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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: About to buy my 1st Bitcoin
by
FruitsBasket
on 03/12/2015, 21:04:49 UTC
Finally!  I have found an easy way to buy bitcoin.

Someone introduced me to coinbase.  I signed up to it and i entered my banking details.

I uploaded 400 dollars to my usd account, and now i am finally going to purchase my first bitcoin.

I am very happy about this.  It's about time i can easily buy bitcoin from my bank,


So my question is:   Once i buy my first bitcoin, what exactly do i do with it?


Do i leave it in my coinbase account?  Is it safe there?

Or do i transfer it to my desktop computer?


I'm not familiar with this yet.   I plan to always keep a balance of 1 bitcoin in my account for 5 years to 10 years,

the rest of the bitcoin i buy i will spend online.




What is everyone's advice?   

Download a bitcoin wallet and transfer it to that wallet, also print out the private key of that address(do not share your private key).
If your computer crashes and u have your private key, u will be able to get your coins back Smiley

Also backup your wallet.dat and your private key on a usb stick. So u safe Smiley