I'm a US player and just bet standard US sports like MLB, college basketball and college football. These lines tend to be fluid and fluctuate within the hour or minute. Once you place your bet, is it automatically confirmed or does it wait until the bitcoin is received to confirm the bet?

I'm just afraid of my CC charging me a cash advance fee. I guess I can try a small transaction and see how it works.

I'd like to load my circle.com account through my US Bank Account but not buy the BitCoins until my account receives the money from my US bank (ie 5 days). I've done one successful load from my bank account, but I only get $100 instant and need to wait for the remaining $900 to clear.

I don't want to be subject to the currency fluctuations while my money is transferred. How can I accomplish that?

Thanks for the info. I always thought of myself of a rationale, level headed person but am having a hard time wrapping my mind around bitcoins.

But isn’t blockchain.info like a bank? So they will want to make sure the transaction is 100% valid until they allow me to send it to a 3rd party, correct?

Hi All -

I sent 4 bitcoins from my circle.com account to my blockchain.info account. The blockchain.info account currently says I have 1 confirmation.

How many confirmations (or how do I) until i can send those 4 bitcoins from my blockchain.info account to another party?

I'm a newbie, so I assume that the bitcoins are still 'waiting to clear' before i can send them somwhere else.

Any recommendations are appreciated. I'm looking to buy $1K USD worth if that matters...

I'm hesitant to involve coinbase since they've cut off gambling transactions. I agree that an exchange is better for me, i just don't know enough about this to trust a person to person exchange (even if that person has high reviews)

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?