36 | | An alternative is to use an intermediary (or, more than one!) to transfer money from your home currency into bitcoins. For example, if you live in the UK, you can use [http://transferwise.com TransferWise] to transfer money from your account to a EUROs account run by a bitcoin exchange - for instance, [https://bitstamp.net bitstamp.net], who have lower rates than [https://mtgox.com Mt Gox] (the biggest online bitcoin exchange). Using this method, !TransferWise would know the bank details of origin - and hence who was transferring the money, even if you used a pseudonym - but the 'final destination' (i.e. bitstamp.net) would only be presented with the information of !TransferWise. Thus, if the bitstamp.net account is registered anonymously (for instance, an account created from a net cafe over [http://tor.eff.org Tor]), then maximum privacy would be ensured. |
| 36 | An alternative is to use an intermediary (or, more than one!) to transfer money from your home currency into bitcoins. For example, if you live in the UK, you can use [http://transferwise.com TransferWise] to transfer money from your account to a EUROs account run by a bitcoin exchange - for instance, the online bitcoin exchanges listed at https://bitcoinity.org/markets. Using this method, !TransferWise would know the bank details of origin - and hence who was transferring the money, even if you used a pseudonym - but the 'final destination' (i.e. bitstamp.net) would only be presented with the information of !TransferWise. Thus, if the bitstamp.net account is registered anonymously (for instance, an account created from a net cafe over [http://tor.eff.org Tor]), then maximum privacy would be ensured. |