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How likely is it that BitStamp's bank (UniCredit) could implode from debt problems among Slovenian banks, al la Cyprus banking industry implosion? There were more than a few articles in the financial press about Slovenia being next in line. For example: http://www.financialmirror.com/news-details.php?nid=29485SLOVENIA WORRIES GROW
Pledges of liquidity from the European Central Bank (ECB) have supported European equity markets over the last year, with the FTSEurofirst 300 up some 5 percent since the start of 2013.
But the troubles in Cyprus have highlighted how far the region's sovereign debt crisis may still have to run. Bad loans in Slovenia's banking sector also suggest it may be the next country to need a bailout, although Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the country was not on the agenda for Friday's meeting.
"There is zero confidence in the EU finance ministers to come up with the correct solution. Is Cyprus a worry? Yes, but it's less of a worry than the fact that we may see another crazy course of action from the EU finance ministers," said Toby Campbell-Gray, head of trading at Tavira Securities.
The festering uncertainty over the euro zone's economy caused the STOXX Europe 600 Banking Index to fall 1.8 percent to make it the worst-performing equity sector.
The STOXX Europe 600 Insurance Index also fell 0.8 percent, as reinsurer Swiss Re dropped 7.7 percent, although traders said this was mainly down to the fact that Swiss Re went ex-dividend on Friday, after which investors will no longer qualify for its latest dividend payout. Have you seriously looked into the financial stability of UniCredit Slovenia? I'm quite curious about this. If things go the wrong way, it could break BitStamp which in my opinion is one of the few remaining BTC exchanges that is worthy of my deposits. |
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FYI: " Our servers are experiencing intermittent DDoS attacks. We are trying to resolve the situation for all of our users. If you are coordinating a DDoS attack, please remember that bitcoin companies are not giant multinationals with huge support staff and computers. We are all involved because we want to see bitcoin succeed. - Roman " Link: https://status.bitfloor.com/Thoughtful of Roman to have this status page, but this does not help when they give no indication as to when they last updated the status. Was it a week ago? Yesterday? 10 minutes ago? 1 month ago? 1 year? |
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Nice effort. It's very welcome, though it would be better if the site's content (like numbers and blockchain info that arent graphics) degraded gracefully so javascript was not required to see what's going on.
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So you no longer accept Liberty Reserve, correct?
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Hello, thank you for all of your kind support. Yes, we have scheduled a service improvement for 12/07/2012, this improvement include: - Fixing some bugs which user reported to us
- Adding many new features on website, on trading, on deposit/withdraw, on announcement etc..
- Much better user experience interface design, yes, lets hope this get better and better
- New rate & fee schedule, i am sure you will like it
- Improve the trading engine efficiency, let all orders get processed even faster
etc... anyway, i will post a new topic for this notice. we will just see you later with better imagery. thank you guys again  Is this exchange ever coming back online? If not, why not? |
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It was 2008 when I checked into it. What you get told about "the law" very well might just be bank policy weather the banker knows this or not. Usually they don't. They only know what they've been told.
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That too can be done although it is difficult. KYC "regulations" do not require a physical address in the US. Most US banks do want a US shipping address to send your statements, checkbook, debit card and such to, which is easy enough to take care of. Most also will say that they require the foreign resident physically come to the bank to open the account. The most common answer you'll get is that it's not possible, but that is not true at all.
EverBank at least used to open accounts for foreign residents by mail, although they did want a lot of documents.
E*Trade Bank used to open foreign resident's accounts by mail without even notarization of your ID copy that you mail in. I think they stopped this account opening by mail for foreigners a few years ago, but it was the easiest way to get this done for several years before that.
Most of the biggest banks will open accounts for foreign residents too. Just visit their site and look around. The process may be not worth the trouble or cost, but it's very possible to do, especially if your initial deposit will be "substantial" and they understand the reasons that you want to open an account.
You do not need a Social Security Number to bank in the USA but having an SSN will almost guarantee that opening a bank account is an easy task. It's often treated as a well known fact that you must have a valid SSN or the bank cannot legally open an account for you, but in actual fact that it not true.
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I used BTCtree recently. No problems, only great rates and quick order execution. It just moved high up on my list of best sites to trade on. |
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Several banks in Latvia will open accounts by mail for US persons. Rietumu Bank is one, although I think Bitcoin-Central.net just had their bank account closed by Rietumu. Do you care to tell us why that happened, davout? Am I wrong? I think there's at least one bank like this in Lithuania as well although I'm not sure which bank it is. I'm pretty sure several banks in Malta will open accounts by mail for US persons. They accepted US account holders before 2008 anyway. Some banks in Cyprus will open accounts for US persons by mail. You may need an introducing broker for this however. Google "open bank account in cyprus" and you'll get a bunch of these "introducing brokers" who will charge several hundred dollars to give you account application forms. Also there are still one or two banks in Switzerland which open accounts for US persons, but I'm not sure which banks still do this. Some even by mail, I would bet. There are hundreds of banks there. Liechtenstein has a handful of banks and I think most will open accounts for US persons. They probably will want you to visit the bank in person and probably sign a waiver about the IRS asking for information on your account. There are quite a few banks in Jersey and Guernsey (the Channel Islands) that will open accounts by mail. This is true of the Isle of Man as well. HSBC has a large network of branches in many SEPA countries. You can usually open an account at one of their foreign branches if you have a US HSBC account and go to your nearest US HSBC branch to get your documents certified for the foreign branch. https://www.expat.hsbc.com/1/2/hsbc-expat/home#dropDownEDIT: If this post was helpful to anyone, I'll be glad to accept your tips in my tipjar!  19JBZu1CjLgNkcYv4z6WVvmrYChUUxbZ4iIf anyone would like further help, I can possibly point you in some good directions depending on your needs. Just ask. |
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I had a few successful purchases from Get-Bitcoin.com recently.  |
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I've a problem with intersango. I cannot get information on my SEPA transfer from Intersango from 2 weeks ago, and the money is not in my account. When I click on the withdraw information (which was difficult to find, by the way), it says Sent withdrawal of 2275.75 PLN to There is no other information! Here is a screen shot with the widthraw # smudged for my privacy.  The support page ( https://support.intersango.com/) does not load. It always says for many days (more than a week) now: The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments. Intersango support, please help. |
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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, or be able to reply even if we do. 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? That strikes me as just plain dumb. Get-Bitcoin's ordering system could use a major overhaul or two. As a weekly get-bitcoin customer, myself, I'm getting tired of how poor this system is. 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! And that's not a good sign for the future of this shabby company. |
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I do not want Amazon codes.
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I am also selling MtGox codes now! |
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Using an exchange is likely the most common way people get bitcoins. Exchanges are business that broker trades between people. The buyers and sellers using the exchange set the rates by putting in an order to buy or sell. This is best directory of exchanges that I've been able to find. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:ExchangesExchangers are businesses that sell (and buy) bitcoins to the public and set the rates themselves. These are likely the next most common way people buy bitcoins. This is the best directory of exchangers that I've been able to find. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Buying_bitcoins |
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I am selling bitcoins in exchange for USD Liberty Reserve or Pecunix at the latest MTGOX USD weighted average rate.
My commission is 0%! That means I won't be taking a fee, and I'm paying the LR transfer fee.
I usually have new bitcoins every day to trade! In the coming months, I may start accepting other payments methods, but this is it for now.
Send me a PM. I'll share my PGP key by PM on request.
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How much is Vircurex's fee for withdrawing to Liberty Reserve?
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I've used GetBitcoin's services twice in the past week. Excellent service!
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