Do me a favour and tell me the easiest way to convert BTC -> GBP without sitting on local bitcoins all day?
Cheers
You are probably aware that if you do a foreign currency exchange via the banks, that they fk u up the arse on the exchange rate (4%-5%). You are probably also aware that there are cheaper ways of transferring money around the world, such as TransferWise, but that they have been instructed not to deal with Bitcoin exchanges.
You need a foreign bank account mate, or access to one. If it isnt't your own account, then the holder of the account will have to open their own Bistamp account, as Bitstamp can only do transactions with accounts belonging to the named Bitstamp account holder.
I opened myself a Euro bank account with Deutschekreditbank (DKB) specifically for Bitcoin purposes, although having a Euro bank account will of course prove to have lots of other uses.
Using my DKB bank account, I can get Euro in and out of Bitstamp with zero costs (tiny Bitstamp fee of 0.75 euro or something) and using TransferWise, I can transfer EUR to GBP, or GBP to EUR for less than than 0.2% premium, or if I am in a hurry, about 0.5% premium.