for those who want to print it on a billboard, i put up a vector version:

http://ma.eatgold.com/btc/qr-sticker.pdf [PDF, 14kb]

i wondered about what the OP said and so I created a bitcoin regular design qr code. it links to bitcoin.org.

I release it into the public domain
(In case your jurisdiction does not know the concept of "public domain", i hereby license you to do anything you want with it.)

It is based on bitboys design. I slightly modified it and made the B-sign a little bigger so it is well readable.

This code was as easy as all the other QR codes I have done so far and took me a whole 3 minutes to make, so I would not mind if someone would like do donate: 1Bo3Nqu1rKWvDzHmZJ7GD2BGnsg6YoqzPr

Hope to see them on stickers everywhere.

Edit: VECTOR VERSION at http://ma.eatgold.com/btc/qr-sticker.pdf [PDF, 14kb]

hey, why don't you use this quite beautiful iconset, which has virtually every icon you can think of (7600!!):

http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, and the guy specifies that he has to be mentioned only on the credits page...

thank you freemoney for keeping with the basic algorithm. i know a lot of people here are all about "marketsmarketsmarkets", but this really is a technical matter, not an economic one.

i also, personally, think that if firstbits.com integrated this, it would dig its own grave. not that you make any money out of it, afaik.

oh, i forgot to mention: i got the last quarter of my money on monday.

i am happy that it finally worked out, and that, after i complained here on the forum it took 4-10 days to get my money.

i am sad that i had to complain on the forum.

@mtgox: if transactions are rejected by the bank, NOTIFY the user and refund the money to his/her mtgox account. that is just good business practice. everything else smells very fishy.

Hey Bruce,

is there any news on this? I remember everyone being very excited about this in January.

Did this die? Why did this die?

Best,

marcusaurelius

Here you go: http://ma.eatgold.com/accept

@codemojo:

i actually think it is morally wrong to build a php-script, which pulls _my server for the qrcode_, adds a few words and then claim the bounty for you (and by not mentioning it, implying you did the qr-part yourself).

those who set out the bounty might decide otherwise, but i find that highly inappropriate.

i got 3 of 4 transactions today. 3 times $1000 minus ~5%.

still waiting for my fourth.

lets see how that works out. but hey, i got [part of] my money!

YEAH!

lets get the stackexchange up, then the technical part will instantly migrate there. heck, everything of value will migrate there, probably.

really looking forward.

I feel a bit like a mtgox-vip now.
I got another email this morning, notifying me of my status.


well, as to my confidence: we'll see. giving me my money would be a start.

Yes, blame myself. For getting my money out of Mt.Gox, in order to put it somewhere else. Right, stupid me.

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im3w1 is right. i trust my own website, but you shouldn't!

in my book bitcoin7 is the best exchange to buy for everyday use, that is spending btc, not investing. they allow payment with paysafecards, i.e. getting my bitcoins is a matter of minutes, not days. i walk into my cornerstore, give them cash, they give me a paysafecard-code, i enter this into bitcoin7 (5% fees) and can instantly buy bitcoins. dead simple.

i wouldn't do this for larger sums to invest, but for buying stuff at the few places i know that accept bitcoin, it is perfect.

disclosure: i have no affiliation whatsoever with bitcoin7 or any other exchange, and you are welcome to use any of them. i do not spread referral codes. thank you.

Mark, the Karpeles, answered my ticket today!

See below:

He also closed the ticket and marked it as 'solved'. I don't think it is solved yet, but i am looking forward to my money. :-)

#1: what makes you a bank anymore than mybitcoin or instawallet or even mtgox? why are you the FIRST bitcoin bank?

#2:

So you just keep my money for me? Not loan it out? What is your incentive then?
You give interest? How is that financed? You just a nice guy, giving out bitcoins?

I am highly sceptical of whoever is - on asking them how their stuff works - tell me "think outside the box", as if the burden lay on my side, as if i am to blame for not imagining their business model.

here you go.

change the string in the second line to your btc-adress and there you go. the string in there is mine, so you can send your bounty to that adress. :-)

there is a shorter way, namely the following:


but this polls the bitcoin forum for the image everytime. so if you use it consider hosting the graphic on your own server. the first code example i gave has the image embedded in base64.

FAIL.

I have to say that i don't quite get you. What would you do (and have done) in my place? Is your opinion 'i am totally at their mercy and if they fuck up its bad luck for me'?


I am perfectly aware of that. I don't suspect for a minute they really want to steal my money. They make so much more in tx-fees, it would just be stupid.

