Well I can't use cex.io because of the state I live in.

I have. they just told me in the future they will be increasing the limit but right now  my account is too young. I didn't tell them I might be leaving circle though! Ha, doubt I will.

Filled out verification for cex.io. Unless it has something circle doesn't, I have a feeling I will be deleting that account. If I can really get my money within a few hours that sounds like it's good. but, looks like there ARE Fees. we'll see, I'm not gonna do anything till my verification comes back.

What is it about them that would make them better than circle, in my case?

Looks like neither are in the US, so I would probably be charged fees for using my credit card. Is this correct?
Is it instant? If I'd have to wait 3-5 days for my coins then I might as well stay with circle and wait it out.

Thank you all for your replies.

I've thought about trucoin. What bothers me is the sign up - signing up with my facebook or google + account just seems a little too much. I don't know...maybe I'd let that go. Will you tell me more? Fees? Instant availability?


Hmm, can you tell me more? By verifications I assume you mean it's not instant, there'd be a 3-5 day wait. What about fees?

Thank you for recommending master-p, and cash deposits via localbitcoin. That's definitely a viable option *IF* they are exchanging bitcoin at a good, fair rate.

Not sure if this is the right forum...but here goes.

So I started out using coin.mx. It was nice being able to have my coins quickly. However, the fees got to me, and I could no longer use it. After searching, trial and error, I found circle. It's been great. I can buy my bitcoins with my bank account, no fees, and have up to $100 instantly. And the price per bitcoin is great, better than coinbase and coin.mx.

But now I want more. I am interested in up to $500 instantly, what are some options? I think my instant limit may increase as I develop a transaction history with them, but this may take a long time, since I'm a small time bitcoin user, whose transactions are infrequently small. However I've never been in debt with them either, I've always been able to pay for the coins I buy, which is good. Maybe I could make a request for a raise?

I think I could get another 100 instantly with circle if I used my debit card, however I'm not sure if there would be any fees. Not from circle of course, but from my card issuer, charging a cash advance fee...so I'm going to contact my bank account and talk to them about this, I've already e-mailed them. This would help, as all transactions with a card are instant, but there is a $100 weekly limit there

I wonder if the instant access limit is $100 per deposit, hmm... Say I deposit $300...I'd have instant access to $100. Say I deposit another $200 in a separate transaction, would I have instant access to another $100? Bringing my wallet to $200, until the full $500 is cleared? I doubt it. Probably not. Na... Just a thought.. I'm pretty sure the instant availability is limited to $100 out of the total of incomplete deposits, and there's no way of having instant access to anything more than my limit as long as my deposits are incomplete.

Do you guys have any ideas? I can't imagine anything better than circle, and I feel like I wasted a lot of time until I found circle and certainly don't want to waste that amount of time again. A lot of exchanges don't tell you everything unless you dig for the information or find out from another's experience. Coin.mx sounds almost appealing now, but I just can't afford those fees, especially for the crappy exchange rate. It's funny because before I found circle I thought highly of coin.mx. I would use coinbase, but they only take credit cards, not debit cards. And localbitcoins is the same thing, Paying that western union/money gram fee I might as well be using coin.mx. I suppose I could be doing direct deposits on lbc, depositing to their bank account and them sending my coins, however I need something dependable that I can rely on like clockwork and it's my assumption I would run into problems if relying on lbc.

Activebiz, ive got it downloaded and synced. However it does take a while to load from my slow 5400rpm external hd
Newar, interesting news about bitcoin core. Im sure I could find that new address the change is sent to, but would that address have a new key generated for itself as well?
what about electrum and armory, how do they handle saving change and imports?

Now it's loaded and is synced. When it loaded it was only ~9 hours behind. it worked.
Thank you guys for all your help!

I've got a lot to learn.
I'm wondering if the private key I want to import is a self generated vanity address.... because ive read "It is recommended that outside of self-generated vanity addresses, users should never import (or export) private keys." Then it seems I've read the opposite, that no one should be using self generated vanity addresses anyway, especially for import?
This has helped me understand why the wiki articles says it's so dangerous:
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/29948/why-doc-says-importing-private-keys-is-so-dangerous

With that being said...can anyone give me advice? My key was generated by coin.mx, was sent to bitcoin before it synced, dumped the key there then swept by greenaddress wallet and blockchain wallet (at the same time) and stayed at greenaddress.

