Topic: Bitcoin is a PoS - page 3. (Read 10063 times)

I think the main reason is the price...If you put up an auction,you don't know what the final price will be,and it might end up being less than the exchange rate...
If you put up a buy it now option,at the current exchange rate,the rate might go up and you'll end up selling your coin for less..If the price goes down,no one will want to buy from you..
Furthermore,those bitcoins have to come from somewhere..unless the seller is mining to get his bitcoins he will need to get them from MtGox or similar.And to do that he needs to pay fees which he will then have to pass on to the buyer on ebay...Thus making them cost more...And finally he might only have a certain amount of bitcoins that he might want to sell over a large period of time,to keep an eye on the rate...
That been said,I would love to see more bitcoins on ebay...

So, wait a minute.  I thought Paypal was blocking Bitcoin purchases?  It looks like there are Linden Dollars regularly for sale on E-Bay as well.  Why aren't more people selling Bitcoins on E-Bay?

I got in on the last 15 min of ebay auction, then had to go. I thought I would get a great deal, but it went for market value.  Oh well, I'll try again.

3 steps for US:

- Get mybitcoin.com bitcoin address to send your bitcoins to and store it online or on your mobile phone
- Get dwolla.com account to fund
- Get mtgox.com account and fund with dwolla.com account and exchange for bitcoins, voilla!

Correct. I put it out in the clear not knowing it was visible so it was all my fault.

I see you take it quite personally when it comes to semantics. I will certainly be more careful with my verbage.

I don't see where you can change your password but it looks like you can change your username. I've since just created a new account with new user name and new password and used different usernames and passwords for my registered workers.

Thanks and didn't mean to offend.  

I got some from the faucet, (but it paid
0.5 btc at the time.  Then used coinpal, built some trust.  Found othet sites, and posted some regferal links.

the first thing you do is change your password.  then you put your own wallet address back into slush's information.

then change the payment threshold back to the way you'd like it, and re-check the e-mail notification box.

then go here:  www.dictionary.com

and look up the difference between "hacked", and stolen.

throwing words like 'hacked' around is not useful.  people like slush depend on all of us trusting their security - and they do a pretty damn fine job of it.  i'm almost sure that what you meant was you screwed up, and either gave your password to somebody you should not have trusted, or you wrote it down in the clear and somebody lifted it.  yes?

"...because of a mistake I made."

so really, your account wasn't hacked, was it?

I didn't see where you could change your password.... I have messages out to slush with the details. I can see precisely which block it is and the wallet address.

Thx

This is how coins are divided up. They are saved in chunks, and when you send some coins, the chunk has to be divided, and the remainder is returned to you.

As far as your account information on slush's website being compromised, I would suggest you change your password, fix your account, and PM slush with the details immediately.

Well so far for me I've figured out how to start mining.

The security piece is another matter. It appears my account was hacked because of a mistake I made.

I know it was this morning and can see the payout transaction in my account and the wallet address it's going to however I'm confused about something.

Under the "Ledger" section it states....... "Every time a transaction is sent, some bitcoins are usually sent back to yourself at a new address"...

What does this mean? When I logged into my account (with slush) someone had changed my wallet address and the payment threshold. They also unchecked the box to have an email notification sent to me when a payout is made.

I notice in the ledger that the payment hasn't been made yet. I can see the block and the wallet address that someone put in my account.

Is there anything I can do about this?

Thx

Persistence usually wins out over intelligence anyway.

Darnit, I got excited for a moment. I thought someone created a Point of Sale terminal for Bitcoin.

Interesting...Not sure if I would bid...The price seems to be roughly the same as MtGox but the seller doesn't fill me with confidence..

1)His feedback is only 7,which is understandable if he just created an account to sell bitcoins but
2)He offers no form of protection against scamming..I don't really know what that might be,but I suppose it wouldn't be hard to think of something to put the buyer at ease.
3)He requires some form of protection for himself in the sense that he asks me to hand out personal information if I have less that 10 feedback
4)He only ships to people in the US.I guess it's so he can actually call the person that won the bid,but he could call anyone anywhere in the world if he wanted using a VOIP service...Most have free destinations so he wouldn't even be charged,but even if he was,it would only be a short conversation...
5)By only shipping a digital good at a certain geographical area,he has limited his buyers for no reason...I'm pretty sure that someone who lives in the US can get bitcoins easier than me,and wouldn't be looking at ebay for them...

I'll keep an eye out on ebay for more of his bids,but I'm a bit skeptical about it..


EDIT:wouldn't it make more sense to have a fixed price per BTC and have the buyer select the amount he wants?

ebay auction

Lool..Still could you give me the link to the auction?It should still work,and I just want to see the details of the transaction(How much the auction ended,how many bitcoin were on sale,how was the ebay seller making the buyer feel safe from scamming etc.)

the auction ended 23 minutes before your post...

Can you give me a link?I want to get my hands on some bitcoins,and since I already have an account on ebay it might be easier than mt.gox and the rest..
I cannot however find anything...Searching for "bitcoin" only gave me one result and that was to buy a discount code for 0.15BTC when purchasing at a site,searching for "BTC" will result in all sort of unrelated results like jewelery and empty DVD's,and "bit coin" will only yield results about physical coins...
Maybe ebay stopped the selling of bitcoins?It wouldn't seem far-fetched after Paypal...

hmmm... somebody sniped it with 4 seconds to go:  $84.66.

i wonder if eBay will continue to let these go through, now that they're selling PayPal?

5 minutes to go with that auction.  $70.20.

watching and waiting for eBay to cancel it...

I appreciate cvramen's question.  I was thinking the same thing myself.  That's why I came to the forum and looked for this discussion.  btw, I googled the hell out of this in specific and found all the same info on what to do with your bitcoin, but no straight line to use my current financial toolbox.  I think my problem getting into this is that my preferred methods of payment are not allowed to play this game.  I found lots of great answers to cvramen's question, which was also mine.    Thanks for all the great answers.