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Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: JayKEy00 on May 27, 2013, 05:56:56 PM MOD EDIT:
See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=218040.0 as this site is probably a scam I have now 50 Bitcoins and I made it this way. Registered at MtGox.com and verified my account. That needed 2 weeks and i had to upload my id. After that I made a bank transfer to Mtgox.com, you get all informations to which bank account at their site. Than I bought some Bitcoins and made a new Bitcoin Address at www.bitcoin-address.org. After that I sent my bitcoins to this address and printed it as a paperwallet, this function is at bitcoin-address.org too. Then I put my paper in my safe and now I am waiting for high prices, then I want to sell. Thats it. Good luck! :) Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: Chrithu on May 27, 2013, 06:02:09 PM The first BTC I bought I got from the Bitcoin.de exchange via SEPA transaction. The SEPA transaction took 4 days, which effectively cost me money because by that time the price had dropped dramatically nad has not yet reached that level again.
This was the point at which I decided to try and keep everything in Bitcoin. Unless the little amount I have becomes super valuable I won't cash it out but rather try to pay things with it directly. Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: Cyberclones on May 27, 2013, 06:03:14 PM None of the above...I just jumped into mining so I have a couple coins now but have never purchased them.
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: notfair on May 27, 2013, 06:05:56 PM originally planning to fund MtGox and buy from them, but too much procedure and time need for International TT, so switch to local dealer, then bought and use it already today :D
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: ndr76 on May 27, 2013, 06:09:10 PM I first used bitbargain.co.uk, then I passed to bitstamp.net which is way better due to lower fees.
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: Anillos on May 27, 2013, 06:11:02 PM Coinvisitor, coinworker...
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: malevolent on May 27, 2013, 06:25:01 PM I'm planning my first bitcoin purchase and would be interested to hear what methods have or haven't worked for others for an initial purchase. Did it go smoothly? What problems/obstacles came up? Have you tried other methods since, or stuck to the one you started with? You should add an additional option to the poll: I mined it. Then used it to buy PCI-E x1-x1 risers. Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: unlish_uk on May 27, 2013, 06:27:15 PM i mined it! HD 7850 :D
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: CryptoJunky on May 27, 2013, 06:28:35 PM The first Bitcoin I received were through mining. I've since bought Bitcoin through MtGox funded with Bitinstant which went well, though it had some fees.
Now I use Coinbase as well. Some people have had complaints about them in the past, but I haven't had any bad experiences. I've been using them since their beta launched. Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: macsheadroom on May 27, 2013, 06:45:45 PM Mining for a 3 days @ 1.5GH/s has made me .3 BTC. I am looking at buying one soon so this thread was helpful, Thank You.
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: sunghyunkim14 on May 28, 2013, 11:10:28 AM if you're from canada i recommend VirtEx :)
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: wphillips on May 28, 2013, 11:11:58 AM By mining mostly now. I had wondered how easy it'd be to fund BTC purchases through Mt Gox. Decided I'd try buying one BTC and wanted to be able to fund it without bank transfers or having to send Western Union. Being in the US, I found out it wasn't too easy. Took about 2 1/2 weeks for verification on Mt Gox. A week and a half for Dwolla verification. Bitinstant wouldn't accept Dwolla for some reason, kept giving an error. Finally Dwolla appeared back on Mt Gox and I bought a BTC. Then about a month later, DHS freezes Mt Gox's Dwolla account.... I think I'm going to stick with mining, or open a Swiss account, lol.
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: leigl on May 28, 2013, 11:26:25 AM Private traders, -7 days.
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: awgilyas on May 28, 2013, 11:48:54 AM Bitfloor (RIP)
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: navvy619 on May 28, 2013, 12:01:12 PM i mined
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: ivanb on May 28, 2013, 12:41:55 PM I bought my first bitcoin in EUR on bitcoin.de via SEPA transfer which takes about 3-4 days. The trading is direcly between the users and bitcoin.de acts like a trust service. The trading fee is 1% (0.5% for the buyer and the seller)
Lets say you want to buy 1 btc for the price of 100€ -> you will pay 99.5€ and you will get 0.99 bitcoins after the seller manually confirms that the 99,5€ arrived in his SEPA bank account. This works slow and you will have to live with the trust system of bitcoin.de. To reach a certain Trust Level, all conditions ("Number of ratings", "Percentage of positive ratings", "Volume of sales") should be met: Bronze Bronze Number of ratings: less than 5 Volume of sales for trades: less than 25 BTC Percentage of positive ratings: 0% to 69% Silver Silver Number of ratings: 5 bis 15 Volume of sales for trades: between 25 to 150 BTC Percentage of positive ratings: 70% to 89% Gold Gold Number of ratings: from 16 Volume of sales for trades: higher than 150 BTC Percentage of positive ratings: 90% to 100% A newbie would start with trust level bronze and has to opearte within the restrictions. I hope you can use this information. Cheers Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: Zaih on May 28, 2013, 12:42:40 PM Bought from a friend I knew ;) Didn't really trust the idea of exchanges to begin with (heh...)
