It's a good example showing us again that we don't own the money deposited in the bank (we lend it to the bank with a promise to get it back whenever we want)  and we have not a full control on our own money.

That's why cryptocurrencies have been invented: be your own bank, nobody will tell you nah you can't buy this, nah you already spend $250 this week, nah the bank don't like this company so no money can be sent to it.

Services
Buying/selling services.

But, there are many topics about free transaction accelerators, twitter follow back groups, free Twitter audit, which have nothing to do with the description of the board (buying and selling). I don't know if there is a giveaway board but if there is any I just suggest that all the topics should be merged there.

Have you noticed? The Bitcoin price increased of 1200$ in about 2 hours. To be honest, I have lost about 700€ today but oh well, fuck that, Bitcoin seems to come back on track. At least I hope.

Most of the biggest exchanges (such as Bitstamp, Bitfinex, Kraken, GDAX) can be used to deposit fiat with a bank transfer (or card for some). But if i remember it's not easy to use one with having GBP
But yeah the exchange less popular have only bitcoin and altcoins for deposits/trade/withdrawals

You can try Paymium, the cards are accepted up to a limit of $250 after the limit reached you will have to verify. I agree that using a bank transfer I much easier and less costly.
Also while using Localbitcoin you are not forced to buy from someone in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Welcome to the forum @Hopelesser

You don't have to download "their wallet" I have never seen an exchange website having their own wallet and to be honest I surely wouldn't trust the whole website.

1) You have to download your own wallet, such as "Electrum"
2) Then you go to the website and buy some bitcoins or any other altcoins, as you wich
3) Then you move the coins from the exchange to your wallet

If this is the path you want to follow, consider the transactions fees.

There are fees with GDAX, from 0.10% TO 0.30%. Only as a maker, there aren't the fees. I don't think you will find any because the fees are what generate an income for the exchanges. I don't think they run a business for free to users.

 https://www.gdax.com/fees/BTC-USD

The majority of people don't use cryptos for a privacy purpose,. Sadly, most use them to speculate only. If you tell them about cryptography, blockchain they don't understand and don't give a fuck about it.
Those concerned with their privacy are using the anon coins but as the percentage of people isn't big, the market isn't big neither.

I believe this is going to change in 2-3 years and the anon coins will be more recognized and more used only when people will realize how their privacy has been taken over and what were the real reasons for creating Bitcoin

Since it is often, it is considered as an extra income (if you have already a job), or as a freelancer income. So in both cases, you're supposed to pay the tax income.
However, as some countries haven't make it clear with cryptos, it could be considered as something else than job income (call it whatever it suits you) see the difference. Are you from Portugal? I heard you guys are not taxed on cryptos gains?

Hmm... See this, it looks like it's not a fake news. Maybe your friends haven't done a transactions recently so have not yet suffered from this ban in Australia. I am interested to know what is the final output from this. If this is general it will be a very bad news.:/



https://twitter.com/BitcoinBabeAU/status/946575047254204417/photo/1

http://www.smh.com.au/business/bitcoin-tensions-rise-as-investors-claim-banks-freezing-their-accounts-20171229-p4yy3z.html

From the French postal service to the U.S. postal service, it will take about 4 days max. So then, consider the shipping time between the U.S. airport and your house. I don't know how it works in the U.S. but consider 3-4 days maybe.
In any case you receive, of course, a tracking number

The difference between tier 1 & 2 is while in tier 1 you can deposit/trade/withdraw cryptocurrencies only, you can't use fiat. I admit Kraken has been suffering a lot of outages the past weeks but they worked on it (and surely still working) it happens very less often recently.
As for Bitstamp, yeah I guess she has been lucky.

Sure but since you want to avoid the fee to send from your web wallet to Ledger, @OmegaStarScream is just giving you an alternative for the fees.
Otherwise, of course, it can be sent from blockchain.info to your Ledger "in the normal way"

You can cancel an order at any time with all decent exchange. In your member area, search for "orders", "trade history" or something similar. Then you will find your current order and you should see a X or "delete" then, you order will be cancelled and your coins available again to trade.

The withdraws are working fine for both fiat and coins. Sometimes there is a message saying something like "withdraw feature disabled" but you need to refresh the page (sometimes multiple times)

The same happened to me several times where the orders are sent multiple times (and closed so losing some bucks)

Happy new year guys ! 

@Harper6
You don't understand, like others here, when it's time to compare Bitcoin VS Gold.
People investing in gold don't care about making a profit, they are not looking for it. They invest in gold because they want to secure their funds, most gold buyers do it for this purpose and nothing more. Usually, they have others investments split here and there to make little profits.
It works like this since years and nations do the same.

Gold failed from $50,000 to $40,000 in 5 years, no idea how you did lose money with it.

@bmurph
I know a little these companies, too bad you didn't use more filters to target a more significant audience

@seekoin

10 milliards d'euros c'est tres facile à traité et depuis longtemps. Les virements c'est ce qu'il y a de plus facile à suivre. C'est pas trop le nombre de milliard d'euros qui rend la tache difficile mais le volume de donnés. Paypal, par exemple, est tres tres fort la dessus, c'est d'ailleurs pour ca qu'ils ont créer leur propre algorythme pour tracer des paiements Quelqu'un avait posté un lien youtube d'un cours de science-po à ce sujet, et c'est vraiment impressionnant, pour ca d'ailleurs que certaines états l'utilisent. Et c'est pas une theorie de complot à la Alex Jones...
Y a 10 ans Paypal avait plus de 120 milliards de $ en transaction... par an....

Même les commercants ont 6 mois pour s'équiper d'un truc pour pouvoir analyser/tracer leur paiements (surement les paiements en CB) C'est déjà en place en Belgique et 2-3 pays en europe. Pour ce qui est des paiements en liquide, je te l'accorde, soit. Mais si tu regardes un peu plus en arriere on est quand même de plus en plus tourné vers une société "cashless". D'ailleurs en France, on est l'un des champions des paiements par carte bancaire. Un autre exemple est la limite légale pour effectuer un paiement en especes qui a été réduit, on peut aussi s'imaginer le voir réduire dans un avenir proche

Quand à la protection des donnés perso. ben au nom de la lutte contre la fraude et le financement des terroristes ben ca ne vaut plus grand chose.


Bonne année quand meme à tous  

With Kraken the verification is instant (at least tier 1 & 2) once you enter your personal information your account is automatically updated. This how it worked for me, but the process may have changed since.

Have you tried Bitstamp? Because I have a friend who has been verified in 24 hours. (it was about 2 weeks ago).

Usually, exchanges don't accept a bank transfer in the name of someone else. It must be with the same name as the user account. User abcd must be sending a bank transfer from a bank account owned by abcd.
I don't think GDAX is an exception. In such case, they reject the transfer and so it goes back to the sender