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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Veetano on December 28, 2012, 01:26 pm
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With the removal of bank deposits at bitinstant/trustcash and the stripping away of anonymity with their services, where did you all resort to next to get bitcoins for cash?
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I've been reading up on SugarMama for quite some time and will use her services in the future.
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Just because bitinstant asks for your information doesn't mean you have to give it to them, you can use fake information. The only real problem is the $500 limit. If you try making more then one payment in a day they will flag your name, so, if you do need a large amount of money make sure to use different names for each transaction or use a different $ amount that also will stop it from flagging you.
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Bitcopia, I have used them 3 times now. They dont ask for any info, you dont even have to give a email address if you dont want too. Always had my coins within an hour of deposit.
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Just because bitinstant asks for your information doesn't mean you have to give it to them, you can use fake information. The only real problem is the $500 limit. If you try making more then one payment in a day they will flag your name, so, if you do need a large amount of money make sure to use different names for each transaction or use a different $ amount that also will stop it from flagging you.
Like he said you dont have to give them your real info
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im staying with bitinstant..
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use bitinstant, go to walmart, pay cash, and have them send the funds directly to your SR address... I literally get my bitcoins within 30min of paying HOOOORAY !!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Bitme has been working very well for me, it's generally just as fast as Bitinstant was and just as easy. If you are near a Wells Fargo I've heard great things about Bitcopia as well.
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You can send us $$ using Western Union for BTC. If you send when Western Union is open it can take as little as 1 hour for you to get your coins. See the link in my signature below.
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Bitinstant and CVS (zipzap) worked fine for me. If they ask for ID, say your wallet was stolen and that's why you're using such a bill pay service. As everyone has already stated, you can use whatever name and info you like. Just make sure you have it memorized!
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Bitinstant is still completely reliable in my experience. I was sketched by the idea of having to provide fake info, but now it's second nature- I'm even beginning to like my pseudonym. ;)
Just be ready for them to spell your last name back to you really fast so you don't respond with, "Huh? Oh... Um, yeah, that's it."
Also, CVS occasionally asks for ID while Walmart never does.
If your funds don't show up for a few hours just call or email Bitinstant and give them the transaction number or whatever they gave you on the printout and ask what's going on. I highly doubt these guys are selectively scamming users out of a few hundred bucks at a time. Your transaction's in their records and they're gonna have to show you that the coins went SOMEWHERE...
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I love Bitinstant but now I am going to use trusted exchangers on SR instead.
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bit instant and walmart I'd how iI do it also. I have Em send it right to your Sr wallet. it's safe right?
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I may try an SR BTC vendor next time I reload. Seems like a good idea to make this community as self-sufficient as possible.
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I think CaptainMal had got to be my favorite BTC vendor. I've done done several high amount transactions with him. Always on point and he gets BTC to your account fast, with blockchain info as well.
Vendor page - http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/user/aea18a79c0
He also has a review thread here on the forum which you can find by using the search bar,
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CaptainMal is my favorite. Takes bank deposits too!
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Thanks for the suggestions. I think I gotta go with CaptainMal, especially since she gave me my first 0.01 BTC to test if my client was working before I made my first Bitinstant deposit a couple months ago. :) I'll report back in the appropriate thread(s) once I do...
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go make a free wallet at blockchain.info and use the "cash depostit" method. It uses bitinstant and has an anonymizer.
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As far as anonymity is concerned, I would place Walmart as more anonymous than a brick-and-morter bank. Banks are all about security, more so than any Walmart I've ever "shopped" at. I'll stick with Walmart for the time being.
For my smalltime purchasing here on SR, the $500 limit hasn't bugged me one bit yet. The most I ever had to deposit was $5000, and I basically just did it across a few days with different names and different WalMarts and it was fine. For $5000, I don't mind having to do a little more work to turn it to BTC.
Also it's extremely fast. Like the clerk types in my fake info, hits submit. The register says authorizing or something along those lines, and before it even says completed and pops the drawer open, my phone beeps with the incoming transaction. I love that satisfaction of getting my coins immediately after I fork over the cash.