But my experience from this incident tells me, that their corporate culture seems to be quick-quick-quick (that is answering before reading, etc) and that they have no real incentive to deal with the situation in a timely: after all, the money is on their account. this is also evident from the policy of _not contacting_ the customer when a withdrawal gets rejected. it's not their problem, they seem to reason.

in which universe are you bitcoining? did you read my post? probably not. if you did: how could you describe their behaviour as "doing everything they can to solve" the problem? let me list _some_ of the everything they didn't do:

#1 they didn't have a procedure in place to notify me of my rejected withdrawal, it was up to me to inquire where the money went
#2 they didn't re-credit my mt.gox account with the rejected amount
#3 they didn't use my name&adress i gave them on june22 for anything
#4 they didn't get back to me for a whole frickin two weeks!
#5 they didn't even read my second ticket
#6 they didn't fully read my second ticket after i explicitly asked them to read it, but only skimmed over it
#7 they didn't increase the priority of my ticket from 'low' to 'normal' or 'high'

where do you see "doing everything they can to solve" the problem? really?


yes, exactly, my point. if a $4000-4week-withdrawal is not worth a ticket priority of 'high' or even 'normal', then what is? and i am not talking about the actual label on zendesk, that is irrelevant, i am talking about the speed and quality of their support: in my case, it thoroughly sucked.

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I am not calling for a boycott or anything, if you feel Mt.Gox is fine, trade with them. As some other poster pointed out, i don't want revenge, i want my money.  But that exactly is the point: I want my money!

Thank you to everyone giving their support.

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Disclosure: This has also been sent to Adam as an email. I also sent MagicalTux a PM notifying him of this topic. I have no interest in bad-mouthing Mt.Gox, but i have a legitimate interest in getting my money. After trying the Support-route for several weeks, i now have the illusion that public exposure might help me get my money.
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Short Summary for the tl;dr-crowd: I withdrew nearly $4000 via SEPA a month ago and still haven't received it. I've opened a support ticket, which led to them asking me to give them my full name and adress, which i did. Then, two weeks later, i opened another support ticket, and they asked me the same thing, which makes me question if they even read my answer to the previous one. I am still waiting for my money, and now wondering what to do. Are you also waiting for your withdrawals, or am i the lone sucker here?

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I don't know if anyone remembers me, but i made the first bitcoin qr-code generator back in january ( http://qr.ma.eatgold.com/ ) a few people still use the images in their signature. I didn't post in the meantime, but traded a bit. :-)

On June 11, June 12, June 14 and June 16 I ordered a withdrawal of $3981.93 (in total) from my Mt.Gox account to my EU bank account via SEPA withdrawal. This shows up in my Account history just right. I had withdrawn money before (~$200), and it had worked, so i didn't worry too much. I waited. 3 business days they said. I waited some more. Then, the next week, all hell broke lose at Mt.Gox (i presume you remember). Now i was worried about Mt.Gox collapsing completely and my money being lost in there.

On June 22 I opened support ticket #2770, in which i described the transactions in detail. To my pleasant surprise i got an answer within the day. The told me that the bank in France rejected the transaction and that they needed my Full name and Adress for the transfer to continue.

PROBLEM#1: If the transfer got rejected, then why didn't they return the money to my Mt.Gox account? Or at least notify me that it got rejected? It is my money, not theirs!

Still on the same day (June 22) I gave them my full name and adress. And waited. And waited.
A week later, on June 28 i added a comment to the ticket asking for news on the withdrawal status. I got no answer.

PROBLEM#2: Is it that hard to get back to me?

Another week went past, and i didn't get anything from Mt.Gox. Neither my money, nor a reason for the delay. I was now waiting 25days in total and 13 since i told them my full name and adress (which supposedly was the reason for the delay).

So on July 5 i opened a new ticket #6617, in which i explained the problem (SEPA withdrawal) once again, gave the details of all the transactions again, gave my full name and adress again and also mentioned that it was a duplicate of #2770. For some reason, it now took only a day to get an answer. But what Bullshit.


PROBLEM#3: "Read the ticket, then answer." is not standard operating procedure at Mt.Gox Support.

So instead of reading my ticket (in which i detailed the transactions, including tx#, date, etc) they just took me to mean some random transactions, some of which happened more than a month earlier. I answered them:


This new tone seems to have had its effect, as within two hours i got an answer:


So once again, instead of reading my ticket (in which i gave them my full name and adress) or looking at the related ticket #2770 i referenced (in which i gave them my full name and adress more than two weeks earlier) they just wrote something random. Well, of course, i pointed out to them where they could find my name and adress in the ticket (it is line 7).

I am now waiting for three days to get any new information, and for a month in total. Which sucks. Hard.

TRUE STORY.
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Well, i am now giving them another week (until Friday, July 15). If by then the money has not arrived on my bank account or on my Mt.Gox account (in which case i will buy BTC, transfer them to another Exchange and sell them there!), i will ask my lawyer to look into this. I know that i probaly is quite expensive to go after them legally (they are in Japan after all), but i would rather spend the 4 grand on my lawyer than just giving it up to Mt.Gox - they didn't do anything to deserve it.

Do you have any alternative ideas what i am supposed to do? Do you have similar experiences?

but you couldn't organise that in secret, could you? you would give the bank at least a few days of warning by starting the organising.

so either you not find not enough customers for your bank run - bank wins.
or you alert them in advance and they can take measures - bank wins.