Stick with bitbargain. Mtgox used to allow deposits into their UK bank account, but now the only option is a Japanese one.
I would suggest avoiding any purveyor requiring any sort of jumping-through-hoops nonsense. I believe that site has its own forum that you're better off asking questions on, though.![]()
Eh, when did they start asking for that? Is that a very recent thing?I used to use bitbargain until they started asking for a scan of some ID, straight over to localbitcoins! I cant see many people wanting to upload proof of identity to a bitcoin exchange.
my sole motive isnt to make a return investment on them. It's to spend them on Plush Avenues. If the value happens to increase in the meantime, all the better, but apart from that i think i understand what you mean.
Eric Eoin Marques, 28—the “largest facilitator of child porn on the planet,” according to the FBI—was recently arrested and is currently in an Irish jail awaiting the conclusion of his extradition trial. The FBI aims to bring Marques to trial in the United States. If convicted, Marques faces up to 30 years in prison.
Although the anonymous nature of Tor makes confirming identities difficult, all signs point to Marques being one of the most important men on the Dark Net: He’s allegedly the founder of Freedom Hosting, Tor’s most popular hosting service since it was created in 2008.
Freedom Hosting maintains servers for some of Tor’s most famous websites, including TorMail, long considered the most secure anonymous email operation online; major hacking and fraud forums such as HackBB;
For five years, both law enforcement and hacktivist vigilantes seemed incapable of shutting down the largest child pornography services on the Internet—virtually all of which were Freedom Hosting customers—thanks to the technology provided by Tor. Today, all of the major websites hosted by Freedom Hosting are down or are suspected of having been infected with malicious code. No one is sure how Marques was tracked down.
The JavaScript zero-day exploit that creates a unique cookie and sends a request to a random server that basically fingerprints your browser in some way, which is probably then correlated somewhere else since the cookie doesn't get deleted. Presumably it reports the victim's IP back to the FBI.
mendo_k said:Freedom Hosting maintains servers for some of Tor’s most famous websites, including TorMail
Eh, when did they start asking for that? Is that a very recent thing?