Quote from: st4rdust on September 26, 2012, 07:47:33 PM

Quote from: Syke on September 25, 2012, 02:19:21 AM

Quote from: st4rdust on September 24, 2012, 06:59:00 PM

I did see that tier 0 on mtgox requires no photo ID to withdraw up to $1000 USD per day, but how exactly is that done? I know I can't use dwolla, which requires an ID no matter what. Anybody know the trick to exchanging BTC to USD without the ID bullshit?

Yeah, you just log into mtgox and use bank wires to cash out.

edit: I found the ABA/routing option for a US-based account. I'll see what the deal is with this option and if I can get away with a withdrawal without forking over an encyclopedia of my entire life's information, data, account and identification numbers, pictures, and favorite color in order to exchange BTCs for USD and transfer that into a bank account.

Shit. It turns out that ABA transfers require a 2000 Yen transaction fee, roughly a $25 charge for every transfer. This is not good at all. That's too much of a chunk to make it worthwhile for myself and plenty of others I'm sure.

Does anybody know of any service aside from mtgox that offers relatively small-time users a free, or at least a nominal-fee exchange rate (ideally < 1%) and a relatively safe method of taking the currency exchanged from BTC and transferring it into a US-based bank account? I used to be able to exchange BTC to USD on mtgox for next to nothing, then mtgox to dwolla for either next to nothing, or nothing at all (can't remember exactly at this point Huh

) and then dwolla to bank account in 2 days flat, again for either next to nothing, or nothing at all. What I do remember is that what I lost in that process was, in total, absolutely negligible compared to the principle sum. All I ask now is a similar way to exchange my hard-earned BTC to either USD or some gold, silver or copper-based currency, basically anything that would be very liquid in its ability to become USD. Maybe I'm completely missing the boat here, but if somebody could fill me in, it would be greatly appreciated.

I've also considered skipping all the big-brother bullshit and going down the SR route, achieving my means and ends of BTC to USD (or any liquid asset) but as I've been out of the BTC scene for a few months now, as my previous posts have noted, I have unfortunately forgotten my way down that particular road. If anybody would be good enough to send a private message guiding my way back to a certain Silk territory, that would help me knock this issue out in one fell swoop.

Now, to those of you planning on replying with the advice that I should wait for a severe lightning storm to come along, grab my ankles, and hold my ass in the air in order to zap! and magically gain access, please spare me the agony and the ecstasy. Thomas Jefferson may have founded the great United States of America by flying model rockets with keys attached in thunderstorms, one of which got struck by lightning, the current of which rode the exhaust plume back down to Jefferson* and relayed the words of the Declaration of Independence directly to his brain, but I do not wish to go to these lengths to achieve access to that which I desire to gain access to. Plain and simple.

Again, many thanks to those with the patience to help me out in these matters. It will feel good to finally be back on my feet again and not a complete and total newb.

* Luckily for Jefferson, John Aaron was at the console on this fateful day and made the legendary call "Flight - try SCE to AUX" which luckily saved the day. This earned John Aaron the coveted designation of "the Steely-eyed Missile Man"