If i wanted to buy say $1000 worth of bitcoin, i read that i can do this by getting a coinbase acct, link it to my bank acct then buy 1k of it and pay 1 percent fee for $1000+$10+$0.15 transaction fee for $1010.15 total. First off, these numbers are correct
I see people trading bank transfer or poker funds for btc. I like to know, what is the market rate for this?
Thus if i have $1000 pokerstars, i normally would get between $950-$970 BoA online transfer from someone thus 0.95-0.97 since real money is worth more than poker money.
No. A BoA transfer is not more valuable than bitcoin or Pokerstars. A transfer can be reversed and can even be from a compromised account. From a trustworthy person the value may not be very different, but you can buy a semi-clean transfer (which is essentially the same as accepting a transfer from an untrustworthy member) for about 70% of BTC value.
However what about bitcoins? If i wanted $1000 worth of bitcoins, i could buy it myself on coinbase for $1010.15. But if i want to trade $1000 boa online transfer to someone, what is the market rate of bitcoin i should be getting? Thus $1000 boa transfer is equal to how much $ worth of bitcoin? Shouldn't it always be higher though since real money thus boa money should be worth more than bitcoin?
The other thing is if u want to cashout $1000 bitcoins to your bank of america acct, if u do it yourself, isn't fees 1% thus $10+$0.15 transaction fee then you get $989.85 ACH transfer to your bank of america account if u want to sell it? If thats the case if someone trades btc for someones boa, shouldn't the rate be equal? Thus the buyer gets bitcoin faster and pays no 1% fee... and for the seller... he gets his boa transfer immediately and doesnt pay the 1 percent fee?
Also what would be the rate for pokerstars for btc? I read ppl who have pokerstars want to get 4 or 5 percent for btc. What does that mean? Does it mean $1000 worth of pokerstars for $950 or $960 worth of BTC?
Pokerstars is semi-irreversible and BTC is completely irreversible. Figure the rest out yourself.
Values
Cash and BTC have essentially the same value. It just depends on who wants to do the transaction more and where it's taking place.
Pokerstars is slightly less valuable than BTC.
A bank transfer is a lot less valuable than BTC.
A wire transfer can sometimes be only a little less valuable than BTC.
A cash deposit is slightly less valuable than BTC.
MoneyPaks are a lot less valuable than BTC. Other reload cards like Vanilla are still less valuable than BTC, but not to as great a degree as MoneyPak.
PayPal is way below value. Accepting PayPal from an untrustworthy member is essentially the same as buying a PayPal transfer from the darknet at $0.20 on the dollar.