Quote from: molecular on June 09, 2012, 11:32:39 AM

Quote from: zby on June 09, 2012, 05:59:09 AM

Quote from: sunnankar on June 09, 2012, 03:49:55 AM

Quote from: Yankee (BitInstant) on June 09, 2012, 12:09:37 AM

Your wrong actually, we've had hundreds of customers do this over past couple of weeks.

Quote from: proudhon on June 09, 2012, 01:46:30 AM

You're probably right. In any event, I'm still not convinced many people are looking to bitcoin as a safe haven currency and I doubt many people will. If a significant number of people do end up moving to bitcoin as a safe haven currency I'm sure we'll know it, because that'll probably induce a bubble, the likes of which have never been seen.

I think you would be surprised at just how forward thinking, creative and risk taking some people are.

Today I had lunch with two of my friends who are both estate planning attorneys for high-net worth individuals. The topic of conversation centered on political risk, expatriation, second citizenships, FACTA, tax implications and how they could use BitCoin as part of their client's asset protection and estate plan. They found the alienable nature of BitCoin extremely attractive.

If that is so - then why people don't use the more peer to peer exchanges like bitmarket.eu instead of the centralized ones that are forced to apply the Know Your Customer rules?

ignorance and liquidity and maybe the wish to take advantage of spikes.

Because most people tend to veer towards legal methods, and not illegal ones Grin