Just to be sure I understand, they have refused to wire a portion of your own legitimate savings to a third party of your choice? Period?

So:

1)   If you owed me $7,500 and wanted to repay me by wire, would that be ok?

2)   If I, living in another country, choose to convert my $7,500 into some clothing, a mountain bicycle, vintage wine and some BTC, that is presumably outside the jurisdiction of any Israeli business?

3)   If I later choose to donate some BTC from my bank to your electronic wallet, surely that is also outside the responsibility of a competing Israeli bank?

If my premises above are correct, I can only suggest you move your savings to a different bank.  


    

Never thought I'd sympathize with MtGox, but from a Canadian perspective I'll support them to the hilt for cutting any ties that divert non-US bitcoin user data into the clutches of US banks.  MtGox, drop the #CoinLab betrayal now!  Can't believe two Frenchmen living in Tokyo could have been so clueless in the first place.  Concentrate instead on building a robust, Forex-like, designated market-maker function, one that earns the trust of everyone else first and the American institutional cabal last.

pb

One you're stuck.  Two is a dilemma. Choice begins at three.

You could choose instead to apply your first 5 posts to making others feel welcome.

/pb

In fact, Matonis's biggest contribution might just be sheer civility, precluding many instances of the kind of thoughtless flame war that plagues most beginnings.

The fact he no longer needs to shoulder so much of the burden as 'spokesman' is testimony to bitcoin's success, not to his or the community's failure.

/pb

Quite apart from his own fluency in the domain, Matonis provides newbies with a convenient initial source of links to credible others who comment on bitcoin and crypto- in general, including views divergent from his own.

/pb           

Isn't Ripple in-addition-to, not instead of? 

I am assuming new forex-like entities will replace crippling bottlenecks like MtGox and then remain as processors themselves or 'gateways' to ever more powerful currency exchanges.  Meantime, Ripple (both the protocol and its currency-as-token), provide the instantaneous delivery to and among those processors and their gateways that make it all flow.

I am indeed still asking, however, not pronouncing.
       

So, if illuminati (spelled backwards) [dot com] links to the NSA, what do you suggest  satoshian (spelled-backwards) [dot com] should link to?

www.naihsotas.com   let's see who's quickest to set it up.

:-) 

pb

Glad to find you, but am frantic to find someone going the other way!  I want a few Ripples to experiment with.  Happy to offer you a little BTC for the privilege.

txs

pb

Although bitcoin has provided remarkable gain as measured in other currencies, its deeper significance is its underlying architecture.  The same will apply to Ripple, not instead of bitcoin, but 'in-addition-to'.

Keep, or use, your first ripples as an opportunity to dabble in something that closely resembles what international and 'foreign' exchange will soon become and long remain.

pb            

Greetings Kennji.  I'll look forward to seeing you in the various threads once we are freed from this five post purgatory, or more correctly deemed, "limbo".    ;-)

pb

I've contributed to many fora over the years, across many different domains, and continue to dislike metrics that emphasize quantity rather than quality.  I understand the moderators' need to insert a disincentive to flamers and spam, but I wish they'd find a way to grant access based on the quality and originality of a newbie's first contributions rather than on a number or time taken to create them.

The more so that participation here was made a prerequisite for joining in the first tranche of distribution of Ripple.

pb