I've done this twice now, and both times is was fast and easy.

You make a "reservation" to deposit after you login to exhangebitcoins.com.  You choose the bank and enter the amount.  Then you get a page with instructions, which I printed out and brought to the bank with me.

I made my cash deposit at the bank, filling out the deposit slip as instructed on the printout I had.

I got a receipt from the teller.

I went to lunch.  I took a picture of the receipt with my phone, and emailed it to them as specified in the instructions.  I did this while I was waiting for my food.

By the time I got back to the office, I had an email stating my deposit was confirmed.  I logged in and there it was.  I placed a buy order.

The only complaint I have at all is the volume on exhangebitcoins.com is pretty low, so trades can take several hours to complete if you are not willing to match the lowest ask, which in my two experiences has been somewhat higher than the going rate at MtGox at the time.  For example, today I paid $6.1 / BTC when MtGox was at 5.94.

That said, it is THE fastest and easiest way to get bitcoins for cash, on a weekday in the USA at least.

Me too, on both points.

I clicked in to see who had posted this, so I could "ignore" them, and I see I had already ignored the OP.

Ignore is your friend.

I'm in.

I am on the cusp.  I deposited .25 BTC and have withdrawn .216.  Help me out http://bitcoinpyramid.com/r/345

Great game.  A slow trickle of bitcoin forever. 

The .dmg works for me.  And I see you fixed 2-finger scrolling with the trackpad in the address list.

I'm going to wait for the official release before I try encrypting my wallet, tho.

Thanks!  Your efforts are appreciated.

Your twitter requirement is a deal breaker for me.

Whoa.  I didn't realize there was a payout that could break you. 

I say reduce that big payout.  I'd rather have a game every week for a long time than have you broke.

I just ordered 5.

I'm a dumbass.  I'm player #34, with the note "Original bet of .1 was over the max."

I misread the min/max.  Please  keep the .08 BTC.  I can't even buy a soda for that much, and I'm happy to tip a game operator .49 cents USD.

I guess, looking at it now, I'm surprised that the min/max are so low.  Looking at the payouts you posted, I'd probably not play again for such small amounts.

I suggest you increase the amounts by 10x.   5 BTC win would be much better than 0.5, and does anyone really object to betting 0.1 BTC?

Thanks!

"douchenozzle" is my new favorite word.   

I "ignored" the douchenozzle.  The ignore button is my new best friend.  I will also purchase some of these just to spite the asswipe.

You are advocating a bank run on his company.  Why in the world would he find you as a friend?  If I were him I would want to punch you in the face.

You come in with 14 posts and are already advocating the destruction of one of bitcoin's main pillars.  Why would anyone treat you as a friend?

I don't understand the reasoning behind this.  Why would I do this?

MtGox has been great for Bitcoin.  Why would I punish them by using other exchanges?

In my opinion, this is a stupid stunt.  Unless, of course, you work for another exchange and are trying to screw your main competition.  Then it's an evil stunt.

I won both Bernie Madoff and the forever game 

I was betting manually, off the time displayed on bitcoinduit.com.

I put in 4 or 5 BTC to make sure I won, including 1 or 2 BTC that was too late.  But I'm happy to have won.

Jonathan, thanks for all the fun games this past month.

Why is the game still accepting bets?  it's past noon.

The Atlantic Wire comments on Krugman's article and quotes users from this forum!

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2011/09/paul-krugman-incites-bitcoin-cyber-geek-infighting/42188/

I vote set all the rounds greater than 12 hours to 12 hours.  My round, The Forever Game, would be affected, and I'm fine with that.

When bitcoinduit had the brief downtime a few days ago, you extended all the rounds expire time by 10 hours. Can you put them back now?  For example, "The Forever Game" was 48 hours, and now it's 58.  Could you put it back to 48?  There have been bets, so it's been reset since the downtime.

Thanks!

I don't understand #6.  It's A LOT easier to cash out then it to get USD into an exchange.

Cashing out is trivial, even.  MtGox to Dwolla to my bank.  Less than a day.  The other way around, my bank to Dwolla to MtGox, took over a week.

You can say I'm nit picking, but that ruined the joke for me.  Funny jokes are baed on truth, not lies.

My loss was ugly.  Blackjack is fickle.

I was up about 7 BTC for the week so far.  I settled in to win more.

I lost about 5, then I kept trying to win them back, and lost all 10 I had in my local wallet.

So I tapped into my savings at MtGox, and lost almost all of it.  Which sucks, because the power bill is due soon, and my mining part of it is about $75.

The only bright side here is that the price has dropped to the low $7 range, so that lessens my loss a bit.  I'm just going to pay the power bill out of pocket and pick up some more BTC tomorrow.

On the bright side, the site operator noticed my huge loss and bought me 2 movie tickets of my choice.  My wife and I saw "Senna" for free yesterday.  Well, kinda free.  

And no more online blackjack for a while.  Ponzi is much safer.