
skrill2btc (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=82453) messaged me to add him in skype. Did that and he said he wanted to sell 2.3 BTC for $300
Conversation:
ME : In the forums i see that you wanted to buy 2.1 BTC for $300?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=217177.msg2281723#msg2281723
[12:32:22] skrill btc bitcointalk: yes because I have some extra mp I would like to convert to btc right now
[12:32:24] skrill btc bitcointalk: im a gambling man
[12:33:22] skrill btc bitcointalk: sold 25btc @220 awhile back and sold a lot for mp
[12:33:42] skrill btc bitcointalk: but skrill is much easier as it goes straight into my bank
[12:33:52] skrill btc bitcointalk: fortress should be adding to skype soon

(*I didn't even ask him for an Escrow)

tradefortress_ adds me in skype (Location : United States). When i tell him to message me in bitcointalk, he says "seems to have some problems right now with messaging due to inbox i'll get at you in just a moment".
He uses the same avatar as TradeFortress in Skype.

Someone is impersonating "TradeFortress" https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=67058 (Location shows Sydney, Australia)

Be careful around here!

Is it possible to open a US bank account for a non-US citizen without a social security number?

I have Amazon Gift Card / Paypal / Moneybookers.
I can also get you an Entropay virtual VISA card for the amount.
If you need a gift card such as Ultimate Game Card or Linden Dollars let me know.

Willing to go first.Too many scammers here. Will only do Escrow through a reputed member/moderator.

Please PM or post here with your offers.

Are you still selling?

It's hard to find BTC sellers here!

I made an order but did not receive any details of your Bank account?