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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: If my hard drive crashes... on: April 29, 2013, 04:15:16 PM
Copy your wallet.dat, encrypt the wallet with truecrypt, then email yourself the encrypted file to your gmail acount and a waala cloud storage account.
2  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: WTS 10-15 BTC @ $120 via Western Union on: April 22, 2013, 05:22:07 PM
Bump again due to slow replies with those envolved. I have the escrow contract ready and waited to be funded for the right buyer.
3  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: WTS 10-15 BTC @ $120 via Western Union on: April 20, 2013, 08:28:37 PM
No I'm in the US. Oldsport hasn't replied back yet so offer is reopened at first come first serve. 120 per btc and I pay WU fees, great deal for someone!
4  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: WTS 10-15 BTC @ $120 via Western Union on: April 20, 2013, 07:23:09 PM
I'll cover WU fees. Let me know the exact number of btc (between 10-15) you'd like and I'll contact John K. and get the escrow process started.
5  Economy / Currency exchange / WTS 10-15 BTC @ $120 via Western Union on: April 20, 2013, 06:03:25 PM
Selling min 10 max 15 btc @ $120 USD each via WU. Escrow required (John K).
6  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: How would be better to invest 1.000.000 $ into BTC economy? on: October 02, 2012, 01:13:37 AM
slowly trade bitcoins for cash at 1%+ fee (in your favor), then hold bitcoins for 10 + years.
7  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Buying bitcoin thru BitInstant on: October 02, 2012, 12:50:27 AM
much cheaper way of getting btc for dollars

Yah check out the guy that just replied, 1% below gox and reliable as hell.

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and vice versa.

this is the part that needs work in the US. you can go gox >dwolla for pretty cheap but it takes forever. Best to stick with p2p or pay the toll.
8  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin -> MasterCard (or any credit card)... who cares? on: September 30, 2012, 12:36:54 AM
Yeah a $10 fee for a card that can instantly transfer BTC to USD and allow withdraws from ATMs is nothing. I would pay a lot more.

It's already available for $3 for the card and 0 fees to load it. Bitinstant relies on ignorance as it's business model though, and you are the perfect customer.

Huh? Where? I'd like to see it.

https://www.walmartmoneycard.com/walmart

There you go. Fundable via direct deposit (ACH) connect the dots.

This is what I was talking about with the ignorance about bitinstant debit card. No offense toward the people that don't realize you can use almost any pre-paid debit card that accepts direct deposit (amex also has one, among others). How can I blame you since bitinstant has put quite a bit of effort pretending they are doing something innovative with their debit card. But bitisntant advertises as "finally you can spend btc via debit" when really it's been around for a long time at a cheaper cost.

AND, bitinstant fail to realize. Their debit card will require SSN. While most WU transactions do not. How much of the volume being sent out of the country is by people without a valid SSN? I would bet it's the vast majority.


The fee is 6% including Paypal fees no matter where in the world your account is located. We've partnered up with Virtual World Services GmbH in order to make this possible, since they have the only virtual currency approved account with Paypal. The Paypal and middleman fees we are required to pay per transfer are over 4.5%, for this reason we charge 6%.

You pay more to use their service than I do to use your service plus their service plus btc-e service? You are getting ripped off.

for a $500 USD transaction

sell on btc-e 0.2% fee $499 USD remaining
Transfer $499 USD from bitinstant btc-e > Virwox 0.89% fee $494.56 remaining
VirWox charges 1% Bitinstant deposit fee $489.6144 remaining
Virwox fee $1 USD + 2% for paypal withdrawal
Total =
$478.84 in paypal account for a net fee of
4.23% any where in the world, since VirWox charges the same fees anywhere (nice spin attempt)

Compared to the 4.5% fee you pay, damn. Maybe it's time to renegotiate? You fee doesn't even count the exchange cost for the customer which I have included in my calculations. So they can add another 0.2-0.5% on top of the 6% you charge.  Basically you charge 2%+ to save people from the huge "hassle" of registering a VirWox account and claim you pay more fees then I would using your service.
9  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin -> MasterCard (or any credit card)... who cares? on: September 29, 2012, 11:48:33 PM
I concede it could be useful for sending money to 3rd world countries, I had actually advertised the service (in a positive note) as such. Though there are ways to use bitcoin to exchange for 3rd world currency with a net gain rather than 3% fee. So I've changed my opinion on such matters.

You really think every one on the forum is a bitinstant user? Otherwise I don't understand why you'd say I said everyone on the forum is ignorant. I've mistakenly recommended more users to your service than the vast majority of these forums BTW, I think you should apologize.

