[Noisebridge-discuss] How do you buy bitcoins?

[Martin Bogomolni]

Ah, yes.. just because you haven't come across it, it must not exist.

*chuckle*

The real advantage is the Bitcoin is the "Tor" of currency.   Many
places, people, and businesses now accept it.

-M

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Ever Falling <everfalling at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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