[Noisebridge-discuss] How do you buy bitcoins?

[Ever Falling]

what are the advantages of having currency in bitcoins? I've never come
across anywhere that accepts them.

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Martin Bogomolni <martinbogo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Nym,
>
> I use bitinstant when I need to convert USD to bitcoin.   They have a
> remarkably fast, and fairly anonymous way for me to make cash deposits
> at 7-11/Walmart/Walgreens/CVS and convert it to BTC with a ~3% fee.
>
> I also have one of the new BitInstant debit cards.  This will make
> conversion to/from BTC much easier.
>
> For quantities under $100, I also do personal exchanges using physical
> bitcoins from Casascius.
>
> -M
>
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Tom Longson (nym) <tomlong at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey Noisebridge,
> >
> > I put together this guide, which tries to help people out with real world
> > advice on how to buy bitcoins, using credit cards, cash, and a bunch of
> > different ways.
> >
> > http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/
> >
> > It doesn't go into detail too much about what bitcoins are (lots of
> people
> > have covered that) but it does try to make it easier to buy bitcoins.
> >
> > Once you have one, you might wanna go to get cupcakes on 9th st, or
> donate
> > to 1B5sJQ6Wu6AmK9xG5YTic4Nszw4PS7UMAM (noisebridge donations)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > nym
> >
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