I'm back from class. Coinbase still has its head up its ass about my identity. I'd like to sell to one buyer using one escrow, and I'd like to do it in two or three stages.

No worries. I posted fairly late in the day. I'll post in this thread again when I get out of class tomorrow, around 11 AM EST.

I have a class from 3-7:30 PM EST, during which time I will be unable to check my WF account balance or send BTC. Still looking to sell, just giving a scheduling heads-up.

I guess we just need a trusted escrow. Luckily for you, Coinbase couldn't verify my identity for some reason, so I haven't sold any of the 17 BTC.

This concerns me (from their ToS):

"Please note the following risks of using Coinbase services:

    Bitcoin purchased using a bank account or credit card may be reversed at a later time, for example, if such a payment is subject to a chargeback, reversal, claim or is otherwise invalidated."

I'm looking for a trustworthy escrow, not one that will take my BTC, give it to someone else, give me $, and then take the $ back when the recipient of the BTC starts crying for whatever reason.

Looking to sell 17 BTC via cash deposit into Wells Fargo account. I'm thinking we'll do it bitcoin-brokers style: I'll send BTC to a reputable escrow, buyer will make the cash deposit and send the receipt to escrow, escrow will confirm with me, and then escrow will send BTC to buyer.

If BitInstant was a major factor, then expect the price to continue to rise. FastCash4Bitcoins is totally operational and legit (in my experience at least) and now offers overnight ACH. BitInstant + FC4B = fast and easy BTC<->USD, which has been a bit of a Holy Grail for a while now.

Am I imagining things, or did you guys just slightly increase the % difference between your ask price and the Mt. Gox ask?

Sold 20 BTC last Thursday at 5 AM EST, requested payment via domestic ACH. Received payment today some time before 3 PM EST. I'm going to go sell them some more right now.

Oh, it's no problem. I was under the impression that it was supposed to go through by the end of the next business day. That must be one of your other options.

I sold you 20 BTC early Thursday morning and asked for ACH. I have yet to receive the funds in my checking account. I don't have an order number, but I don't remember seeing one. I thought I gave you my email address, but I didn't receive any kind of confirmation email from you.

The sell form doesn't mention any restrictions on ACH/wire, but I thought these methods could only be used with BoA/Wells Fargo...?

This is not BTC -> Paypal, it's BTC -> MtGox -> Paypal.

No problem.

Kinda surprised that there isn't a way to delete wallet.dat through the GUI. Is that just so that people don't own themselves?

Just sent 0.49995 BTC to the address in your sig, gweedo. I withdrew exactly 0.5 BTC from Seals to make sure the new wallet was set up properly, and I didn't know about the 0.00005 tx fee (last time I sent coins was a few months ago), so I had to take it out of the bounty. Hope that's okay.

will pay gweedo tomorrow (waiting on Seals withdrawal)

Seems like a silly question, but I searched this forum, searched bitcoin stack exchange, searched google, and didn't find an answer.

I just upgraded to 0.6 and after the block chain downloaded I tried to create a new key to receive BTC. It asked me for my passphrase, and I entered what I thought was the correct phrase (several times), but it didn't like it. Not to worry: the wallet is empty--I just needed to decrypt it to create a new key. So I can just throw the wallet away and make a new one (and make sure that I enter the passphrase correctly and that it works). But how?

Bounty might take a couple hours, but it'll be paid.

But if prior art can be documented, neither will be awarded a patent. Do you understand the novelty requirement for patentable inventions?

I doubt that this bill removes the prior art restrictions. This is probably about inventors who record their ideas without publishing them and then cry foul when someone else files a patent application for one of those ideas. Since Satoshi published a paper describing Bitcoin in detail, it is prior art.

FWIW, MtGox claims that I never completed registration at their site, even though I not only completed registration but also bought 6 BTC under the handle datacommander.