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Re: EARLY BITCOIN WALLET.DAT
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BitcoinFX
on 11/03/2017, 20:33:35 UTC
⭐ Merited by HI-TEC99 (1) ,vapourminer (1)
I ran the '2nd' known Bitcoin <> fiat exchange service, using Liberty Reserve (now defunct - with my totally legally earned Forex trading funds being 'confiscated' when LR was shut down).

I had a basic website with contact information and a simple pricing widget, but the few successful trades I conducted were all manual and done via email. I certainly did not accept credit cards either and none of the trades I conducted totalled more than $10 in fiat value, at that time.

Before the BitcoinMarket exchange was established, there was someone in the US who made exchanges by accepting cash in the mail. I don't recall who that was and I think they also deleted most of their post history.

I just checked the way back machine archive and no copies of my website exist during the time it was online, which was for less than a few months, probably. I used a free .cc.cz domain with my forum account name. It was hosted for free on weebly.

If the OP genuinely brought bitcoin in the manner they claim then I don't imagine that they have the dates correct or the website they claim to of used was certainly not known to users of this forum at that time.

Bitcoins early history on the wiki is truly very patchy TBH, because those wiki pages were created mainly by people after the events. The first trades for goods and/or services were not the now infamous Pizzas! I remember buying US postage stamps from NewLibertyStandard before Laszlo posted the Pizza trade. I suspect that other trades also took place before that time, they were just not made publicly.

Anyhow, if you are genuine @CryptoCruiser then I wish you luck! I'm also one of the few people from bitcoins early history who knows what its like to not own or to have lost coins that now have great value.