Starting today, users sending money to your account will need to meet and/or maintain:
1) Connect a social network
2) Have a bank deposit 30 days old
3) Enable a DWOLLA hub page
4) Have a verified account
(i.e. Social Security and/or Photo Verified)
The users SENDING MONEY need to enable a DWOLLA hub page? What? That must be a mistake on Dwolla's end in writing this message. Either way, this change is going to leave a mark for those using Dwolla with Bitcoin exchanges. |
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a few changes we are rolling out shortly to merchants effected by bank level reversals So, their "cash-like" system is not really cash-like. Bitcoin broke Dwolla. |
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If there is a further survey, it would be interesting to know the source of the funds for spending.
I wonder if there is a wide difference between those who traded their fiat for BTC and made purchases versus those whose funds came from mining and/or from an increase in value after buying bitcoins for speculative purposes.
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Current BitLotto odds: 1 in 800 WINS $1,000 (approximated)
Your math is off. It would read like this: BitLotto odds: 1 in 1000 WINS $990 (not approximate, exact) or BitLotto odds: 1 in 1010 WINS $1,000 (not approximate, exact) As far as the other odds, recalculating so that the payout is the same for comparison purposes that shows that: 1 in 63,504 odds WINS $1,000 - Bingo Doubler 1 in 86,667 odds WINS $1,000 - MegaMillions 1 in 126,000 odds WINS $1,000 - Cashword 1 in 793,800 odds WINS $1,000 - NY Instant 1 in 210,560 odds WINS $1,000 - Win For Life I'm not sure what those odd are indicative of though. Since those lotteries have payouts as little as $5 and such they aren't really directly comparable to each other. I've seen reported that MegaMillions pays out about 60% of ticket sales in winnings. so that would be 1 in 1,667 odds WINS $1,000 - MegaMillions Of course, the odds of winning just the Megamultiplier for the MegaMillions jackpot are much much higher: 1 in 175,711,536 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Millions#Winning_and_probability |
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Update 4/12/2012: When emailing us, please don't use an @tormail.net or @safe-mail.net address! GMail will mark your email as spam, and we may not receive it, That's not cool at all. You can't tell your GMail to never block or mark as spam e-mails from the tormail.net or safe-mail.net domains? Using gmail's "Not Spam" button you can retrieve a specific message from the Spam folder which will move it to the Inbox, but that is for "training gmail", and is an opaque process from there and is probably won't help much. Additionally, a filter can be set up so that specific email addresses (like a bob@tormail.net) can be whitelisted (marked as "Never send to spam"), but there is not (to my limited knowledge of gmail) the ability to whitelist an entire domain. (it will let you add the filter *@tormail.net it just won't actually whitelist an alice@tormail.net with that filter.) e-mail sucks though and you are correct, that should not be the preferred method of contacting an organization. or be able to reply even if we do. I'm not sure why that would be. Gmail doesn't block outgoing messages (with the exception of them having executable attachments or those they've identified as being compromised and the account gets disabled.) Either way, ... e-mail sucks. Get-Bitcoin could easily put up a form on the Contact page customers to be able to contact them without sending from an e-mail address and which can be accessed privately. Every time I use get-bitcoin, I think about a ton of ways I could start up a competing service and steal so much of their business!
Heh, ... competition is good! In fact, there have been many competitors (e.g., just for cash-in-mail in the U.S. we lost Bitcoin Morpheus and Bitcoin2Cash market for instance), ... and they're all gone now except for Get-Bitcoin. So while an exchange seems like it would be something profitable, smaller to mid-sized ones seem to exist more to help Bitcoin move forward than they appear to exist primarily for profit-seeking motives. |
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spreading various rumors about "okpay is scam", "okpay is closing", etc. These rumors are without any foundation and are aimed only at discrediting the name of the Company.
Well, at least now you have your DNS configured with SPF properly (and thus the next attempt if there is one will likely go to my spam box): "v=spf1 a:mail.regall.net mx:mail.regall.net ~all" (reportedly was +all before, per MagicalTux above). - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework |
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you can turn this vote to a vote that requires bitcoins and make it more exciting.
The Terms of Service on the site state: "Do not keep your bitcoins in our web site more than the amount you feel comfortable.". The domain is registered with the identity kept private. Anyone placing any bets on this site is trusting that the funds will be held and not spent, and that when the bet ends that the winner will be paid properly. I do understand, however, the reasons that a predictions-market operator might wish to remain anonymous. I just wanted to make sure this was pointed out here. |
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3. An organization stating that they accept Bitcoin donations helps more people to learn about Bitcoin.
4. Referring to a popular charity indicating that it accepts Bitcoin donations reinforces the sense of its general acceptance and legitimacy.
5. Donations are a powerful use case for Bitcoin, and actually applying it is a good demonstration for its capabilities.
Correct. Organizations that accept donations are serving as the first followers. "There's no movement without the first follower"  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQIncidentally, here's a list of many of the organizations that accept Bitcoin donations: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Donation-accepting_organizations_and_projects |
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mtgox is rather unclear about this, The text that pops up if you hover over the progress bar that is shown (usually 0.6% for new accounts) says something to the effect of: Mt Gox charges a small fee (0.60 %) for each trade.
Your trading volume for the past 30 days is 0.0000000 BTC. If it reaches 500.00000000 BTC, your nominal trading fee will be 0.55%. It says this regardless of whether or not you have "Buy" selected or "Sell". If I look at a stock exchange, say Charles Schwab I see: - http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/investing/pricing_services"Online equity trades just $8.95 each" So Schwab doesn't feel the need to clarify this any further either. |
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After my payment was received I was able to enter my e-mail address to get a receipt sent (an optional step).
From the receipt that was sent to my inbox, I have the link which I can use to download again at a later time. (The file may be downloaded up to 5 times, it says).
So CoinDL knows all the downloads that were purchased for my e-mail address. What might be nice down the road would be the ability to register that e-mail address and login to see all my purchases (with link to downloads) all at once.
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