Friday, March 15, 2013

Essential Accounts

Here I'll list some exchanges and banks and such that you'll find handy if you're getting into earning bitcoin.

  • Mt.Gox - This is the number one exchange, essential for all who are serious about bitcoin.  Free account, easy and straightforward to sign up.
  • BTC-E - Another bitcoin exchange, while not as popular or reliable as Mt. Gox, some seem to prefer it's web UI. (By unreliable I mean down or inaccessible, not money-losey.) It is also possible to exchange between bitcoin and various other digital currencies here.
  • Liberty Reserve - An online bank, to which many linking and affiliate programs allow direct payment, from whom you can send money to Mt. Gox for BTC.  Free account, less easy to sign up. You'll be wanting to definitely screenshot/save the page they give you when you finish signing up, they won't e-mail it to you or otherwise show it again.
  • InstaWallet - If you haven't installed the bitcoin client yet, or want the security of keeping your coins off-site, this is a super-easy way to get a bitcoin wallet.  Don't lose or share your secure access link, you will lose all your coins.
  • The Bitcoin Client- Not really an "account" per se, but you will eventually want to get this to have a local wallet and a more direct way to see your transactions and other neat info.
  • Freenode - This is an IRC network, check out their site on how to get started with it.  Register a nickname, and check out #bitcoin, #bitcoin-market, #bitcoin-watch, and importantly #bitcoin-otc.  OTC is where you can trade bitcoin for other currencies and other (legal) stuff person to person.  Check out the wiki entry for more info on using it.  Beware scammers.  Check this page out for more IRC chats.

 

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