I want to link my Bitcointalk name with BTCJam's. Verification code: 1d602727-fb6f-4851-b339-8469649f4011

CIB Bank in Hungary (subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo) is bullying its customers who want to get involved with Bitcoins. I've heard many stories and had experience myself too. They made me fill out a multi-page form for trying to wire 40 euros (!!!) to an exchange, and asking me for proof of home address(!) and passport copies (!!!) of beneficial owners of the exchange business itself. How nonsense that is, right?

I told them that having Nejc Kodric's papers would mean I could steal his identity so I am sure they're just joking.

I also told them that my deposit account with them holds my savings and I am not willing to trust them anymore with it unless they provide me with proof of home address of their bank's beneficial owners. Guess what, they couldn't provide it, so I cashed out and closed my account.

In contrast, Magnet Bank was super friendly and I had many transactions go through without any problems. In fact they're a very forward looking, socially responsible green bank in Hungary.

Updated BTC Vault with Electrum 1.8.1 and newest bitaddress + brainwallet scripts.

Dennis - here's a pull request: https://github.com/dswd/btcvault/pull/1

Please create a new release if you see fit.


Here's my own build until then: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lwbfziicvu7142e/-hPxHQZAFb

You have the same problem with Ripple: unless you're depositing XRP, you will have a currency issued by someone who's backing its issued currency with real cash (or Bitcoin or clams).

So that will be the point of entry for fiat -> digital currency, and there's your exchange.

Unless I'm missing something.

Same here.

Just found this in the newbie forum:

"MetaTrader meets Bitcoin.
Get superb charts and realtime feeds, run your MQL trading bots, draw amazing lines, stare at fabulous indicators.

For Litecoins, Namecoins, *coins as well.

You will be shitting rainbows while using Meta Coin."

http://signup.meta-coin.com



Has anyone got this working?

Just found this in the newbie forum: http://www.meta-coin.com

Doing so small trades wouldn't take the price down as you would need much more volume to do so. mtgoxUSD is at $128 right now, if you'd like to push it down to $125 you'd need $615k to do so. $1 trades don't do anything for sure.

Small trades don't drive price down.

If someone's doing lost of small buys and sells they may be trying to market make.

BitMinter is awesome. Thank you for putting it together.

Many online gambling sites are incorporated in Gibraltar, with servers usually all around the world.

I know this doesn't answer your original question, but anyway.

Hi,

I am developing a simple BTC app and would like to know if there's any way to use getreceivedbyaddress with bitcoind for an address that is not in the wallet?

Something similar to what blockchain.info and blockexplorer.com provides.

According to the wiki, getreceivedbyaddress "works only for addresses in the local wallet, external addresses will always show 0.".

I didn't find anything specific to this in the forum or googling it.

Thanks for your help.

I'd really love to see:

- a true Bitcoin backed debit card run by a solid company or bank
- NYSE grade exchanges
- Full set of currency services for Bitcoin based exchanges (stocks, options, futures, warrants, etc.)
- BTC being a ticker at the global Forex market
- 1 million merchants accepting BTC
- stabilized cross-currency prices
- more liquidity, market makers
- grandma could use it on her phone
- no terrabyte blockchain

Hi there... I'm trading Bitcoin and have interest in developing Bitcoin related projects too.