Last week I tried to purchase a very small amount of bitcoins via LiqPay.

They redirected me to SimpleVoucher, I paid for the voucher, I got informed that I needed to wait 3 days for security controls (this was less than 100 dollars). When I tried to redeem the voucher the following week, I got a "Payment failed" message.

I contacted SV support and they were extremely quick to answer, saying that I should contact LiqPay because the payment did not get through on their side. Unfortunately, this is not true - it was on my credit card statement alright and I did pay the amount.

I tried live support on the LiqPay site, no dice, only "Wait, please, you will be answered by operator". I emailed them, no dice either. Have I been scammed?

Thanks for any input / experience.

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Why do I get an ad for a German company instead of the usual homepage?

I would like to perform some standard econometric analysis of Bitcoin transactions, so as to see which external factors may contribute to increase/decrease of payment activity, market liquidity etc. The problem is that I don't know how to turn the blockchain into a database that may be used with statistical analysis softwares such as Stata, SAS etc; did anyone do this already?

Thanks
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