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Topic: Where is it the most difficult to buy Bitcoins? (Read 1688 times)

legendary
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Viva Ut Vivas
It is not very easy here in Afghanistan.

Though I do not know the goat/BTC price at the moment.
newbie
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got banned like what happened on Thailand, even if you can buy but you cant use it Sad
legendary
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not sure where people are thinking that the UK is the hardest.. i just bought some bitcoins using bitbargain.co.uk

wire transfer to receiving bitcoins took less then 10 minutes.

what i do find hard though is getting FIAT into an american based exchange. but getting a bitcoin from england is even easier then most countries.
legendary
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Monero Core Team
probably countries with almost no internet, somewhere underground. for example inside an abandoned coal mine in north-east Siberia, in labour camps of suppressive regimes, …

North Korea
hero member
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probably countries with almost no internet, somewhere underground. for example inside an abandoned coal mine in north-east Siberia, in labour camps of suppressive regimes, …
full member
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Provider of Bitcoin products and services
There are no restrictions on buying Bitcoin in the UK and it is very simple and straightforward.

localbitcoins for example
full member
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I have managed to transfer to gox from uk via worldfirst
legendary
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Probably countries cut off from the international banking system (North Korea, Iran...) as well as countries that nobody really trusts (Nigeria...).
hero member
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Ching-Chang;Ding-Dong
LocalbitCoins - there's lots of people doing business with the EU on there.
hero member
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I would agree with manbearpig but localbitcoins.com seems to do a good job of fixing that issue.

Not that I've used it yet, I've been broke since before blockchain.info stopped their UK transfer options. But right now BTC is looking a little cheaper there than MTGox.
sr. member
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"Don't go in the trollbox, trollbox, trollbox"
I'll start off by backing you up on your example: UK.

I bought mine all through blockchain.info/ Sofort before that got stamped on.

Hence there's a lot of Bitcoin business on ebay.co.uk.
jr. member
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As a Dane it's easy to buy Bitcoins. You can easily make a SEPA banktransfer to exchanges like MtGox or BitStamp, and you have Bitcoins within days. You can also use a service like BitcoinNordic which sends Bitcoins within minutes if you've specific banks.

However, when reading in the community, it seems it's very hard to buy Bitcoins in some countries. From what I could gather, countries like United Kingdom and Cyprus has made it difficult.

With "easy to buy", I mean it's accessible by a normal bank transfer. I know the ideal would be credit cards, but we're not in wonderland just yet.

So, my question is:
- In which countries is it currently difficult to buy Bitcoins?
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