Buying bitcoins

Whelo79 · 18-12-2017 09:39PM

Anyone experiencing delays transferring euros to coinbase by Sepa. Sent mine on Saturday morning, thought it would hot today. Transfers have taken as short as an hour previously.

DeSelby83 · 18-12-2017 09:47PM

Whelo79 wrote: »

Anyone experiencing details transferring euros to coinbase by Sepa. Sent mine on Saturday morning, thought it would hot today. Transfers have taken as short as an hour previously.

I have the same issue, sent it via revolut on Friday evening, they sent it last night but am now waiting for coinbase to put it in my account.

tk123 · 18-12-2017 09:49PM

Whelo79 wrote: »

Anyone experiencing details transferring euros to coinbase by Sepa. Sent mine on Saturday morning, thought it would hot today. Transfers have taken as short as an hour previously.

last time i transferred it took 2-3 days. Then they were down because they were hammered due to the dip I knew was coming...the price was up over 1k by the time I could access my account and buy :rolleyes: Also it was in my account before they mailed me - so check rather than waiting for their system to catch up.

Paddy_B · 18-12-2017 09:49PM

Whelo79 wrote: »

Anyone experiencing details transferring euros to coinbase by Sepa. Sent mine on Saturday morning, thought it would hot today. Transfers have taken as short as an hour previously.

I sent my first one last Thursday at maybe 7pm. Got the confirmation from Coinbase at 5.30pm on Friday. It was probably queued up at the weekend so should appear tomorrow.

keano25 · 18-12-2017 09:55PM

epopnomis wrote: »

Invested 5000 at 20 cent a while ago.. nice return.

What's that with?

Whelo79 · 18-12-2017 10:04PM

Thanks for all the replies. Hopefully be there tomorrow. I wanted to try get on Verge. Really should have deposited earlier.

PopePalpatine · 18-12-2017 11:57PM

keano25 wrote: »

Thanks pope, what exchange do you use?

Most of my portfolio is on Kraken, I've also got Bittrex & GDAX (courtesy of Coinbase) accounts.

renov8 · 19-12-2017 10:36AM

Looking for some advice here, have read all the threads but hoping some can point me in the right direction. I hold a small amount of BTC in a mycelium wallet. I'm thinking of selling and spreading the investment across a couple of others (Litecoin, Ripple, Eth). My question is how to do this without incurring big fees?

I have an account with cex.io which is where I originally bought the BTC. From what I can see, I could deposit my BTC from the wallet to cex.io without incurring much (if any) fees. I think there may be a small charge on the Mycelium side.

Cex.io only seem to sell BTC and ETH so can I move my BTC to another exchange quite easily with a small fee? Don't want to have the hassle of verifying documents and waiting weeks either!

Paddy_B · 19-12-2017 12:14PM

renov8 wrote: »

Looking for some advice here, have read all the threads but hoping some can point me in the right direction. I hold a small amount of BTC in a mycelium wallet. I'm thinking of selling and spreading the investment across a couple of others (Litecoin, Ripple, Eth). My question is how to do this without incurring big fees?

I have an account with cex.io which is where I originally bought the BTC. From what I can see, I could deposit my BTC from the wallet to cex.io without incurring much (if any) fees. I think there may be a small charge on the Mycelium side.

Cex.io only seem to sell BTC and ETH so can I move my BTC to another exchange quite easily with a small fee? Don't want to have the hassle of verifying documents and waiting weeks either!

I myself started out on Coinbase to get my initial BTC/ETH/LTC. I then became interested in altcoins and liked the look of Binance. I've been on Binance for a week and at this stage I would definitely recommend it! Great choice of coins, very low fees. Make sure to buy some Binance tokens (BNB) since you can pay fees with them for half price. I don't like sending BTC between wallets/exchanges because the transaction fees are massive. ETH seems to be the best value for moving around at the moment!

cnocbui · 19-12-2017 12:22PM

renov8 wrote: »

Looking for some advice here, have read all the threads but hoping some can point me in the right direction. I hold a small amount of BTC in a mycelium wallet. I'm thinking of selling and spreading the investment across a couple of others (Litecoin, Ripple, Eth). My question is how to do this without incurring big fees?

I have an account with cex.io which is where I originally bought the BTC. From what I can see, I could deposit my BTC from the wallet to cex.io without incurring much (if any) fees. I think there may be a small charge on the Mycelium side.

Cex.io only seem to sell BTC and ETH so can I move my BTC to another exchange quite easily with a small fee? Don't want to have the hassle of verifying documents and waiting weeks either!

You can just use Shapeshift to swap bitcoin for a variety of other crypto, without needing an exchange. you could register on Cryptopia in a matter of minutes, send some bitcoin to your wallet there and trade BTC for numerous other crypto.

