I am currently awaiting verification at mt.gox, but with thousands in front of me each day it potentially quite costly.  The bank transfers in to mt.gox are also a little off putting with all the warnings all over it.

I'm somewhat new to the bitcoin thing despite following the news for well over a year (and kicking myself for not jumping in a lot earlier).  Up to now I've bought a couple of BTC through blockchain.info but now I see they've stopped UK purchases.  I was using pingit because of the convenience factor.

When looking at the funding options in my account, I see the only one that's not disabled is SOFORT, which I know nothing about.  If UK funding is disabled, do you think going through SOFORT would work still?

I don't know much about SOFORT, but it appears I would have to fund it in EUR.  Is this safe? Their website looks ok, but then against most scam sites do these days.  And would I have to pay a conversion fee from GBP to EUR?

Or does anyone have any suggestions for a UKer to buy Bitcoins?  localbitcoins have absurdly high asking prices at the moment (80GBP as opposed to 65GBP on blockchain).

Thanks.

I'm a bitcoin newb in the UK, so winning a newbie lotto appears to be my only way to actually get an BTC now that blockchain has shut down UK deposits!

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