Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd. T.KL

Goose Chase Bitcoin

[R_J_]

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

[CrimsonT]

I think you should keep a close eye on your bank account there partner.  CT

[peep2]

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.

[R_J_]

Thanks for trying to help. - 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. - It would be possible to get a cell phone with a Canadian prefix. But that is a separate project. ############################################# It is really quite horrible that there are not Canadian services to help US

[peep2]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> RJ you can easily make yourself a canadian email at www.yahoo.ca  . Or, at least I think you can. I can easily make a US one at www.yahoo.com .   However I think you are out of luck, (though see bottom of my reply). Especially if one of us Canadians gave you all you requested, we could

[R_J_]

- - An acquaintance in North Dakota somehow had a [e-mail] e-mail address. Perhaps it was because he was close to Canada. - However, I have been unable to get a ‘.ca’ suffix. Somehow, ‘Yahoo’ knows that I am in the US and it refuses to give me one. - I need to investigate the technology of hiding where I am. There seems to be cottage industries in Lithuania addressing this. Also a Swedish

[peep2]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> RJ It seems for the general service you have to be a Canadian Citizen and hard to get around that. Though between monday and friday you can contract  them online at this site that can take up to 3 days to get a reply. So might as well send question today on how to