Chapter 2
Buying, Using, and Selling Bitcoin
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding how to get your hands on Bitcoin
Looking at the different marketplaces and exchanges
Using a Bitcoin ATM
Buying from a Bitcoin exchange
Doing things with your coin
Sending and receiving Bitcoin
Chapter 1 of this minibook shows you how this Bitcoin thing works; hopefully by now you have a good idea of how Bitcoin, merely a record in a ledger of transactions, can hold value. That chapter also shows how advanced mathematics and cryptography identify you as the owner of your Bitcoin, and how important private keys are. In this chapter, you begin to understand how to buy and sell Bitcoin.
We suggest that you not buy a lot of Bitcoin until you really understand what you’re doing because of the risks involved: the ...
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