How Do You Buy BTC?

[Jeteroll]

Hey guys, I was wondering how you buy bitcoins. What exchange/service do you use and why? I'm a newb and want to start buying some bitcoins and I'm leaning towards coinbase because of it's ease of payment, although I do not know how long it takes for bank transfers to complete. Gox is to centralized it seems, and getting money into Gox seems to be very hard, especially with Dwolla, which has many hoops on its own. I wish I could use a smaller exchange like Bitstamp, but I don't know how to easily deposit money there, and Bitinstant doesn't help much, I don't want to drive to do a cash deposit, and the fees are high. Thanks for your input
-Jet

[FocusMedia]

I do face to face trades, meeting people in real life.

[linolis]

I'm also new to BTC, but have recently joined and began using Mtgox, namely because they are currently the biggest. However, I do understand the criticisms of mtgox, manly them being unstable/ddos often, which seems to be occurring right now, as I cannot log on to mtgox.

[nuggium]

If you're in the US, this company just recently got $5mil by Union Square Ventures and operate out of SF. https://coinbase.com/

[AlternativeCypt]

#bitcoin-otc with highly trusted person, or cash deposits.

[theskillzdatklls]

i like dwolla to gox, nearly fee free, just takes time to implement.

[claycoins]

have only traded other coins for BTC so far.

[Sikon024]

BTC-E is a decent exchange.  Mt. Gox and bter are some other options for online trading.

[vane91]

of course, if you are in the US, you use dwolla, it's the cheapest!

[g0reDon]

i use bitcoin.de, fast and secure, never had any Problems, SEPA within of 2-3 days transfer is done, both ways

edit: spell correction

[jamesblack]

mtgox is the best

[bapakece]

I use exchanger, because I have money in other ecurrencies like Paypal or LR

and so far i use  Aurumxchange for my transactions...

I'm comfortable with their service, because the service is instant and realible rate exchange.

[bitkapp]

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[yeji7049]

I almost exclusively use coinbase.com

[legendster]

Hey guys, I was wondering how you buy bitcoins. What exchange/service do you use and why? I'm a newb and want to start buying some bitcoins and I'm leaning towards coinbase because of it's ease of payment, although I do not know how long it takes for bank transfers to complete. Gox is to centralized it seems, and getting money into Gox seems to be very hard, especially with Dwolla, which has many hoops on its own. I wish I could use a smaller exchange like Bitstamp, but I don't know how to easily deposit money there, and Bitinstant doesn't help much, I don't want to drive to do a cash deposit, and the fees are high. Thanks for your input
-Jet

You the services of sites like
btc-e.com
mtgox.com
virwox.com
bitstamp.net

How you can get your money INTO these exchanges have been discussed on this forum more number of times than anyone can remember or possibly count.
So do a little browsing around and find out which exchange has the best support for your country & so on.


You can also use the services of exchanges that are being operated by the forum members like
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=176877.msg1841315#msg1841315

and countless other Buy/Sell offers on the marketplace here :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=53.0

A fully detailed way of buying coins through Paypal is here :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=173966.0

[bozak]

Dwolla to CampBx is the best.  Not sure why, but CampBx has much faster Dwolla transfers than Gox and higher limits. 

[buddrulez]

Direct bank transfer is a good option if you can find someone you trust. Depends on where you live aswell.

[shields]

For the past two weeks I've been using www.bitcoin.de, I've done 5 transactions and all have been fine.

[calecho]

I buy btc from bitstamp.net

[miningusa]

Lots of trusted forum members selling bitcoins as well. Or you could sell something on the forum for bitcoins.