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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: amazing777 on August 05, 2012, 07:18 pm

Title: New Great Idea For Buying Bitcoins, would like thoughts,For peoplein EU/AUS
Post by: amazing777 on August 05, 2012, 07:18 pm
well basicallly im new to buying Bitcoins,

however Ive  played Online Poker  for years, and place like Pokerstars (Worth billions of Dollars) allows  you to transfer money between players., (The reason they do this is stop people folding money across the poker tables)

the sender under no circumstances cannot  get there  money back once  its sent. You can cashout very easily on Stars and you have many many deposit methods all instantly. Cashout usually takes 3 days.

It only requires you to trust the BITCOIN seller to send the bitcoins and your not doing anything illegal anyway...

Online poker is banned in the USA,  and so this option is only for everyone else

Thoughts? Pokerstars has over 250,000 players on it sometimes. Often sponser TV programs. You could trust them with $100,000.
Title: Re: New Great Idea For Buying Bitcoins, would like thoughts,For peoplein EU/AUS
Post by: LouisCyphre on August 06, 2012, 01:12 am
well basicallly im new to buying Bitcoins,

...

Thoughts? Pokerstars has over 250,000 players on it sometimes. Often sponser TV programs. You could trust them with $100,000.

Bitcoin is borderless, Pokerstars is not.

Bitcoin works on more than two operating systems, Pokerstars does not (it's Windows and Mac only).

Bitcoin does not require a central site or registering an account, Pokerstars is a centralised site which requires registration (and probably needs to be linked to a bank account to get the money).

Your chances of convincing major vendors on Silk Road to use Pokerstars or a site like it are about three fifths of fuck all.
Title: Re: New Great Idea For Buying Bitcoins, would like thoughts,For peoplein EU/AUS
Post by: bonaroo on August 06, 2012, 01:41 am
Yea, way too much registration for most people's comfort levels I would think. I suppose someone purely selling BTC and doing no other vending might do something like that, but I'd doubt it. It is already easy enough with localbitcoins and bit-instant, at least in most Western countries and near larger cities.
Title: Re: New Great Idea For Buying Bitcoins, would like thoughts,For peoplein EU/AUS
Post by: 751a696c24d97009 on August 06, 2012, 01:49 am
This won't work. Why mess with a working system? Also, Pokerstars is not worth BILLIONS. No way.
Title: Re: New Great Idea For Buying Bitcoins, would like thoughts,For peoplein EU/AUS
Post by: amazing777 on August 06, 2012, 05:26 am
Why  would  people use it?...Point is its easy Easy to cashout on Pokerstars, without raising a eyebrow,
 its not as easy to cashout with Bitcoins it would appear.

Pokerstars are "defintily" worth billions, gambling is a bad addiction "they Rake money on 20,000+ tables every second"....
They just purchased there Competitor Full Tilt and are paying full tilts debts off for $754 million.

Title: Re: New Great Idea For Buying Bitcoins, would like thoughts,For peoplein EU/AUS
Post by: bonaroo on August 06, 2012, 05:52 am
Better off going to a casino, cash in cash out then go buy btc anonymously or blow it all at a strip club
I imagine a day in the future when you can beam a stripper BTC to pay for a lapdance via NFC to her t-bar that has Android running on it. I might patent android w/ NFC on a thong right now tbh.
Title: Re: New Great Idea For Buying Bitcoins, would like thoughts,For peoplein EU/AUS
Post by: LouisCyphre on August 06, 2012, 07:40 am
Better off going to a casino, cash in cash out then go buy btc anonymously or blow it all at a strip club
I imagine a day in the future when you can beam a stripper BTC to pay for a lapdance via NFC to her t-bar that has Android running on it. I might patent android w/ NFC on a thong right now tbh.

Now *that*, unlike the OP's suggestion, really is a great idea.  :)