OK, a la zona de Wilson en el centro entonces.  Debo ponerme mi polo de BTC?

Gracias!  A ver como esta Bitcoin en Lima pues.

Alquien (tiendas, etc.) acepta BTC ahora?  Estoy curiosisimo para ver QUE PASA en el Peru con BTC.

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I have had trouble trying to figure out how to:

1) Buy BTC with my current (normal bank) debit card.  I do use circle.com to buy BTC w/ my debit card, but the limit is low.

2) Get a debit card with BTC.  Reason: I would like to be able to have access to more funds when I travel "just in case".


What good options are there for US citizens/residents for the above?

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Me voy al Peru por varios dias (Lima y Arequipa).  NUNCA he visto nada en Lima sobre BTC.  Tampoco he leido (recien) algo de BTC aqui en nuestro foro bitcointalk.

Hay una comunidad activa de Bitcoin en el Peru?

Saludos y gracias!

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I will be in Peru for awhile.  Last I looked (18 months ago) there was virtually NOTHING happening re BTC in Peru, unlike what you are seeing in Argentina, Brazil and apparently in Venezuela.

Nor have I seen any news online nor here at bitcointalk.

Gracias!

Yes!  I would like to know that as well.  Banks can be prickly about what they allow and do not.  The ".co" might be a red flag (or maybe not, I don't know).

I look forward to more reviews re this interesting looking service.  Especially by Americans.

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I have not seen recent comments on Bitgold.  They have been around for awhile, and I have seen their ads in a magazine (about Canadian mining).  I also know that there so seem to be issues (or there were issues).

https://www.bitgold.com/

Anyone used Bitgold lately, especially their cards?

Many thanks!



EDIT: The fine print shows that their card services are NOT available to US citizens. 

EDIT 2: I had thought that Bitgold offered a Bitcoin payment option, but I looked at their website, apparently not.

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Well, another interesting-looking service appears.  I hope this is legit, there need to be more alternatives to getting debit cards loaded with (or spending) Bitcoin.

But, I'm not going first.  Anyone who does try this service please let us know.

"Pioneers are the ones with arrows in their backs."

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(Cross-posted, but an important article for learning about a neglected but important role for gold):


Gold's price has been rather slow in the past few days/weeks.  There is a real case to be made for taking a longer term view.

Dr. Antal Fekete (interviewed just below) is one of the world's top analysts re gold.  Fekete joins others who see a HUGE increase in the price of gold.  He also has very negative things to say about negative interest rates ("NIRP"), the below is a bit hard to churn through, but well worth it:

http://www.silverdoctors.com/gold/gold-news/a-global-war-against-gold-prof-antal-fekete/

(silverdoctors sells PMs, but is a handy aggregator of gold & silver news.)

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(Cross-posted, but an important article for learning about a neglected but important role for gold):


Gold's price has been rather slow in the past few days/weeks.  There is a real case to be made for taking a longer term view.

Dr. Antal Fekete (interviewed just below) is one of the world's top analysts re gold.  Fekete joins others who see a HUGE increase in the price of gold.  He also has very negative things to say about negative interest rates ("NIRP"), the below is a bit hard to churn through, but well worth it:

http://www.silverdoctors.com/gold/gold-news/a-global-war-against-gold-prof-antal-fekete/

(silverdoctors sells PMs, but is a handy aggregator of gold & silver news.)

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Gold's price has been rather slow in the past few days/weeks.  There is a real case to be made for taking a longer term view.

Dr. Antal Fekete (interviewed just below) is one of the world's top analysts re gold.  He also has very negative things to say about negative interest rates ("NIRP"), the below is a bit hard to churn through, but well worth it:

http://www.silverdoctors.com/gold/gold-news/a-global-war-against-gold-prof-antal-fekete/

(silverdoctors sells PMs, but is a handy aggregator of gold & silver news.)

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There are LOTS of ways of creating pseudo-random numbers that would likely be resistant to attacks, not to mention Enotche's comment re the computing power of the Top 500 fastest computers (in toto) being unable to successfully attack.

Nonetheless, miners would be smart to consider all avenues of attack, and have plans in place as well as a "Plan B".

And a Plan C.

And a Plan D...

And they (almost) stole my moniker too...   (j/k)

goldbtc.net ought to consider posting here in this thread.  Posting more information would help build confidence.

