2 Factor Authentication is more widely used than it use to be. Some sites, such as Coinbase, force you to use it, while other sites are optional.

I definitely see the usefulness in this type of log in, however I have not fully adopted it when optional because depending on the situation, it's as much of a hindrance as it is useful. If you lose your phone or get it stolen, then it's a major inconvenience to access your accounts. It greatly increases security measure, but it can greatly screw you as well. Anyone else turned off by this double-edge sword?

Why don't you try silkroad 2.0? Or ask dank, I'm sure that guy has done every drug known to man, and then some.

I might be able to sell you one of my amazon accounts. It's several years old. However, the risk doing this is that once you log on with your IP, then they might associate your IP might with mine, then I'm at risk of getting both my accounts and even my household accounts banned. So how are you going to guarantee that you won't screw me over as well?

Hmm it seems like dirt cheap starbucks cards are all the rage nowadays huh? Why can't a more reputable member on here be selling these

Hmm interesting, I didn't know BitJohn was a rep from crypsy this whole time. We also need someone from btc-e, bitstamp, LBC, coinbase, or other major exchanges to actually be active on the forum.

@ BurtW - What do you mean you tagged your btc? Are you just basically following the btc with the firsts bits that has your name?

I'll help you with this. I've shipped hundreds of packages international, but never one to Pakistan. Once I've fulfilled my part of sending it out, I'm not responsible for what happens to it after that. You cover shipping cost from Ibuypower to me, then from me to you. If you agree with this, then shoot me a PM to iron out the details.

Chase is probably the most anti-bitcoin bank you can use. Several months ago they changed a policy where you can't deposit cash into another person's bank, that's why you don't see a single Chase bank offering on LBC. The short answer is, no banks will be easy for high volume btc transactions. You always run the risk of closer, and once this happens, you pretty much can't open an account with them anymore.

Credit unions are the most lenient, so if you want to do LBC transactions, those are the safest. However, the thing with credit unions is that they tend to be local, so it'll be a lot harder to buy or sell on LBC with credit unions because so few people have them.

I see this thread pop up ever so often. Being an "early adopter" is all relative. Gold has been around for over 5,000+ years, but yet we can still be considered early adopters of gold if it's going to last tens of thousands more year. But if a meteor hits earth tomorrow and wipes us all out, then we're not early adopters anymore, are we. We can never see an end to these kinds of things, so the term is always debatable.

I'd be willing to do this if you can pay with bank cash deposit, no paypal. Too risky with your account status.

He still owes me for over a month ago too, which was part of the reason why I switched. After that point, I didn't see this campaign as reliable. I'm still on the list in the OP too.

Nope, this is still reversible.

Neither. In this case, it's just negligence on OP's part. Very doubtful to get the btcs back because now it's not that hard to launder and clean off the coins. If they are sent to an exchange and withdrawn to a different wallet, or sent to a mixer, how are you going to follow and recover the coins now?

But constantly wiring fiat in or out eats up any profit you've made (if any). Those wire fees are not cheap, and sometimes there is even a fee to receive a wire, depending on the bank. It just depends on your risk tolerance.

Nothing to see here, everything is ok. I'm locking the thread but will reopen if they go down again without announcement.

I sent you a PM. Feel free to check my ratings. I'm also willing to provide additional references inside or outside the forum.

My goodness that's a huge amount of BTC stolen. Storing plain text access to your wallet, ONLINE... but I guess it's too late for the lecture.

Make an image of your hard drive/ssd before you do anything else. There is a slim chance that the leftover evidence could lead to the capture. The more you use that same machine, the more the data gets overwritten.

It should be the other way around. The trusted member is paying with paypal. And in a paypal transaction, escrow won't do anything. The payment can be easily reversed after escrow released the btc.

Only reputable members deal with paypal (or at least reputable member paying out in paypal. You don't actually need high reputation to accept paypal), but I've seen newbs dealing with newbs in paypal, and it usually ends with one of them getting scammed.

Also escrow won't do much for a paypal transaction. It can still be reversed with or without escrow. Paypal's term is 45 days for their official system, but if they're about to lose money, they will extend it much longer. If payed with credit card through paypal, it can be even longer than 6 months, depending on how the scammer works it out with the fraud department.

Trying to do some trading right now and bitstamp is down. They rarely go down for maintenance. I'm not too worried since they are relatively reliable, but it just reminds of the mtgox nightmare. Anyone know how long the downtime is?