Have a lot for sale.

Thanks for the info!


Please keep the topic free of flood, not everyone needs to know that you sent me a PM.

Topic is for feedback only.

Willing to sell PPMC for BTC. Always have cards in stock, mostly $400 and $500.

Will provide first time buyers with a copy of receipt/picture of the card.

Always willing to use escrow.

Current rate: +6% for you.

First contact is PM for now BTCBTCBTC

Another girlfriend (by simply being a girl) would result in the same "problem" I keep dumping girls coins.

Again, @9.55 I panic sold the coins bought at @9.2 feeling somewhat uncomfortable. Damn, that feeling was right. 8.8, already. Time to buy? Must be a panic buy for me to work out.

PANIC!

I dumped at 14.7 because I got scared. So much heat. And I couldn't resist taking the profit.

Then the price rose to 15, then 15.2 and I found myself tempted to panic-buy. Fortunately, my girlfriend was upset about me starring the whole day at may cellphone (she knows what I am doing when the screen is orange [MtGox app]), so I put away the phone. We went for lunch.

Price dropped to 13.1 and I was feeling great. Too great, as I bought 25% of the coins sold back, waiting to buy more. Still panicking. Price dropped further and further. Today I bought another 25% back at 9.2.

Now, I think I'll wait for what happens. If I just could predict it. I made more than 1K$ profit which decently adds to my holiday pocket   but the last two months just felt so good I want to feel it again.

If price drops any further, I'll wait for 5$ to buy back in, maybe even lower. If price stabilizes at [9-11] range. I'll buy back in after a couple of weeks, if price rises I'll sell everything at 12.

After all, I am a bad trader. All this panicking 

My solution would be a small c++ program that outputs every file in a given directoy that's older than 2 minutes. You would have to place this program somewhere in your $PATH. Then you would be able to create a batch file that simply copies each file somewhere. Do you have access to your machine in a way to install programs (I mean, just putting an .exe in your windows folder)?

OK cool. I ordered one. And hey: It's been cheaper in bitcoins 

Jeez! I lost 150$  Buying some BTC at ~6.75 yesterday morning.

So you desparately need the money. (The BTC won't hurt you to keep them in your vault so why else would you need to get rid of them? I don't live any close to Philadelphia so I cannot help you, as great this opportunity sounds.

But even if. I wouldn't trust you. I would like to split this into smaller transactions and we would have to meet physically. I would be the greatest idiot in the world to dump 10K$ somewhere hoping some "GimmeDemBitz" will send me cheap BTC. You would take the money and run. You have no warranty for me that you'll send the BTC.

You don't even have offer any proof you have the 10K BTC. How should anynody out there trust you, being literally someone on the internet?

Anyway (1). If you really own the BTC, just sell them on MtGox, hire some guy to use his bank account to wire the money to. Give him like 10% (again, sounds like Nigeria Connection) for his service. Then run. Anyway (2): Good luck!

To put in one word: TRUST.

I'd be feeling much better if I could use a service that is (for me) located in my country, with a company run by professionals in background. Currently almost every Bitcoin-related service has no real postal address to mail to. Nobody to talk to personally. Someone I can trust he won't run with the money.

Oh, and I would pay for that.

Yep. And buying a new one just for mining currently doesn't seem too profitable. See http://bitcoinx.com/profit/ to calculate costs and income.

My ~700MHash/s give me ~0.4BTC/day. This is currently less than 3$ per day. This is roughly the same amount of money my rig consumes in electricity. I am lucky not to pay for this electriciy but I cannot scale up as this "free" electricity is part of a "fair use" deal and I guess I am already stretching the deal a bit.

Hmm, I don't think Napster (yeah, the good old times downloading MP3s with a 8KB/s ISDN line) was really a p2p network as it relied on Napsters servers to act as a index and broker. That's also why it was so easy to shut it down by law enforcement.

Bitcoin is like what eBay was in 2003: The only established way to do it. Now, there's quite an ecosystem around Bitcoin end it evolves every day.

• 1. Bitcoin, as a way to representate and transfer money just works, and it works now.
• 2. I don't see any mojor problems with the way Bitcoin works
• 3. An alternative must be WAY better than Bitcoin to spread in popularity

Also, I don't think that mining is the base concept and purpose of a p2p currency. It's there to have an incentive for miners to keep the network running and as with most things in life, there is a finite profitability and to me it's quite normal that mining profit will be just enough to keep existing systems running and to create new mining rigs only in a very professional matter (considering energy consuption et al). If mining was profitable for everyone, everybody would stop working and mine. Obviously, this can't work.

Uh, this train station thing sounds like in one those movies where a lot of mobsters one one side and the police on the other side wait for some guy to open a locker. On ther other hand 1$ per BTC sound waaaayyy to tempting to be true. Feels like the Nigerian ministry of Banks constantly mailing me they have zillions of $$ found and ready for pickup 

Despite having access to ~1KW free electricity¹, I'd have to pay 0.22EUR/kWh here in Berlin/Germany.

¹ .. community-paid

I cannot emphasize on your last sentence. Better even: Don't download and install anything on the machine you're going to do serious Bitcoin trading with. Of course, you'll need the bitcoin client and a browser. But I've seen too many (both linux and windows, but mostly windows) PCs with tons of crap installed. Oh and refrain from visiting your favourite porn site. Don't install Adobe Flash. Don't open PDFs.

At best, use a dedicated PC. A shiny new 300EUR netbook or your 5yr. old Pentium-M laptop should do.

May I ask you how much these wires have cost you? Are US<->JP wires usually that fast?

I don't assume you have a bank account in the SEPA region? The accept SEPA wire transfers which most EU banks charge nothing for. If you invest ~10EUR in a "flash/Prior1" wire, the transfer should complete in 1 to 2 hours.

But I guess you don't have a European bank account. 

OK, it's me.

First, I am a miner with ~700 MHash/s. I do it on two servers that I just added two 5830s (first server) and one 6850 (the other one). Those boxes are not mission critical and would run 24/7 either way. So my investment was just a mere 300 EUR in the cards. And a lot of electricity  I don't have to pay for 

Second, I plan to open a German spice webshop with a friend who sells spices (mostly saffron). And I will be accepting Bitcoins!

OK, I understand that I have to post something that makes sense here to be allowed in other threads.

I want to join a discussion on bitcoinica.com as I spotted some things that need to be improved there.

Oh, so I try to find something useful to post on - but the most interesting things are somewhere else. Jeez!