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> Right now basically every week we have news of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins being stolen from sites. Rule 1: If you store your bitcoins with someone else, they'll most likely get stolen. People need to learn how to store their own bitcoins or they'll end up not having any.
Out of curiosity, what is the best way to store bitcoins? Have your wallet synchronized with a third-party backup provider?
MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin
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#32How to actually get bitcoins?
I mean, seriously, I tried, but all my attempts were futile.
Why can't I just use a credit card or similar and buy bitcoints?
Back when they were $100, I really wanted to buy a bitcoin, spent half a day on it, but didn't manage to. I gave up everytime I needed to do something strange involving permissions with my bank.
Is there an easier way to get them? I live in Europe by the way.
Thanks!
Re: MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin
#33How to actually get bitcoins? I mean, seriously, I tried, but all my attempts were futile. Why can't I just use a credit card or similar and buy bitcoints? Back when they were $100, I really wanted to buy a bitcoin, spent half a day on it, but didn't manage to. I gave up everytime I needed to do something strange involving permissions with my bank. Is there an easier way to get them? I live in Europe by the way. Than…
> Why can't I just use a credit card or similar and buy bitcoints?
Chargebacks are the reason. If you buy a bitcoin with a credit card and I send you a bitcoin, you can get your money back from the credit card company and keep my bitcoin.
Re: MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin
#34Has MtGox resolved their withdrawal issue yet?
Re: MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin
#35I wonder how Mt. Gox dares to spend their time creating this (which is nice by the way) instead of solving their withdrawal issues and finishing their new trading engine integration, which is pissing off many of their customers.
The only reasonable explanation is that they have given up on decreasing their churn rate and instead they are focusing on acquiring newbies into their platform. Actually this is kind of sad...
Re: MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin
#36How to actually get bitcoins? I mean, seriously, I tried, but all my attempts were futile. Why can't I just use a credit card or similar and buy bitcoints? Back when they were $100, I really wanted to buy a bitcoin, spent half a day on it, but didn't manage to. I gave up everytime I needed to do something strange involving permissions with my bank. Is there an easier way to get them? I live in Europe by the way. Than…
> Why can't I just use a credit card or similar and buy bitcoints? Chargebacks are the reason. If you buy a bitcoin with a credit card and I send you a bitcoin, you can get your money back from the credit card company and keep my bitcoin.
Ok, so how to get a bitcoin (well 0.1 btc for me now that they are 10x as expensive as last time I looked) in a practical way without credit card?
Re: MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin
#37How to actually get bitcoins? I mean, seriously, I tried, but all my attempts were futile. Why can't I just use a credit card or similar and buy bitcoints? Back when they were $100, I really wanted to buy a bitcoin, spent half a day on it, but didn't manage to. I gave up everytime I needed to do something strange involving permissions with my bank. Is there an easier way to get them? I live in Europe by the way. Than…
Its hard because it's easy to own and secure Bitcoins, but impossible to own money in USD, bank accounts or paypal. It's all a huge network of promises based on debt. When you transfer bitcoin, you really transfer ownership forever. When you transfer digital dollar, you just rely on a bunch of intermediate agreements to hold true unless judge decides another way. Paypal payments are reversible, CC payments too. Even bank wires can be reversed sometimes because it's still based on an agreement between banks. Even laws regulating these agreements are also promises to punish or reward people based on other people's decision.
Bitcoin is the only money you can really own. Other currencies are fragile and ephemeral.
http://blog.oleganza.com/post/67362431718/you-can-own-bitcoi...
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#38Its just a shameless attempt to advertise mtgox, who by now pretty much pissed off everyone in the bitcoin community with their crap. Remember it was mtgox who caused the last crash and have since continued to screw users while getting into all sorts of trouble in US for dodgy going ons
They link to two competitors: Bitstamp (a direct competitor), and Coinbase (a semi-competitor).
Re: MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin
#39How to actually get bitcoins? I mean, seriously, I tried, but all my attempts were futile. Why can't I just use a credit card or similar and buy bitcoints? Back when they were $100, I really wanted to buy a bitcoin, spent half a day on it, but didn't manage to. I gave up everytime I needed to do something strange involving permissions with my bank. Is there an easier way to get them? I live in Europe by the way. Than…
Judging by your name,
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Re: MtGox launches Bitcoins.com, an information site for all things Bitcoin
#40I wonder how Mt. Gox dares to spend their time creating this (which is nice by the way) instead of solving their withdrawal issues and finishing their new trading engine integration, which is pissing off many of their customers. The only reasonable explanation is that they have given up on decreasing their churn rate and instead they are focusing on acquiring newbies into their platform. Actually this is kind of sad.…
Do you honestly think that any programmer who works on Mt.Gox core product would have anything to do with this simple static information site?