Why just gox? Bitstamp is a more representative place nowadays.

Yes, its called Ryanair

Seriously, no bank in Poland, and probably most if not all other countries, will open a bank account to a foreigner who didn't come at least once to the bank branch physically.

There are banks which have methods of opening accounts without coming to the branch physically, but these methods work only if you are a local resident, as they require local ID numbers or similar stuff like that, that the bank can verify some way that you actually exist. Foreigners must just come to the bank branch physically, period. In most places of the world, except perhaps some typical offshore heavens where foreigners are the majority of their banks customers.

I will add something to this: Bank Zachodni actually charges about 1.20 EUR per each incoming SEPA transfer, which means they make a lot of money off people who have lots of incoming transfers, so that may be one of the reasons they are not closing these accounts - as the account makes them enough income to deal with it even if there is a problem.

For banks where incoming transfers are free of charge, such customers don't make them any money, and if they have more work with these accounts, they are actually losing money, so they're more keen to close the accounts.

If you sent Email to info@bitststamp.net no wonder you got no response.

Login to your Bitstamp account and use the form:
https://www.bitstamp.net/support/
To open a ticket with support.

That is not necessarily the case (that he is a scammer). Paypal is known to sometimes reverse transactions out of their own initiative, without any intervention of the sender, just because Paypal doesn't like something about the transaction. I know it for sure, as Paypal once to my surprise reversed my payment to someone, without my will. Without any real reason, maybe just because I used TOR to connect to Paypal for that transaction, as I use TOR often even without specific need if it works reasonably fast.

I want to link my Bitcointalk name with BTCJam's. Verification code: f3baf245-e77e-4246-a9a0-64948f19a3f3

Unfortunately only for "instant bookable places":

http://blog.9flats.com/9flats-accepts-payments-with-bitcoins/

Most places are not "instant bookable", as "instant bookable" means the host doesn't have a chance to review the deal before its accepted, so they are more the places which function as a hotel and not a private house.

So I just placed a request for one place there, but unfortunately I had to give my MasterCard, ugrhh!!!

I see there is not thread about possibly sharing accommodation, so I'm starting one.

If anyone is interested in sharing a room, with me, to save costs, contact me. Both if you already have a room and if you are still looking for one. Usually hotel rooms are for 2 people, even cheaper per person for 3-4 people, so if someone wants to group up, let me know, and we'll take a hotel or something!

I need a place for 3 nights, coming Wednesday. Preferably with kitchen access, as I am on a diet which is difficult/next-to-impossible without homemade food. Besides kitchen I need nothing fancy, sleeping on the floor is OK.

I arrive Wednesday in Eindhoven at 13:25, so will be around 16:00 in Amsterdam.

If anyone is interested in sharing a room, with me, to save costs, contact me.
Both if you already have a room and if you are still looking for one.

I need a place for 3 nights, coming Wednesday. Preferably with kitchen access, as I am on a diet which is difficult/next-to-impossible without homemade food.

Why would they need to sell Bitcoins to buy ASICs?

Aren't ASIC sold mostly for Bitcoins now?

Didn't Avalon switch to Bitcoin pricing?

No, its the other way around: in the long term, Bitcoin "production cost" adjusts to the Bitcoin price. I.e. miners buy more hashpower until the difficulty is so high that its hardly profitable to mine.

Anyway I hope for the Bitcoin exchange rates to become more and more stable as the amount of new Bitcoins mined in a give amount of time is becoming a smaller and smaller percentage of the total number of Bitcoins in existence, so miners who are just in it for short-term profit and sell to fiat any mined Bitcoins will have a diminishing influence on the whole Bitcoin economy. After the next block reward halving things might already start looking better.

Wondering to what extent the recent dumps on the market where done by Avalon ASIC miners cashing to fiat as they ran out of patience of Bitcoin rates going up, and they are still thinking in terms of fiat as of value, instead of just keeping the mined BTC for the long term. Impatience and fear - thats the reason price is going down. Once the impatient and scared will run out of Bitcoins, the price will start to go up again.

Nobody reasonable who just wants to "sell their stash" dumps it on the market like that, as they could sell it slowly and get more money for it.

It someone dumps a big stash like that, its either 1) they want to deliberately crash the market to buy back at a lower price, or 2) needs fiat really soon desperately, but then they are not gonna do it in MtGox anyway as delays in fiat withdrawals are huge, so it leaves us reason 1). Or they are clueless how bid/ask markets work or careless about their money, but anyway anyone who is highly reasonable and money-wise will not sell a large stash like that (unless trying to deliberately crash to buy back) as they can easily get significantly more by spreading their sales evenly over a day or two.

Now that 0.8.2 is out, perhaps pool operators can start updating the list, especially that the default minimum low-priority fee in pre-0.8.2 is 0.0005 BTC/kB and from 0.8.2 is 0.0001 BTC/kB, so its quite important to see which pools use which policies.

I am sorry, but a page full of defunct sites is annoying to use, and can't be treated seriously. Prefixing with *offline*, what a joke.

And it looks like your site has almost as much categories as actual entries, which also makes it super annoying to browse, as in each category there is usually just one entry, usually defunct, and some have none. Create categories only when there are at least several sites to put in a category.

Design not very professional too. Too much screenspace for ads in comparison to actual entries.

This is NOT a site I would direct a serious company to for them to check out the Bitcoin economy. This site is a joke, I'd be better not showing it to anyone. You are trying to make money off it now, but a site like that to be professional and representative should not be trying to make money off ads at least for a few years. It should prove its value first, then try to make money. Your site is basically dead from the start.

You can't.

You could some time ago to their Cyprus bank account, but that was shut down a few months ago.

I am preparing a more detailed specification of what I want to achieve - hopefully later this week, which I will send to interested consultants who leave me an E-mail address. 

thanks,

Miernik

Here:





Escrow? Come on, I've done 4-digit trades without escrow:
http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=miernik

Will accept 0.5 BTC, send me a PM to get a Bitcoin address for the transaction.

Do all banks in UK have such ridiculously low ATM limits, or are there some which have higher limits?

ATM withdrawal limits in German banks are commonly 1000 EUR or 2000 EUR a day (roughly 850 GBP or 1700 GBP), in Polish banks 5000 PLN a day is most common (around 1000 GBP).

Why do UK banks prevent people for using ATM's for larger amounts, while on the continent many banks have no problem with that, which is very useful when for example buying a used car from someone. So when you buy a used car in UK after bank opening hours you can't withdraw the money from an ATM, but have to do it earlier, and then carry the cash around - not very safe. Better keep it on the account until the deal is decided on, which can often happen in evening after-work hours when banks are closed. A thousand or two worth of Euros or pounds is a common amount to pay in cash for a used car, so UK banks force unsafe practice of having to withdraw earlier and carry cash around in such cases?

Is there anywhere a list of current policies of all major pools regarding including transactions in mined blocks?

The current default policy is described here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees#Including_in_Blocks


But as I understand it, pools can choose to have a different policy, and that can change over time.

It would be very useful to have a regularly updated wiki page with policies of all the major (e.g. having at least 1/1000 of the current global hashrate) pools and their current transaction inclusion policies.

Also the default policy changes over time, so when a change happens, it would be useful to know which pools have already switched to the new default policy, and which not.

Maybe lets start with listing available information in this thread, and then make a wiki page - preferably updated by pool owners, so we have reliable information aggregated somewhere.

Roughly 2 x 3 meters, more details will be forwarded someone who is considering bidding on this project and will forward me his/her E-mail in a PM.