More reviews would be welcome.

Yep.  Almost always something that appears to be too good usually is a scam.  This applies not only to Bitcoin, but to almost anything you can think of.

"There is no such thing as a free lunch."

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Also, yes to letting fairly senior members pass along reviews of services. 

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sidhujag and tabnloz

Thanks for the interesting comments.  Indeed breaking the iPhone password & "backdoor" issues has perhaps burned the fingers of .gov.  For the moment.

The phrase "Unintended Consequences" reminds me an awful lot like "The Black Swan"...

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Another subject that I have been thinking about lately (as has Armstrong) is the War on Cash.  With everything in digital, the possibilities are endless for hackers to steal money.  I think this is a HUGE issue I have not yet seen addressed.

Permitting people to pay in whatever form they choose offers some security vs. hackers.  It's also very supportive of personal liberty.

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SomeWhere

I have used bitmixer.io many times, never a serious problem (a minor one that was mostly my fault was resolved 100%).  I wear their Signature because they treat me right.  But, I have only used their clearnet service.  They do have a TOR service that apparently works well, you can find that information at bitmixer.io's website.

Be careful of scammers claiming to be their TOR service.

Follow their instructions carefully if you go with bitmixer, especially the Letter of Guarantee, it's not that hard.

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I (and likely many others) would be very interested to hear of anyone's experiences with cryptomixer's clearnet service and especially their TOR service.

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Kprawn

I don't have any good idea of what will happen re BTC prices at and near The Halving.  However, it will be very instructive to watch.

There are a lot of confounding issues (hard to see how they interact)...


jak1

Please keep us informed!  I read very little from miners, your feedback is of great interest.


LiteCoinGuy

Well, we'll see!  You've made perhaps the biggest bull case yet.  Your graphic reminds me of Zero Hedge's famed (and lamented departed one) Gordon_Gekko who once wrote:

"Everything else will be left behind when the Gold Mothership takes off."

Hey, if it's Bitcoin, that's good too!

kik1977

You raise an infuriating subject: how the well-connected can get away with massive crimes, even when publicized.  Impunity is becoming an issue here in the USA.  Impunity is an issue that everyone understands: justice for the many, "just us" for the few...

If Trump is elected, it may be more the "Crooked Hillary" matters that do it rather than "The Wall" to keep out illegals.

The degree of corruption in the upper echelons of American society are staggering and mind-boggling.  At some point it will end, but it might get very messy.

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As a mere wanker-citizen of Bitcoinistan, my observations below may be of limited value, but certainly are on my mind.

And those are the Entrance Ramps and Exit Ramps.  The only thing I have bought with BTC has been gold (Provident Metals, whose service by the way has been very good).  Provident, like all legit US businesses, has to keep detailed records, especially of things like who they shipped gold to...

Buying BTC quietly (as in no bothersome IDs or KYC issues) is rather hard.  Localbitcoins works fairly poorly in my city.

So, it looks to me like Armstrong may be right.  If the Iron Fist comes down on Bitcoin, especially if done by enough countries, I think they can essentially destroy it as an alternative currency for us "regular folks".  Clamping down on Bitcoin purchases for CA$H (etc.) and clamping down on businesses trying to cash in their BTC for currency (to pay bills, employees, etc.) looks rather easy for .gov to do.  And governments get dangerous when they are under severe pressure, which is coming...

And that's really my biggest problem with BTC.  The arguments (Core vs. Classic, price volatility, etc.), while nettlesome and even a little worrisome, are manageable for me.  Crushing Bitcoin by a malevolent .gov (which, again, Armstrong may be reading correctly) is of greater concern.

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Just my guess, and I'm pretty much a wanker at BTC...: Not much will happen. 

If we get a big move up (yay), well, OK I'll cash-in some BTC for gold.  Not very much BTC though.  BTC is the closest things I have to a Lotto ticket, so I'll hang on to most of the rest.

coinalytics.co used to have a nice little (free!) tool that allowed anyone to track a BTC address's outputs to other wallets.  It helped me to assess how good the standard mixing tools were.  IMO, it's too bad for us that coinalytics does not have their interesting tool available anymore. 

I am no expert, but it looked like (at least back then) that thorough mixing helped a lot.  Of course there were and are other ways to track BTC activity...