i bought my first bitcoins the other day from bitinstant.  cash deposit at bank of america, no hassle, the bitcoins were sent to my address ~10-20 minutes later.  i believe they also accept citibank deposits as well. i don't work for them i just found their service very convenient and highly recommend using them 

https://www.bitinstant.com/

i just backed up my wallet.dat - i do not deserve to lose my BTC!

however i intend to store some of my future bitcoin wealth in a brainwallet. 

thanks snap.  finally bought my first bitcoins yesterday after researching about bitcoins for quite some time, following all the scams, etc.  i will be cautious. 

Pazako - i'm a noob too but...from what i have read it is fruitless to mine using your CPU.  it is just way too difficult for your computer.  not worth running on a laptop.

seems to me that unless you are just wanting to mine for the enjoyment of it, the better investment is just buying bitcoin. 

I want to get started trading but I do not have a Paypal account, any kind of bank account, credit card, etc.  I get paid in cash and for online purchases/bills I buy prepaid debit cards which is really annoying, so I am very hopeful for BTC.  I have no desire to open up a bank account for anything, ever again. 

So I see a popular way of getting your initial trust rating is by someone selling single BTC via USDPP...

What I want to know is, will someone let me send them cash in the mail without having any prior feedback, or will they not want to do the transaction unless I have a rating already? 

I wish Electrum would work on OSX 10.6.8! 

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i am taking another stab at bitcoin, when i wanted to start buying earlier this year it was too tedious to buy bitcoin using cash.  lets go bitcoin

I tried to unload a prepaid visa on #bitcoin-otc and nobody would take it.  Because it can be reported as stolen, it is easy to reverse payments.  If you hang around there someone may need food ordered - then use your visa and they pay you in BTC.  Just an idea.

I was also trying to buy coins via Paypal.  I started a new paypal account backed by a vanilla visa.  A few transactions worked and then they limited my account.  If you visit the #bitcoin-otc room and get gpg authenticated you will find people there that may sell BTC for PPUSD in small amounts. 

I found this helpful, via the Bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_methods

hi - just getting started.  have been following bitcoin for awhile but didn't want to buy when the price was climbing last year.  looking to do some otc trading.