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Topic: Alt. to LocalBitcoins. Trade Bitcoins with your extended friend network (Read 380 times)

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Alternative to LC that connects you with friends and friends-of-friends who want to trade Bitcoins via PayPal, email money transfer etc. Ensuring honesty through social accountability

Transactions are visible to friends and friends-of-friends who also use the site.

www.friendswithcoins.com

Benefits

For Sellers
  • Instant payments using PayPal or email money transfer
  • Reduced risk of chargebacks since you're dealing with friends and friends-of-friends
  • Free social advertising
  • The average facebook user has 245 friends. FWC includes friends of your friends giving you a potential reach of 60,025 (245 x 245) people

For Buyers
  • No lengthy account approval process
  • Send money instantly and cheaply instead of waiting days for a payment to process
  • Personal Bitcoin wallet created on sign up with a new address generated for each transaction
  • Withdraw Bitcoins at any time or keep them in the online wallet
  • Only pay current market prices since sellers don't include risk fees


It should make people more comfortable than buying from strangers on LocalBitcoins.




*EDIT. *FIXED: bug found on Chrome Browser: the "Share Transaction" popup won't close after clicking "Post". Once you click "Post", click outside the popup to close.
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