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Programmers/Designers wanted for new bitcoin project
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bitman74
on 12/03/2013, 12:22:43 UTC
Hi,

We are looking for a team, ideally together, to work with us on a new bitcoin project.

We are currently looking for skilled and reliable programmers designers to work with to put together an outline cost for our project ideas and to begin at the soonest with building and construction.

Would any programmers/designers please email me at cuntsrus@tormail.org with an outline of their skills, previous projects etc and we will be in touch from there.

Payment can be in BTC or normal currency.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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Re: Buying Bitcoins in the UK
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bitman74
on 19/01/2013, 19:04:24 UTC
1) getting hold of bitcoins anonymously is indeed like something out of the bourne supremecy and takes major hassle and headaches in the UK at least....buying ukash codes, then trying to convert to USD to use on cashu to finally get to mtgox....or using other online guys taking a whopping 20% !!...as for using paypal or CC....forget it !!!

If you are in London, you needn't pay more than 5% for anonymous, cash purchases:
 - https://localbitcoins.com/postal_code/uk/london

great info thanks, few miles away, but do travel so will take a look

the everyday online customers will not use or go near bitcoin until it is majorly simplified and user friendly....

In the U.S., Coinbase has an approach that seems to work well.  The cost is relatively trivial (1% above spot when buying bitcoins, 1% below when selling bitcoins).   Of course, this is not anonymous.  There's no such thing as using the bank system for its convenience and not putting up with the hassles that AML/KYC require.

quite....has no one had any luck utilising any offshore structures to get around US/EU banking ?....

3) pricing......another trickty area as any payment systems needs to be linked or some poor sod merchent will be forever having to change his/her prices to reflect the unstable nature of bitcoin values

With most e-commerce / shopping cart software solutions, including payment processing like is offered from BitPay allows the merchant to set the price in USDs (or some other other currency) and the price shown to the customer is computed dynamically based on the current exchange rate.

yes, my error, just seen that today, thanks Smiley

3) Also there does need to be some movement towards buyer protection too. Everyone sparks on about the benefit to sellers as no chargebacks etc are possible....yet we forget, you will never make this payment successful without offering buyer protection.

Cash also is non-reversible and doesn't enable chargebacks.  Not sure how customers still patronize these cash-only businesses  :-)

agreed, however, I think its safe to say that very few online retailers accept cash. It's Debit card, credit card or paypal, pre paid card. Most of which offer (however nightmarish for merchants), some kind of buyer protection. Quite agree nearly all is entirely buyer bias, poorly conceived and a danger for the seller. I just hold the point that, if BTC wishes to be successful, we need to find some way offer this protection both ways....we all know both buyers and sellers can be untrustworthy.

But, if you want to succeed online...the customer is ALWAYS right....we need to be offering them, processes, services they are comforable using that benefit both parties.

Some kind of escrow and slowly introducing buyers to this and how it works could be good.
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Re: So how on earth am I supposed to get bitcoins in the UK?
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bitman74
on 18/01/2013, 20:25:44 UTC
dunno if im just dumb, but I can see no UK options on Bitinstant Huh
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Re: Buying Bitcoins in the UK
by
bitman74
on 18/01/2013, 20:09:23 UTC
thank you, just emailed you now
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Buying Bitcoins in the UK
by
bitman74
on 18/01/2013, 19:38:44 UTC
having read many of the other posts, I have to agree.....while I am fascinated and amazed at the bitcoin concept and becoming obsessed with its commercial possibilities....it is sadly more than fraught with problems...

1) getting hold of bitcoins anonymously is indeed like something out of the bourne supremecy and takes major hassle and headaches in the UK at least....buying ukash codes, then trying to convert to USD to use on cashu to finally get to mtgox....or using other online guys taking a whopping 20% !!...as for using paypal or CC....forget it !!!

(if i dont want a trace to my bitcoin purchases its a real headache !!) or dont have a bank account to use...its more than tricky...any advice on the process and reduing the whopping transaction,commission costs appreciated.

2) for all the blah blah about how well this currency will do, as it stands, its dead in the water without bridging the gap between real money, cash, cards, banks and bitcoin. As an online merchent with nearly 20 years experience online and growing an online business from peanuts to $500,000 per annum, I can say, that the everyday online customers will not use or go near bitcoin until it is majorly simplified and user friendly.....

3) pricing......another trickty area as any payment systems needs to be linked or some poor sod merchent will be forever having to change his/her prices to reflect the unstable nature of bitcoin values....just this week having bought 2-3 items by BTC, it has cost me a lot more....


