Posts Tagged ‘fees’

How Not to Sell Bitcoins

26Dec17

This post is the dark mirror of Tim Bray’s How to Sell Bitcoins, and explains how I accumulated some Bitcoin in the first place, then utterly failed to cash out before the (latest) bubble burst. Background I might have seen Bitcoin in my peripheral vision earlier, but by the time I started paying any real […]


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Indistinguishable from fraud

07Jun13

I came across this tweet yesterday: It was timely, as I was in the midst of sorting out a foreign exchange transaction that had gone wrong. I’d sent $250 to a recipient in the US, and only $230 had shown up in their account (and then their bank had charged them $12 for the privilege […]


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