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November 28, 2013, 05:22:28 PM Last edit: November 28, 2013, 05:57:13 PM by kellrobinson |
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I'm traveling in Argentina and I need to sell some bitcoin. I have to set up two factor authorization to get access to the bitcoin I have on coinbase.com. The way they do it is by sending you a text message on your phone with a code to type in. I brought my cell phone with me but my service provider doesn't do international roaming, so I can't use my U.S. telephone number to set up 2 factor authorization. I bought a prepaid sim card with an Argentinian phone number, but I'm not going to try to use a telephone number with a foreign country code to set up authorization unless I know it's going to work (I just now sent a question to coinbase asking if I can do that). I do not have a google voice number, and it's not possible to sign up for one from outside the U.S. I thought about getting a skype telephone number, just for this. On skype you can't receive text messages, but I think there is a way to do the authorization without using text. A recording or something. So it's kind of complicated and a PITA. I was just wondering if anybody knows a better way. Edit: It occurs to me that using a vpn, like the one at my old university, which I still can use, would make it look like my IP adress is in the U.S., and get a google voice number that way. Worth a try...
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