I don't have a complete list of exchanges that, because they used best known practices with Bitcoin, were not vulnerable to the security problem that MtGox experienced.
One such best practices exchange is https://www.kraken.com/ This is to emphasize the two-layered nature of the cryptocurrency infrastructure: 1) wire-transfer/public ledger (small amount of highly vetted open source software) 2) financial services such as exchanges that are basically just websites that have all the known security weaknesses of web applications. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 8:29 AM, <fznidar...@aol.com> wrote: > I was at a Sheetz gas station and a woman approached me. She said she was > in the military and trying to get back to base. Someone stole her purse. > She had a check but they would not cash locally; it was good. Would I > cash it for her? If I had an account in a local bank it would be no > problem to cash. It was for $300. > > I gave her $5 in cash. I told her to put the money in gas and drive to > Wal Mart. It was 8 miles away. I gave her instructions. They were easy. > She had a cell phone. From there she could call her husband and he could > wire her money. She said he was not near a Wall Mart. I assured her that > everyone in the US is within 20 miles of a Wall Mart. Call someone and > have the have the money sent from another Wall Mart. It will come right > away. > > I drove past the gas station 1 hour later and she was there still asking > for gas money. > > Frank > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> > Sent: Wed, Feb 26, 2014 8:42 pm > Subject: Re: [Vo]:Is there an echo in here? > > Craig <cchayniepub...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> I went to the bank and wired money to a company here in the US. The >> process took over an hour of my time, and the receiver didn't receive the >> money for serveral hours. > > > That's not good. At Bank of America you can do it on line. If you have > the info. about the other party it only takes five minutes. I don't know > how long it takes the money to get there. I recall they charge a lot for > overseas transactions. > > There is a way to do it with PayPal but I have never used it. > > It is a pain in the butt sending money to Japan. Europe is easy. > > - Jed > >