But I see importing has its downsides, as if I ever want to spend from that key even just a portion, I'll end up spending all of it.

So maybe I should be using electrum. Lol. I download armory and didn't like the GUI...I'm a bit more familiar with bitcoin core now. Electrum looks like it might be nice but I like the security of bitcoin core. Another I might like is mSigna.

Yeah, I tried that. and it didn't work. It was loading a couple years behind.
So this is my current situation. This is what I did. I copied the C:\Users\sony\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin to a folder on my external harddrive named "Bitcoin". I did this overnight so it wouldn't be interrupted. I copied and pasted the folder "bitcoin-0.10.0rc4-win64" from my desktop to the Bitcoin folder on my external. This is just the new 0.10.0rc4 bitcoin client, presumably a beta release or something.
Loaded the external on a different laptop.
I tried opening bitcoin-qt.exe from the "bitcoin-0.10.0rc4-win64/bin" folder and when it loaded it was a couple years behind.
Sent a shortcut of bitcoin-qt.exe to desktop and put -datadir="H:/Bitcoin"... and its taking a loooong time to load blocks. I'll post when it does.

I do remember the private key, so I should be able to "import" that into bitcoin core and it should then be in that wallet free of charge, correct? Well that Sounds good until reading this:
Before reading this page, users should note that messing with ECDSA private keys is very dangerous and can result in losing bitcoins, even long after the import. It is recommended that outside of self-generated vanity addresses, users should never import (or export) private keys.
I'm not even sure what the entirety means but there are several warnings of importing with BitCoin core.

What if I did a request for payment from bitcoin core -> greenaddress, would there be a fee for that?

I am having problems copying my bitcoin core over to my external hard drive though. Thank God it's still on my C:\ right now. I followed that link and copied and pasted the roaming\bitcoin directory to my hd and loaded that on a different laptop and it was out of sync by a couple years. More searching and I came across a way with using mlink dos command and I've tried a couple variations of that and still no luck. And it takes sooo damn long to copy and paste this to my slow 5400 rpm external.

Isnt that the same as what blockchain.info is?
It looks like an output was created at -50.20 when I tried to import it to blockchain... and it shows I have the current 50.12 now in greenaddress.


I got 34 weeks left....and I'm wondering if there's a way I can pick this bitcoin core wallet up and put it on a different drive...by just copy & paste. to get it off my c drive. Without restarting the download all over....ughhh....

And im wondering how I'm gonna get my coins out of green address without paying a fee. maybe importing in bitcoin core once it's connected. Or maybe In blockchain, there I can set the fee default to "Frugal" - A Miners fee will not be included unless absolutely essential. Transactions will be significantly slower to confirm. But Im not sure if GreenAddress is gonna charge when the transaction is made? I wouldn't be surprised it seems like it would.

Shit. I got impatient. So after reading more about wallets and bitcoin in general, decided to go with GreenAddress, just so I could play with my btc until the bitcoin core finished downloading. I thought the reviews I read were good. So I got my private key from the bitcoin core command prompt and went to sweep that key in GreenAddress...cool cool, until I see there's a .001 fee...and im like, shit, I've already lost a few dollars, lol, quick!!, I gotta get this key to a wallet that doesn't charge me, before greenaddress receives it (I read greenaddress was slow transferring). So I load up my blockchain wallet... and go to the Import/Export section and import the private key...they said something about whether I want to import or sweep, I'm pretty sure I clicked sweep and an error occured then I hit import and it looked like it was gonna go through. I watched, hoping it'd go to Blockchain.
I mean shit, It's my money. I understand there has to be fees when doing certain things. But all I'm trying to do it get a handle on the money I already own!! Ah shit.
Blockchain wallet got it...
but didnt keep it.
Smfh....
In my blockchain wallet balance it shows me there's been 2 transactions. It looks like 1 is from me sweeping/importing the key, and another is sending. Sending it? Where? I guess to greenaddress. ?? I never sent it there, I was trying to import it from bitcoin core before it ever got to greenaddress. But if it's been sent, Im sure there was a fee for that too.
I've lost about 5 dollars since I started this... the same 5 dollars I wasnt going to spend had they not told me if I spent 50 I'd get 55....What's worse is I realize I dont WANNA use green address..... After reading more reviews about it it sounds like its shit. I already dont like it. It's like I'm losing money every time I open my wallet.

