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How to Buy Bitcoin Anywhere in the World

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Re: How to Buy Bitcoin Anywhere in the World

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I think the more interesting guide would be how to buy Bitcoins anonymously.

After what I found the best ways to do this is to a) find someone who sells it directly (cash Bitcoin) or b) buy it de-annonymized and use a bitcoin tumbler for obfuscation.

> use a bitcoin tumbler for obfuscation.

Not a worthwhile amount of obfuscation (almost none), and it provides evidence of nefarious intent.

Re: How to Buy Bitcoin Anywhere in the World

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You can? Tell me more! That is widespread adoption

widespread adoption would imply people actually use it (which I have doubts about) -> I'd love to see bitcoin usage numbers relative to actual ATM usage from these

More widespread than I anticipated

Re: How to Buy Bitcoin Anywhere in the World

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How to buy bitcoin anywhere in the world, as long as it's in one of the 31 countries on the list.

Signed up and ... it's a news letter. sigh

That's a dark pattern. Clicking on the "x" on the top right to close that full page popup takes one to the actual article and the list of countries, Bitcoin exchanges and requirements.

Re: How to Buy Bitcoin Anywhere in the World

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After what I found the best ways to do this is to a) find someone who sells it directly (cash Bitcoin) or b) buy it de-annonymized and use a bitcoin tumbler for obfuscation.

> use a bitcoin tumbler for obfuscation. Not a worthwhile amount of obfuscation (almost none), and it provides evidence of nefarious intent.

Desire for privacy isn't evidence of nefarious intent any more than exercising your right to remain silent is evidence of guilt.

Re: How to Buy Bitcoin Anywhere in the World

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Interesting guide, I like the country overview, but it's actually Switzerland not Swiss.

Authors might be French-speaking, I've seen that error before. EDIT: Actually, after looking it up, this is interesting: In most languages except English, Switzerland is referred to by the adjective. That is, in Italian it's "Confederazione Svizzera," or just "Svizzera" for short, in French it's "Confédération suisse" or "Suisse"... huh!

In Portuguese it's "Suiça" (Suisse) or "Confederação Helvética" (CH).

Re: How to Buy Bitcoin Anywhere in the World

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> use a bitcoin tumbler for obfuscation. Not a worthwhile amount of obfuscation (almost none), and it provides evidence of nefarious intent.

Desire for privacy isn't evidence of nefarious intent any more than exercising your right to remain silent is evidence of guilt.

Well, I'm not a lawyer so maybe I said it wrong but if you keep coded notes, etc, I've heard it makes it much easier to prove intent.

Re: How to Buy Bitcoin Anywhere in the World

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The best way to buy alts is to buy bitcoin then convert to the altcoin of choice. out if curiosity, do you wantbto invest in alts or do you find them useful?

I want to put a little money into ETH and see what happens in a few years. I don't know much about other altcoins. What are the most popular / most useful ones?

I also wanted to invest in ETH longer term. What I did was buy ETH on Coinbase (they have both BTC and ETH), you can even get $10 with this referral link when you buy $100 BTC or more ;) https://www.coinbase.com/join/55dd9c5febf2ca0080000063

Here's a really useful website that lists altcoins by market cap and other factors: http://coinmarketcap.com/

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