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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: floof on January 10, 2013, 02:25 am
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*How do you get bitcoins?
i use to use BTCKing, but hes not longer in business.
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Since I am new here as well this might be like the blind leading the blind but I just read a thread on this yesterday so ill give it a try.
Step one - create an account at mtgox.com.
Step two - create an account at dwolla.com which works like papal and you can use that to put cash into your account so that you can buy coins at mtgox with a bank account, or pre-paid card.
Then you can transfer your coins to SR by whatever means you want though tumbling is suggested. It takes time ( a few days) to do all of this but is supposedly the cheapest and safest way to do this.
I wish I could find the thread to link you to because it 1000x better than the wikki and any other information I have read. It was an excellent thread.
I tried to search it 4 ya but the search bar keeps saying that I just did a search 4 sec ago.
I could be wrong about some details but hope it is enough info for you to get in the right direction.
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Easiest way to get bitcoin....
1. open tor
2. go to www.bitinstant.com
3. create mailinator.com email address to have coins sent to.
4. make up a fake name dob and phone number
5. enter fake info into bitinstant website
6. print out order form
7. go to walmart or cvs
8. fill out moneygram form/pick up red phone
9. give info to clerk along with cash
10. get in your car
11. drive home
12. look in email
13. bitcoin will be there.
i've fucked with the individual brokers...tend to be more expensive and since you're dealing with an actual person, it takes longer for the orders to fill...bitinstant is automatic and have had my bitcoin in 20 minutes 9 times outa 10
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hey there.. i tried dwolla but it's asking for my social security number.. i'm not quite comfortable with giving them this info. is there a thread or info regarding this?
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How to you get bitcoins in an email. I can see how a wallet might work but e-mail is just a text file.
Can someone explain how this works.
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Easiest way to get bitcoin....
1. open tor
2. go to www.bitinstant.com
3. create mailinator.com email address to have coins sent to.
4. make up a fake name dob and phone number
5. enter fake info into bitinstant website
6. print out order form
7. go to walmart or cvs
8. fill out moneygram form/pick up red phone
9. give info to clerk along with cash
10. get in your car
11. drive home
12. look in email
13. bitcoin will be there.
i've fucked with the individual brokers...tend to be more expensive and since you're dealing with an actual person, it takes longer for the orders to fill...bitinstant is automatic and have had my bitcoin in 20 minutes 9 times outa 10
That looks like a way better way to go. Especially if you want your coins faster and more anonymous.
Do you still have to use a service like dowlla to transfer your funds to Sr or where ever?
Last night I noticed that you can't use tor or any proxy to access mtgox. You can, but there is a huge warning at the bottom of the screen saying it could result in you accounts being frozen.
However, you don't need to be 100 % anonymous just to by coins. People buy them for a variety of reasons so just owning coins isn't illegal at all.
A little concerned about dowlla asking for SSN.
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Easiest way to get bitcoin....
1. open tor
2. go to www.bitinstant.com
3. create mailinator.com email address to have coins sent to.
4. make up a fake name dob and phone number
5. enter fake info into bitinstant website
6. print out order form
7. go to walmart or cvs
8. fill out moneygram form/pick up red phone
9. give info to clerk along with cash
10. get in your car
11. drive home
12. look in email
13. bitcoin will be there.
i've fucked with the individual brokers...tend to be more expensive and since you're dealing with an actual person, it takes longer for the orders to fill...bitinstant is automatic and have had my bitcoin in 20 minutes 9 times outa 10
That looks like a way better way to go. Especially if you want your coins faster and more anonymous.
Do you still have to use a service like dowlla to transfer your funds to Sr or where ever?
Last night I noticed that you can't use tor or any proxy to access mtgox. You can, but there is a huge warning at the bottom of the screen saying it could result in you accounts being frozen.
However, you don't need to be 100 % anonymous just to by coins. People buy them for a variety of reasons so just owning coins isn't illegal at all.
A little concerned about dowlla asking for SSN.
na...you just give the clerk cash money. bitinstant emails you a link to a wallet with your coin in it. and you just send it where ever from there. so fucken easy...it cost 5% and max deposit is 500. so you get 475 worth of coins. i consider that rape...i think as time passes we will see more competitive tranasaction rates
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So I hope I finally have a grasp of this. Here in the US the fastest/ anonymous way to purchase bit coin:
Cash deposit using using moneygram to bitinstant ( using fake info but has to be the some for both ) which will deposit coins into my wallet,
From there I should move the coins through a couple of other (disposable) wallets or use tumbling service.
Finally to Sr which further tumbles coins till depositing onto my Sr wallet.
With this method you don't need a mtgox account at all. You just need a wallet somewhere.
Sorry for the questions on this but it is the only part I can't seem to wrap my head around. The information out there is confusing because there so many different ways to do it.
The cheaper way would be to link a bank account to an exchange like mtgox then transfer funds to a wallet then mix/ tumble then to Sr.
This method gets you the best exchange rate and fees are a lot less but your coins are traceable back you your bank account and this method can take a while to set up.
Does it sound like I have a better grasp of this? Been doing a lot of reading on it. I have used tor and pgp for a long time so I know how to use all of that. Just trying to grasp buying and moving bitcoins.