How To Buy Bitcoins
Coinbase If you don’t mind waiting a couple of days, the easiest and cheapest way to get your hands on some bitcoins is to sign up with Coinbase and link your bank account. Coinbase charges a low 1%...
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Sending bitcoins Sending bitcoins is as easy as copying and pasting someone else’s address, choosing an amount, and clicking send. This may seem backwards to people used to supplying credit card...
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Sean Cornwell Sean is an industrial engineer who has been involved in mining, buying, selling, and trading bitcoin for three years. He and John co-founded BTC Gear in 2012. John Atkinson John is a...
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In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System which outlines the fundamental concepts that Bitcoin is built upon. In January 2009, the first block...
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Many individuals have used Bitcoin purely as an investment vehicle, treating it similarly to a commodity to exchange. Like any other volatile investment, this has had mixed results, but as a whole the...
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Address ~ A Bitcoin address is a unique string of 27-34 alphanumeric characters. An address can be created freely with the use of a wallet and always starts with a 1 or a 3. Alternate Currencies ~...
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Anonymity
Bitcoin is often described as an anonymous currency because it is possible to send and receive bitcoins without giving any personally identifying information. However, achieving reasonable anonymity...
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Mobile Apps
One of the best ways to use Bitcoin is through your smartphone. Let’s face it, Bitcoin works a lot better if you can take it with you and use it in person just as easily as if you were sitting on your...
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