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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prime Mover, post: 2911986, member: 38783&quot;]Now to BMan&#039;s question - how to get Bitcoin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s 3 ways - buying from someone selling privately, mining, or exchanging (which leads to trading).</p><p><br /></p><p>1) you can look for someone on something like localbitcoins.com - there&#039;s plenty of people worldwide who are willing to meet in person and transfer their coins for cash.&nbsp; You come prepared with a public wallet address and cash, they digitally transfer the coins to your wallet, and after the confirmations, you hand over the cash and walk out.</p><p>1a) there are also other websites (bitcointalk.org is one) that has a &quot;for sale&quot; section where you can buy &quot;physical&quot; bitcoins.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) mining them - this is highly unprofitable for the general person anymore, you&#039;re better off buying them.&nbsp; It would take an investment of tens of thousands to make it profitable, you can&#039;t do it as a hobby anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>3) using an exchange - this is the most common way.&nbsp; You can find any number of exchanges - kraken, hitbtc, bitfinex to name a few.&nbsp; You create an account (and for those in the US you do have to pony up your personal information and ID to exchange - that&#039;s the IRS hook) and then you can fund your account from a bank or credit card, go to the exchange, and trade your USD for bitcoins (or any other crypto)&nbsp; There are also a number of exchanges outside the US where you can go with which have less restrictions on giving in your personal info, and there&#039;s ways to do that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please, never, ever (ever) go to eBay to buy any crypto.&nbsp; Just a bad idea in general.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, the first part of this is getting a wallet.&nbsp; For the beginner, you can go to somewhere like btc.com and setup a wallet in minutes online.&nbsp; This is easy, but obviously you have to trust the provider to not get hacked or you will lose your coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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