I'm a bit puzzled as Moneybookers did close my account two weeks ago and tells me I can't use their service any longer because I sold bitcoins via bitmarket.eu.

They refer to section 11 where all the items are listed for which it is forbidden (pornography, weapons, money laundering, etc ) to use their service. When I asked them to be more explicit and tell me which of the items there they thought bitcoins would fit, they never gave an answer and just said "It is forbidden. Our decision is not open for discussion. You account is closed and you cannot make use of our services any longer."

I'm not aware I did anything wrong or so for all the transactions I had so far 6 or 7 of which 3 via moneybookers  (otherwise bitmarket.eu would have closed my account as well, I guess).

So, is this the same moneybookers or is there a different moneybookers policy for the US ?

I'd like to know : I'm being threated as dirt by these guys and they refuse to tell me why.

(note I also posted this on another thread ...)

I'm a bit puzzled as Moneybookers did close my account two weeks ago and tells me I can't use their service any longer because I sold bitcoins via bitmarket.eu.

They refer to section 11 where all the items are listed for which it is forbidden (pornography, weapons, money laundering, etc ) to use their service. When I asked them to be more explicit and tell me which of the items there they thought bitcoins would fit, they never gave an answer and just said "It is forbidden. Our decision is not open for discussion. You account is closed and you cannot make use of our services any longer."

I'm not aware I did anything wrong or so for all the transactions I had so far 6 or 7 of which 3 via moneybookers  (otherwise bitmarket.eu would have closed my account as well, I guess).

So, is this the same moneybookers or is there a different moneybookers policy for the US ?

I'd like to know : I'm being threated as dirt by these guys and they refuse to tell me why.

@luxgladius : Hmmm .... still a bit vague : I definitely need to put in a bit more work with my brains (unfortunately as scarce resource as well : no need for increasing the difficulty to limit the output !)

@ Gabi : yes, I can see now that the number of confirmations goes in pace with the blocknumbers.

But so in the end network traffic will increase with the fractions of BTC exchanged ... is that not going to slowdown clients/networks ?

Which makes me wonder : do fractions of bitcoins ever get together again after they were split in a transaction ?

Hi,

hey I'm the proud owner of probably one of the last milli-BTC distributed by the Bitcoin Faucet.

I noticed however that the number of confirmations just keeps increasing (currently more than 600) which, if I understood correctly from explanations elsewhere, is way over the top to make sure that these are really my 0.001 BTC : I think I read a number like 10 or so would do ample.

My question is will this go on for ever (as in this generates a background network traffic linked to each bitcoin (or fraction there-of) ever traded) or will it stop after some time ...

(and this was post number 5 !!)

F.

Hi,

thanks for your answer : what exactly do you mean with reference card ? is it like it's from AMD but another company just put another logo on it and re-boxed it ?

It's a rather expensive piece of equipment : that's why I like to ask before "investing".

F.

Hi,

I don't find these restrictions very useful and it is not clear that it will help in the end : those that want to troll just wait 4 hours and in the mean time post to this thread for example.

Better is IMHO to ban people if they don't behave : black list the e-mail they used and erase their registration. So in order to come on-line again they would have to re-register with a new e-mail address. My guess is they will get bored very soon.

The moderator could send them a warning maybe

A ... n ... y ... w ... a ... y ... s : this was post 3 ...

Hi,

I was wondering :

does it matter which brand HD 6990 I choose ? are there performance / reliability issues depending on the brand.

Sorry I'm still a newbie and have to post here : this should be better placed in the mining hardware forum of course.

Moderator : could you do something about this ? The site's policy is a bit frustrating as my question may not be looked at by the relevant people now. Why not let anybody post anywhere and ban if they don't behave ?

Thanks.

Hi,

I guess this question should be Economics section but as a newbie (a really fresh one) I can't post there. Possibly the moderator could put it there ...

I'm watching this bitcoin story for about 2 weeks now after reading a reference to it in the NewScientist. I'd like to set up my mining rig but can't help being worried by the BTC exchange rates (I could cope with the statistics of generating bitcoins ... that aspect seems somehow more tangible / acceptable).

What is a bit worrying is the way the value is determined : I understand (I think) that the places where bitcoins are traded for (say for sake of a better choice of words) a hard currency use an offer demand strategy and match requests for BTC with offers.

But there is hardly any synchronization between various countries so that so that one could by bitcoins real cheap in one place and sell them with appreciable profit in another place. The difference between countries being mostly driven by the size of the bitcoin economy in each country (i.e. local offer and demand) which develop at different rates.

As such, it seems to me that this can drive strong fluctuations on the bitcoin value (but I'm not an economist or anything the like), driven by opportunity and speculation, which undermine one's trust in the BTC.

I wonder if there should be an effort of quoting the BTC against a weighted average basket of "hard currencies" (say WAC for Weighted Averaged Currency) so that such speculation would be much more visible / traceable to bitcoin-community and hence would discourage speculators. In doing so one would obtain a more steady value and this would encourage its use as a way of payment worldwide. It would also allow miners to plan investments in their mining operations a bit more accurately.

Of course it would still be left up to the "market" to find the BTC's true value compared to this WAC. Whereas the value of the local hard currency wrt. the WAC is public information not (yet) driven by the bitcoin economy.