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Board Beginners & Help
Re: Newbie and buying 1st BitCoin Questions
by
ikydesu
on 06/03/2015, 15:54:56 UTC
Hi Everyone – I’m a newbie and have been reading up on BitCoin over the last 8 hours. I’m a US person and plan to use BitCoin for gambling.

I was originally going to sign up for coinbase, but there are reports of them blocking gambling transactions. Because of that, I signed up for blockchain.info.

It appears I cannot actually buy bitcoins from blockchain.info, so I clicked through their “partner” btc.sx

I created an account, then realized I couldn’t buy BitCoins there as they state “To use BTC.sx, deposits must be made in Bitcoin. “

So how do I actually buy Bitcoins and get them into blockchain.info? I don’t have a desire for a face to face transaction, so I would like to pay using a US bank account. Would I buy them at Cirlce, then transfer them to blockchain.info?


For buy/sell some btc:
https://localbitcoins.com/
https://www.circle.com/
https://www.bitstamp.net/
https://www.bitquick.co/

to get a wallet: https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet
my recommendation is electrum or multibit. If you want more secure buy hardware wallet(if you have a budget), use desktop wallet is enough for started.


~iki