How can i safely get some bitcoins?

couldnt tell u m8 started myself depends what u want, i just want coins without giving my details to some russian mobster. U wanna make profit? probs not no. The guys who profit off this build huge farms of specialist linux boxes and probs steal leccy from other premesis. For a home PC of average spec? You wont make money at an appreciable rate.
 
Ultra_Extreme said:
well ill check back in a decade or so if i got some coins, pretty impressive in some ways if coins are like almost £20 each!? but gonna take me some damn time to get 10 for sure!
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even mygox is saying https://mtgox.com/index.html?Currency=GBP
19quid per btc and thats like the stock exchange of bitcoin almost.


buying coins their sucks though as it takes days where as you might aswell by 5% more at localbitcoins and have them within a few mins

(if you were to be buying them)

I don't see the point in mining BTC anymore unless you would be buying them anyway
 
Ultra_Extreme said:
For some reason a service i use a lot has recently changed subscription to bitcoins and the whole process of getting them is a PITA and looks very dodgy. Im experienced in IT but id like to know if anyone has worked with bitcoins before and what they would reccommend for getting some, itll be a one off 10 coin purchase and ill probs never use them again.
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To be fair this "service" must be very dodgy if the only accepted payment method is bitcoins...
 
arknor said:
even mygox is saying https://mtgox.com/index.html?Currency=GBP
19quid per btc and thats like the stock exchange of bitcoin almost.


buying coins their sucks though as it takes days where as you might aswell by 5% more at localbitcoins and have them within a few mins

(if you were to be buying them)

I don't see the point in mining BTC anymore unless you would be buying them anyway
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yeah thats my thing, if i make 10 coins in a yr for free i get lifetime membership to my 'service' and basically earn myself 200 quid
 
It's not much of a barrier for entry when you can buy bitcoins as easily as paying for a subscription using a credit card... Doesn't really make business sense if you're not running a dodgy service either, elitist or not.
 
Energize said:
It's not much of a barrier for entry when you can buy bitcoins as easily as paying for a subscription using a credit card... Doesn't really make business sense if you're not running a dodgy service either, elitist or not.
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not a barrier to entry? Tell your mum to buy a bitcoin and sign up m8, and dont show her how?

inb4 a russian is buying rubbercocs with your mums CC

it is a barrier. Not to a nerd. But a shedload of the net users are not nerds today.
 
'Harry said:
Clever...also extremely pricey based on 1 coin is 20 quid.
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if i had me any drugs id sell em to get these bloody bitcoins lol. Kinda funny when u think about it, millions of high end GPU's working worldwide so you cat get schnizzled on a saturday night. How many coins for rohipnol? Bet thats popular!
 
'Harry said:
Clever...also extremely pricey based on 1 coin is 20 quid.
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those are prices before the value of bitcoins rapidly increased look at the date of the articles.
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As you can see from this graph the price of bitcoins has doubled since the start of january and those articles are from before then. (as I said earlier the rapid rise is because the bitcoin generation code was preset set so there wont be an unlimited amount of coins to mine, recently one of these was triggered and it halved the amount of BTC's you get from a block from 50 to 25
the cost of something in bitcoins now should be a lot less than it used to be.
all of these "mile stones" are listed on the bitcoin wiki and have been known for along time.

I suspect whatever service the OP is trying to pay for have failed to notice the value of bitcoins has risen 100% and have not reduced the cost in bitcoins to reflect this or they are waiting for the price to stabilise again

usually services/things are hedged against the USD cost of a bitcoin.
so service costs 10$ and the price of a btc is 10$ then it costs 1btc.
if the value of a bitcoin rises to 20$ the price should automaticly be reduced to 0.5bitcoins.

if i had me any drugs id sell em to get these bloody bitcoins lol. Kinda funny when u think about it, millions of high end GPU's working worldwide so you cat get schnizzled on a saturday night. How many coins for rohipnol? Bet thats popular!
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Bitcoin wasn't made so people could sell drugs on the internet and have barely any risk of ever being caught.

it was created to be an internet currency that governments have no control over

I doubt the creators ever imagined their currency would ever be used in that way
 
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Ultra_Extreme said:
not a barrier to entry? Tell your mum to buy a bitcoin and sign up m8, and dont show her how?

inb4 a russian is buying rubbercocs with your mums CC

it is a barrier. Not to a nerd. But a shedload of the net users are not nerds today.
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Allowing every "nerd" in is not in any way Elite, and perhaps the fact that you were unable to find out where to buy bitcoins from google suggests something about yourself...

Creating a barrier to people buying your services is the antithesis of a business, so that makes no sense, the only other logical conclusion one can draw from using an obscure currency as a sole payment method is due to an inability to sell their product/service through conventional channels due to illegality. I never suggested drugs but based on your typing I wouldn't rule them out...
 
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Energize said:
Creating a barrier to people buying your services is the antithesis of a business, so that makes no sense, the only other logical conclusion one can draw from using an obscure currency as a sole payment method is due to an inability to sell their product/service through conventional channels due to illegality. I never suggested drugs but based on your typing I wouldn't rule them out...
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didn't some new megaupload style site start recently that only accepts bitcoins? maybe they are doing a life long membership or something
 
As with any technology (including the very technology that's allowing you to communicate through this forum), sex, drugs and rock'n'roll drive it's early adoption.

There is much more to Bitcoins - details on where it can be earned and spent are here - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade, more general introduction information here - http://www.weusecoins.com.

I am happy to share what I know about Bitcoins and the underlying technology, with those who are open to the technology and the benefits it can provide society overall.

Many on here bemoan the bloated government / public sector - is a digital version of cash being a massive threat to the continuing ability to fund that, something supported or not ? People will still pay tax to fund public services, it is just that those providing the public service will have to be considerably more accountable, transparent and efficient - no more cushty 7 figure salaries for the heads of the local council, who do nothing day in day out OR worse, make it harder for those doing productive good work.

It's pretty obvious why such a disruptive technology is given such bad press by those it threatens most.

arknor said:
yea people who buy drugs from a certain website on the hidden internet

22m $ per year goes through that website according to authorities and they cant do a damn thing about it because its running on a p2p version of the internet where everyone is anonymous and because its bitcoins they cant trace the payments to a person.

must be about the only thing making bitcoins have any real value
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scrlk said:
I can just about comprehend the anarchy that would arise if the price of Bitcoins crashed.
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only noobs keep a pile of bitcoins in their wallet.

I Remember some forbes article ages ago when a bitcoin was worth like 6$ even back then the largest amount of coins in a single bit wallet was worth 2.6million USD :O

their now worth like 40usd thought and whoever that was must be stinking rich if he did keep the bitcoins and not cash out early

I guess when you have so much bitcoins its hard to get rid of them though and you would have to do thousands and thousands of small trades :D
 
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To answer the OPs question ... the best way, is the best way you get Pounds Sterling today ... earn them. Take your skills set and offer the fruits of it to those willing to pay for them. Maybe it's proof reading a document, advising someone on a technical problem with their gaming PC, designing a logo, composing an audio track ... the list is endless. The most important thing is that the middlemen are cut back as much as possible when you use Bitcoins - no skimming of 2% here and 3% there ... the counterside is that there is little to no protection, so trust, reputation and honour become fundamental - same with paper cash transactions.
 
I've used Intersango in the past and was completely happy with them. I've watched the owner of that company present at the London Hackspace and chatted with him. Seemed a perfectly stand up guy.
 
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