Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)?

Posted by johnhenry on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @10:08AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I realize that a few bitcoin exchanges (Coinbase, localbitcoins, etc.) have been struggling to keep up with demand recently. I wonder if these are having issues because they are the main places people go to buy bitcoin? Perhaps knowing of other places would help alleviate the stress?

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by companyhen on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:02PM (#15809157)

Gemini.com is my favorite, but GDAX works too.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by dhruvkar on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:33PM (#15810058)

gemini is down (again). i like the interface, but it's been buggy.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by bsvalley on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:34PM (#15818783)

Gemini = fast and cheap

Coinbase = joke, expensive, slow and zero customer service.

Open gemini.com and coinbase.com and compare the current BTC price. You'll see the spread they make on coinbase... and we're not even talking about transaction fee

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by SirLJ on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:44AM (#15816021)

The bigger issue is where you are going to be protected by the government in event of hacking, owners disappear with the money, etc... (presumably you are not keeping your wallet locally tattooed to your left...)

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by flignats on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:51PM (#15809622)

There's no issue purchasing from Coinbase, transactions are instant.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by flignats on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @02:46PM (#15810190)

aaand then there were issues!

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by muzani on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:31AM (#15815534)

Luno for me. Smooth interface, low fees, very easy to trade, and they saved my butt twice when I accidentally put in the wrong price on the exchange.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by ryanmonroe on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:50PM (#15809047)

Just use GDAX. No fees if you use limit orders.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by ahamedirshad123 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:30AM (#15814038)

Why do they need Aadhar(Indian Identity Number) for buying bitcoin in some of the apps like Zepay?

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by js4 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @12:12AM (#15813635)

If you use SFOX.com you can buy on whichever exchange has the best price.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by jurgenwerk on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @05:53PM (#15811660)

Bitstamp.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by ya3ad on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:13PM (#15818589)

Bitstamp is only good for those who are in Europe.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by chrisked on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:35PM (#15828774)

Coinbase or GDAX from Coinbase if you want lower fees.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by djellybeans on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @07:04PM (#15812114)

GDAX for me. Quicker than Coinbase and lower fees.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by ajr0 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @11:01PM (#15813366)

looking at GDAX (my first view of it) it looks like the organization that owns GDAX's SSL cert is coinbase, are they not a subsidiary?

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by crypticlizard on Thursday November 30, 2017 @12:04AM (#15813607)

gdax owns coinbase AFAIK

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by throwaway413 on Sunday December 03, 2017 @07:42AM (#15837334)

GDAX is just the Coinbase exchange front-end, operated by Coinbase. It used to just be called “Coinbase Exchange” before they changed to a more generalized “GDAX” in May 2016.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by ahamedirshad123 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:32AM (#15814043)

Only for US?

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Re:Ask HN: Best Place to Buy Bitcoin (today)? by vinchuco on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @01:43PM (#15809552)

Mt. Gox

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