BTW the reason I say you rely on Ignorance? Your site still charges 6% for a service available on your own site for 1.5%+ cheaper than that and preys on ignorant users. Exchange>virwox>paypal to be specific. Volume discount? Why bother when you can rip off unsuspecting customers with "premium customer support" Smiley
10  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin -> MasterCard (or any credit card)... who cares? on: September 29, 2012, 11:29:09 PM
Yeah a $10 fee for a card that can instantly transfer BTC to USD and allow withdraws from ATMs is nothing. I would pay a lot more.

It's already available for $3 for the card and 0 fees to load it. Bitinstant relies on ignorance as it's business model though, and you are the perfect customer.
11  Economy / Currency exchange / Re: FastCash4Bitcoins Support Thread (Update: bank funds added) on: September 25, 2012, 01:29:23 PM


- Last sale I made, I didn't get the order number off the page before I lost the page due to technical difficulties - can you maybe email the order number? it'd be nice to have that and email confirmation of the order. I remember passwords fine - but remembering to write down that number is apparently beyond the capacity of my brain.



 I always forget as well, now have a really big order and can't check the status :\ Maybe an option to use bitcoin address or email to check order instead of order number. I assume they use order number for privacy but I don't really care about that personally. Deposit address should be relativity private anyway? (not sure if they reuse any)
12  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Nefario GLBSE on: September 24, 2012, 09:28:56 PM
See a lawyer.

Oh shit. Are you going to peruse this loss of maybe a couple hundred dollars as aggressively as you did the tens of thousands lost to pirate? Watch out Nef, you might get a phone call in 30 years. 
13  Economy / Lending / Re: 3000-6000 BTC loan - Hookah Lounge - 9/18/12 Update on: September 24, 2012, 09:25:20 PM
The best part about all of this is you obviously suffer from a condition you don't believe in.
14  Economy / Long-term offers / Re: Starfish BCB - Loans and Deposits on: September 20, 2012, 02:37:41 PM
Well I requested withdrawal of a significant deposit not too long ago, received 23% within a week, now getting ~4-5% total per week payments. Estimated time of repayment in full, 16 weeks. I wouldn't sell the debit for less than 10% discount at the moment, and that would be about break even point with principal - interest from original deposit.
15  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why so much bitcoin popularity in Russia? on: September 16, 2012, 08:58:24 PM


This whole state of affairs undermines bitcoin and is enough to destroy faith in the currency. Mining needs an overhaul, I don't pretend to know the solution.

Yup sky is falling. Or you are clueless. ASIC will fix the botnet problem. Botnet are useful for other things, once bitcoins becomes less profitable they will move to other things. You say there is no cost but it's not true since botnets can be sold thus opportunity cost. When the cpu/gpu nets go from producing 100+ coins a month to 1 coin a month you can bet they will do other things with the zombies.
16  Economy / Lending / Re: Looking for a 15 BTC loan on: September 16, 2012, 01:10:39 AM
The easiest way to guess revenue for these, especially with late orders is to assume a similar dollar per btc/day as today, maybe even worse since so many people think they will get rich off ASIC. So 3x jalapeno is $450 or 75% of one BFL single (fpga). So you can expect to make 0.225 BTC / day before the block reward half or ~ 0.11625 BTC / day after the reward halves for all 3 jalapeno.
17  Other / Meta / Re: Is there a way to see if and how many people have you on ignore? on: September 12, 2012, 06:55:37 PM
Anyway, i think it might be usefull to at least see THAT you're bing ignored and maybe by how many people.
Now i just get paranoia from not knowing.. Smiley

It does do this unless it was just changed in the last couple of days.

Where your ignore button would be, if you don't have many ignores it's just blank. But if you have more it'll be like

"4-8 ignores"

and that links to the post by theymos that explains how it works.

I would take a screenshot to show you but it seems like mine disappeared. So people took me off ignore or theymos changed it since yesterday.

18  Economy / Computer hardware / Re: S > BFL Single on: September 11, 2012, 11:12:51 PM
is there an upgrade to SC associated with this single?
No.

This one is sold for $850, thanks
19  Economy / Lending / Re: what would it take? on: September 10, 2012, 09:37:44 PM
you can get cash in mail for 2-3% as well but limited supply. Another is CampBX ACH or check/money order. Really it depends how much you are trying to withdrawal. In general the lower amount the higher the fee.
20  Economy / Gambling / Re: BurtWs 10,000 BTC bet on Pirate on: September 10, 2012, 09:19:41 PM
Quote from: BurtW
New status.  To be fair to team Ponzi the interests was not paid out, it was credited to the account and is compounding:
Code:
Week 416: 14,617,865,502,836,800 + 1,023,250,585,198,600 (interest) = 15,641,116,088,035,400

BTW that math is correct (I think)

The end amount is 15 quadrillion, 641 trillion, 116 billion, 88 million, 35 thousand, 4 hundred Bitcoins; in 8 years.  Cheesy
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