One of the big problems is us being able to participate in arbitrage easily and inexpensively. There have been many times I wished I could have moved money, USD or CAD, between MtGox and/or Tradehill, and Virtex, when the difference in prices could've resulted in a good profit from arbitrage.  

And as phillipsjk points out it isn't just non-Canadian businesses that have an opportunity to help themselves and Canadians. I have sent messages to Virtex ( Calgary, Alberta ) suggesting, among other things, they support something like paxum deposits and withdrawals.  Oh the arbitrage fun I could've had!  

Bitcoins by snailmail.   Need I say more?   

But really thanks for the link. 

C'est la vie?  Canadiennes?    I think some of you are confusing Canada with the nation of Quebec.    ( inside joke )

Well to get back to your question... Just from today:  I see bitinstant announcing more options to make it super easy to get USD into TradeHill and MtGox;
I see Gavin promoting LoveBitcoins.org, and at that site I don't see a tab in the getting started area for Canada... no mention of Virtex or other Canadian
services... even though more than a few other countries/currencies are represented...  I see lots of announcements here of great things just to get let down a little
when I find not much there for Canadians when I look into it closer.      

I am not really complaining or jealous. There are more and more options for us Canucks all the time... ( Thanks Stephen, there are a couple there in your list I didn't know about already ).  But things like transferring and converting money, like with paxum, is still expensive. There is still not as many options as one might hope given the demographics. I think there is a good opportunity for businesses to tap into the internet-savvy Canadian potential.  A win/win* situation which will help Canadians and the businesses catering to them.  I just wanted to speak up to make everyone aware of this potential.

/edit * win/win/win when you consider Bitcoin itself.  Nearly everyone I mention Bitcoin to here is intrigued by the concept, even if they might not feel ready to get too involved with it yet. 

I didn't mean to make you feel like a creep. I don't think my post history will tell you much about my business.
It's just that I would like to be able to speak freely as myself without worrying about it reflecting on the business,
which isn't all mine and I am not in charge of things like marketing and promoting.

Online.
 
I didn't start this thread to promote myself and my business so I will leave it at that.

Ever since this Bitcoin thing came along I have been disappointed with how little the various new businesses and exchanges take Canada into account.

We in the Great White North have always been early adopters and big users of all things digital.

Beauty eh!

In my own business I have given my customers the option to pay by Bitcoin ( and give them a discount if they choose that option ) for months now...
and offer what help I can to get them started if they show interest, but have never had that much I can point them to in terms of Canadians easily
and inexpensively buying and selling Bitcoins etc..     

There are lots of stats which shows these facts. Here is just one article I grabbed at random. I hope more of you running Bitcoin businesses and the like,
or thinking of starting a new one, will take note:

Canadians’ Internet usage nearly double the worldwide average

“Since 10 years ago, since the boom of the Internet, we’ve always been at the top of online engagement.”


Thanks for listening.


If you want to buy a poor ignored hoser a beer:
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Ad hominem attack?  No one is trying to win an argument by trying to attack one who voices the other side of said argument. The whole
point is Bruce Wagner's sociopathology. And he is being criticized exactly for his actions, not his views on Bitcoin or his sexual preferences etc.

Sure it is possible the leopard may change his spots but there is a lot of evidence that he should not be trusted to represent Bitcoin in any way.  
Even before trying to get a paid vacation to "play" with boys in Pattaya; even before the mortgage scams; there was a lot of evidence of him
pulling scams in his escort business and other dishonest behavior.  You can even see it in his posts here when he was asked to reconsider
a conference in Pattaya, he attacked those members and called them trolls and children and showed a very unprofessional attitude as if there
was nothing at all he should have to reconsider, or explain in regard to his past behavior and choices.  An arrogance and lack of foresight typical
of sociopaths. He kinda shot himself in the foot with that whole business. If he just backed away from the choice of Pattaya then a lot of his
past criminal actions might not have come to light.  

If you want to support Bruce, and any businesses who want to associate themselves with a well known repeat scammer, go ahead. I, like many
others here it seems ( sorry Rassah but there are some of us who 'do' care about this, even if you don't give a shit ), just feel it is responsible
to speak out against this scammer every time we see him trying to further associate himself with Bitcoin and use it to boost his own ego and
enhance his finances, to the detriment of Bitcoin and the community...  Do we have to wait for his next scam before more people speak out
against him. No doubt even then there will be those who will want to give him a second... oh wait, it must be up to at least a fifth or sixth
chance by now....  

How many is a reasonable number of chances to give a sociopathic personality type which rather than changing their behavior instead,
time and again, takes advantage of others willingness to forgive and forget?  You can even see it in a few of his senior citizen mortgage scam
victims. "Ah well he is isn't really bad. He just got in over his head. His heart is in the right place."     And because of that heart of his he of
course doesn't even attempt to repay anyone he ripped-off and instead flees the state and gets his lawyers to play through the usual legal
loop-holes so he can start again on his next big scheme somewhere else...  

    

+1

I won't be watching any of those "The Bitcoin Show" episodes. And I will avoid doing business with anyone associating themselves with Bruce Wagner.

cbeast:

I am a business man and I care about morals and ethics etc. more than profits, and if I only cared about profits I would care what my customers
and, potential customers, thought about my business practices and who I associate and advertise with etc.

While you think most businesses these days care only about profits, more and more customers are getting pissed-off with the way things have
traditionally gone in the business world and good businesses would take note, even if they only have their own best interests in mind and
cared nothing about others in this world.

TD? As in that Canadian Bank?   

That will be a big deal because there are so few good options for us at the moment.
Hope that goes well. 

Open-Transactions vs. the "typical centralized system"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20425.msg255411#msg255411

I recommend the agorist radio interview.

I think Open Transactions will do a lot for Bitcoin. 

( Is Cameron Garnham fellowtraveler? )
 

I liked the old trade data graphs better than Mt.Gox Live.  Keep a link to Mt.Gox Live but please put the old graphs back. 

People that talk about the death of bitcoin and/or the rise of the next better thing seem to fail to realize that Bitcoin has not really been show to have any flaws at a fundamental level and the network still seems quite robust.  It is this or that client and external things like exchanges that will come and go. There doesn't seen to be a hint of any showstoppers so far with Bitcoin, it seems to me. 

And with speakers who have slides or other multimedia presentations it is good to have one camera
on the slides and another on the speaker himself and it can can edited to show the better view at the
right time. 

It is frustrating to watch a video of a speaker saying something, "Now this graph shows...",
with the camera staying on the speaker and one never gets to see that graph.  And constantly
panning back and forth with one camera, and perhaps refocusing, can look unprofessional and
be disconcerting.   

I would just like to be able to easily, and more importantly, inexpensively get money onto exchanges like TH and MtGox in order to buy BTC.

Paxum fails the 'inexpensively' part...  

Any plans for deposits/withdrawals in Canada?

So do I win a cigar or what?   

I'm tempted to guess Clinton but it depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is...

Feel free. 

Umm...  or so it seems to you?   

Or to put it perhaps into a more E-Prime form which avoids the "is" of identity, and to speak of ones own perceptions/preferences as opposed to some assumed absolute God-like objectivity etc.:


Bitcoin: works for me.