Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of PublicBitcoins

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04/30/13 10:28:56 (12 years ago)

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Alster

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 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. 
 
-This method can also be fully anonymous if you buy [http://www.ukash.com/ Ukash] or a [https://www.paysafecard.com/ Paysafecard] in the streets (usually in small shops), where you should be able to do so without providing your identity. These can then be exchanged to bitcoins at [https://www.virwox.com/ Virwox.com] (by intermediary exchange to Linden Dollars), or, often cheaper, by [http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/Using_bitcoin-otc trading over the counter]. Obviously the intermediary exchange account shouldn't be registered on your identity for this approach to provide anonymity.
+This method can also be fully anonymous if you buy [http://www.ukash.com/ Ukash], [https://www.paysafecard.com/ Paysafecards] or prepaid credit cards in the streets (usually in small shops), where you should be able to do so without providing your identity. These can then be exchanged to bitcoins at [https://www.virwox.com/ Virwox.com] (by intermediary exchange to Linden Dollars), or, often cheaper, by [http://wiki.bitcoin-otc.com/wiki/Using_bitcoin-otc trading over the counter]. Obviously the intermediary exchange account shouldn't be registered on your identity for this approach to provide anonymity.
 
-The above information may get outdated more or less soon. So also check [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Buying_bitcoins the bitcoin.it wiki] on how to buy bitcoins and, based on it, develop your own approach to do so anonymously.
+The above information may get outdated more or less soon. So also check [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Buying_bitcoins the bitcoin.it wiki] on how to buy bitcoins and, based on it, develop your own approach to do so anonymously. Cash deposits (also discussed there) can work well if they can be anonymous.