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Re:Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin by nym on Monday November 12, 2012 @02:34PM (#4774352)
You can buy and sell bitcoins on Coinbase, which is also a wallet (bank). They keep 87% of their funds offline to prevent customers from loosing their funds in the case of hacking.

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/coinbase/

Re:Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin by bluedanieru on Monday November 12, 2012 @09:27PM (#4775996)
There's no such thing as 'offline' Bitcoins. It's not like your client has to be connected to the Internet in order for someone to steal your shit.
Re:Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin by clarkmoody on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @01:53AM (#4776801)
I would suggest researching a little bit next time before making a post like this.

There are in fact some very clever ways to make completely offline and non-physical Bitcoin wallets.

Re:Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin by bluedanieru on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @09:33AM (#4778134)
Yeah, and I know what they are, although I wouldn't describe generating a wallet on an offline PC and keeping it offline as 'very clever'. At any rate, after reading it again I think I confused what the parent was insinuating, so nevermind.
Re:Reddit Considering Accepting Bitcoin by dreamdu5t on Monday November 12, 2012 @10:34PM (#4776247)
You print the bitcoin hash. That's offline to me.