<div dir="ltr">Not sure Tor was the problem. I heard many people complain about coinbase (that I usually consider pretty good) to have considered high risk many transactions that happened when bitcoin was been sold at the dive that happened few days ago. Was the price of bitcoin very low when you tried to buy it?<div>
Giovanni </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So, I finally went ahead and tried to buy a bitcoin (and to think that<br>
I first read about bitcoins when they were less than 10$ apiece, and<br>
the blogger was saying "It's either going to get big, or fail<br>
completely, so buy some and see what happens, at worst you lose a few<br>
bucks"). I set up an account at coinbase, bought one bitcoin and ...<br>
four days later received an email saying "We decided to cancel your<br>
transaction, since it appears to be high-risk. You may try again in a<br>
few weeks". I used Tor to connect to <a href="http://coinbase.org" target="_blank">coinbase.org</a>, but otherwise<br>
disclosed my regular email account, linked a US bank account, verified<br>
my identity - so what's wrong? Tor? Did anybody here have a similar<br>
experience?<br>
<br>
Rafal<br>
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