Despite recent news about banks closing their doors on crypto card purchases; one after the other, there are still options available that you can use to buy crypto. Let's See What They Are

The easiest way is to buy a cryptocurrency with a debit card on a central

That's really as simple than to buy clothes on Amazon. Coinbase, for example, is a popular interface for buying crypto with fiat (fiat = paper money as dollars or euros).

On Coinbase, users must create an account and verify the identity. After that, they can buy with their debit card.

Identity verification rules differ for each exchange / country; In general, users must at least provide an ID / Passport and enable 2-factor authentication.

Coinbase also owns a sister company named GDAX – this type of platform gives users a better idea of ​​how crypto exchanges really work. It has an intuitive interface with many mapping tools, exchange history, and order books in real time. These are all tools that marketers use to make sure they get the most out of their business. This exchange follows US regulations, making it consistent with the United States, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore

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Bitfinex is another very popular exchange that has been around as early as 2012. Its website boasts of being the "most advanced cryptocurrency trading platform" in the world, with many tools advanced mapping to equip any business.The site even has an application that is available for Android and The P2P financing market integrated with Bitfinex matches borrowers with lenders to bring advanced margin trading tools . A guide to the die butant is offered in thei r support the section so even a first timer can buy on the site.

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Although there are many more places to buy cryptocurrency with fiat, Robinhood is unique in its approach to zero fees and their goals to be an even easier platform To buy cryptocurrency.This hybrid exchange / trading application allows users to buy Bitcoin and Ethereum directly from their phone without any negotiation fee.Carry this at the cost of 1.49% -3, 99% of Coinbase added to every purchase.

Just after the announcement of the launch of a crypto trading platform, the millennium trading app has received over 1 million out of five users

Although this platform is not yet available, Robinhood has allowed some users of some states start trading on the app.

We are gradually sending invitations to customers residing in CA, MA, MO, MT, NH. We look forward to unlocking the crypto trading feature in more states later. In the meantime, you can monitor market data for 16 cryptocurrencies and add them to your watchlist. https://t.co/28TamoX4rO – Robinhood (@RobinhoodApp) February 23, 2018

Not all cryptocurrencies can be bought with fiat

is especially Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple that have fiat / crypto pairs. To obtain the ~ 1546 cryptocurrencies, commonly known as "altcoins", which are currently listed on Coinmarketcap, users must exchange BTC or ETH. Each altcoin has a BTC / crypto pair, and most have ETH pairs too.

Coinbase offers Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash that users can buy with fiat debit cards. To get involved with other altcoins, users will have to send their BTC, ETH, LTC or BCH to an exchange that has all these pairs. The two most popular fluctuate between Binance and OKex, both of which are trusted global trading networks.

How to Buy with Cash – P2P

Buying Bitcoin with money can be as simple as giving money to your friend in exchange for BTC. For those who do not know anyone with BTC (or anyone who wants to sell), there are decentralized sites, p2p to meet people. LocalBitcoins operates worldwide as a forum of the advertising community for users to agree a price in advance, and then meet in person for the trade. This can take a long time to process the trading process, and this may not seem trustworthy enough because it involves strangers, but it is still popular and has good reviews from users. It's technically a decentralized platform as it involves p2p trading. No intermediary is used to negotiate the transaction – which means that no fees are paid at all

How to Buy Simply Bitcoin (No Exchanges Involved)

Bitcoin ATM – Bitcoin ATMs are becoming more popular – March has about 2,393 Bitcoin ATMs around the world, with a steady upward trend. With these machines, the user comes to a physical location and either a) buys Bitcoin using fiat currency and sent it to a Bitcoin wallet or b) sells Bitcoin from the atm to remove of fiat money. These devices are extremely convenient and allow traders to not have to deal at all with the crypto trading part.

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Buy.Cointelegraph – Cointelegraph recently entered into a partnership with Simplex to provide a convenient way to get the job done. buy Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and / or Ethereum.Simplex accepts most credit cards (including Visa and Mastercard) and also accepts certain debit and prepaid cards.

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Coming Soon: Decentralized Trade

Although They are still not very popular, mainly because the technology is still under development, decentralized exchanges (DEX) should become more popular in 2018. The DEXs use an AI system without trust to connect online traders. In a centralized exchange, the money passes from the user's wallet to a trust deposit, and then to the other user in the trade. Funds held on centralized exchanges are stored in company-owned portfolios, making the funds more sensitive to hacks. In a DEX, user funds are stored in hardware portfolios on each user's computer, and the value is never lost; when an exchange begins, and an instantaneous exchange, that is to say an atomic exchange, occurs so that the money never goes through an intermediary. A smart contract is used to maintain trust between the two users who are trading money.

Altcoin.io works hard to make the first decentralized exchanges for traders, by traders. While many DEX have cumbersome and complicated interfaces; Altcoin.io works to make both a simple interface to quickly exchange cryptography, as well as a deep and customizable exchange. The team was made famous in October for successfully completing the first-ever BTC-ETH atomic exchange – a complicated feat because these two pieces run completely different blockchains.

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Bitshares already has a working platform, which works better as a client downloaded directly to the user. decentralized exchanges that already work tend to be for the crypto-savvy, there are many advanced features, and the Although the stock market number one, currently OKEX, exchange 1.75 billion dollars a day , Bitshares is only trading at about $ 2 million.

Crypto is easier than ever to buy now, and this year should see huge improvements for centralized and decentralized trading. co will focus on scaling up, usability and adding new tokens, while decentralized exchanges will focus on bringing their product online to the web and community involvement. existing crypto. But for now, and forever, it's the right time to buy crypto.