[Qian]

How to begin
Buying bitcoins

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1. Register to LocalBitcoins. You get a free and secure online bitcoin wallet. No additional apps are needed.

2. Decide whether to

• buy bitcoins online with your online banking or cash deposits
  


• buy bitcoins with cash and meet the local seller face-to-face
  

3. Go to Find offers page.

4. Fill the form with your location, payment method and amount you wish to buy.

5. The site will list bitcoin traders available in your region.

6. From the trader list, choose a trader with good reputation score displayed after username.

7. Choose the bitcoin trader, press buy and send a trade request with a message to the trader:

• For online trade: you may need to ask further details how to pay.
  


• For cash trade: agree the meeting time and place.
  

8. Later to return to Dashboard under your User Profile to message with the seller.

9. After the seller gets the payment the seller releases the bitcoins and they instantly become available in your LocalBitcoins wallet.

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For the lazy, here is a great video on how to:

[Brendan]

Thanks for the posting this thread.

Hopefully people find it helpful.

[Regulus]

I'm sure a lots of members will have a good use of this.
Thanks for sharing buddy!

[RiperFish]

Helpfull post mate, Thanks for sharing.

[bandors]

You can also use coinbase.com for BTC

[DuguWudi]

A guide on trading on different sites would be nice instead of focussing on one particular site.

[B e r r y]

Thanks for this, helped me out a lot.

[Jenicke]

Now that the CE section is gone this tutorial will help a lot of people. Localbitcoins is a good way to purchase bitcoins , there are a hundreds of sellers online , and they can't scam you due the coins will be always under escrow.

Good tutorial.

[DuguWudi]

Now that the CE section is gone this tutorial will help a lot of people. Localbitcoins is a good way to purchase bitcoins , there are a hundreds of sellers online , and they can't scam you due the coins will be always under escrow.

Good tutorial.

You can still get scammed.

[Qian]

You can still get scammed.

It's a lot harder, since you only release the BTC after you have been sent what you needed and if you claim a dispute, LBTC investigate.

[DuguWudi]

It's a lot harder, since you only release the BTC after you have been sent what you needed and if you claim a dispute, LBTC investigate.

Not sure, I check my country thread in bitcoin forum, got alot of complaint getting scammed, I check them last year.

[kucykucy]

Thanks for sharing bro. I willl check them out