3) Also there does need to be some movement towards buyer protection too. Everyone sparks on about the benefit to sellers as no chargebacks etc are possible....yet we forget, you will never make this payment successful without offering buyer protection. As without serious trust online, and seller rep...no possible protection for the customer is bad news for the seller.

be keen to see others ideas on this, as I really want to be part of making bitcoin work....and want to get solutions for all the reasons why it wont, so it will Smiley
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Re: BITCOIN Payment Providers..
by
bitman74
on 14/01/2013, 20:54:38 UTC
not all sites use carts, and the costs of integration or creating a whole new backend to manage BTC is costly....

my point being...for the sake of creating slightly more advanced "buy now" buttons, online retailiers would be more likely to "try out" BTC....as, like a paypal button, its 5 mins to program and copy paste the code..

with the real likely hood of customers paying via bit coin....you need a very quick cost effective way to add and test it....we sell for example 1000 units a year, and I KNOW for a fact that the likely hood of any of our 300,000 a year visitor paying via bitcoin will be very very unlikely..hence, why am i going to invest time and money to accept it ? when, if the payment providers simply "bothered", I could copy/paste the bitcoin option and test it..push the options and see... etc.

the other problem, is, for BTC to become mainstream, it needs to be easier to obtain and work with.....we forget, most folks here are technically minded.....

however, 99% of online retails customers are...in a word...dumb....and most sites end up with 1000's if customer support emails over shit as simple as, how do i pay via paypal..

can you imagine these people easiliy understanding...BTC wallets, blockchains, hash etc etc.....nooooooo
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Re: How do I persuade local businesses to start accepting bitcoin ?
by
bitman74
on 14/01/2013, 16:57:01 UTC
albus....bitpay...no, not really....as a online merchant myself with around 15 years experience in ecommerce, current bitcoin paypment options are a long way off being anywhere current services...

love or hate the likes of paypal, as yet, no bit coin payment providers has even managed to match the simple paypal buy now button Huh?......

its a shame, as im surprised for such a tech savvie industry, the BTC players are slow to catch up, they need to seriously wake up and start offering usable payment solutions.
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BITCOIN Payment Providers..
by
bitman74
on 14/01/2013, 16:42:07 UTC
Hi,

any advice on bitcoin payment providers, bitpay etc are.....by all accounts very limited especially as regards any kind of buy now button functionality......all I have seen so far offer such limited options and functions that unless you are selling, one product, with one shipping rate,  and NO colour, size, options variations etc....all bit payment providers are ...limited...Smiley
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Looking for business contacts
by
bitman74
on 14/01/2013, 15:57:01 UTC
Hi,

I am looking for business contacts on here, people wanting to create bitcoin businesses. I have an established online business, high end fashion retail, global reach, trading since 2003 with an excellent track record. I am wanting to link my resources, online experience, and find guys/girls to work with who have the technical, programming know how to create the ideas I have. Simply, I can fund it, and succcessfuly bring it to market, and I want to work with people with the programming and skillsets to make BTC based onine business models to work.

Anyone with a strong programming background who truly gets the technical aspects of creating a BTC website, back end, databases, working with block chain etc then please drop me a line and lets discuss more.

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Re: How Do I Use My PGP Public Key to Send and Receive e-mails?
by
bitman74
on 14/01/2013, 15:41:40 UTC
im using tormail easy enough but any help or advice as to how I add/use PGP with tormal would be great.......thanks
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Re: Once Bitcoins become a serious threat ...
by
bitman74
on 14/01/2013, 10:27:03 UTC
I have no doubt that the big corps, banking and payment processing will KILL this if they can....no govt or corporation wants a currency they can control or citizens with ANY financial freedom....control the the coin, control the world...and as wise man on here said, you might as well ask wolves not to eat sheep....they WILL detroy BTC if they can..

the question is...is that really possible..?.....and how would they do it...and more importantly...what can we do to stop it ??


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Re: How do I persuade local businesses to start accepting bitcoin ?
by
bitman74
on 14/01/2013, 10:20:55 UTC
i think for bricks and mortor business it will be tougher to incorporate and pursude them, even for online business it can be tough to start accepting bitcoins as although the payment services are improving, still none are on par with other large, legacy, card payment providers....hence, the tech is still to be made...for example what EPOS system will a shop install to accept bitcoins Huh??

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Re: Whitelist Requests (Want out of here?)
by
bitman74
on 14/01/2013, 10:15:33 UTC
I would like to apply, we are an online retailer, high end fashion, trading online since 2003 with a global reach and reputation, we are very keen to accept BTC and indeed invest in new BTC projects and offer our experience to help others online.

thank you
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Re: Why are you here?
by
bitman74
on 14/01/2013, 10:10:07 UTC
similar reasons, we already have an online business, accepting online payments etc and are fascinated by BTC and its potential and future and are very keen to apply it to our business model and also invest in future ideas completely BTC based. I hope to input my years in online business to help others and meet new people who can help us to make our ideas work.

thank you.
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Re: Bitcoin Businesses and Developers, Let's Get Started!
by
bitman74
on 14/01/2013, 10:04:50 UTC
hi, we are a global high end fashion online retailer, keen to work with bitcoin as a payment method and indeed work on new ways to bring bitcoin to the mainstream. We bring 10 years of ecommerce experience with us and a great team of internet and seo guys. Also have ideas for other projects are would be looking for partners to help with the techinical aspect of setting up bitcoin business ideas.

thank you.
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Re: Introduce yourself :)
by
bitman74
on 13/01/2013, 14:59:32 UTC
Hi,

new to the bitcoin talk forum, am fasinated by bitcoin, the tech, the principle and the potentional. My background is ecommerce, online retail, seo, etc etc...am here to learn and progress and hope to make new friends and contacts in the bitcoin world and also hope to share my ideas concepts and hopefully help others too..

thank you, and I look forward to more !!