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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: gizmo1980 on April 02, 2013, 07:00 am
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I've just recently joined and need help on how to fund my bit coin account,I'm really thick with computers so could you make it simple. Thanks in advance. Gizmo1980. Cheers
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What country are you in?
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I am also sort of just starting out but I've been "just starting" for the past 3 weeks so I'm where you at just a little more understanding I guess. I'd be happy to explain to you what I've used up to this point.
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I too am new and all the reading tonight still has me south of nowhere on so much.
1. best and most secure way to buy btc
2.dollar to btc exchange rates ?
3. anything else you feel we need to know so we can place orders pretty quickly. I am ready to purchase tomorrow.
Thx !
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Check out the link in my signature newbs, some helpful shit in there...
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I too am new and all the reading tonight still has me south of nowhere on so much.
1. best and most secure way to buy btc
2.dollar to btc exchange rates ?
3. anything else you feel we need to know so we can place orders pretty quickly. I am ready to purchase tomorrow.
Thx !
I want you to imagine I am hitting you on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.
No! No! No!
If you are unsure on points one and two you are certainly not going to be ready to purchase tomorrow. Please read the forum guides, that's what they are there for!
V.
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I too am new and all the reading tonight still has me south of nowhere on so much.
1. best and most secure way to buy btc
2.dollar to btc exchange rates ?
3. anything else you feel we need to know so we can place orders pretty quickly. I am ready to purchase tomorrow.
Thx !
Sadly you will not be able to make a purchase tomorrow.
But here is the answers you will be looking for.
To change your money into bitcoins you will need a bank account.
If you have a bank account you will need to know your account number and the line of numbers that show up on the bottom of a check. You know the ones I'm
talking about.
Next you will go to coinbase.com
Obviously you will be creating an account with them.
To be able to buy the bitcoins from this service you will then need to link your bank account with them. (This is where the account number and check number
will come into play)
I know you will want to just be able to use your debit card to buy bitcoins but that's just not gunna happen.
Once you have this information filled out, the verification process will take about 5 days.
In my case coinbase.com had to take an extra precautionary measure and put a small amount of money into my bank account and I then had to tell them the
amount they put in. I go into such detail about this as a way to enforce the security that this place has to ease any worries you might have about giving
away so much confidential information.
Once all the bank information has been verified with coinbase you are now able to purchase your first bitcoin!
As I type this one bitcoin has risen to about 100 dollars. (american)
A little tip that I suggest is in your sr setting change the currency to show the dollar amount at the begging for a better perspective on the "real world prices."
It will take 3 or so days for the order to be processed for your coin.
Once the coin has arrived in your coinbase.com account you will need to transfer that over to silkroad.
To do so send your money to your specialized bitcoin silkroad address.
To see it you will go to your account then the click here to make a deposit button.
It will then show you your bitcoin address!
Now go back over to coinbase.com and send your money over.
You make think that you are now ready to make your fist purchase on silkroad.
I'm sorry but not quite yet.
This thing we're doing isn't some amazon one click buy type of shit.
You are going to need to actually communicate with the vendors.
It's easy to disassociate yourself from the idea behind those usernames you see are actual people.
And like you they want their transactions to be as safe as possible to not get thrown in jail.
You will need to learn to encrypt and decrypt messages.
To do so you're going to need a few applications.
I'll just start by saying I'm on a mac:
GPG (https://gpgtools.org/installer/index.html)
Textmate (http://macromates.com/download)
The GPG will basically be used as an address keeper.
Textmate will be used to make and decrypt messages.
Now you may think this all seems a little over the top and not necessary for you to learn but the fact is no one will do business with you if you're not encrypting
your messages so fucking learn this.
Before you make your first purchase you really need to practice sending and receiving these encrypted messages.
You don't want to make an ass out of yourself infront of these cool drug dealer guys by sending a fucked up email that he can't read.
In GPG create a new key. You can use any email and name you want it doesn't matter.
The messages you receive or send or whatever will not show up at that place.
I suggest using your real name and an email that relates to your silkroad username.
You'll then choose a secret passphrase. This passphrase will be used later on so don't forget it.
To use textmate efficiently you are going to need to change the settings
on your mac.
Go to settings and then go to the keyboard options.
In the left column on the keyboard options you're gunna go to the services.
If you scroll down far enough you will eventually see the boxes for the GPG settings. Select all of those.
Now that we're done setting this up it's now time to put it in action.
We'll start by setting up your first address in your GPG keychain.
For example I'll use Scout who's a pretty big deal in the sr forum world.
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XQP/Ata25o5EqIRIZKlLxMHbGfXFrd3CNPA8cJcmxE1aH4ZkOVqLFZBsYuRmex+i
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lpo9Y+s/1SoYBfB0WMBC44N5jLVcuy+ezoC/lm6R9n8wtmCu
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-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
You will highlight everything from the first set of ----'s to the last set of ----'s nothing before nothing after.
Copy this and bring it over to text mate.
Select the whole thing obviously and right click and choose services.
Click on "Import Key From Selection"
This is what we call a public key. You need this in your address book for you and him to exchange messages.
But to do so you're also going to need to know your public key.
Start by going to text mate.
Don't write anything just right click and select "Insert My Key"
Now that you have Scout and Your personal keys it's time to send your first message.
In the same textmate document that you already have up with your key inserted into it skip down a few lines.
Type the message that you want scout to read.
Highlight your whole message and choose "Encrypt Selection" in the services menu
You will have a box come up asking what recipients you would like to choose to be able to read the message.
Check the boxes for scout and yourself.
Before you press ok you then need to select your secret key that you made earlier.
Now you can press ok.
The message that you typed out will now be converted into something that looked similar to a public key.
Copy that whole entire text make document now.
Go over to the sr forums.
Get to scout's username. (You can find him pretty easily by just going to the newbie discussion PGP stickied thread.)
Send him that private message you worked so fucking hard to make.
You should now be able to make your first purchase on the silk road.
Enjoy
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I'm not going to quote all of the above but you most certainly do not need a bank account to obtain BTC. There are plenty of methods where you could have them tomorrow using just cash. You haven't answered with what country you are in, but if you're in the US you can pm me and I will give you some suggestions. I don't want to type them all out here and then have you say you're in the UK or Aus. :D
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I'm not going to quote all of the above but you most certainly do not need a bank account to obtain BTC. There are plenty of methods where you could have them tomorrow using just cash. You haven't answered with what country you are in, but if you're in the US you can pm me and I will give you some suggestions. I don't want to type them all out here and then have you say you're in the UK or Aus. :D
If you're in the UK/Europe you can use localbitcoins dot com, PM me if you get stuck. Sorry for being irritable before, was overseeing an important deal.
V.