I've bought bitcoin before, a wire transfer and a few hours later there is coin in my wallet. So far i've been lucky and bought when it was down and looking at the current trend I see an opportunity to get lucky again
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But now the vendor wants me to scan social security papers, passport and drivers license next to my face and upload it to vendor.com/surrenderyouridentityhere (and this is for small numbers, like 0.1btc and lower) ... I took a look a few other places and they sort of have the same conditions, to get verified(in order to use a credit card or wire transfer) you have to scan your identity and upload it to the internet. I am a privacy nut (I was on my vpn when I first registered here, that was a mistake) I cannot possibly scan any of those things and upload them to a semi random site on the internet.
So whats my options here? I have a 1080ti, is my only option to put it to use and pay the 'price' over the electrical bill?
Any legit exchange will ask you for your identity, unless it is lower then x amount.
Your best bet would probably be to P2P exchange with someone, on
https://localbitcoins.com/ for example. Some vendors require identity, some don't.
