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Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by maxander on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @04:38PM (#15974072)
The brilliant thing is, if the author controls the host server of this article and it gets near the top of Google results for its title, watching the article hit-rate [1] should be a neat way of predicting the inevitable bitcoin crash! Probably several hours in advance. He could market out this service for Big Bucks.

[1] After the article stops being front-page-HN'd, at least.

Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by modeless on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:29PM (#15974481)
You don't need to own a top search listing for this. Google Trends shows the popularity of any search term in real time. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-H&q=Se...
Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by jondubois on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:32PM (#15974498)
Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by inkubus on Thursday December 21, 2017 @07:02AM (#15978187)
Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by tehlike on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:15PM (#15975819)
Is it? Someone who bought one probably knows how to sell in the same platform, no?
Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by PeterisP on Thursday December 21, 2017 @03:17AM (#15977281)
Not really, because (as the OP states) there are many places that will sell you BTC but not really allow you to get cash back out, e.g. because of your location.
Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by DKnoll on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:10PM (#15974322)
Clever idea.

> [1] After the article stops being front-page-HN'd, at least.

He could just check the referrer. This can be spoofed but the majority of people following links, even here, won't do that. Then he can rule out getting posted to other social media and just look at people coming from Google.

Re:Selling Bitcoins in Cana­da by hayksaakian on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @05:14PM (#15974351)
Even easier, he can set up an affiliate relationship with the major exchanges and advertise a "sell online here" link.