Hi here!
I'm originally from Spain and now living in Berlin since a while...
A friend told me about Bitcoins a year and a half ago, but he didn't catch my attention talking me about the big market of Silk Road..
so I completely forgot... until some days ago, when for some reason finding myself messing around internet I decided to do some research about it and
WTF. BTC was going to be in 2 days in Washington and China was making massive transactions, some places in Berlin already accept BTC as a payment and a couple of start-ups are focused on that.
I'm one of those people who regret not to get into BTC earlier. But I'm now here, just bought my first BTC and have some newbie questions to do, even if I read and researched quite a lot. Probably someone already asked but I didn't find it around the forum, so I apologize if I'm being repetitive. And probably for a lot of you I will sound completely ignorant, but I'm a "letters" person, computer daily user but nothing to do with programming, so understanding BTC is being difficult, and if it is for me, is also for that "hypothetical future mainstream".
1. SECURITY: I read about paperwallets and found
https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/ . How is a paper wallet/offline totally "offline" if it's generated online? I also read the best way to generate your paperwallet is downloading from
https://github.com/cantonbecker/bitcoinpaperwallet the wallet generator and do it while not connected to internet, but, in that case, is not possible that another person who's doing it as well could generate the same wallet as me?? I know I'm missing something, what it is!?
How actually an offline wallet works? Can someone explain me like I'm 13 and just learning how to install a program in 1990?
2. ANONYMITY: How anonymous is Bitcoin when you don't mine, and you buy it thru mtgox, bitstamp, bitcoin.de, btc-e, or localbitcoins.. if you have to fill your personal data when adding an okpay card, mastercard or for SEPA transfers?? The only way I see for anonymity is to buy face to face?
3. WHEN CASHING OUT: Same question as before + how is not Bitcoin taxable if you receive the payments in your name? My idea is to hold them, but maybe at some point I want to cash out for any reason, so, if it's a big quantity and you don't want mess up with your bank and government, what's the best option?
4. WHAT'S WRONG WITH BTC-E?? Hehe... I saw a lot of negative comments about it around here... Why??
Thank you for your attention, and I'm sure I will keep doing "stupid" questions, I'm pretty amazed by the advantage of BTC, but I still don't understand a lot of it...
Cheers!
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