Hah, worked right away. The absolute state of localbitcoins though I finally could get verified there.
Anyway loan repaid w/tip! needed it quickly, thanks again

I don't mind KYC if I'm trading huge amounts but under $100 for a traceable payment from a bank is ridiculous. What's the repayment address btw?

Privacy doesn't matter, it's coinbase commerce address
Thanks, I also find it hilarious localbitcoins terrible ID-as-service 3rd party they are using rejected my passport and selfie despite me trading on there for 7 years, and contacting customer service is estimated at '3 days response time'. Anybody in the future who reads this and trades in Canada i'd be interested in what you use I used to buy coins directly from the guy's at Waves coffee in their little office there back in the day before they even set up an ATM (they're long gone).

Sent, 48hrs I'll return 0.001938 BTC plus some extra

Probably an old blockchain wallet like this one, which you can see is in my history:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H6pUE5AT-TAq31w_R4r-vDUlmmbobANO/view?usp=sharing

Anyway if there is somebody from Canada here, and can accept an Interac email for $30 (i only need $20USD really), for collateral then let me know otherwise cancel this thread

I spent the last couple of years in HK working in fintech, came back to Canada because of corona flu and now all my old accounts want piles of verification, the absolute state of memecoins in current year for small amounts even. No worries guys, I know how it works, also I could have emailed anybody a $30 interac payment (in Canada).

My localbitcoins profile is this: https://localbitcoins.com/accounts/profile/discorder but if they want all this bullshit verification then I'll just go back to #bitcoin-otc like the old days


 

As you see this is the problem, localbitcoins won't even let you look at your wallet without 'tier 1 verification':
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EiReJZCTy5R_iFmCLKlc2YNNmZmX_Io9/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g1lo4ypBXSyRy1S-vymVQhhe57NQVWRg/view?usp=sharing

Anyway no worries, there is a bitcoin ATM here I can get too eventually

That's an old Localbitcoins address, can't sign it, can still receive to it though.
I assure you I'm not scamming for $30, I have interac Canadian payment collateral
This was actually my problem actually, I logged into localbitcoins to buy some small amount of coins after a few years, they want all kinds of 'Tier 1 verification' which takes 24hrs despite me using it for years
Cancel the request then, I'll just go to a bitcoin ATM here on the weekend or Bitcoin-OTC where I have rep and use an escrow

Take a real compsci intro course, one that teaches 'systems engineering' as in what a testing oracle is https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/software.html
Then you pick up books or read papers on google scholar about whatever protocol you want to work with
Then you can either do gitcoin bounty's and write features in excange for coins or you find some open source wallet or whatever and get your PRs approved
Get a few PRs accepted and maybe somebody will look at you, or enter via customer support on one of the big exchanges and weasel your way into development internally

If you want to take a real cryptography course from dj bernstein's gf then here you go: https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/#org92df451 it assumes you know linear algebra

If you remember legendary scammer 'pirateat40' the SEC had completely tracked every coin he spent and detailed how they did this in their court filing, look it up

A VPN is something you use when you don't trust the network you're on, like you're in the Hong Kong airport and you're using their 'free wifi' and you want to xfer some coins.
It can also (sometimes) be used to bypass some kind of country specific firewall but you'd likely just buy fireproxy for that or something.
As for 'hacking', nobody is going to hack your phone or bitcoind daemon or w/e it is you're using unless you've dropped it on a server

The largest risk with cryptocurrency is the exchange gets seized by the regime or the owners disappear with all your money, so choose exchanges where this is not likely to happen

Need 0.00186481 BTC to 3353CV4dRogmr2t2KVo7Lf88CBXyrG4aa5
Repay amount up to you, name price
Collateral, CDN interac is all I have or reputation I used to loan here back in the day all the time
Reasons: buy online service, don't want to wait the 24hr 'verification hold' for coinberry and other exchanges in my country

I need BTC, roughly $30 to $40 (CAD) depending what you want to sell, name your price, payment is Interac (Canada)

Sign transaction offline.
Move txn to online system.
Broadcast it.

That's what I've been doing for years or if it's small amounts Google Authenticator 2FA, just avoid all SMS/phone number 2FA schemes, that is easy to fake and how businesses get their domains hijacked routinely when some guy spoofs their SMS recovery and logs into their gmail, then changes their domain (or in OP's case, steals all the coins).

Take all the money you have and put it in a multi key trust as insurance with somebody other people trust.
Now roll your exchange, slowly incrementing the insurance limit.
Grow it naturally, through superior customer experience since you can't compete on latency and features unless you have specialty features.

Expect to get robbed:
http://homakov.blogspot.ca/2015/01/bitstamp-problem-and-warm-wallets.html
https://sakurity.com/blog/2015/01/10/hacking-bitcoin-exchanger.html
https://medium.com/@homakov/introducing-failsafe-network-ea47ab476fe6

Take some basic security courses from CMU
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15122/schedule.shtml - programming with contracts
https://cmu-15-316.github.io/ - verifying programs/building failsafes

There's still a middle man, by using reddit you are under their whims to censor/ban or manipulate whatever happens to work tasks there. It's also filtered in a lot of countries you'd want to include like China. I'd avoid it at all costs and pick something more decentralized. I wouldn't even trust a subreddit to be the discussion forum for a site I ran let alone be in charge of assigning work. Some kind of app for this instead, pref a free/GNU project, but with a highly abstracted overlay and UI for the common upwork freelancer to understand that doesn't rely on any Zucker/Reddit/Twitter cancer that will actively work against what you're trying to do.

This, otherwise everybody is going to lose eventually. if anybody remembers what happened to the Redbook admins in SF you should be careful considering they're both doing serious time right now. Incorporating 'offshore' is meaningless if you are actively promoting within the US or taking payments you can still get extradited, esp if you're giving interviews, or are at all political. One of the main reasons Redbook went down is they became political/advocacy, if you're doing something illegal don't get involved in politics, try to avoid centralizing payments and never give interviews to the media, just grow your shady app slowly it will get popular, no need to force it by rubbing your illegal service in the face of cops and politicians with high profile interviews, they hate that and like to make 'examples' like the Redbook people. The media isn't your friend, you should treat them like late stage cancer because after every interview they go run to the nearest politician "What are you going to do about this blatant illegal app? Your comment please Senator" and this elevates you to having significant resources aimed in your direction.

For small amounts, also 24hr access.
There's a bunch of ATMs where I live and numerous times I've had problems with them stopping halfway through a transaction reporting some error. Here they often have somebody hanging around working for the ATM to chase off
rival traders sitting beside it offering a lower rate so I was able to fix the problem immediately but would be wary of any standalone ATM with a phone number that just led to a voicemail that's never checked.

Ethereum also has to survive the inevitable bugs in the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine ) and user written contracts. When those contracts start becoming real with actual value attached and popular enough that it's worth spending time to analyze you're going to see every hacker in the world trying to exploit those contracts.  So the real test is can Ethereum survive a confidence loss when the media is running multiple headlines about money disappearing because somebody analyzed a SolC control flow graph using satisfiability and discovered a way to steal millions of dollars.

Repaid https://blockchain.info/tx/d24806ddf1e224d25901f5f31a4d80201276b809064a77f7fbc69f9526e3fe5e

Had to wait to replace Nexus 4 digitizer/screen thanks for few hours extension :)