[ANN] 700,000 Cash Deposit Locations in Brazil, Russia, USA - BitInstant

[HostFat]

Please, come to europe!

[dancupid]

Looking good - you should add Portuguese and Russian language support (I'm assuming you have that in hand already though)

[evoorhees]

Looking good - you should add Portuguese and Russian language support (I'm assuming you have that in hand already though)

That will be launched very soon.

[bearbones]

Bad ass! Keep up the good work, guys!

[Herbert]

This is REALLY great. Good job!

[dunand]

Is it possible for bitinstant to convert the funds directly to bitcoins instead of dealing with mtgox or coinapult?

[rjk]

Is it possible for bitinstant to convert the funds directly to bitcoins instead of dealing with mtgox or coinapult?

The whole point of their business is to not be an exchange. That's how they were able to get a money transmitter's license in the first place.

[BitcoinBug]

Now that's just... awesome! You guys rock!

[bitcams]

Yay!!!

[evoorhees]

Is it possible for bitinstant to convert the funds directly to bitcoins instead of dealing with mtgox or coinapult?

That's the purpose of Coinapult.... you can avoid the exchanges completely and just get the Bitcoins in your email. As rjk mentioned above, BitInstant can't be the exchanger directly for various legal reasons.

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

Hi,

1- If I choose Brazil I think the field (amount to send) should be real currency and not dollar.
2- "You receive" on first page should include the 1 dollar fee that appear on the next pages.

1- The amount to send is USD, but it will display in real time your local currency in the field below
2- That $1.00 fee does not exist anymore, we will fix that now. There is no $1.00 fee.

This looks great! 7-11 shows up as "Eleven" though.

Fixing now!

[Elwar]

Great job guys. This will fill one major hurdle in Bitcoin which is the difficulty in actually getting Bitcoins.


Now if we could have the opposite. Go into Walmart with Bitcoins and exchange them for dollars you would have the perfect setup for wire transfers of money that could instantly compete with Western Union.

At least bit-pay can do a direct deposit of cash from BTC...

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

Great job guys. This will fill one major hurdle in Bitcoin which is the difficulty in actually getting Bitcoins.

Thanks 

Now if we could have the opposite. Go into Walmart with Bitcoins and exchange them for dollars you would have the perfect setup for wire transfers of money that could instantly compete with Western Union.

At least bit-pay can do a direct deposit of cash from BTC...

Should have that launched within 4 weeks or so.

[rjk]

Now if we could have the opposite. Go into Walmart with Bitcoins and exchange them for dollars you would have the perfect setup for wire transfers of money that could instantly compete with Western Union.

At least bit-pay can do a direct deposit of cash from BTC...

Should have that launched within 4 weeks or so.

Aw hell yeah.

[teste]

Hum,

1- If I'm buying with brazilian currency I think the fields should represent Real and not Dollar. When I go to buy I want to insert the exactly amount I want to pay in Real currency.
2- See that I only will know the exactly amout to pay in Real on the last screen that is not Bitinstant page anymore.
3- To generate boleto do I really need to insert my Cpf, Rg and other informations. I don't like that.

[dancupid]

The UK seems an easy egg to crack as you can already just walk into a bank and put money into any account - is it just a technical matter (dealing with Lloyds still using 19th century technology and a bunch of tellers using quill pens) or a legal matter?

[gourami]

bitinstant is great. i have used their services many times. no problems whatsoever.
and everything is done very quickly.

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

Is it possible for bitinstant to convert the funds directly to bitcoins instead of dealing with mtgox or coinapult?

The whole point of their business is to not be an exchange. That's how they were able to get a money transmitter's license in the first place.

This is partly true.

Hum,

1- If I'm buying with brazilian currency I think the fields should represent Real and not Dollar. When I go to buy I want to insert the exactly amount I want to pay in Real currency.
2- See that I only will know the exactly amout to pay in Real on the last screen that is not Bitinstant page anymore.
3- To generate boleto do I really need to insert my Cpf, Rg and other informations. I don't like that.

1- Follow the instructions on our homepage, type in the amount in USD and it will show you on the bottom how much you will receive in MtGox. It will also show you the BRL amount. Have you tried it? You don't have to go to the next page, it will display right there.
2- We display a very close estimated amount in Real right on our homepage, and you don't even have to refresh.


3- I apologize but thats Brazilian Government regulations, not mine! The Brazilian gov't is VERY rigorous, we are lucky to even have this.

The UK seems an easy egg to crack as you can already just walk into a bank and put money into any account - is it just a technical matter (dealing with Lloyds still using 19th century technology and a bunch of tellers using quill pens) or a legal matter?

UK, EU, and Canada are not far away.

We launched US, Brazil and Russia first because we finished contracting with those countries first. Once a country is ready to go, we launch it within days

[Elwar]

Great job guys. This will fill one major hurdle in Bitcoin which is the difficulty in actually getting Bitcoins.

Thanks 

Now if we could have the opposite. Go into Walmart with Bitcoins and exchange them for dollars you would have the perfect setup for wire transfers of money that could instantly compete with Western Union.

At least bit-pay can do a direct deposit of cash from BTC...

Should have that launched within 4 weeks or so.

sweet...

[Technomage]

This is big time. Congrats