RE:RE:Goose Chase Bitcoinpeep2 wrote: R_J_ wrote: What is the vanilla place to buy a Bitcoin?
Where would you expect it to be the easiest?
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That is why I just tried Coinbase.
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I opened an account.
It was an interplay between e-mails and flip phone messages.
Surprisingly, they wanted an unusual amount of personal information.
No PO boxes, a street address only. Your occupation and employer.
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They wanted to know where to get the purchase money from.
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I tried the corporate checking account, but they had a problem.
Corporate debit card, they had a problem.
Reluctantly, my personal checking account, and that went through.
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I only recently realized that one could purchase a fractional Bitcoin.
I’ll purchase $100 worth.
Actually they take out $2, and you get $98 worth, so that is how that works.
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So I created an account and logged back in.
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I pressed ‘Purchase Bitcoin’.
Shockingly they said that they wanted to see my driver’s license.
I held it up to the web-cam.
Then they wanted to see the back of my driver’s license.
Then they wanted to see my smiling face in the web-cam.
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After all that trouble, they said that the images were not good enough.
I tried many times, and I even used my scanner.
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I thought that the virtue of Bitcoin was that it was supposed to be private.
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This was, by far, the most invasive interaction I have had in my lifetime.
At least they didn’t require a cavity search.
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I guess it's back to square one.
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RJ
RJ
I had the same crazy problem with coinbase.
Had to use maximum screen display of 1680 x 1050
to get web cam identification to work.
Man are they difficult to get registered to.
And later on they were just as difficult to use.
I dumped them and went to www.coinsquare.com
and are easy as eating pie as the saying goes.
Thanks for trying to help.
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It seems that
Coinsquare makes it difficult for people outside of Canada.
They rejected my cell phone as, as it does not have a Canadian prefix.
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It would be possible to get a cell phone with a Canadian prefix.
But that is a separate project.
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It is really quite horrible that there are not Canadian services to help US citizens.
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I could be a cottage industry.
There are such services in Nevada and Wyoming to help out of state residences.
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Perhaps one could post something on a Canadian College billboard.
A C$100 reward for each of the following.
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A Canadian e-mail address, a Canadian cell phone number, a Bitcoin account, an address, a utility bill.
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C$500 for a Canadian Bank account, brokerage account.
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When the US citizen changes the password to his own, end of transaction.
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It seems that most Bitcoin services assume that you have a smart phone with appropriate apps.
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I only have a cable land-line [Ooma] and a 3G flip phone that has the ability to receive text.
My flip phone may become obsolete [dysfunctional] with new 5G.
I hope I can keep my current flip phone.
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In my youth, the vast majority of people didn’t have telephones.
There was usually a pay phone on a telephone pole, or in a phone booth, not far away.
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And even then, having a party line was normal.
If I had a lot of calls, I would find a hotel phone booth where it was quit.
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I finally broke down and got a personal telephone when I was about 40 years old.
It took me several years longer before I got, with reservations, a color TV set.
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The American Automobile club [AAA] was featuring a flip phone for to get emergency service on the highway. It has as special AAA button. I got one.
Actually one could dial numbers regular numbers with it, but it stayed in the car.
Even today, its primary use is to order takeout food to pick up on the way home.
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I cannot feature why anyone needs a smart-phone.
They seem to be very popular with streetwalkers and teenagers.
I have a ThinkPad laptop.
Why does any non-streetwalker need anything else?
A teenager with a personal phone was unheard of in my day.
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Anyway, I would like to purchase $100 of Bitcoin on general principals.
I never thought it would be like pulling hens’ teeth.
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Thanks for putting up with my rant.
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RJ