You could list an offer on #Bitcoin-otc.com

You can even use a calculated field so that the strike price is relative to the last trade (e.g., so you always have the strike price in the money),

For the option to sell 10 BTC before September 28, 2012, at 5% above the current exchange rate (i.e., you are buying an in the money PUT option)  (

;;sell 10 btc at "{mtgoxlast}*1.05" USD "PUT option premium $0.75 USD/BTC expires 28Sep12. escrow of USDs required."

So if the current price is $11, the strike price would be $11.55.

With these terms, you pay 10 X $0.75 USD ($7.50, or equivalent in BTCs) to the PUT seller, the PUT seller sends to escrow $11.55 X 10 ($115.50) plus whatever the escrow fee costs.

If you wish to execute at any time before Sep 28, 2012, you send to the escrow 10 BTC and and the escrow will send to you the $115.50.   If the option expires, the escrow sends the $115.50 back to the PUT seller.

 - http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/Option_orders#PUT_Options_using_Escrow

[Edit: Corrected the escrow amount to reflect the actual strike price.]

Are you asking how a technology protocol will explain something?

Bitcoin is not a company, it is not a bank, it is not an organization.  It is a protocol.  There is a Bitcoin.org client what talks on that protocol.  There are others that do this as well.

If there are transactions that an agency wishes to look at, all bitcoin transactions that cross the network are collected in each node.  So the data is there, it just doesn't give much info.   And some transactions occur from hosted (shared) wallets, so there is less information available.  And for even better privacy, there are mixing services which blur the trail even further.

But cash also has the characteristic of not revealing a whole lot of information.  When you receive cash from someone, how does an agency know about that?  They don't.  You have the ability to transact in privacy with cash.  And life continues even with that situation.

Please change this post's forum board to the Alternate cryptocurrencies board:
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0

(You can do this using the link in the bottom left.)

CellCoin, BitcoinWireless.com, and BTCBuy.info are competing for prepaid phone card already.

SpendBitcoins had been offering Kroger (Ralphs, and others), Costco, and Southwest Air among others but got out of the U.S. market recently.

I'ld like to see the ecodes / vouchers for Alice.com be offered.  There are a lot of people who don't spend much but do buy foodstuffs and other items, and Alice is ships anywhere in the U.S.:
  - http://www.Alice.com

Keep in mind, you are now competing against 1% withdrawals for PayPal (which can be used for purchases using the PayPal Mastercard debit card).  And then the BitInstant debit card (if / when that actually comes out) is 1.5% fee.

But for things like a gas card a parent might buy for a student, even a little premium might be acceptable.

If there are cards you can obtain at a discount, then that is where you have an advantage where you can sell them at face value or so, and profit from the difference.

Are you still stuck only able to post in Newbies?

There is an Iranian digital currency exchange:

 - https://karsha.biz/?do=contact

Also, BitcoinNordic.com now accepts CashU cards, which is used in much of the Middle East.  It looks like years ago they had locations where the cards could be purchased in Iran, but not anymore.

No, sorry.  PayPal's user agreement prohibits their payment network for use in currency transactions or exchanges.


180 days.



Dwolla works well, after you get past the 30-day probationary period for new users before those funds can hit a few high-risk accounts, such as those for Bitcoin merchants.

VirWoX accepts credit card purchases for Second Life Lindens (SLLs).  You can then trade SLLs for BTCs using their exchange.

 - http://www.VirWoX.com

Physical bitcoins are available with credit card:

 - http://memorydealers.ecomm-search.com/search?keywords=bitcoin

Is it possible it went to the deposit address for another BitFloor customer and thus never hits the blockchain?

Since you can never prove the funds were sent in this instant, it is probably best to withdraw to your own wallet first.  Sure it takes one confirmation (or use a fork that doesn't require that) but then if this "internal transfer" is what happened in this situation, you'll never run into it again.

Mt. Gox withdrawals have the "Open transaction" flag which, if the checkbox gets marked, causes the transaction to always hit the blockchain, regardless of whether or not it is to another Mt. Gox account.