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: SimplyBTC on May 28, 2013, 01:21:00 PM I clicked links and got about 0.00001 BTC. Then I got bored and bought a Casascius coin :-)
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: Simonsays on May 28, 2013, 07:32:03 PM I've been buying on Coinbase for the past month.
If you can deal with the delay - its a reliable outlet. Withdraws directly from your bank acct. Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: baros008 on May 28, 2013, 07:49:31 PM I mined 0.7 BTC nearly 2 years ago in pool, 2 months ago I requested payout from pool and then I realized that I don´t know where I created my payout address and I don´t have access to it.
So my first bitcoins are effectively lost. :-[ Now I bought BTC using Bitstamp exchange. Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: CoinGuard on May 28, 2013, 07:59:43 PM I've been buying on Coinbase for the past month. If you can deal with the delay - its a reliable outlet. Withdraws directly from your bank acct. I've been doing the same, buying from Coinbase for the last month. My first couple of BTC purchase took about 5 days, now my next purchase will arrive in 3 days. I don't know if they have gotten the logistics together and no can better fund customer accounts. But so far pretty solid Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: BitSparts All in 1 on May 28, 2013, 08:16:50 PM Mining 2.2GH/S =D
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: ezacarias on May 28, 2013, 08:18:46 PM Mined LTC then sold for BTC.
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: kaxada on May 28, 2013, 09:10:52 PM I bought them offline. Transacted them to my own wallet on a laptop in my and the sellers view. waited an hour to be sure the transaction went trough. Not 100% safe but we trusted each other.
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: kaxada on May 28, 2013, 09:16:40 PM It was a bit of a gamble because I did not (still don't) fully understand how the seller could have tricked me at that time.
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: Simonsays on May 28, 2013, 09:17:38 PM i bought five last year (10USD each) from a friend who put all his money into Bitcoin that time. He did good think, didn't he? :D:D If only we all could have had the same intuition! Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: ltckid on May 28, 2013, 09:20:05 PM Started mining, faucets around the web
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: MattBlast on May 28, 2013, 09:29:06 PM Cavirtex.com
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: pneumatic5 on May 28, 2013, 09:32:56 PM Are we talking about first full BTC or just any amount of BTC? I mined my first 0.1 BTC before I finally got the courage to buy a full BTC using Dwolla into campbx, all the while still mining, I also made a few BTC investing in BTC funds.
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: hunnaryb on May 28, 2013, 09:56:12 PM I mined 0,05 in about one week in spare time. Not bad, but too far away from my first bitcoin :D
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: fewerlaws on May 28, 2013, 10:55:42 PM My first full coin or partial coin?
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: LatinaPride on May 28, 2013, 11:26:37 PM I got my first bitnickel in one of those advertising scams back in 2011, the same thing they have now but instead of 'watch an ad for 11 mBTC' it was 'watch an add for 0.05 BTC' since they werent worth as much
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: domtasc on May 28, 2013, 11:37:05 PM Dwolla before they got shut down
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: fauzi on May 29, 2013, 12:09:15 AM From my friend who introduce me bitcoin ;D
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: marvinrouge on May 29, 2013, 12:11:28 AM online exchange before they shut down (one more)
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: kevindeangelis on May 29, 2013, 12:11:46 AM ha! I still haven't earned/purchased an entire btc yet
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: namoom on May 29, 2013, 12:14:01 AM Mt Gox, but it's a pain getting money in and out
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: CUbit on May 29, 2013, 12:29:34 AM BTC = 0.00753114 BTC Begging from faucets/mining @ 3:2 ratio
LTC = 0.5026740000000001 mined over 3-4 days NVC = 0.14843335 mined @ ~ 14 hours (up to .557 NVC @ ~3 days) 3x miners: 1x NVidia 650 (cudaminer4Nvidia) + 1x i7 2670QM(GUI(cpu only)Miner) + 1x MagnyCours 6128 [16GBECC] (Sabayon Hardened w/ minerd cpuonly) As soon as I get any 1 coin I'll update. Solved 2 blocks of LuckyCoin, but am pooling, @ 5.11559630 LKY so far Pooled: 130 LKY ~6 hours Mined: 5 standard @ 88 LKY blocks, 1 @ 88.1 block, 1 @ 188 block ~12 hours Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: BitcoinMoxy on May 29, 2013, 12:36:57 AM #bitcoin-otc
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: kodo on May 29, 2013, 01:21:41 AM I believe i bought my first bitcoin from btcquick
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: PurpleTentacle on May 29, 2013, 06:42:02 AM I got my first coins from bitstamp.net through a sepa deposit in a European bank. I'm happy with bitstamp, but my bank charged me 12€ for the sepa deposit (i thought the fee was like 0.90€)!
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: |D0C| on May 29, 2013, 08:18:24 AM Never bought a coin yet only selling them...
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: nnyld on May 29, 2013, 08:42:19 AM Bought from someone I know.
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: LambChoppery on May 29, 2013, 09:00:11 AM The dirty red phone at CVS
Title: Re: How did you buy your first BTC? Post by: ScaryKubiak on May 29, 2013, 01:46:41 PM Mtgox but I don't use them anymore.
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