How Do You Buy BTC?

[JR77]

1. Use bitstmap

2. mining Alt coins

[clovex]

How do I get fiat to buy Bitcoin? 

[minerpumpkin]

I'm surprised, but also a bit proud! There aren't as many people around here who say 'Mt. Gox'!
I like Bitstamp

[P509SHO]

Mining I can Use

[Simon8x]

How do I get fiat to buy Bitcoin? 

The easiest way is to earn fiat IMHO is to get a job (full time, part time or freelance)

[Tammy Chan]

I use both BTC-e and localbitcoins.
BTC-e when I want to get bitcoin at a cheaper price, localbitcoins when I need the coin ASAP.

[coinbuyer]

i use mybitcoinsusa.com
then again i use digicoins.
they are simply the best, best support and best fees.

[chogath]

I always had interacted with face to face transactions & exchange of BTC. More like exchange of service with the other party or taking some assistance. 

[WillyBTC]

Atm or face to face when i finally buy some.

Isn't there a sizeable fee on ATM purchases? Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I could have sworn I heard rates upwards of 10%, maybe even 20%, it's been a while. Never actually seen one of these.

[Cloaca26]

On my local website where you can buy/sell bitcoins, never had problems with It.

[littlewizard]

Most of my BTC is bought by Altcoin, on exchanges such as Cryptsy

[Peter882]

I use bank transfer to move money to Bitstamp, and buy bitcoin there.
It works well for me, the only problem is that you need to verify your ID first.

[bitrex]

Localbitcoins,they have escrow

[poisenrang]

buy BTC via the exchange>markets>buy  good luck on searching it if you didnt find it yet before posting this thread.

[FUR11]

Atm or face to face when i finally buy some.

Isn't there a sizeable fee on ATM purchases? Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I could have sworn I heard rates upwards of 10%, maybe even 20%, it's been a while. Never actually seen one of these.

Yeah, they're really expensive. You're right, you're paying one hell of a premium if you buy at an Bitcoin ATM! Also, many of those require you to leave your finger-/handprints and input all kinds of personal information and your ID

[shockinglyugly]

Atm or face to face when i finally buy some.

Isn't there a sizeable fee on ATM purchases? Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I could have sworn I heard rates upwards of 10%, maybe even 20%, it's been a while. Never actually seen one of these.

Yeah, they're really expensive. You're right, you're paying one hell of a premium if you buy at an Bitcoin ATM! Also, many of those require you to leave your finger-/handprints and input all kinds of personal information and your ID

I don't think the premium that you pay is quite that high. Even if you leave your fingerprints at the ATM you can easily use a mixer to disassociate the coins you buy with your identity.

[BowieMan]

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

There are still only centralized exchanges as of now, even over 1 year after you posted this. I think some of the exchanges nowadays are actually rather trustworthy. I won't mind buying at BitStamp or Coinbase, Kraken... But there still are shady exchanges like BTC-e where it is completely unknown from where they even operate their exchange!

[LorettaAndrews]

you should chooce btc-e
Btc-e is the cheapest price of bitcoin

[clovex]

localbitcoins

[DannyElfman]

Bitstamp mostly. Sometimes using bitfinex.