In that you show that you pay 11.4 cents per kWh.  That's average.  That isn't low enough to mine using a GPU where you will still be able to compete when in less than 100 days the block reward subsidy drops to 25 BTC per block.

If you had thee cents per kWh, maybe you could extend your GPU mining a bit longer, but at 11 per kWh, that isn't going to work unless the exchange rate goes up to $15 or more.  And if that is what you are counting on, why not just buy bitcoins and take immediate advantage of the exchange rate going up?

If you have GPUs and average electric rates or less, then milk them until December or whenever but do the math.  Half the revenue does not mean half the profit, it means for most everyone that you are then mining at a loss.  You are paying more for the electricity than the value of bitcoins you are receiving.

 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36316.0

Does their socket.io provide this capability, and possibly faster access?

I wonder if as much attention goes to the ponzis that used dollars instead of bitcoins.

ZeekRewards used dollars and had TWO MILLION people invested:

  - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanmaglich/2012/08/27/up-next-for-zeekrewards-ponzi-scheme-victims-clawbacks/

Other ponzi’s in the news recently:

• James W. "Bill" Bailey
• Steven Bingaman
• Full Tilt Poker CEO Raymond Bitar
• Robin Brass
• John Clement (Edgefund Capital)
• Brendan Coughlin, and Henry Harrison (Provident Royalties LLC)
• John W. Cranney (Shaklee Corp)
• Ramon Desage (Cadeau Express)
• Gordon A. Driver (Axcess Fund Management LLC)
• Jedidah Duarosan
• Archie Larue Evan (Gold & Silver, LLC)
• Mark Feathers (SB Capital)
• Alan G. Flesher, Wayne D. Flesher, and Nancy Carol Khalial (UCI-Unlimited Cash, Inc. / Ad Toppers)
• Celia Gallardo (Gold Feather Realty, Gold Credit)
• Allen R. Jacobson (Management Solutions Inc)
• David Lincoln Johnson (Financial Solutions,, Gentech Fabrication, Inc.,)
• Chetan Kapur (ThinkStrategy)
• Thomas E. Kelly (Seneca Group)
• Stephen J. Klos
• Jeffrey Lowrance (First Capital Savings & Loan)
• Peter Madoff
• Brian Keith Miller
• Ward Onsa, (New Century Investment Management)
• Terrance Osberger (Eagle Trades, Ltd)
• Wayne L. Palmer (National Note of Utah, LC)
• Gurudeo ‘Buddy’ Persaud (White Elephant,)
• Aubrey Lee Price
• Richard F. Reynolds aka Richard F. Adkins (Buffalo Extension and Buffalo Exchange)
• Eric Schmickle (Q Wealth Management, Aquinas)
• Allen Stanford (Stanford Financial)
• Arthur Strasnick (Backstreet Associates Inc.)
• Ron Wilson (Atlantic Bullion & Coin)

All these were compiled in a blog post (and none were Bitcoin related):
- http://theponzibook.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-2012-ponzi-scheme-roundup.html

When you refer to a "transfer" are you referring to the ClearXChange service, which underneath sends the funds as an ACH / Direct Deposit?
 - https://www.clearxchange.com/payments/home

Both of those institutions support ClearXChange (which is like PopMoney), where transfers end up going through as ACH, but where funds are drawn instantly  and notification to the recipient is real-time.
 - https://www.clearxchange.com/payments/home

Is this a method you would accept for payment?
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Mt. Gox will let you redeem a private key.  So will the Blockchain.info (web wallet).

That's only a little over double from where it is right now.  In 12 months?

 - http://gary-rowe.com/agilestack/2012/08/17/how-to-recover-your-bitcoins-from-a-failed-hard-drive/
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25091.0

I concur.

Do you have the ability to "report to moderator" (link in each post) for any posts or replies that you find objectionable?  I've reported a few myself.

I'm just seeing the abject horror of the sending of $1,000 worth of value that can be redeemed by anyone sent through e-mail in clear text.

Not just once, but twice -- as each side did  

Can I suggest next time using GPG and encrypting it with the recipient's public key?

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