This is the only useful answer. I didn't know Bitfinex allowed shorting. Good to know. I think Poloniex allows margin sells as well.

There isn't an ETA of the PBOC announcement. And I shouldn't wait in the first place, I'm an international customer not Chinese and not bound by PBOC regulations. This is quite outrageous

BUMP

I want to raise a red flag on CHBTC with this post as my experience with them has been horrible.

I have Ethereum stuck in CHBTC for over a week now, I'm getting all sorts of requirements and excuses that don't let me withdraw any of my ETH. It seems that others have Bitcoin and Ethereum stuck for over a month now. In February 9, they announced that they would halt withdrawals for a month. In a week and a half from now it will be 2 months.

The interface for withdrawals isn't working. This is what is happening:

    1st.  As soon as I click withdrawal I receive a prompt that says that they will call me before authorizing the withdrawal

    2nd. Then when I type in the amounts and address I want to withdraw to I have to request an SMS AND type in my Authy code (2FA).
            The problem is that the button to request SMS authentication codes isn't working, the submit button to withdraw is also inactive.

    3rd. The Ethereum price vs Yen (CNY) is way below the international price on this exchange.
            I'm guessing this is because Yen withdrawals are working and people are cashing out this way since withdrawing cryptocurrency isn't possible.

    4th. Calling their numbers isn't working. They recently updated their number to a new one. None of them are working.
            The customer support via email has told me that the withdrawals are suspended until there is an "announcement".
            They haven't given me a date for the announcement and they haven't responded any of my emails after this response.

I am not Chinese I just happened to have some Ethereum for arbitrage here. This exact same signs began to happen before Mtgox went down. I warn anyone out there reading this DO NOT DEPOSIT YOUR COINS to any Chinese exchange. The hostility and uncertainty that the Chinese government has created around this industry combined with the subpar service that these exchange offer make me believe that if there is going to be an Mtgox event soon, it's going to come from China.

I have Ethereum stuck in CHBTC. Don't deposit ANY MONEY THERE. They aren't processing withdrawals. My Ethereum is stuck a week there. AVOID THIS EXCHANGE AT ALL COSTS. Preferably avoid exchanges in countries like China, they have a track record of hostile regulation towards digital currency.

My thoughts after reading the paper: I think the intention of banking unbanked people is good and should be pursued. But, I think that the people and organizations pursuing this should be foundations, volunteers and governments. For example the UN or the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation ($40B+ fund) is more suited to give $10 to 2B people, they could actually pay for it.

The main technological value I see you may develop is doing secure cryptographic signatures in a smartphone, more precisely, storing a private key securely, even if the device was stolen or lost and the memory was removed and sniffed. Also an app can be reverse-engineered, so your app needs to be resistant to that. Those are security problems that are unsolved unless you use a long password and encrypt the private key with it, I don't see how you are securing a private key without a password here. The software to do facial and voice authentication is definitely valuable, on my own searches I haven't found 3rd parties that do this well which is part of the reason pretty much no one is using facial and voice authentication on money apps. Iris and fingerprints are more common but less secure that a password.

In the paper I read that this is not a charity, therefore (1) how do I make money as an investor in this token? Why are you pushing a new currency when these communities live in countries with an established fiat currency, (2) Wouldn't it make more sense to just digitize that already accepted currency?. (3) How are you going to finance this development after you burn through the pre-ico and ico money, do you have a business model? (no business model found on the paper). And finally (4) What smartphones cost $10-$20 and how are these going to be distributed or sold in developing nations.

From my experience living in a developing country, one that is dark in the maps shown in your paper, the only communication infrastructure that many villages and small cities do have is cellular. So these people can call and text on pre-paid telephony plans. Most of them have access to basic phones with no internet and wouldn't afford a wireless internet plan if they had a smartphone. So I'm guessing that for this to work on a massive scale you would need to partner up with telecommunication companies so they give these people access to data related with your app/domains for free (which is what internet.org is doing) and sell them a smartphone for the price of a basic phone that shows their native currency in the app. A way to withdraw those electronic funds in cash would also be good for the money in the app to be accepted as money. For now, I think cash works very well for these places.

I have 1550.836 LISK to sell. Offers via PM.

We can use http://bitrated.com escrow or any other reputable escrow to make the transaction secure for both.

I'd sell my ico.lisk.io account along with the 12-word passphrase. The escrow would hold the BTC payment until the ICO LISKs are released officially and sent to your Lisk address.

'I want to link my Bitcointalk name with BTCJam's. Verification code: 3513e582-05f8-4537-82b2-c0e8e96e495a'

The bootstrap posted in florincoin.org's front page is outdated.
Could someone update the bootstrap.dat? Syncing is taking forever as usual. Torrenting the bootstraps with a date labelled on them would be nice too

Hi. I have $340.05 on Payoneer that I want to convert to Bitcoin.

BTW, Payoneer STINKS. I had to pay $54.95 IN FEES just to have an account and a card.
This would have costed me $0.02 if I received my $398.99 from amazon via bitcoin (if they offered btc withdrawal ofc)

Long life Bitcoin <3

Message me if anyone is interested in making this trade, we can use localbitcoins escrow

Im vouching for http://steamreloader.com aka https://premiumgiftcards.com/

I received the code as fast as the 1st confirmation arrived.

Officially Cool

Yes, it looks like a ponzi scheme. Saw it shared on a Bitcoin Facebook group that I moderate. Their logo and website look good though. But, they give no explanation as to how bao-coin is going to "sometimes" return 120% of your investment and how each bao-coin is gonna cost 1 BTC or more 'sometime in the future'

tl;dr: ponzi scheme

—Sold— Will keep posting more stuff I have to sell or another phone if I get one.

$10 OFF!
Reduced the price from $399 to $389 (or 0.99 BTC at current price). Free shipping to the US

What do you mean 'cash'? To pay me in person? Or what payment method? I'd prefer crypto for online payments to avoid costly fees

I don't ship to Switzerland directly, but you could use http://www.shipito.com/switzerland or https://www.nzpost.co.nz/ to have the phone shipped from a US shipping address to your country.

Thanks. I might use monbux services then saw his trust thread. So.. is anyone buying or do I post on the e.bay D:?
Adjusted the price from 1.06 to 0.99 btc due to the btc price jump.

Edit: Since the BTC price fluctuates, I'm changing the price accordingly

Yes I can ship to 16 countries: United States, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, Belgium, Austria, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Portugal. For countries other than the US or Canada add $29 for international shipping. I can't ship to non-mentioned countries directly, but you could use an email forwarder.

Whoa, didn't know Crytothrifht's escrow was hacked. What escrow service would you recommend? I've seen other people mention btcrow and btcraven.

I sell my account with 1 share and $0.79 on it ($20.79). Bought the share on October the 2nd (10 days ago). Selling all for 0.04BTC ($15)
PM me

http://i.imgur.com/op4TdCr.png

Cryptothrift markeplace has its own escrow. But I'm open to use other escrows. PM me with your suggestions or post here