The miners fees for moving Bitcoin around at the moment are not small, they are huge. I personally don't think it makes sense to transact with Bitcoin for anything less than 4 figures worth at current fee rates. Even Shapeshift would be expensive currently. You would be better off buying the cryptos directly for fiat, if possible, or buying litecoin for fiat and sending that elsewhere to trade for other cryptos as the fees are far, far less.

Laviski · 19-12-2017 12:25PM

a dip has come,
BTC down 2 k lets see how far it falls.

cnocbui · 19-12-2017 12:40PM

Laviski wrote: »

a dip has come,
BTC down 2 k lets see how far it falls.

Can't see it myself. Current price is about €15,194. It barely touched €17,000 a few days ago. It's up 10.8% over the last 7 days and 133% the last 30 days.

Laviski · 19-12-2017 12:46PM

i only view it in dollars
it was at 19k

24H HIGH
19200
24H LOW
17125

cnocbui · 19-12-2017 01:11PM

Laviski wrote: »

i only view it in dollars
it was at 19k

24H HIGH
19200
24H LOW
17125

Well in US$ it's currently 18,000 on Coinbase.

Wombatman · 19-12-2017 01:22PM

Nasty dip there. My stop loss fired.

keano25 · 19-12-2017 01:25PM

Just with that dip today, if you had sold yesterday do you get yesterdays price? I mean is it instant you get paid out or how does it work?

banie01 · 19-12-2017 01:32PM

Wombatman wrote: »

Nasty dip there. My stop loss fired.

Happened me with ETH yesterday morning.

Wombatman · 19-12-2017 01:41PM

banie01 wrote: »

Happened me with ETH yesterday morning.

Ouch. Hope you got back on it before yesterdays upsurge.

banie01 · 19-12-2017 01:49PM

Wombatman wrote: »

Ouch. Hope you got back on it before yesterdays upsurge.

Nope, had no buys set. I was still in profit tho so not at all bad.
I did have limit buys set on Binance for TRX, IOTA and NEO that have all filled at great prices tho, so swings and roundabouts.

The current dip on BTC I had buys set at 14950 and it only dropped to 15032!
Will have to re-learn my psychic guessing abilities :pac::pac:

Good luck to all on their trades/HODL today

EagererBeaver · 19-12-2017 02:29PM

keano25 wrote: »

Just with that dip today, if you had sold yesterday do you get yesterdays price? I mean is it instant you get paid out or how does it work?

No. Times vary from exchange to exchange.

lostie815 · 19-12-2017 07:12PM

Anyone else finding the blockchain really slow I moved some coins about this morning and none have landed yet ?

the_syco · 19-12-2017 07:55PM

Bitcoin is odd. I bought $50 of Bitcoin a while back. I donated $100 of Bitcoin to a site. I now have $155 $157 of Bitcoin. I'm slightly tempted to throw another $50 at it, but it seems if I do nothing, it'll increase by itself?

EagererBeaver · 19-12-2017 08:53PM

the_syco wrote: »

Bitcoin is odd. I bought $50 of Bitcoin a while back. I donated $100 of Bitcoin to a site. I now have $155 $157 of Bitcoin. I'm slightly tempted to throw another $50 at it, but it seems if I do nothing, it'll increase by itself?

Or it might go down. That's how exchange rates work.

GreeBo · 19-12-2017 09:31PM

the_syco wrote: »

Bitcoin is odd. I bought $50 of Bitcoin a while back. I donated $100 of Bitcoin to a site. I now have $155 $157 of Bitcoin. I'm slightly tempted to throw another $50 at it, but it seems if I do nothing, it'll increase by itself?

Its exactly the same as any other commodity/currency in this respect.

kingtiger · 19-12-2017 11:07PM

is BtC not in trouble right now? the transaction fee is mental

look at the Blockchain ffs

https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

lostie815 · 19-12-2017 11:09PM

kingtiger wrote: »

is BtC not in trouble right now? the transaction fee is mental

look at the Blockchain ffs

https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

Yep I just got home and had a look worrying signs.

kingtiger · 19-12-2017 11:10PM

lostie815 wrote: »

Yep I just got home and had a look worrying signs.

cant even swap to Ether right now as the transaction fee is ridiculous

Laviski · 19-12-2017 11:12PM

alts gonna get hammered.
as mentioned earlier was dip, re bounded a bit.
now down 10% - bitcoin cash taking over.

lostie815 · 19-12-2017 11:13PM

kingtiger wrote: »

cant even swap to Ether right now as the transaction fee is ridiculous

I have multiple transactions not clearing due to the fees and it doesn't look like they are going to anytime soon.

Paddy_B · 19-12-2017 11:59PM

Take advantage of the dip and get on Bitcoin while it's going cheap!

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