Bitcoin is a digital cryptographic currency that allows users from all around the globe to trade anonymously, instantly, and irreversibly without the risk of central banks freezing your assets.
Here is a list of possible ways and places you can obtain bitcoins from.
You can also purchase your bitcoin through selected vendors who are willing to trade their bitcoin for fiat currency through escrow or hand-to-hand transactions on Alpaca.
If you have purchased bitcoin using a credit card, bank transfer or other services that can link your bitcoin transactions to your real identity, you may want to consider using one or more of the Bitcoin Tumbling Services before you spend them here on Alpaca.
It is wise to make sure you break the link between your coins and your identity. Here is a reddit page that maintains a list of legitimate bitcoin tumbling services.
Alpaca is all multisig and you have full control over your deposit addresses.
We recommend you download and install your own bitcoin-qt client and use this to manage your funds. There are also many other wallets you can choose and download from, e.g. Electrum which may be slightly easier to use. If you choose to enable manual multisig from your account settings, then note that Electrum does not surrently support signing 3-4 transactions.
Before you proceed to install your bitcoin client, make sure you do the following:
Turn off your internet after you've downloaded your client.