Newar, I live in the US. and thanks for letting me about Circle...I'll check them out. in the mean time I'm gonna run this new bitcoin and see whats up with that

LOL I know there are so many posts with the same title.
Sorry, but I'm tired of searching. I keep coming up on some of the same shit and would like to try something different.

This has been somewhat of a mini nightmare...and a humbling learning experience. I was curious about bitcoins, and wanted to learn. So...
After registering on several exchanges, getting them all the information that is necessary for them to sell me bitcoins (videos of me holding my license...blah blah blah) Finally I found one that would work for me. The others wouldn't let me type in my whole credit card, which is how I would be buying bitcoin in the first place, or some other whacky shit goin on.
So I guess my first, yet least important question would be what exchange can I buy bitcoins from and send/receive without a fee, or, at least the cheapest?

I found coin.mx... My goal was to get bitcoins, just bitcoins. But instead of buying bitcoins, I see I have to deposit cash then buy bitcoins.  So Cool, I'll just deposit cash. And found out I couldn't deposit just a couple dollars... So fine, I deposited more. but oh wait if you deposit 50 we'll give you an extra $5! So I did that. Lol. This whole time I've been playing with bitcoin core, and *can't wait* to see my coins from coin.mx to my new wallet!! .... I mean, I thought that they would go directly to my bitcoin core from there.... but I realized it was up to me to get them to my bitcoin core wallet. it looks like if I withdraw/send the coins I have to pay a fee, but if I use send/request I won't have to. Wrong. Finally once I realized I was gonna have to pay a fee and that there was no other way around it, I stopped trying to send all of them, only the max amount I could with that fee. Yes, I surrendered to the 0.001 transaction fee. And that was the first successful send transaction out of 7.
And then I panicked. Where the fuck is my money?! I Know it might take a while for the confirmations and all, but I realized something was wrong when I noticed my wallet said "out of sync". Ahhh so I find out bitcoin core has to sync to the blockchain. I was completely oblivious to this.......... I'm realizing how little I can know about something. Humbling, because usually when I study something new for about a week I think I "got it". Nope, this is not the case for crypto currency. It's not that I haven't done my research, it's that there is so much research available and I skimped over some of the basics. So please bare with me.

To speed this process up I downloaded bootstrap.dat from https://bitcoin.org/en/download... it said to put it in the program directory so I put it in c:\program files\bitcoin... restarted my wallet and it was still the same. after a google search I realize it should be in C:\Users\sony\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin...So I do that and it's still behind. I've got like 5 blocks in the bottom of my screen and am a year and 36 weeks behind. Is it in the wrong folder? I've tried \blocks \chainstate and \database and still, I don't see a difference. Also worth noting I didn't really pay a whole lotta attention to how far behind I was BEFORE I downloaded the bootstrap.dat. So.. maybe it worked? But it seems that if I move it around to an irrelevant folder nothing changes....... So I'd assume its not working like it should.
So I've tried using loadblock=/~/bootstrap.dat in the cmd, no luck... And I've followed a few other suggestions and still, no help. What am I doing wrong? Bitcoin core 0.9.3.0 by the way, Windows 7 64bit. Also, should I download a newer bootstrap.dat? I see there's a few others and maybe mine's obsolete. But first I would have to know where to put it, cuz I've never restarted the app and saw where it said "loading bootstrap.dat" or any indication it was loading anything different.


And I see that 1 year and 34 Weeks behind isn't that bad.... But, I'd like my coins now, I wanna play with them, send them around, practice learning this thing. So.... I've found how to use bitcoin core's command to tell me the private key of the address. And I know I should probably read more into addresses and keys, but I think I could probably open a new wallet elsewhere (preferably a desktop wallet) and with the key and the address I'd be able to receive my money. Would this be possible? I've signed up on blockchain and see I could do it there under import/export but am afraid I'd mess something up. Also, I'd rather be using a desktop wallet. preferably, bitcoin core!!! I tried armory and a few others but just felt like bitcoin core was safer and easier to use, and I like the gui compared to the others I've tried.


What can I do?