Anyone can check this ... in the format of:

 - http://www.paypal.com/us/verified/pal=blah@blah.com

To verify an account means, I believe, that you've linked a bank account to the PayPal account.

So if someone had an unverified account, it is possible the funds came from a (possibly stolen) credit card.  Obviously an unverified then carries a slightly greater risk than a verified but both are high risk.

U.S. or Canada?

There are plenty of prepaid card options in both.

 - http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/productsservices/visagiftcard.jsf  (though for monthly charges,  it does say "Online acceptance at all websites cannot be guaranteed due to varying security levels.")

In the U.S. there are dozens of options as well.


You might try putting your question the the #bitcoin-cad IRC channel on freenode.  Maybe someone there has a suggestion or would help you out.  With the #bitcoin-otc Web of Trust (WoT), you can help ensure a safe trade if you do find someone.

 - http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#bitcoin-cad

2012-08-15 TheVerge.com The Bernie Madoffs of Bitcoin? [Adrianne Jeffries]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=100880.0

The Bernie Madoffs of Bitcoin? As virtual trading heats up, promises of profits skyrocket

 - http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/15/3243200/bitcoin-ponzi-schemes-savings-and-trust



But what's this all about?

Oh oh...

Made it into the online media:

The Bernie Madoffs of Bitcoin?
 - http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/15/3243200/bitcoin-ponzi-schemes-savings-and-trust


By Adrienne Jeffries.

This is a great use of Bitcoin.  Paste sites are pretty much interchangeable so there's little reason not to use this over pastebin or any other.

It is about time services that rely on crowdsourced content reward the content contributors with more than useless badges and karma points.

It is almost like it was planned:

Do you need a card and address, or would simply having a trusted party place your order and re-ship to you be what you are looking for?

Perhaps someone from Local Bitcoins would be willing to be your buying agent:
 - http://www.LocalBitcoins.com

The most useful take away from the article, for me?


For some reason I thought it was more.

Here's the 100 page AUSTRAC report:

 - http://www.austrac.gov.au/files/typ_rprt12_full.pdf

Weird, some people are reporting send and receive:

 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75673.msg1099955#msg1099955

Unfortunately, it is not the Blockchain for iOS wallet app, but instead just their block explorer utility.  [Update: Apparently, the real deal -- full wallet.]

You're in a tight situation there.  

Moneypak can be intercepted online so easily and because of that so few around here on the forum would be willing to accept it without a receipt showing it was purchased with cash.

If you have a PayPal debit card, you can load it from your Moneypak, and then withdraw as cash back when using the card as a debit card or by using an ATM.

If you don't have a PayPal debit card, you can do the same thing by buying a prepaid debit card, register it and then load it using the Moneypak.  From there, the options are mostly the same -- spend it, or cash back during a purchase.  I'm not entirely sure if the card will let you withdraw cash at an ATM, or if you need to wait until the permanent card arrives.    I've also read that you might not even need to register the debit card to load amounts under $500.

The fees in doing that are going to hurt though.

The best advice is to not mess with Moneypack as a method for buying bitcoins.  For cashing out, sure -- they work great.  But for buying, they are just as bad as any other reversible payment method thus few will trade bitcoins for them unless you have a good trust history - e.g., on the #bitcoin-otc Web of Trust (WoT).

One other approach is to use your Moneypak for a purchase.

 - https://www.moneypak.com/WhoAccepts.aspx

One of the options is to purchase an Amazon gift card and use that for a purchase from Amazon:
 - https://www.moneypak.com/Partner/Payment.aspx/AmazonGiftCard

There appear to be some data issues.

For instance,
U.S. (lowercase)
 - https://localbitcoins.com/location/us/Los%20Angeles/

gets listed separate from
U.S. (uppercase)
 - https://localbitcoins.com/location/US/Santa%20Monica/

The list will become unusable as you start to add the thousands of cities.    A drill down interface, with States and/or MSAs for the U.S. data, will probably be needed eventually.  Or filtering using tags perhaps.

I see what I was overlooking.  I forgot that there are inter-account transfers allowed on GLBSE, so the logistics for doing this are to simply cancel the sell order with the remaining shares and then manually transfer over whatever amount was sold privately:
 
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75890.0

Was there ever a post that states the final details on how these are treated?

Here's what appears to be the last discussion as far as method and rates:

So, 24 hour volume was 1414.129 btc. I don't remember the quantity that was offered at 0.1 but it was more than 1414 btc worth.  Is that normal for issued shares to trade privately, off the exchange, *after* the IPO?

Bitcoin mining doesn't work like that.  The increased hashing will, in the very short term, speed up the generation of bitcoins but only until the next 2,016 block difficulty adjustment occurs.  Then difficulty is calibrated right back so that the target of 144 blocks per day is regained.  At 50 BTC per block, that is 7,200 BTC per day.

So if BFL were to ship a huge amount of capacity all at once then for a few days or for a week even production could spike to maybe twice normal, but then it goes right back to one block every ten minutes.

The only influence on the price will probably be from those mining operators (and potential mining operators) that had held off waiting to see that there really will be a BFL ASIC produced.  If these do start shipping, then those people will be scrambling, using their accumulated bitcoins to place orders with BFL.  BFL then converts those bitcoins to dollars, so there could be a flooding of hundreds of thousands of previously saved-up bitcoins reaching market after being used to purchase ASIC hardware.

Are you looking to cash out your bitcoins and are looking for someone to buy them from you by depositing cash into your B of A account?

If so, and you don't find any trades here, you can always use FastCash4Bicoins.com, which offers this service.

 - http://www.FastCash4Bitcoins.com

I remember something about this possibly being something to do with the daily high exchange rate on other markets.  e.g., the BTC/GBP converted to BTC/USD using the GBP/USD causes a BTC/USD that can be higher than what the BTC/USD market's daily high was.