Topic: Best way to acquire bitcoins if your under 18? Harder than you think :/ (Read 20841 times)

Buying bitcoins at 3 am using money outside of the bitcoin ecosystem is hard/impossible for almost everyone. Personally, my only choices at 3 am are an ING Direct P2P transfer, and Paypal (both of which you must be over 18). Few Americans would be awake, so ING is almost impossible, leaving just Paypal. If I didn't have one of the top 100 reputations here, even Paypal would be hard and/or costly.

Honestly, the best thing to do is to keep more money in the bitcoin ecosystem (not necessarily in bitcoin, itself, but maybe on an exchange) just in case. At any given time, I can instantly buy an additional few hundred dollars worth of bitcoins, just off of this reserve alone.

Yeah, but let me throw out a scenario. Its 3 in the morning and I need some quick bitcoins. I cant go anywhere to get them except for the internet.

Title pretty much explains it. I'm 17 and id like to know the easiest way I could get some BTC from the comfort of my home sitting in front of my computer. I have a debit / credit card and would like to know if there are any possible ways I can get some bitcoins. Just about every way you get bitcoins requires you to go through a site like dwolla or paypal or something of the nature and you have to be 18 to register on any major online banking / money transfer site and since most of them make you link your bank accounts or verify your CC info you cant get past the age requirement. I tried buying linden dollars through second life and transferring them in game to VirWox but anyone who knows this method probably knows about the risk API that flags new accounts. I even had a 2 year old account and was only able to transfer roughly 8000 linden which is about 5 bitcoins before it flagged me and I was no longer able too. I know I could try and buy from individual people certain ways but id like a trusted secure method if possible. Any input would be nice. Ive been trying to figure something out for a couple months with no luck. Ive made a few trips to the bank for cash deposits but the nearest bank is somewhat 40 minutes away and would just like a sit at home way to get my bitcoins. Any input would be great! Thanks guys, have a good one.

If you need fast bitcoins, I will sell you bitcoins when you want them. For a fee... That is if you can wake me up

If the problem is, that you need bitcoins at a certain time, but the only thing you have to exchange for them is a debit/credit card, then you're just about out of luck. There's really no way around that, since it's too easy to get scammed when selling bitcoins for debit/credit (same for Paypal.) Everyone who tries it goes out of business due to all the fraud.

Your only realistic solution is to use some other method of funding; if your age prevents you from using anything else besides cash, then that's just how it is. I understand it's pretty ridiculous to be 17 and be so restricted, but unfortunately that's how society works.

What I'd do in your situation: try to find someone who regularly sold bitcoins (maybe a miner,) and establish a good business relationship with them where I routinely bought bitcoins with cash. Then maybe they won't mind doing the occasional 3am deal.

Yeah, but let me throw out a scenario. Its 3 in the morning and I need some quick bitcoins. I cant go anywhere to get them except for the internet.

When the 21millionth bitcoin is mined, so after 100 years or something?

When the 21millionth bitcoin is mined, so after 100 years or something?

You are awesome. I am watching the market right now and It is hard to know if it is going to go up or down. The whole name of the game is to collect as many coins as possible before the 21millionth btc is mined. And then this shit should skyrocket!

I am an aweseome guy and wish to share the glory and wonder of Bitcoin with as many people as possible.  To accomplish this sometimes I even offer coins at 1% BELOW MtGox price.  

Also it might have something to do with the fact that we (Tangible Cryptography) buy coins at a discount via our FastCash4Bitcoins service. Selling directly even with no fees is significantly cheaper cheaper and more importantly faster than using the exchanges.

No fees? How do you make money off this or is the service free because you are just an awesome guy!?

What country are we talking about?

If you are in the US and have a Bank Of America nearby you can deposit to Tangible Cryptography and have coins (no fees, no markup) in about an hour.

Buy bitcoins direct @ MtGox last price with no fees

I guess people have their Good side and their Bad side. Just like people on this forum have their GOOD accounts and BAD accounts.

Their GOOD accounts they act good. Help others, etc..

Their BAD accounts they tend to pray on other users trying to scam them UNTIL they get tagged with a SCAMMER tag. And then they just create another account and do it all over again.

I bet there are more active accounts on this board than there is active people LOL!

Scamming in the bitcoin world is much more probable than getting smuggled, robbed etc in "real world". If you scam/phish anonymously, there is very little risk involved, With physical robbery, the criminal takes huge risks, if you start to think about it.

Haha, woah. Just trying to fix my problem. They might be the obvious methods but im looking for a fast easy method. Didnt know that put me in the possible scammers category. I mean, is that what the majority of people do on here? The way everyone talks about scamming here makes it sound like the odds of someone mugging me and taking my cash are a one one trillionths to a trillion compared to getting scammed for my bitcoins.

I here ya man, problem with a loan is what about next time? I dont want to take a loan out from someone every time I want some bitcoins. Just a reliable method that I can repeat without any changing variables.

Haha, woah. Just trying to fix my problem. They might be the obvious methods but im looking for a fast easy method. Didnt know that put me in the possible scammers category. I mean, is that what the majority of people do on here? The way everyone talks about scamming here makes it sound like the odds of someone mugging me and taking my cash are a one one trillionths to trillion compared to getting scammed for my bitcoins.