I like the simplicity and anon of it... (well, if your masquerading and have a way of obfuscating your IP) But your split between Buy and Sell is quite large... On https://www.cavirtex.com/ for example its like 40 cents... on yours it was almost $2... Perhaps a scripting error? or is your B/S differential meant to be that high? Thanks The "sell" is fairly close to the actual rate but we keep the "buy" buffered a bit more, because we guarantee those rates (within reason) while waiting for your payment (and the markets could move drastically in that span of time). Essentially you're paying a bit more for the convenience factor and (potential) anonymity and it helps cover our ass :p James |
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We now accept Interac Email Transfers for BUYing Bitcoins! (we always had the option to sell with Interac Email Transfer)
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You can also use http://www.canadianbitcoins.comfor quick buy/sell options (no account required) if you don't want to go through the hassle of a full blown market/trading system. Cheers James |
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Any chance you could accept Interac E-Mail Money Transfers in the future? You should be able to accept them instantly from any big 5 bank with minimal scrutiny from the bank itself. In my experience they really don't' care -why- you use EMT's as long as you pay the fees.  We now accept Interac Email Transfers to BUY Bitcoins as well as Selling http://www.canadianbitcoins.com |
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Any chance you could accept Interac E-Mail Money Transfers in the future? You should be able to accept them instantly from any big 5 bank with minimal scrutiny from the bank itself. In my experience they really don't' care -why- you use EMT's as long as you pay the fees. Yes, I'm hoping to, but the problem is that they are susceptible to fraud, same as any other transfer (except real cash). I've been trying to find out from my bank at what point its impossible for someone to refute a transaction.. sadly i fear the answer is "a very long time" |
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Hi Everyone, thought I'd introduce myself first, then the site I just finished setting up. I've been involved with Bitcoins since the CPU mining days, and double digit difficulty (man, when it jumped to 43, that was rough!) My company (Lightbox Technologies) has been accepting Bitcoins as payment for web hosting and VOIP for over a year now. (Yes. our website is horrible, its in the process of being redeveloped - it looks like its 9 years old because it is!) So, being Canadian I was drunk last Friday, roaming around Parliament Hill with 300,000 other people and hanging out with friends, telling them all about these wonderful Bitcoins, when it dawned on me that there was no way to easily convert BTC to CAD... so I figured I'd do something about that! So introducing.... http://www.canadianbitcoins.comIts simple and straight forward. You can BUY and SELL Bitcoins with $CAD at rates pegged to the overall exchange rates. This is NOT another trading site. You do not list buys & sells and hope they get filled as the market moves. You don't need an account, you don't maintain a balance, every transaction is handled when it comes through. That said, for my protection and yours, I decided to institute a soft-launch for the first few days/weeks, where the overall volume per 24h has limits. Once those limits are exceeded, the appropriate forms will be temporarily disabled. So all you fellow Canadians out there (that are still hungover from a week ago!), FINALLY there is an easy way to get our colourful money in and out of the BTC world. I'd appreciate any feedback you have on the site (even if you just look at it and don't use it!) Feel free to post here, or I'll be hanging out in #canadianbitcoins on Freenode http://www.canadianbitcoins.comCheers, James |
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Hi James, This is a great idea..we certainly need more services for Canadians I think it would be better if the site showed how you calculate your rates, especially given that they will certainly change by the time you process the transaction. Also, don't you think it's pretty risky to guarantee your buy price for 36 hours? I could order 100BTC now at $13 and they could be worth $20 tomorrow..you'd be losing money, no? Ahh good point, I should be more up-front about how the rates are calculated... It uses the lowest of 24h/7d/30d moving average in USD (from bitcoincharts.com) converted to $CAD (~1.04), then BUY/SELL are 5% on either side of that. I'll get that up on the site somewhere for reference too. Yea, it is risky with 36h window, thats why there's a 5% buffer each side, I might get burned occasionally, but the overall average should work out. I set it up under the assumption that people would prefer to know exactly what they're getting.. instead of a "the value will be determined at a later date". The fastest fraud-free way to get real $cash is unfortunately by mail/courier, so I need to build a window in there on the BUYING side. Note the SELL side only gives a 3 hour window. |
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Hi Everyone, thought I'd introduce myself first, then the site I just finished setting up. I've been involved with Bitcoins since the CPU mining days, and double digit difficulty (man, when it jumped to 43, that was rough!) My company (Lightbox Technologies) has been accepting Bitcoins as payment for web hosting and VOIP for over a year now. (Yes. our website is horrible, its in the process of being redeveloped - it looks like its 9 years old because it is!) So, being Canadian I was drunk on Friday, roaming around Parliament Hill with 300,000 other people and hanging out with friends, telling them all about these wonderful Bitcoins, when it dawned on me that there was no way to easily convert BTC to CAD... so I figured I'd do something about that! So introducing.... http://www.canadianbitcoins.comIts simple and straight forward. You can BUY and SELL Bitcoins with $CAD at rates pegged to the overall exchange rates. This is NOT another trading site. You do not list buys & sells and hope they get filled as the market moves. You don't need an account, you don't maintain a balance, every transaction is handled when it comes through. That said, for my protection and yours, I decided to institute a soft-launch for the first few days/weeks, where the overall volume per 24h has limits. Once those limits are exceeded, the appropriate forms will be temporarily disabled. So all you fellow Canadians out there (that are still hungover from Friday), FINALLY there is an easy way to get our colourful money in and out of the BTC world. I'd appreciate any feedback you have on the site (even if you just look at it and don't use it!) Feel free to post here, or I'll be hanging out in #canadianbitcoins on Freenode http://www.canadianbitcoins.comCheers, James |
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Solved, MagicalTux must have changed something, because now USERAGENT is required.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "curl/7.21.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.18");
did the trick
I usually don't even consider "tips" but damn lightbox, you just solved a HUGE headache for me! Donation address please! Lol glad i could help, i only pounded my head on the desk for about an hour to figure it out :p now if only mtgox would get back up so I can finish the tweaks on the bot! Thanks for the offer of a tip! here's an address: 1NgFb2LyyLvGaSHWasi2sYsn7iXDzDqzvb |
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Solved, MagicalTux must have changed something, because now USERAGENT is required.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "curl/7.21.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.18");
did the trick
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Not working again for me  for about the past hour or so... but wget works fine, so something with php/curl is causing the problem use im using SSL_VERIFYPEER FALSE and SSL_VERIFYHOST FALSE |
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Hi all, I've been doing web development & hosting and VOIP services for over 10 years (and yea, our site design is still 10 years old - we're too busy with real clients to fix our own site!)... but I've now decided to start accepting bitcoins as payment for our VOIP services. I'd consider it for web hosting too if there's a want for it. 80 BTC/month + 0.50 BTC/minute anywhere in Canada/Continental USA - includes a Canadian DID (phone number) in your choice of major cities. Details are here: http://www.lightbox.ca/voip.phpCheers! |
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