Isn't bitcoin worth nearly $300 per coin?

[willmon22]

If this is the case then how would you convert your coins to cash? I thought these virtual coins were only used for things online and not able to get money out of them.

[tonyq]

There are exchanges where you can buy and sell bitcoin at the going rate.
Various other ways of selling them too.

[willmon22]

So you can't just sell the amount you have. You have to have enough to put it up for selling in the trade I guess.

[Mike Christ]

So you can't just sell the amount you have. You have to have enough to put it up for selling in the trade I guess.

Why wouldn't you be able to sell what you have?

[mogrith]

depends on where you are. In the USA with a coinbase account you can cash out BTC and it will deposit USD into your bank account. You do need to setup and confirm the account which is a lot like doing it for paypal

[willmon22]

Well since my laptop isn't good enough for mining. Can someone tell me what the minimum requirements for mining bitcoin would be? The best I have is a Radeon HD 4600 with a quad core processor that is 2Ghz a core I think.

[ReBoRn]

you can cash-out these easily now many exchangers giving this service and you can check all in the exchange section

[Birdy]

Well since my laptop isn't good enough for mining. Can someone tell me what the minimum requirements for mining bitcoin would be? The best I have is a Radeon HD 4600 with a quad core processor that is 2Ghz a core I think.

Don't try to get into mining, it's not a good idea.

[Ricke]

Before using the bank account for buying or selling Bitcoins, do a intense Google recherch if and when your bank is known to freeze accounts involved in Bitcoin transfers.

[Viperbass]

Well since my laptop isn't good enough for mining. Can someone tell me what the minimum requirements for mining bitcoin would be? The best I have is a Radeon HD 4600 with a quad core processor that is 2Ghz a core I think.

Unfortunately it will cost you more in electricity then to mine with your GFX card and unfortunately all mining HW at this stage is very risky with a projected 30% increases every fortnight, especially from Jan
next year when the top end machines arrive and get plugged into the system.

[willmon22]

Well if mining isn't a good idea then how would I go about getting bitcoins? Mining seems like the only way I can think of to get them for nothing.

[Mike Christ]

You must either trade fiat for them or work for them; it is money.

[tonyq]

Well if mining isn't a good idea then how would I go about getting bitcoins? Mining seems like the only way I can think of to get them for nothing.

You can always win them!
 
www.bitcoinpunter.com

[mogrith]

Faucets?

Mining on your CPU/GPU is like digging the grand canyon with a spoon and you are in a race with people that have fleets of earthmovers.

You can dig but you are better off trying faucets. Do some searches here for lists.

Tahe the amount of money you send going to one movie with soda and popcorn, and buy that much in BTC every week instead.

Don't pay a lot of attention to how much BTC went up or down over the last day or two. Week over week it will grow plenty.

[mindfulmojo]

What I've been learning to do it start small with the earning sites, and invest in various bitcoin websites, likes casinos...

It's nice since I started earning the bitcoin, is how much it has gone up...

There also a lot of sites selling bitcoins for giftcards...

http://www.gyft.com and quite a few others, so that's as good as cash in my book.

Check out my investment area in my site for good place to invest, I haven't done the exchanges yet though...

[willmon22]

Well I have been looking more and found a faucet site that is called coinreaper. So I decided to try it out and it would seem that it is all over the place some of the sites go to coinbox.me and others go to who knows where. Does anyone know of a good faucet that has all sites that go to the coinbox.me site? As it seems like the easiest way unless someone knows of a even better site.

[hope4me]

Before using the bank account for buying or selling Bitcoins, do a intense Google recherch if and when your bank is known to freeze accounts involved in Bitcoin transfers.

For what reason, antilaudering laws?
Seems interesting, I thought bank accounts are safe and only paypal is freezing

[bluemystic]

We saw crazy high prices back in April and we are seeing the same thing, not sure how long it will last...

[willmon22]

Has anyone seen sites like coinreaper with lots of the sites putting the coins in coinbox?

[mogrith]

most of the coinbox faucets have a link to another coinbox faucet you can follow that chain quite a while. also do some searches of these forums