Have you ever exchanged BTC face to face?

[countryfree]

I've been using BTC for a while. I've been using it at exchanges, to trade altcoins and to order goods over the Internet, but I've never exchanged BTC with someone in front of me. At a store or between friends, or family. This despite having had long conversations about BTC with various kinds of people, and attending a few meetups.

Who has exchanged BTC F2F?
 

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[michellee]

i am selling bitcoin with face to face with my friends and i do it this for twice in at least one months ago and i really like it, because we can make relationship with our friends. beside that, we can feel safe when we make a deal with someone with face to face.

[odolvlobo]

I have and I have never had a problem.

[pooya87]

exchanging bitcoin face to face is not a popular method and i doubt many have done it. you only do it if you want to "sell bitcoin for cash". and i honestly can not think of any other situation that it may be needed and since i have never needed to sell for cash i have never done it either.

[MingLee]

I personally haven't done it at any point, but I might consider it for sometime in the future, maybe.

Never really had a point to anyways, it's not like it really matters that much to me. Online exchanges do everything I ask for them to, and meeting someone face-to-face is just burning money and/or time going somewhere.

[Superhitech]

Nope, I wouldn't exchange BTC face to face, as the main features of bitcoin is anonymity, and it doesn't seem to be as convenient as buying online, or from a bitcoin ATM.

exchanging bitcoin face to face is not a popular method and i doubt many have done it. you only do it if you want to "sell bitcoin for cash". and i honestly can not think of any other situation that it may be needed and since i have never needed to sell for cash i have never done it either.

Some bitcoin ATM's do let you sell bitcoins to them for cash, which IMO is easier than face to face.

[OROBTC]

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I have bought BTC for cash from people I did not know (at a Starbucks for example) four times with success.  Yes, my counterparty then knew who I was, but otherwise no one else.  No other trail (I learned to have them sent to bitmixer.io directly).  I typically paid 3% - 6% premium over "spot".  I found them via localbitcoins, but that turns out to be a hassle in my city.  

One time I met with a guy before knowing how much premium he wanted.  He wanted too much (12% over), so I walked.  And then drove back home, further than he did no doubt...  



Lesson learned.

[Soros Shorts]

Who has exchanged BTC F2F?
 

I've done it in public places with strangers for transactions worth up to around $5K. I personally wouldn't risk carrying any more cash than that.

[canah17]

I've been using BTC for a while. I've been using it at exchanges, to trade altcoins and to order goods over the Internet, but I've never exchanged BTC with someone in front of me. At a store or between friends, or family. This despite having had long conversations about BTC with various kinds of people, and attending a few meetups.

Who has exchanged BTC F2F?
 

Well i have done it with my friend does that count? but still i have exchange my bitcoin because i don't know how to deposit it yet so i exchange my bitcoin to my friend and some people that i knew in bitcoin world that the same country i lived in and we recently meet up and the awesome part is he would buy me stuff that i want with his money with exchange of my bitcoin i was really glad that i known a nice kind person try it its really nice and fun also you meet new friends while in your way to exchanging bitcoins but be careful there is a scammer or stealing your bitcoin i really got scammed by this person i was just only new to bitcoin back then and i didn't know stuff i exchange it to some stranger he gave me fake money -_- then i gave him my bitcoin -_-

[shinratensei_]

I haven't. Like, find a needle in a lot of straw.
Doesn't make sense, this will need to be moving on the off topic. 

[Velkro]

Who has exchanged BTC F2F?
 

Happened to me once, it was weird experience. I mean, moment you handing out cash and praying that he will not cancel 0 conf transaction until 2 hours after transaction (current average waiting time).

[equator]

I've been using BTC for a while. I've been using it at exchanges, to trade altcoins and to order goods over the Internet, but I've never exchanged BTC with someone in front of me. At a store or between friends, or family. This despite having had long conversations about BTC with various kinds of people, and attending a few meetups.

Who has exchanged BTC F2F?
 

I have done lot of selling of my bitcoin earning through signature campaign and skill work, but i have sold mostly online through localbitcoins exchange through bank transfer, only once i had experience of selling it to my friend because some one of his friend told about bitcoin and then he got remembered of me gave me long back details and then he got all info from me and purchased some bitcoin for investment.

[btcdevil]

I haven't. Like, find a needle in a lot of straw.
Doesn't make sense, this will need to be moving on the off topic. 

If you think that this type of topic should be moved to off topic then most of the bitcoin discussion topic should be in off topic. What OP is asking is not a immature type of question. how much people are in bitcoin and how they are working with bitcoin that is what the outcome of this thread.

I have never done any face to face selling of bitcoins as i mostly sell my bitcoins through local wallet as it is more secure and safe and i receive my fiat currency in my bank directly with escrow i send them my sold bitcoin safely

[davis196]

I've been using BTC for a while. I've been using it at exchanges, to trade altcoins and to order goods over the Internet, but I've never exchanged BTC with someone in front of me. At a store or between friends, or family. This despite having had long conversations about BTC with various kinds of people, and attending a few meetups.

Who has exchanged BTC F2F?
 

No and i will never trade bitcoin face to face.The risk is too high.

There aren`t any people in my city who use bitcoin.

[QuestionAuthority]

I have but not in years because of all the problems with LBC like police stings and what happened to BurtW scared me away from LBC exchange forever.

[TastyChillySauce00]

I've been using BTC for a while. I've been using it at exchanges, to trade altcoins and to order goods over the Internet, but I've never exchanged BTC with someone in front of me. At a store or between friends, or family. This despite having had long conversations about BTC with various kinds of people, and attending a few meetups.

Who has exchanged BTC F2F?
 

No and i will never trade bitcoin face to face.The risk is too high.

There aren`t any people in my city who use bitcoin.

You can prevent from any risk that you will have when you're going to make transaction face to face by asking your friend to accompany you , and also have a transaction in such crowd area will lower your risk
Though, if you didn't sure then just don't do it. But i can say that by transacting face to face to your nearest seller will simplify your transaction rather than doing complicated verification

[Zadicar]

I dont experience regarding on this matter on having F2F trades with bitcoin since its not really known on my place that i could able to make transactions. This thing does really matter on how high is the adoption of bitcoin into your place because if its still low you would really experience this kind of thing.

[abel1337]

I've been using BTC for a while. I've been using it at exchanges, to trade altcoins and to order goods over the Internet, but I've never exchanged BTC with someone in front of me. At a store or between friends, or family. This despite having had long conversations about BTC with various kinds of people, and attending a few meetups.

Who has exchanged BTC F2F?
 

No and i will never trade bitcoin face to face.The risk is too high.

There aren`t any people in my city who use bitcoin.

Bitcoin trading peer to peer for me it is not a risk because in my country is legal and our country is slowly adopting it.
Few people here in our city is trading bitcoin peer to peer, but In person i did not experience trading peer to peer.

[1Referee]

I have done it quite frequently, but only to family and friends. Quite often I have offered them a 10% discount just for the sole purpose of getting them into Bitcoin. But I can tell you one thing, I would never sell or buy any coins face to face with strangers. That's my number 1 priority rule of what I will never do. If you do it like 10 times, then 9 times it might turn out to be a successful deal, but one of them might not end in your advantage. The more you deal with strangers through whatever site, the more chance of facing someone with bad intentions. That's why I simply don't do it. Better safe than sorry.

[NorrisK]

I have used it a couple of times in local bars that accept bitcoin. Was a nice way to test how it works.

The funny thing was that I had to explain the bartender how to use the payment system for bitcoin as he didn't know how to request a transaction!