Is it a reloadable prepaid debit card? 

If so, is it one that has direct deposit capability?  If so, you might be able to use it like a bank account, where you link that account to your Dwolla account.  So once you have that set up you can transfer the funds from Dwolla to an exchange.

Are you in the U.S.?   If so, you might be able to buy coins through:
 - https://www.quickbitcoins.net

Another method, from anywhere, is to buy SLL (Second Life Lindens) through VirWoX, and then trade those for BTCs:
 - http://www.VirWoX.com

That's going to be pretty much it.

There might be some exchanges that accept LiqPay in which you can pay with a credit card, such as:
 - http://www.Bitcoin-24.com

Other than that, if you can use that prepaid card at an ATM, then using that cash with a cash deposit method is likely going to be your next best option:


Options:
 - http://www.BitInstant.com (Deposit at major banks, 7-11, Walmart, CVS, Moneygram, etc.,)
 - http://www.BitMe.com (Deposit cash at Chase)
 - http://www.BitFloor.com (Deposit cash at Chase or Wells Fargo)
 - http://www.MrBitcoins.com (Deposit at a bank in U.S., India, Australia)
 - http://www.CAVirtEx.com (Deposit cash at several banks)
 - http://www.Spendbitcoins.com (Deposit cash at a bank in Australia)
 - http://BitcoinNordic.com (Purchase CashU or UKash in dozens of countries)
 - http://www.BTC-E.com (Deposit cash (USD) at bank locations in Russia)
 - http://www.BitNZ.om (Deposit cash (NZD) at back locations in New Zealand)
 - http://www.BitInstant.com (Deposit cash in Brazil using Boleto or Banco Recomendito, or in Russia, using Qiwi or Cyberplat.)

Also, Bitcoins Direct will accept cash, but they have a $500 minimum order size:
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=87094.0 (Deposit cash at Bank of America, Wells Fargo or PNC, minimum $500)

Or you might find a local trade (paying cash):
 - http://www.localbitcoins.com

There are quite a few methods:
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Buying_bitcoins

You can move it to the Technical Support board yourself.  The link for you to do that is in the bottom left.  The Technical Support board is:
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=4.0


By the time I looked, Blockchain.info reported 17 confirmations.

There was a fee paid and the total inputs was more than a trivial amount so it normally wouldn't be a transaction that would be delayed, but the problem likely was that it was spending a recently confirmed coin.  In other words, funds that were received were being re-spent without aging.  That is allowed, but may need a slightly higher fee to be included right away in the next block.

Timestamps are not any more accurate than +/- a couple hours.


Transactions can be ordered by the block number (height) in which the transaction appears, and then from there the timestamp is whatever the miner wishes it to be +/- two hours.

Source?

Shutting down a service with a several day delay in returning funds is different from "running" with the coins.


Several alternatives exist.
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin:Community_portal#Bitcoin_Community_Forums_on_various_platforms


The financial industry doesn't rely on CNBS CNBC to make their decisions.   The entertainment industry doesn't rely on TMZ to make their decisions.

If you don't like it, make your presence felt somewhere else.   Be the change you wish to see.

Well, ... that ended abruptly.

So that indicates it was likely a single party with a large balance, rather than a large level of growth occurring with various mixing services or a high level of growth in transactions where mixing occurs:



 - http://blockchain.info/charts/output-volume

Wow, that's confusing then.  So the lot size is 1/10 tr. oz but the price quote is for a full troy ounce of gold quoted in BTCs.


Currently for GOLD-02.13 there is a bid at 130 BTC and a sell at 148 BTC.  So if I am bearish on gold and bulling on bitcoin (i.e., want to speculate that the price of gold will be going down, or at least it won't rise in terms of USDs as fast as Bitcoin does), then I would sell into that contract.  But I need to lay down 130 BTC for it?  (Of course, with 10:1 margin I can do that with having only as little as 14 BTC in my ICBIT BTC wallet.)   And that only benefits from the margin variance of 1/10th of an ounce of gold?

Incidentally, here's what a chart for Gold/BTC looked like over the past ten months.   So the GOLD-02.13 would increase in value when bitcoin drops or if gold's price in dollars increases faster than the BTC/USD.



The above is an inverted chart showing Gold ounces per BTC, as available here:
 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/oimg?key=0AmcTCtjBoRWUdHJuUE1mUkFxa3A0eHBDQkxZLVVFZmc&oid=8&zx=3zmuzi5eu5a0

With raw data from:
 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmcTCtjBoRWUdHJuUE1mUkFxa3A0eHBDQkxZLVVFZmc

That might have been a little confusing.  The results that they label "September" are released in October.  The bet statement does say "This statement asserts that in the October 1, 2012 release" ... but it is possible the evaluation of that statement was waiting for results labeled "October", which will not happen for a month and would be the wrong results.

