Surprised you accept EMT deposits, that's insane it's gonna get raped by fraudsters unless you are set up to eat the fraud in order to provide the instant service.

I like cavirtex but the whole Havelock Investments thing scares me into thinking they'll get shut down one day for unregulated securities trading and possible ponzi. Canada laws as shitty as the US now.

10 April expect 100 new threads per minute: "WTF why doesn't my Gox code work?" and "Why do I have to resubmit all verification to Coinlab I already did this through Gox years ago"

Russians have been running currency exchanges for decades nothing is going to happen to BTC-e lol. They can convert USD-EUR all they want without licenses just like the other hundreds of WMZ, PM, LR and yandex exchangers do

I vote for no 'mainstream acceptance' then we don't end up taken over by wallstreet speculators.
Bitcoin will get where it wants to go eventually no reason to force it at every chance you get and wind up with everything crushed by regulators and gigantic banks. There's also a copyright on "X coin" so XBT might have problems

+1 OP ignore for obvious trolling on cruise control

this meme sucks, forcing it just makes it worse

More likely an exchange competitor or fraudster that had his stolen funds seized is doing the DoS. BTC-e should tor hidden service a login page or buy ddos protection which is like 1000usd/mth unless you natively host with them then its 300-500usd/mth

Remember Ukash is forbidden to sell to Americans because their vouchers can be used for online gambling. Paysafecard sells a neutered version to americans that cant be used for gambling nobody accepts. Since there is no special bitcoin to prevent gambling its forever a risk of getting shut down when you deal with Americans.

They do this in Argentina all the time too. Nobody there trusts the bank, on payday there is a giant lineup outside of people draining their accounts so the govt can't arbitrarily reach in and steal their money.

3.72 BTC (includes tip) repaid.

**done

For a service that does millions a day in transactions why the hell does MtGox have such shitty banking? All those currency trader websites send way more outgoing transfers per day than Gox does and they never have any transfer delays or backups.

gox needs to hire some global banking guru to set them up with something better than their 2 shit accounts full of delays, fees and holds. with their money they could afford to buy their own banking license in Panama and literally make their own bank.

you can buy anon cards http://offshorebanking.artisteer.net/no-name-debit-card/
poland banks are full of card programs and since Mtgox has a polish bank it would be easy to load them.

problem is whoever runs the anon program has access to your cards, so if you load it with a lot of money they'll just steal it and run away. they also have enormous fees

a better method is just open up an offshore company, and get bank accounts with it. the offshore company is all pseudo anonymous through nominee directors ect.

use stylometry tools.

round up all of satoshi's forum posts and IRC logs.
use these tools to analyze his/their writing style against other books, whitepapers and whoever you think is satoshi: https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth

jstylo researchers claim they were able to identify 80% of users with a 5,000-word writing sample

let the witch hunt begin

This kind of fraud was rampant with Liberty Reserve for years so they had ppl write messages in the bank transaction message as well. They were also scamming direct cash deposits the same way, almost always through fraud ebay auctions.

The guy who was ripped on ebay then harassed the LR exchanger 'where's my coat/diamonds/laptop' and the exchanger had to refund the money. They solved this direct deposit problem by having everybody upload a scan of the direct deposit receipt with "Not for auctions" written on it. Problem is scammers soon got around this by printing out the pic of the receipt, and writing on it themselves then re-scanning and sending to LR exchanger who usually was pretty lazy in checking out the pic and just released the funds.

I'd be interested if any ideas too I got taken by a MITM scam once



That seems like good enough deterrent for the average scammer, they'll just move on to somebody else that doesn't require anything which probably explains why this hasn't happened again.

EDIT: I further scam proofed your link, by shortening www.is.gd/warningO to the same link, in case scammer switches zero to letter O. Also this: http://is.gd/READ_THIS_LINK_BEFORE_SENDING

Ebay fraud is so easy.

Step 1: go to any underground crime forum.
Step 2: buy wholesale stolen PP and ebay linked accounts for $5 each.
Step 3: buy RDP proxies close to your stolen ebay accounts for $1 each.
Step 4: steal your face off on ebay **now with improved bitcoin cashout!

You're crazy for doing this

Soon netflix will be bundled with your internet subscription in various tiers, along with your youtube high fee subscription. Since the only computers you'll be able to buy are licensed dumb terminals using cloud desktops, they can happily make sure you aren't downloading any pirate movies. Behold, the terrible future

use xe.com

FPS/BACS is free and they receive FPS transfers same day.
Xe converts the money to USD tho, so you lose out a bit on the conversion but not by much. Prob a better rate than the gox bank charges. They pay out gox with EFT, so if you use FPS odds are you will get your gox account credited in 1-2days if gox is paying attention to transfers and all goes well. Can also convert it to Euro and use the Polish bank, probably faster than the Japanese bank.

For future reference, many countries like Russia you only need the name. The transfer is available no matter where they are in Russia. They simply present MTCN and ID and get paid.

I know this from wiring money to wm-center.com and wondered why the WU agent didn't ask me for the city. As for the secret question that's basically vanished, everybody has to present ID now in almost every country. Often, you don't have to use western union. There are a ton of alternatives like contact-sys, migom, ria, marco polo and anelik. All of these Eastern European, Russian and UK transfer services have offices in whatever country you live in to send money. Use them if WU gives you bullshit trouble for picking up too many transfers or sending too much.