This morning, Litecoins were enabled on the Bittylicious platform. This basically means that users in the UK have a new, easy to user service which allows them to buy Litecoins.

If you're after a really easy method to get some Litecoins, try out Bittylicious at https://bittylicious.com/coin/LTC

Bittylicious can also handle other currencies and countries but we don't have Litecoin sellers in other locations. If you're interested in selling Litecoins yourself, you can also apply to become a seller.

Bittylicious also support Feathercoins and of course Bitcoins, and there are almost certainly some other altcoins coming in the near future.

Enjoy!

A little bit late, but Litecoins are now available on Bittylicious. You can select this as your default virtual currency by going to https://bittylicious.com/coin/LTC

Thanks for your comments!

It's only UK-only because we don't have any sellers in other countries that have suitable bank accounts to help us out.

Has anyone managed to get my debs working on a Cubieboard 2? I'm having trouble and I'm assuming it's something to do with bitcoind using two threads as it's a dual core machine. debug.log reports pthread errors like:

According to a friend of mine, a full reindex on the Pi took 4-5 days.

I might be able to decrease the requirements in the Debian control file, but I would need somebody to confirm whether 1.48 and 1.49 would be compatible and whether there are likely to be any linking issues.
That should work as it's what the debs were designed for. You still could well struggle with only 512 MB RAM though (at least for downloading the blockchain).

OK, in which case yes Bittylicious is a bit more expensive at the moment (it's just not £10 more expensive as the BitcoinAverage page would lead you to believe).

Have a chat with the owner of Bitcoin Average. The different markets use different averages for their prices. Bittylicious seems to use a 1 (or perhaps 3)-hour average compared to sometimes a 24-hour average, which means in a rising market it will look more expensive. Conversely, it will look cheaper in a falling market.

Fair point and taken. This will be changed next week hopefully into something more friendly.

Anything that's reasonable, basically. So it could be a situation where your bank says it can't process faster payments, or even just a mistake. Really it's just not appreciated when people cancel 5 or more trades giving an excuse like 'asdasd'.

I take it you thought the warning was a bit too scary? I'd certainly consider rewording it.

I'll be honest: There's little chance Bittylicious will ever be near to Bitstamp or BTC-e prices. In the UK, markets simply seem to be more expensive so it's only really fair to compare against other markets such as Gox, BB and LB. Bittylicious tends to be similar in price (on average a little more expensive) but ease of use is its real selling factor, not shaving off that extra pound or so.

2013-10-29 Bittylicious: Bittylicious Goes Global

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320657

Bittylicious, an easy way to buy Bitcoins, goes global

https://www.bittylicious.com/

London, 29th October 2013. Bittylicious, an easy way to buy Bitcoins, expands into The Netherlands, South Africa and the Czech Republic.

Bittylicious has launched new services for users in three new countries: The Netherlands, paying in Euros via SEPA; South Africa, paying in Randa via FNB bank; and the Czech Republic, paying in Czech Koruna. This is in addition to its primary service, offering users in the UK the ability to using online banking with any bank to purchase Bitcoins quickly and easily.

The aim of Bittylicious is to offer users the easiest way to acquire Bitcoins. New users are welcome to purchase a small amount of Bitcoins without even registering, although larger amounts can be purchased by going through the various account verification methods. Users have 30 minutes to make any bank account transfers and when this is performed, the user clicks Payment sent and sellers in the various countries will periodically check their account looking for the payment. This is usually noticed within a few minutes, after which the Bitcoins are automatically transmitted to the user's Bitcoin address.

The team at Bittylicious hope that increasing the global availability of their system will help to promotes Bitcoins as a legitimate and useful alternative currency and especially help in countries where there is a significant price difference between local exchanges and rates on the larger global exchanges.

Bittylicious is looking to expand further and would be very interested in speaking to Bitcoin sellers in any country to see whether it would be feasible to offer services in the seller's location.

That's really the point of my .debs - compiling DB 4.8 is a bit of a pain but I wanted binary compatibility. It does work rather well though, doesn't it.

Another update:

Bittylicious has been providing genuinely competitive prices for a few weeks now, measured by sites such as Bitcoin Average at https://bitcoinaverage.com/#GBP

Bittylicious has now enabled sales in EUR to The Netherlands with a seller that operates there. Technically, any user that can send near instant SEPA payments to The Netherlands is welcome to use the service.

Almost 3 BTC, basically. The most important thing is you have a track record, so are a user for a fair amount of time. So, making a small purchase now will increase confidence.

Surely then you're just saying that using SSDs have no real use in the industry (considering that their real benefit is in random I/O, and wear levelling is similar to writes being spread over the disk)?

Either way, this is all a bit off topic now. All I can say is that good quality SSDs seem to work very well for databases in my professional (hosting services) capacity, and combined with a Cubieboard, it's been running very stable now with an uptime of two weeks and not a single issue.

So I imagine this is more of an issue with SD cards then? I think most SSDs have wear levelling (hence they're used for all sorts of IO intensive operations, and often for databases with few issues).

Are you sure? Blockchain writes don't typically write over the same area of card. You'll record block information, and then just leave it sitting there.

I recommend running from a SSD anyway as they're so much quicker and more reliable.

It's interesting to know that some people have RAM issues. I also read about a few failed attempts with the Raspberry Pi.

Seriously, get the Cubieboard. A Raspberry Pi with 1 GB RAM (and a slightly faster processor, and SATA) for just a little bit more money makes a fantastic bitcoind server. This is what the .debs were built for, and I assure you it works well in production.