Topic: [ANN] LocalBitcoins.com - a location-based bitcoin to cash marketplace - page 16. (Read 126108 times)

great site great idea ... but:

super slow timeouts errors, almost un-usable

wft is going on?

server power is super cheap these days get some horsepower!!!!!!

or maybe this is a DHS DDOS attack   

hey how's it going ! I checked the site recently and all the prices were through the friggin' roof!!! How is the website development going over there!  -x-many thanks!-x-

I agree that it's additional risk. It can be worth it in certain circumstances.

The benefit is there for the buyer. When transactions get funded automatically that's one way they know the seller is serious. No-shows happen on their end too, I've heard horror stories about that from people who've bought from me.

Also if you do online sales of any type it's frequently possible for the process to go from "order created" to "bitcoins released" in less time than it would take to get a single confirmation, much less three.

I take the risk of loss by leaving funds in my LocalBitcoins account because it helps get me good feedback due to quick turnarounds, and I've already gained more from that than I would lose if they disappear with my funds tomorrow.

I have WAY too many no-shows for that.  That would be a huge hassle.  In addition, I don't trust localbitcoins not to get hacked or steal my funds.  There have been far too many instances of web hosted bitcoin accounts losing/stealing funds.  There is no way I'm going to just leave $15000 worth of bitcoins hanging around in localbitcoins' wallet. The process worked fine before.  The only funds that had to be sent to localbitcoins was AFTER someone indicated that they wanted to use the transaction service, and then the funds where only there for a half hour or so before I didn't have to worry about them anymore.  What's the benefit of this new system?  It only seems to make things significantly less secure, less anonymous, and less convenient.



Yes, I see that I can do that.  That's quite a hassle when it used to automatically generate a unique address for the contact.

Now it has to be a multi-step process.  I used to be able to send to the contact address.  Hop in my car and drive to the meeting place.  By the time I got there, the bitcoins were ready to release.  I could txt the release code and go.

Now I have to send to my localbitcoins "account" (its an account, not a wallet.  If it was a wallet, we'd have access to the private keys). Then I have to wait for 3 confirmations so I can find out if they are going to take a receiving fee and how high the fee will be.  Then (depending on the size of the fee), I have to send additional bitcoins and wait for 3 more confirmations.  Then I have to find the right contact in the dashboard, and click the button to fund the transaction from my wallet, then finally I can get in my car and go meet the person (having added an hour to the proccess before I can even get in my car.

I just don't see the benefit to all this additional red-tape.

The transaction service works best if you leave enough funds in your wallet to cover your largest ad and just fund sales automatically.

You can also request a new deposit address each time through the Wallet page so that you don't reuse addresses.

Wo, this sounds like quite a bad development, and frankly it sounds like a hassle which could have been avoided. Hope this get's fixed before I need to use it again.

Not happy at all about the new system of funding the "transaction service".

Previously the contact would give a unique wallet address specific only to that contact.  You could send the exact amount of bitcoins needed from an external wallet to the address specified by localbitcoins.  They would collect their 1% fee.  Everyone would be happy.

Now, every contact uses my default localbitcoins "wallet address" instead of a unique address.  This means I have to re-use addresses ( a practice that I am against ).  The contact page lies and says:

When I did so, localbitcoins extracted a 0.000033 BTC fee from the amount I received in the wallet???  As such, there wasn't enough in the wallet to fund the transaction.  I had to send a second transaction of 0.000033 BTC (and pay another 0.0001 BTC transaction fee) to get enough in the account to fund the transaction.  So now localbitcoins has taken not only the agreed 1% for the transaction but an additional 0.000033 BTC from me, and I can only assume they'll take 0.000033 BTC from the receiver as well?

I'm not so upset about the cost.  Localbitcoins can charge whatever fees they want, and if they get too expensive a competitor will come along and undercut them driving them out of business.  That's capitalism.

I'm upset that the contact page told me to send a particular amount of bitcoins, but when I sent that amount it wasn't enough.  Then when I met with the buyer, the transaction wasn't funded and I couldn't release it.  It inconvenienced me, and the buyer. Neither of us had time to wait for 3 more confirmations on another transaction, so we had to reschedule for another day.  If this mess isn't cleaned up, I'll refuse to use the "transaction service" any longer.  localbitcoins will no longer get the 1% from me, as I'll just send directly to buyers' addresses.

now working ok and maintenance is already end good and fast work

What is happening with website? It becomes useless at all. I can't release escrow for hours, pages not loading.
A week already the same shit.

up again

What's going on with the site?


It's already way more than 2 hours... run into some serious problems?

Please take this on you to not have many users down rate their market makers. Thanx

Busiest day in ages. My gsm/edge "doesn't work", restaurants wifi doesn't work. Next wifi doesn't work. Shop owners are pissed, my clients are pissed, i am pissed.

At least now i know i am not alone :/

Managed to trade today, need patience.

LBC is down for me too.  The replacement we need is an escrow service.  I will be spending today figuring out other ways around LBC's demise, if that's what this is.  If you have hundreds of trades and a perfect rep on LBC and would like to help create the replacement, PM me.

It's been unusable for me today. I was really hoping to do some business too.

Is the site slow for everybody else too? Ping seems ok, but the loading of pages takes a long time.

If you can stay entirely in the cryptocurrency realm, then you can do a lot more to prevent scamming.

When you need to interface with the legacy world is where the problems are harder to solve.

With bitcoin and smart money we work hard to eliminate scamming. Isn't it beautiful that we already have provably fair gambling? This is certainly not the last sector where bitcoin has the potential to eliminate fraud.