Buying monero?

Bitcoin has loads of hoops to jump through to use safely but can I just whip out CC and get monero and alls fine? Also how would I use it? I have monero downloaded on w10 but am reluctant to install stuff on tails in fear of breaking the magic


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[4 Points] TheKingOfKingsMill1:

Here's my Monero FAQ (includes a guide to buying it)


[2 Points] burden_of_boof:

FYI: The tx fees via MyMonero are TERRIBLE. Like, BTC bad.


[2 Points] xmronadaily:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/7hhgjx/monero_gui_01110_helium_hydra_megathread_download/

https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7ra409/your_guide_to_monero_and_why_it_has_great/

Read through both till the end, enjoy!

Edit:

can I just whip out CC and get monero and alls fine?

In short, yes. But learn about how to use the wallet properly, etc.


[2 Points] Immaloner:

Good luck. Dealing with Monero fucking sucks. I couldn't find anywhere to straight up purchase them with a CC like Coinbase. Had to buy bitcoin cash and run it through shapeshift. It's not easy figuring out the SS fees so when it showed up in my wallet it was light by about $8. Sent it from GDAX so there were no xfer fees.

At least it was in the MyMonero wallet...which then immediately crashed. Logged back in and had a message from the site saying my transaction and balance were gone BUT if I paid 0.2XMR ($65!) it would restore everything. My brain exploded. POOF!

It took 5 hours to download the entire blockchain to the only GUI wallet you can use. Yes, I was running remote node to moneroworld. Finally got the balance restored in the GUI late last night. Finally got it to the market and...I'm short $4 for the order I wanted.

I had some leftover BCH on Coinbase so I figured I would just GDAX it through shapeshift again only to find I was short of the minimum transfer amount by like .000001XMR.

Fuck Monero right in the eyeball. That shit is not ready for primetime by any stretch of the imagination.


[2 Points] ILoveTurds69:

Buy BTC - Move to polo - trade it for XMR - transfer to local wallet. I have been doing that on the reg for some time. Never had any issues.


[1 Points] deltefknieschlaeger:

Nice to see that those certain "3" active Reddit DNM Admins gave up on extorting Speedstepper and now let that shit continuously go on.

Fuck off.