Hmm... thought I'd posted this already, but I don't see it...

Welcome back HYPERfuture!  Hope the emergency is completely over now.

Okay, it's pretty quick and easy to use.  I ordered the minimum value Amazon.co.uk voucher as a test, it arrived in a few minutes.  Looking good so far!

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! 

I'm just a little wary of it... maybe I'll try doing a very low value Amazon.co.uk gift voucher and see what happens.  I will of course report back here!

This seems quite a promising site for UK-based BTC owners to convert their Bitcoin into something more easily usable on the high street.  Has anyone used it?  Do they deliver what they promise?

OUCH!  15% is pretty steep... but good to know the options, thank you 

What concerns me about that idea is the warnings I've seen on this forum about selling directly for payment by Paypal... which could be revoked after the BTC has been sent, and little to no recourse you can take about it if you happen to come up against someone unscrupulous.   

                      

Is the Comkort > OKPAy > Paypal route safe?  (If a bit of a dogs leg involving several agencies taking their cut...)

In my case, I got crypto to help fund gamedev.  Whilst I may be persuaded to use the crypto directly, my fellow devs have absolutely no interest in doing so and just want USD (weirdly we all deal mainly in USD as a common denominator despite the fact that the dev team are based in the UK, Greece and Italy!!).

I'm curious as to how many people use HYPER as in-game currency, as that seems to be one of the main intended uses of it?  Or are there not quite enough MMOs using it for it to properly catch on for that purpose as yet?

I've seen quite a few scams and horror stories in relation to converting BTC to USD available in Paypal, does anyone know a bona fide safe and effective way of doing this?

I know that with Comkort you can send USD to OKPay and then exchange onto Paypal from there, but if there is an effective all-in-one solution, I would rather use that.

@Ignatius - what percentage of trading is done by bots?  (I genuinely have no idea.) 

I think it's just a case of cryptocurrency being such a confidence-based thing - if people don't see the devs / PR being active, they might start to worry.  While appreciating that I am still very much a beginner at all this. it seems to me that there have been a number of unscrupulous teams in the past who just grabbed the money and ran, so it's only natural that people would be a bit nervous that devs of other coins would do the same.  I'm sure the vast majority of the people who frequent this thread genuinely hope for the best and wish to see HYPER go from strength to strength, but that won't stop people also fearing the worst.

I'm very near the bottom of the hundred and I've moved up 2 places in the last couple of days.  So there is a little bit of movement, but not much.

Ah, I was thinking market "cap" meant a cap as in some kind of limit.  So it's just the total market value (in USD) of all the HYPER currently in circulation.

Thanks for the clarification! 

Okay another (only marginally embarrassing) newbie question from me!

I've been keeping an eye on how HYPER is doing at http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/hyper/

Now most of the terms are self-explanatory, and I'm assuming "24 hour volume" is either the volume traded in the last 24 hours or the amount generated by new blockchains being created.  However I'm a little baffled as to what the "Market Cap" refers to.  I'm presuming it's some kind of cap on the amount that can be traded in a certain period of time, but if anyone can clarify that for me I would really appreciate it.

I saw the link on the HYPER thread, I'd assumed it was the same one HYPERfuture had been talking to me about.  I'm not part of the HYPER dev team if that's what you mean, although apparently I'm mooted to be a member of the "Hyper Foundation" when that starts (I just need to find out what that will actually entail!).

Since I'm an indiedev and blog about indiegames in general, though I've always shied away from crowd-funding for my own games, it's something I've written a lot about and of course am interested to see how it might help the indie gaming community in general.

This is a really interesting idea.  I will definitely keep an eye on it! 

I'm sure you could help out in a small way.

(Ouch... sorry, that was really, really bad!  )

Mine's caught up and showing my balance now too. 

When it comes time to turn HYPER into USD / GBP / Euros (none of my dev team want cryptocurrency!), what's the easiest / most effective way to do this?  Is there an exchange that will perform the action directly or would I have to turn my HYPER into BTC first, and then turn the BTC into USD etc?