I never thought about buying games that way. However, thanks for sharing!

I do see some nice offers on this forum about this game too. Some people are offering GTA V for $43 (in Bitcoin) on Steam, and even cheaper for Rockstar Social Club. I think I'll get myself such one from Steam soon. (I haven't checked it up, but I believe GTA V on Steam costs €60 over here in the Netherlands).

Ik vraag het me af. Voor mijn gevoel kunnen bepaalde mensen, vooral op latere leeftijd, dergelijke dingen niet leren omdat ze het vaak gewoon niet willen. Ik merk dit ook in mijn eigen omgeving. Mijn ouders (+/- 60 jaar) zullen die zelfscanners wellicht een keer proberen, maar de rest van de familieleden en bekenden boven die leeftijd echt niet meer. Ik zie mijn oma van 90 jaar dit ook niet doen.

(Overigens bedoelde ik het 'contactloos betalen' in mijn vorige post).

That's for sure. And that's worth something too.

However, I decided to swap some days ago. I received a better offer. Although I do understand that for some users Bitmixer is still a great signature campaign provider. It really depends on your activity and rank I guess.

In my opinions faucets are quite a waste of time. If I am wrong and someone has a way to actually make some nice money with faucets, contact me .
Investing a few bucks into BTC and start short term trading or something makes you way more BTC in less time.

To be honest, I've tried a few faucets too at the very beginning of my 'bitcoin life'. However, that was only a few times (during a few days) until I received my first (dust) payment. Then I realized I was really wasting time.

I recentely started with the second season of the Blacklist. I agree it's a great serie! Unfortunately it is already quite a while ago that I saw the first season, so it's a bit harder to get in the storyline again.

Many friends of me recommend Arrow too, but I still have to start with that serie.

If you look at it that way, you have to spend your own currency either on buying equiptment or on BTC directly. However, it is hard to ROI when you buy equiptment (especially if you have high electricity costs). 

Sure, your direct investment in BTC can end up being less than 100%; being worth less than you Original invested (in your own currency). However, you still remain the same amount of BTC then.

I think you do understand the question.

I'm curious about this too. I think it actually is possible that you become an address which were coins sent to earlier (by accidence). I don't think you can only send coins to addresses that do already exist.

However, I think this is only theoretically possible in that case.

Het is natuurlijk een mooie kans om Bitcoin aan de 'gewone man' te brengen. Al dan niet in de vorm van physical coins waar wttbs eerder over schreef; " . . . Microsoul 0.01 BTC munten verkocht a 20 euro per stuk".

Een keer wat anders dan tweedehands rotzooi .

Inmiddels zijn we weer een jaar verder en daarom bump ik dit topic.

Wat zijn de plannen van dit jaar? Gaan er mensen dit jaar nog Bitcoins verkopen, of hebben jullie andere plannen met Bitcoin voor deze Koningsdag? T.o.v. vorig jaar is de Bitcoin bijna in waarde gehalveerd, wellicht maakt dit het aantrekkelijker voor mensen om Bitcoin te kopen. Zij kunnen nu immers 1/10 Bitcoin kopen voor de prijs van 1/20 Bitcoin vorig jaar!

There is no such thing as a minumum number of posts required to make deals or something. The thing is, a newbie account is created in a few minutes. If someone has the intention to scam someone, it's more likely to do this through an account that has been made within minutes than doing this with a Hero Member account (like mine), which takes probably more than a year and many hours of activity on this forum as well as posts made on this forum.

This results in people trusting 'newbie', 'Jr member', 'member' accounts etc less than 'Sr member' or 'Hero member' accounts for instance. Together with this, you have not made a succesfull deal yet (based on your trust rating; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=396213).

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More on topic, so I think escrow is needed if you want to make some sales and even then it might be hard to find buyers. However, everyone has to start from scatch on this forum. Goodluck!

Well, that's not really the case. In fact, you can sell for example Steam Gift Cards through an escrow. Once the buyer receives these cards (and thus the deal was successful), and uses them, Steam can still deduct the value of the Gift Card from your account once they find out it was obtained through fraud - for example when they were bought with credit card frauds.

In that situation the seller has received the money, and the buyers has nothing. I guess the only way to counter this problem is to let the escrow hold the funds for let's say some months.. but that is not a great way of doing business I guess.

It does. Besides that, as the value of BTC decreased a lot, it's quite hard to ROI by buying huge mining equiptment. Maybe you're Lucky when you buy these devices in bulk (and in that case you have an huge investment indeed). Buying BTC directly is in my opinion the better choice. Maybe together with some short-term trading you can increase your amount of BTC (if you're lucky) or meet the decreasing value of the coin.

Some mining can be profitable though. For example when you've got a nice Scrypt hashrate and you jump on a very new coin (which has just launched) in the hope it becomes succesfull one day / becomes worth something one day.

Correct. If something appears to be too good to be true, it often is.  I do not agree with that ~47$ indication. I saw Wakka622 is selling GTA V on Steam for $43 and on Rockstar Social Club for $36.50 (and more discounts able if you buy in bulk). See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=771311.0. I don't know him, but already many (trusted) members succesfully bought the game from him.

You're on the right place over here. Atleast, if you accept Escrow. Otherwise I think you are not likely to sell these digital goods (looking at your two posts made in half a year).

I guess you also have to somehow proof that these gift cards are not obtained by fraud. Also, state your prices, or are you offering personal deals through PM?

I agree with you. Besides that, you can use it as an collectors item ^^.


330 MH/s on SHA256 ain't much. On the Scrypt algoritm it would have been a nice deal, but you are not likely to break even on SHA256 with these devices. 

I'm interested, keep us updated! I use to buy Steam games with BTC, so I might be a good customers. Atleast, if the prices are right.

Oh, and it's "coming". Not "comming".

Thank you for the formal acceptation.

The affiliate structure is indeed working too. I see I already have brought 6 new unique visitors into BitBingo. Unfortunately they did not spend a Satoshi yet. Good to see it's working!

I think we all have got that feeling about 2010. I've heard about Bitcoin too at that time, but I was not interested because I didn't understand the fundamentals. I think it is my biggest mistake ever that I did not spend some hours reading about BTC at that time, as I would probably have bought some coins over then (and would have sold some around the ATH).

There's an old saying that goes like 'When something appears to be too good to be true, it usually is'. I can only think of gift cards obtained by frauds for such low prices. Or fraud otherwise. I think an acceptable discount on Amazon cards on these forums is about 10%-15%. Maybe 20% when you are Lucky, but not more than that. (Even then you have to be carefull who you buy from).

How expensive are cigarettes in NYC then? An old friend of me lives in Australia these days. Smoking there is horrible expensive, but he never quit ^^.  Sure, overall the wages etc are also higher over there.