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Title: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: Levitron on January 20, 2015, 10:35:44 AM I usually hear some complicated ways of receiving bitcoin that would probably turn others off like the noobs or masses
If giving them btc or telling a noob to get a payment from you from btc all you need is Step1: Go to www.electrum.org download and install electrum; save keys Step 2: Click receive address button, copy n paste addy and send to whoever wants to send you bitcoins Step 3: Done Takes literally a few minutes to setup and receive btc And some ways to receive bitcoins coinbase.com localbitcoins.com peer to trade with paypal Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: Bitcoin Seller on January 20, 2015, 10:40:22 AM I usually hear some complicated ways of receiving bitcoin that would probably turn others off like the noobs or masses If giving them btc or telling a noob to get a payment from you from btc all you need is Step1: Go to www.electrum.com download and install electrum; save keys Step 2: Click receive address button, copy n paste addy and send to whoever you wants to send you bitcoins Step 3: Done Takes literally a few minutes to setup and receive btc And some ways to receive bitcoins coinbase.com localbitcoins.com peer to trade with paypal No one said that receiving is that hard ;D people are just lazy and don't bother them selfs . btw , you should move this topic to Beginners & help . ;D Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: allgoodthings1 on January 20, 2015, 11:33:07 AM An even easier way:
1) Set up an account with Coinbase; 2) Set up a Personal Payment Page; http://blog.coinbase.com/post/87117758747/introducing-payment-pages-with-nas-marc (http://blog.coinbase.com/post/87117758747/introducing-payment-pages-with-nas-marc) 3) Write down the web address or send a link to whomever needs to send you payment. Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: Levitron on January 20, 2015, 12:12:30 PM Coinbase is easy but having to verify bank accs and what not might turn them off at first, til they get used to btc.
Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: hua_hui on January 20, 2015, 12:58:28 PM Another factor to scare off the noobs is the security! The noobs need some education to be comfortable to be with btc.
Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: Q7 on January 20, 2015, 01:07:17 PM First thing first, try not to treat noobs in a mean manner. The community needs newbies and the way we give names and telling how incompetent only turns off people's attention towards bitcoin. When I talk about bitcoin, there's never a dumb question. We all start from somewhere.
Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: sgk on January 20, 2015, 01:20:15 PM I usually hear some complicated ways of receiving bitcoin that would probably turn others off like the noobs or masses If giving them btc or telling a noob to get a payment from you from btc all you need is -snip- For a complete noob or the old Joe, I believe there have to be some easier way than this, to receive Bitcoins. Take a look at this: https://i.imgur.com/z3bsK6J.png While I don't personally use it (because I'm doing fine loading my Multibit on PC), I really like how they're making sending/receiving Bitcoins a very simple process like sending an email. You just need a easy-to-remember user name to give your address to someone. Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: bluemountain on January 20, 2015, 01:38:59 PM https://bitcoinarmory.com/ Armory is another great secure Bitcoin wallet which will take you through all the steps of the process for a secure wallet
Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: gkv9 on January 20, 2015, 02:44:26 PM You can also try https://onename.com/ (https://onename.com/) which is currently compatible with RushWallet and Electrum, and the coolest thing is, your username is your bitcoin address... ;)
Also, please check out this if you are from India: https://ihb.io/2015-01-19/news/zebpay-bitcoin-wallet-15496 (https://ihb.io/2015-01-19/news/zebpay-bitcoin-wallet-15496) Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: kolloh on January 20, 2015, 03:07:24 PM I think blockchain.info is one of the easiest ways to receive. It is a simple sign up for new users and easy way to get into BTC.
Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: oblivi on January 20, 2015, 06:01:24 PM I think blockchain.info is one of the easiest ways to receive. It is a simple sign up for new users and easy way to get into BTC. This. I think the future as in mainstream adoption must happen under a web interface, downloading a program is just not cool.Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: Salmon1989 on January 20, 2015, 06:20:39 PM I usually hear some complicated ways of receiving bitcoin that would probably turn others off like the noobs or masses If giving them btc or telling a noob to get a payment from you from btc all you need is Step1: Go to www.electrum.org download and install electrum; save keys Step 2: Click receive address button, copy n paste addy and send to whoever wants to send you bitcoins Step 3: Done Takes literally a few minutes to setup and receive btc And some ways to receive bitcoins coinbase.com localbitcoins.com peer to trade with paypal IMO, experienced users don't really want to make newbies confused. They (We?) just want to warn the newbies of all the potential problems (eg. no control of private keys in shared wallets, coin loss with hacking and malware in hot wallets) and sometimes makes things way too complicated and technical for newbies without noticing it. Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: pooya87 on January 20, 2015, 06:22:27 PM https://bitcoinarmory.com/ Armory is another great secure Bitcoin wallet which will take you through all the steps of the process for a secure wallet it might be easy but not NEWBIE friendly. since you have to download 25GB of Data. in other words a new user needs to wait a couple of hours at best to synch to be able to see what is what. and that is exactly an example of what OP meansQuote ... complicated ways of receiving bitcoin that would probably turn others off like the noobs or masse i personally prefer Blockchain.info Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: medUSA on January 20, 2015, 06:28:37 PM I usually hear some complicated ways of receiving bitcoin that would probably turn others off like the noobs or masses Receiving bitcoin was never difficult. We only need an address, either from a webwallet or an exchange. Keeping them safe and secure has always been the challenge. Usually the "complicated ways" are there to secure your coins and not for creating an address. Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: ensurance982 on January 20, 2015, 11:11:46 PM Well, I believe it's mostly about buying Bitcoins, not the actual 'receiving' part. People are afraid to go through all the hoops in order to use a Bitcoin exchange. That's the complicated part that may put people off. Receiving BTC is easy, of course!
Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: tidus1097 on January 21, 2015, 12:28:06 AM Coinbase is easy but having to verify bank accs and what not might turn them off at first, til they get used to btc. Don't need to verify bank accs just need verify phone number Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: sethminer14 on January 21, 2015, 01:10:26 AM Yeah it's more complicated to buy bitcoin than it is to set up an address
Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: ikydesu on January 21, 2015, 08:11:54 AM I usually hear some complicated ways of receiving bitcoin that would probably turn others off like the noobs or masses If giving them btc or telling a noob to get a payment from you from btc all you need is Step1: Go to www.electrum.org download and install electrum; save keys Step 2: Click receive address button, copy n paste addy and send to whoever wants to send you bitcoins Step 3: Done Takes literally a few minutes to setup and receive btc And some ways to receive bitcoins coinbase.com localbitcoins.com peer to trade with paypal Good choice for the wallet ;) Receiving bitcoin is easy very easy, my suggestion is join SIG campaign, put your addy on your profile, start to posting with consuctive post and every week or month you will receive your btc :D Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: freedomno1 on January 21, 2015, 08:17:03 AM Well, I believe it's mostly about buying Bitcoins, not the actual 'receiving' part. People are afraid to go through all the hoops in order to use a Bitcoin exchange. That's the complicated part that may put people off. Receiving BTC is easy, of course! Yep the problem is the hoops, I remember when all I needed to do was initiate a bank transfer Money was recieved in the same day Now with KYL AMC and all the documentation this process takes several days to occur and the application takes time. Receiving is cake its buying that's a pain. Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: bitbaby on January 21, 2015, 12:09:29 PM I don't know where you saw users being advised a difficult way of receiving bitcoin, I usually tell them to use either blockchain or electrum if they can control their keys but most new users opt to use on-line wallets because they don't have enough funds that they have to worry about and also they're not completely clear about how wallets and prvt keys work. Once they understand the basics, they them selves move to safer keeping of their funds.
Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: Gervais on January 21, 2015, 03:30:24 PM Contrary to popular belief bitcoin is very simple to use. In fact, I find it to be as simple as using paypal and even easier than setting up online banking. I think bitcoin seems confusing and scary to the general public but this will change over time.
Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: chronicsky on January 21, 2015, 04:15:33 PM I usually hear some complicated ways of receiving bitcoin that would probably turn others off like the noobs or masses If giving them btc or telling a noob to get a payment from you from btc all you need is Step1: Go to www.electrum.org download and install electrum; save keys Step 2: Click receive address button, copy n paste addy and send to whoever wants to send you bitcoins Step 3: Done Takes literally a few minutes to setup and receive btc And some ways to receive bitcoins coinbase.com localbitcoins.com peer to trade with paypal why is paypal there? how do we receive bitcoins through paypal ? Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: Chemistry1988 on January 21, 2015, 04:25:55 PM I usually hear some complicated ways of receiving bitcoin that would probably turn others off like the noobs or masses If giving them btc or telling a noob to get a payment from you from btc all you need is Step1: Go to www.electrum.org download and install electrum; save keys Step 2: Click receive address button, copy n paste addy and send to whoever wants to send you bitcoins Step 3: Done Takes literally a few minutes to setup and receive btc And some ways to receive bitcoins coinbase.com localbitcoins.com peer to trade with paypal why is paypal there? how do we receive bitcoins through paypal ? You can buy bitcoin with paypal on Virwox, localbitcoins and some other places. Be warned that you are going to pay a high price because of the chargeback risk to the seller. Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: Gervais on January 21, 2015, 04:35:59 PM Or find someone dumb enough to sell you them on here ;D.
Title: Re: Am I Missing Something, Why Make Receiving Bitcoins Difficult? Post by: chronicsky on January 21, 2015, 05:05:02 PM I usually hear some complicated ways of receiving bitcoin that would probably turn others off like the noobs or masses If giving them btc or telling a noob to get a payment from you from btc all you need is Step1: Go to www.electrum.org download and install electrum; save keys Step 2: Click receive address button, copy n paste addy and send to whoever wants to send you bitcoins Step 3: Done Takes literally a few minutes to setup and receive btc And some ways to receive bitcoins coinbase.com localbitcoins.com peer to trade with paypal why is paypal there? how do we receive bitcoins through paypal ? You can buy bitcoin with paypal on Virwox, localbitcoins and some other places. Be warned that you are going to pay a high price because of the chargeback risk to the seller. never heard of virwox , though yeah i see it on localbitcoins but the prices ammmmm you're right are High |
