I was excited about when I heard about it. Tried it out and earned 200 satoshi for a few minutes work. It was even crediting when I made a spelling mistake. So like an idiot I wasted a few hours trying to see how much I could rack up. Could I hit the 2500 mark and get the bonus payout?! 

Well hell. At 2485 I could enter the captcha but it wouldn't register.  I tried to withdraw my 2485 and zero response. Maybe the system is down or something. NOPE!  I clicked on the Claim bonus button and watched as others started to accumulate their amounts.

Feeling scammed here!!  Sure I got a few hundred, but I'd gladly give it back in exchange for those wasted hours.

Yet another learning experience....

Something's I guess you have to dive in head first and learn through trial and error.

I think I'll probably try the exchange route and consider my $5 deposit not as a financial investment but an educational investment.

Appreciate the input!

Can you deposit $5 on an exchange?  Is that enough to start trading with?  And don't you need a separate wallet for each altcoin you trade or are those transactions stored on the exchange?

Like I mentioned above...I'm a complete newbie running on information overload. So many questions.

And pop goes the bubble...

This is what I feared. I suppose I have to weigh the novelty of buying $5 in btc vs the reality of buying $5 in btc.

Thank you for your response. It is appreciated .

In a perfect world I would have a social circle that contained someone who owned bitcoins. Sadly, I don't.  That would definitely be my preferred method of getting a few dollars worth...meeting in person and exchanging in person.

I will look into the above mentioned exchanges and try to find out what the fees would be. Hopefully I won't be confronted with too many barriers. 

At some point I'd like to try my hand at trading/exchanging between coins, but there are soooo many freaking barriers right now. It's definitely not an easy process for someone who only has an iPhone to work off of. Damn this poverty!  Come on Crypto-world...show me the way. Make me rich.

Ha!  Yeah right. I'd settle for status quo...a level up from poverty....

Hello out there. I have never posted in any type of forum before so I apologize in advance if my question is repetitive to someone or if I unintentionally break forum rules, etc.  I will learn.  With that said, I feel like my head is about to explode!  I am new to the cryptoworld, not very tech savvy and while trying to self-educate myself I'm finding my initial enthusiasm waning. It has been a very long time since something has piqued my interest like bitcoin and the cryptoworld has done recently, and for someone like me who suffers with depression (along w/ other crap nobody wants to hear about), trying to learn what might be the simplest of things to one person is a frustrating challenge to me!

I have many many questions that I will hopefully ask and get answered over time, but the question I have right now is if anybody knows if their is a legitimate way to buy a few dollars of bitcoin?  I have a wallet (using Breadwallet) and I've been dying to put something in it. I don't have the patience to visit a hundred different faucet sites every hour of every day to earn the equivalent of a dollar!  I much rather pay that dollar to someone or some entity and buy that amount in bitcoin.

Is that possible?  To buy a few dollars worth of bitcoin (No more than $5-$10). If yes, would there be fees that would make that small purchase unrealistic.

I sincerely appreciate any and all feedback...especially if I can hit my first crypto goal...btc in my wallet.  Cheers all and MUCH LOVE!