That is quite possible, because I live about 200 km away from Dublin, yet my connection on the map is shown as Dublin.

This is so COOL! Thanks!

Allied Irish Banks will do a free transfer as long as it is below 5000 euro and your account can accept Euro. If your account only accepts GBP they would apply their exchange rate, which probably isn't very attractive.

But you said you were in Holland? Maybe there is a way of transferring Euro to Holland free of charge, I will look into it.

According to my on-line currency converter £322 = €379, which would suit me.

In general my bank in Ireland can do free transfers to most of EU countries free of charge; however, it seems like for some reason the banks in the way charge their commissions, because very seldom the exact amount reaches the destination. I was told that this happens if you do not provide destination bank's SWIFT code, but I did provide it and still was charged for my recent transfer to Finland... I wonder is there anyway of tracing how one's transfer travels across the banks.

Anyway, we can give it a try if you have a Dutch account. Please send me a PM.

I am planning on starting offering BTC for cash and wire-transfer in Ireland. The problem is, as I mentioned above, that I do not have enough coins and I am not interested in buying them at a loss (by any way of transferring money that is not free).

Do you have a large amount of coins? If so, maybe I could find a way to transfer the money to you free of charge (perhaps to that UK bank account of yours) and find some customers here in Ireland?

By the way, I am planning on doing exactly the same thing in Poland - exchange between PLN and BTC.

It is quite possible that there is a way to transfer money freely between Czech Republic and Poland for free. Perhaps we could arrange something; please PM me if you are interested in buying BTC. It would probably be handy for you to have a foreign currency account (EUR) in your bank. This way you could freely transfer EUR without paying the exchange rate.

Myślę, że po świętach wszystko się rozbuja kiedy wreszcie bitcoin.pl ruszy.

That's great. Exactly what I need now!

Wire-transfer?

I makes more sense if you don't have to pay for the electricity yourself.

This came up during the discussion here: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2337.msg31338

It would be great if we could establish a network connecting all people in the European Union that would be willing to offer exchange services (between BTC and EUR). The purpose of this would be making it easy for people in different countries to buy BTC. Of course, it would have to be based on trust between the exchangers.
A big problem here is that the supply of Bitcoins in Europe seems to be short (at least in certain countries).

Let's take a look at the following example:

A guy in Belgium wants to buy Bitcoins, but there is no local exchange in Belgium or the local exchanger in Belgium doesn't have the emount of Bitcoins needed. There is an exchanger in Ireland who has enough bitcoins, but transfers between Ireland and Belgium are not free (it's just an assumption for the argument's sake).
However, there is another exchanger in the UK, who again may not have enough bitcoins to satisfy the Belgian guy's needs - but wired transfers between UK and Ireland, and between Belgium and UK are free (again, assumption).

Now, if the network between Belgium, Ireland and UK existed - the Belgian guy could transfer the money for free to his Belgian exchange. Then the Belgian exchanger informs the guy in Ireland that the money arrived; he then can transfer bitcoins to the Belgian customer. Then the Belgian exchanger transfers the money to UK, from where it is transfered to Ireland (all for free). I know this is time consuming and slow, but FREE and perhaps some kind of an automated process could be developed in time.

It is just an idea, please let me know what you think of it.

That's a very valuable piece of information. If we could come up with some kind of a map of free-transfers between EU countries (and what banks offer it) we would be laughing - this would mean you could get bitcoins at the exact exchange value from anywhere in the EU! I think this deserves a separate thread.

Within the EU the fees really depend on what transfer method you use and what bank you are with; also, whether you provide the SWIFT code (which is not always required, but significantly increases speed and reduces fees, if there are any).

Transferring money between banks that are part of the same big bank is often free. I am thinking about offering such services (BTC to EUR and EUR to BTC) in Ireland and Poland (I have bank accounts in both of these countries; also, you can transfer EUR for free between these countries if you use the right banks). It is, however, a little bit difficult to come in possession of Bitcoins in Europe for me. I try to generate as much as possible, but that's of course not going to be enough to start an exchange service.

I used bitcoinexchange.com once, but the wired transfer from Ireland to Finland cost me about 15 Euro, so it is not feasible at all.

I think people in different EU countries should check transfers between what banks are free and perhaps we could work something out together.

I also would have no problem selling/buying bitcoins for cash in Ireland and Poland.

Coś cicho tu znowu...

Is there anyone who wants to earn some bitcoins by helping me with decoding a few files?

+1

Is there any commission going to the pool server? If there is no wonder he doesn't want to release the source; I wouldn't be too happy about doing that either.

Do you think no-one would be tempted to run a GPU miner after a while?

+1 SmokeTooMuch.

I bought a good number of BTC from him. Very good to do business with.

Same here. :/