Just take my money!
Just Take My Money!
I
have money now, but because I am in this backwards Godforsaken Amsterdam, there is nowhere I can easily buy bitcoins. I am actually wanting to buy Steem, to be more precise, but usually that requires bitcoin.
I figured that they might not be correct ads in localbitcoins, when I found some that I knew from 3 years ago, one at a cafee in Zeedijk in the centre of the city near the red light district, and another at Amsterdam University near the Science faculty, in a funny little cafe called Polder.
Here is Cafe Polder now:
The sandy area used to have a building, if I remember correctly it was sorta like one of those half cylinder aircraft hanger looking things. There was a two way BitX bitcoin ATM just inside the door, it would have been just middle right of the frame.
I could have sworn it was normally open but the cafe on Zeedijk also was closed, looked like for renovations. I hadn't been in there since 2014 when first was looking to sell bitcoins - and that one was only buy bitcoins. Which is what I didn't want then but I want now.
I am going to look at finding a seller of bitcoins on localbitcoins. I found one ad that looks okay so hopefully this won't be too irritating. In Bulgaria I could buy them using a bill paying machine that you could find in every shopping center of note, and there was a BitX ATM inside a cafe in the centre of town. I am not used to this level of inconvenience.
Sell your Steem to @l0k1
If anyone is looking to sell some Steem for cash in the Netherlands, I can deposit it direct into a bank account to pay or if you happen to be around Amsterdam we could meet perhaps. Otherwise I will see how I go with localbitcoins, and sell my btc for steems.
By way of explanation,I am still waiting to confirm I have a postal address. The bank issues logins and password in letters sent in the post. Without that, no internet bank, no IDEAL and yes I think I can do a domestic or SEPA transfer in any bank.
An expensive option is to get a Travelex prepaid credit card thingy. Or maybe I could do SEPA transfer to my bulgarian mastercard debit and with hat buy something else...
Frickin Bureaucracy. In this case the bank is nearly as bad as the government.
Update
I am enquiring with the Bitcoin Embassy, the site seems to say they have a two-way ATM. I will update about this if I am able to go this way.
We can't stop here! This is Whale country!
At first I thought you were trying to sell STEEM to acquire bitcoins. I would've offered you 15 cents p/STEEM. But, now I see you're trying to buy and not sell. Good move.
I would like it better to go direct. No tx fees and hours waiting for a transfer 😎
I can sell STEEM but won't be there until late April 2017. Having some AMS cash may be handy.
You have cash, but you need bitcoins? Am I right?
Yes, or Steem, whichever. I will buy steem with the bitcoin if I get bitcoin.
I also buy steem with the bitcoins sometimes.
The android STEEM wallet from @freewallet had an option to buy STEEM with a credit card. Still waiting on a bank account here to try it. Their price now is $100 for 519.386 STEEM. No idea if that is a good deal.
[EDIT] Just to note that one week after I wrote this comment, both the STEEM and the ETH Freewallets I have are failing to allow me to transfer funds out. Five days, and no resolution.
That's something like $0.1925 / Steem... %18.5 (give or take) above the rest of the market.
Hmm. Would anything be saved going direct $-->STEEM? To offset this.
Aren't Bitcoin ATMs supposed to be everywhere in Amsterdamnit?
It used to be. Now, nix.