I can accept Amazon Payments, matching Coinpal's price and fee.

Meet me on irc at #bitcoin-otc (freenode). Whenever I'm available at all, I'm available there.

I can accept Amazon Payments, matching Coinpal's price and fee.

Meet me on irc at #bitcoin-otc (freenode). Whenever I'm available at all, I'm available there.

I can sell you 500 BTC for some sort of bank transfer (including ACH). Meet me on irc at #bitcoin-otc (freenode). Whenever I'm available at all, I'm available there.

I think the inability to deposit and withdraw USD is a critical limitation to usability. It effectively limits a trader to only shorting BTC. I don't believe you can have an effective exchange with only short speculators. You need long speculators as well, and that's currently not possible. If you enable USD transfers between accounts, and encourage people to trade BE-USD for other USD externally (PayPal, cash, wire, whatever), you can partially mitigate the problem.

Yes, USD can be transferred between MtGox accounts. The link is not shown in the site's menu unless you have selected Display Merchant Services in your account settings (click your username up top).

I can buy your bitcoins as well. I can give you Payapl, Dwolla, Popmoney, or others.

http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=Keefe

It appears that USD in your exchange cannot be withdrawn, but can only be traded back to BTC. Am I missing something?

If it's as it appears, USD there (I'll call it BE-USD) is an artificially created currency with no relation to actual USD except psychological. Also, where did the BE-USD initially come from? How did the first trader buy BE-USD with BTC, if USD can't be deposited to the exchange?

I look forward to a feed of bids and asks, so I can restore newsham's page to it's former glory. I don't need the whole order book to be sent every time there's a change; just a stream of updates would be good. For example:
add 1001 bid 23.45 1.043
add 1002 ask 34.56 1.07
remove 1001
fill 1002 14.56
fill 1002 20.00
...

I recently did business with nanaimogold, so I'm sure if you're patient he will reply to email within a couple days max. I hadn't heard of coffee4bitcoin though.

I'm not really in the market to buy silver for my collection, but if you offer me any 90%+ silver at a bargain price of 35 USD per troy oz, I will buy. I would use the best ask price at MtGox to value the BTC, which is about $1.05 at the moment, so I would give you 25.78 BTC per silver dollar. I see that's much less than you're asking though.

Not quite. Morgan and Peace silver dollars contain 0.77345 troy oz of silver each. Uncirculated, the coins weigh 26.73 grams (0.85939 troy oz) of which 90% is silver.

So 50 BTC per coin calculates to 64.65 BTC per troy oz of silver.

It still seems the email stuff is broken. I can't invite anyone because the site isn't emailing the invitee, and I can't reset the password on a test account because it won't email me.

Yep, looks like it's fixed again for the moment.

I can buy your BTC at 1.5% below the best MtGox bid, or can buy your MtGox USD (transfer between MtGox accounts) less 1% (I'd give you $99 for $100). I can pay with LR, Dwolla, Popmoney, PayPal, and many other methods. You can check my reputation at bitcoin-otc.com.

I check this forum a few times a day. You can reach me faster on IRC (Freenode #bitcoin-otc).

Don't use spinrite, or any software, if you suspect possible partial failure of circuitry or heads. Software could cause more damage. Spinrite is great for recovering data from weak sectors when everything else is fine.

For professional data recovery, I recommend Gillware. They will evaluate your drive for free, and even go as far as recovering your data and showing you what they found, before asking for payment. They charged me about $700 to recover a 250gb laptop drive. As far as I know, the heads failed. All data was intact.

Have you received the deposit yet, or has it been broken for 6 days now?

FYI: The current dark-only or dark+normal minimum is $1000, not 1000 BTC, for both buying and selling.

I was only the 6th person after nanotube to join the bitcoin-otc WoT. There are now 222 members. So we've both had about 5 months to do lots of trading with many others.

Are you saying that all a customer has to do is call their bank and say they didn't authorize it, and the bank takes the money back from the merchant without question?

Does that apply only to merchant-initiated ACH? What about if the customer initiates the ACH from their bank's website? Most banks offer some sort of bill-pay service, which is sometimes processed electronically; some banks offer outgoing ACH directly; many others offer it through a service such as CashEdge's Popmoney.

That's an interesting concept. I hadn't heard of iceberg orders before. It seems like the functionality is exactly like a bot with no latency. I see it as a way to bring such bot functionality to everyone, possibly for a higher fee, instead of only to those skilled at coding and with access to a reliable server.

I'm not sure it will satisfy all current dark+normal order users though, since they could miss out on large market orders that are placed in one piece. But that's the cost of hiding one's size. It seems fair enough.