whats the easiest way to give btc as a gift?

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Quote from: Sixt5 on December 14, 2015, 06:43:57 PM

im using coinbase for my wallet but if i wanted to gift some for christmas to someone who does not have a wallet, how would i go about it?

What did you finally do?, for the future I would suggest sending a tip via Changetip, it is easy to use and you can log in using your social accounts. Paper wallets are a nice idea, but not that nice for the average person.

KenR

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There are bunch of websites where they accept btc for actual gifts if you're planning on buying them gifts with btc.You can gift a hardware wallet if the person already has a bitcoin wallet and you can send over some btc's to his address wrapped with a hardware wallet.

Raimonn

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I had this problem too, and i gift a physical bitcoin wallet loaded. My gift wasn't a full bitcoin, i gifted an small quantity of bits on a denarius physical coin, but my friends liked it. They store it without loosing the keys, and can see on a mobile wallet how much they have on the coin.

angaper

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Well, if this person has not been interested in bitcoin yet, perhaps you don't need to force him/her to hold bitcoins. You could give him/her other kind of gifts while she/he start to learn about bitcoin.

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Give a physical coin is make a surprise people I think(if you have a budget) or even print on paper (be a paper wallet) it cool too, it's make them realize if bitcoin is currency which have a value, worth it now and for the future.

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Quote from: jakals on January 06, 2016, 01:08:31 PM

you can try purse.io a service that provides purchasing amazon gift cards
https://purse.io/

I gave 3 persons last year such a card.
Since it is real money people eventually are forced to use it and with that they know more about bitcoin hopefully.

jakals

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you can try purse.io a service that provides purchasing amazon gift cards
https://purse.io/

also if you are a german or there is a german friend of you at germany you should look at this short article:
http://cryptomining-blog.com/6380-purchase-amazon-de-vouchers-with-bitcoin-using-coinimal/

eternalgloom

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I would give a paper wallet or simply put a wallet on a usb drive.
That's how I've given bitcoins to people who were still new to all of this.

Rastanan

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Quote from: tobacco123 on December 15, 2015, 05:39:31 AM

I think that will be paper wallets with some information and introduction about bitcoin.

I think when you buy bitcoin through ATM, you will get a paper wallet with the key printed. So giving other people paper wallet is a good idea.

sishendaoye

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Well if your friend don't know bitcoin is just tell him what is bitcoin and let him kae his own wallet so you can be partners in bitcoin world. I think that will be the nice gift to him maybe gift him 0.2 bitcoins, because now the price is going up with that he can make profit.

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The easiest way for you to give bitcoin to your friends is make a online wallet for them and give them the userid and password. It's not an elegant way to give bitcoin away. It's easy and fast, your friends get to use them almost instantly. Ask them to send some btc to another address of yours and you will send them more free bitcoin. It worked for me and my friends, far better than on paper wallets. Those who are not interested in bitcoins tend to leave paper wallets in the envelope and stuff it in a drawer, lost forever.

MaxTax

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You can create a wallet for the person you're gifting and print out the paper wallet for them. You could tell them to just hold it until next year and look up how much it will be worth it. It will be a nice surprise.

bearex

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Either a paperwallet, or make a note on How to make a wallet and then send it to them. Or make some sort of a "gift card" with a blockchain wallet and password on it. And put the ammount of BTC you want to give as a gift on that wallet.

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Shit, did I leave the stove on?

Quote from: LiteCoinGuy on December 15, 2015, 04:53:07 AM

http://www.coindesk.com/send-bitcoin-with-your-christmas-cards/

I read about that yesterday and thought of sending some to my relatives for Christmas.

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if you wanted to gift btc as a gift , i think what other replied about hardware wallet or pendrive wallet is very good, or else you can purchase a nice gift purchased from btc and present it and tell the importance and uses of bitcoins , so that they will also get interested after knowing that they can buy online iteams with bitcoins as payment option.

Rastanan

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I once told my friends that they gave me their bitcoin address, I will send them 0.01 bitcoin each, nobody responded.

Mr. Forum

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I do think that the best way you can gift someone through the bitcoin is either buying something using the coins. I am very sure that the gift you can buy using the coins is always of high quality owing to the fact that bitcoins are highly valued. You can also decide to give someone the real btc as a way to start his or her trading in the world of digital currency. It may seem to be abnormal but the best gift you can give someone during this season.

Bayuu

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You should try:

1. Brainwallet, make sure it's salted
2. Paperwallet, make sure you add some decorations on the piece of paper!

Hope this helps

Slark

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Giving bitcoin is pretty easy and can be done in many ways. But if your recipient don't have bitcoin wallet yet this can be a challenge. There is couple ways to do it tho:

- You could always buy hardware wallet (Trezor for example) and load it with bitcoin.
- You could buy physical bitcoin coin, it looks cool and can be redeemed later. It will be probably worth more in the future too.
- There are bitcoin gift cards availble
- You could give them USB stick with bitcoin wallet on it, etc.

Hashminers

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If your friend is interested to know bitcoin than tell him if he wants a wallet and make it for him.
Of just buy a gift card from amazon so he can buy something for him self. Well for me I just going to give my family some satoshi Tongue

to start there bitcoin adventure.

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