Incidentally, I lost on that one.

There are a number of merchants which sell gold for bitcoins:
 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade#Precious_.26_Base_Metals.2FCoins

Also there is a Gold futures contract available for speculation:
 - https://icbit.se/GDG3

Yet don't discount the residual earnings from conversion of a new customer for the business -- whereas that customer might otherwise have gone elsewhere.  And don't discount the potential for the business to lose revenue by not accepting bitcoin where the consumer prefers to use bitcoins for payment and prefers merchants who do accept bitcoin.

Look at the anonymous VPN marketplace.  Several of those vendors were not taking a leap of faith into accepting bitcoins, they were essentially forced to do so as they were losing market share to those who already do accept bitcoins.

Did you forget your URL?

 - https://www.therocktrading.com

It hasn't been even 48 hours since the MegaMillions draw (which is needed to determine the BitLotto winner).   It is the weekend.  I wouldn't exactly describe this as AWOL, though to be fair with the current climate in the bitcoin ecosystem, prompt communications would be preferable.

Would it be of interest to you if there were a service where you simply send the wallet.dat to it along with a Bitcoin withdrawal address and the coins from the wallet are then sent to that address?

That way you could use an EWallet and not mess with any more of this?

  - http://www.BlockChain.info/wallet

Here was where that was described:


The winner can be determined from the blockchain (and the megaball results), so it can be determined which person among us need be the only one to need to worry about this. :-)

IndieGogo and KickStarter aren't today giving out equity.  They are donation-based.

But they did introduce this concept of kickbacks to the backer, which usually ends up being a form of pre-selling the product. 

KickStarter is backing away from that model. 

IndieGogo is moving foward as an equity crowdfunding portal.

Both of them though have essentially been enabling crowds to fund companies that might not otherwise have been able to get funding.

Basically it lowers the bar as to who can get equity funding.  

Some of the projects on KickStarter or IndieGogo would never have passed muster with banks or angel investors, yet when these people put their ideas out there, there were actual potential users around the country and around the world who thought it was a good enough idea to drop $20 or $50 or whatever to see the idea be designed, built and sold.

Today chances of you as an non-established entrepreneur getting funding are much higher if you have wealthy friends or family.  You aren't allowed to put out a sign asking the public to invest in your business.  Even with Crowdfunding made legal, that will still true about the sign but at least you can list your startup with a crowfunding portal which is where your pitch is made.

Instead of needing to persuade a few wealthy investors that your idea will be more profitable than the next guy's idea, instead you can pitch to people like yourself who might uniquely see the same value in what your startup creates.  And they don't have to be wealthy -- they can invest $20 if they want, and can be from anywhere in the country -- not just local investors which nearly all startup funding historically has come from.

Are you in the U.S.?
 - https://www.quickbitcoins.net

With that you an buy BTCs, and then trade BTCs for LR at a number of exchanges, including AurumXChange, VirCurEx and more

Another method, from anywhere, is to buy SLL (Second Life Lindens) through VirWoX, and then trade those for BTCs, and then trade the BTCs for LR.
 - http://www.VirWoX.com

That's going to be pretty much it.

There might be some exchanges that accept LiqPay in which you can pay with a credit card, such as:
 - http://www.Bitcoin-24.com

Will you be providing service in each of the countries listed with UseMyServices
 - https://www.usemyservices.com/current-country-banks/

If so, these will be the first time bitcoins are available via bank transfer in many of these countries:
 Mexico, Peru, Serbia, Czech Republic, Boznia and Herzogovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Switzerland


Or is it just the list in the flags that appear on the Payment Page:



Which are appear to be (after squinting):

 - Canada
 - China
 - United Kingdom
 - Poland
 - Austria
 - Netherlands
 - Germany
 - Switzerland
 - Australia
 - Belgium

+1, yes, just saw the new InstaWallet site. Nice work.

 Incidentally, how many different, unsuccessful wallet requests from the same IP before the banhammer comes down?

 - http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/112733/instawallet_metal_detector/

$115 Virgin Wireless no-contract LG Optimus Elite (with NFC), Free Shipping

 - http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Virgin-Mobile---LG-Optimus-Elite-Mobile-Phone---Black/5177574.p?id=1218635228899&skuId=5177574

(This was $99 recently, maybe it will go back on sale some day.)

Yes, it has value there.

One problem I see is the contract size.  For the GOLD-02.13 it is 1 troy ounce.  So I'm having to put up a ton of bitcoins, even using leverage, to buy that contract. [Edit: That was a mistake.  That contract is for 1/10th of a troy ounce.]   For the OIL-02.13, it is 1 barrel., so for the moment. that might be the first contract of the two that I experiment in.