And my last point--acquiring bitcoins isn't illegal. Using them for illegal things is illegal. So no matter how you get your coins, make sure that the coins you buy for cash aren't the same coins you use on SR. Tumble them and you'll be good.
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DrGonzo is my guy now, too. I did one transaction w him and it was flawless. I'll be using him from now on. I'm pretty sure he has the best rates on SR. That or he really hooked me up :)
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I may try an SR BTC vendor next time I reload. Seems like a good idea to make this community as self-sufficient as possible.
Yes
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I hope this isn't off topic, but am I wrong in saying that the information given on BitInstant and MtGox is irrelevant as long as it's ran through something like BitFog before being sent to your SR Wallet where it is tumbled again?
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[quote author=nmac link=topic=97053.msg697007#msg697007 date=1357102273If you're having the email sent to an email address that you access from your phone then you sort of lose the full anonymity. Just saying. I doubt it matters though. [/quote]
Prepaid smart phone. New Email addy. Keep the phone off unless you need it, and don't turn it on at home or work. Plus leave your regular phone home, and on, for a little plausible deniability. Maybe it's a little paranoid, but I even park out of sight of the parking lot cameras, especially at retail stores. The only thing they have is the footage from the counter, and my appearance is pretty generic. So, unless the cameras are better than I remember, the only thing I have to fear is a store security guy being curious enough to follow me to my car. And, how likely is that to happen if I don't boost anything?
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Blue Sky Traders is awesome.
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=22441.0;topicseen
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Is being a SR BTC vendor not against the rules of the SR? I'm not pointing fingers or ratting anyone out, but doesn't the SR rules say you cannot use any other transaction methods than the SR escrow service? I would love to buy my coins from vendors on here, but my concern lies in the fact that there is no form of escrow (although someone may be able to correct me if I am wrong). Is there anyway to have an escrow service that will send me bitcoins once I have uploaded the payment to a bank account or something similar? The largest deposit I have ever done was near 300$ or so, and I am not a big huge buyer but I would like to not use bitinstant anymore just because of the fee's and what not.
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The only real problem is the $500 limit. If you try making more then one payment in a day they will flag your name, so, if you do need a large amount of money make sure to use different names for each transaction or use a different $ amount that also will stop it from flagging you.
Is this true?
I've done this twice in the past month with WalMart moneygram deposits.... I did a 500$ deposit, came back later that day and did another 500$ deposit with the same information. Ive done this maybe twice at Walmart in the past month or month and a half...
Think my shit is flagged?? I was very friendly with the cashiers and small-talked them up, so they were not suspicious whatsoever at the time of deposit.... is it the computer that automatically flags two deposits made during the same day for amounts over 500$? Or is it up to the cashier who accepts the deposit to red-flag the account?
I'm a little worried now.... I figured nobody really gave a shit, so I would sometimes go make a 500$ deposit and come back a few hours later (hoping a different cashier would be there) and then make another 500$ deposit.
Anyone got any ideas how that works? I'm a little worried now...
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Fumachu, bitinstant and mtgox both flag accounts. I'm unsure the circumstances in which they flag but I think my bitinstant account was bc I kept getting an error message saying I had reached my cash deposit limit. I tried $850 first and then lesser amounts ($400, $200) and always the same error message.
Walmart is not flagging your account. They have no fucking clue what you're doing. Most assume you're paying a bill. Don't be nervous.
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I used bitme today, worked out fine. Deposited cash at chase, got the money in my account a few hours later and I bought the BTC right after that. The transfer is going through now, just have to wait for the block to be verified.
recommended, even over bitinstant.
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There's no reason anyone should be getting flagged if you want to deposit more than $500 through bitinstant. Just remember to use a different phone number, name, and destination address (whether its wallet or email) for every deposit. When you use a phone number and name to make a deposit on bitinstant those two values will be linked to each other, with the phone number being the master key. If you try to make a deposit using a phone number that you've used previously with a different name your transaction will not go through.