How to buy Bitcoin

There are several ways you can buy Bitcoin.

Use a Bitcoin Exchange

Our Bitcoin Exchange page, lists many different businesses that can help you buy Bitcoin using your bank account.

Discover people selling Bitcoin in your community

Local Bitcoins lets you
search and browse through various sellers of Bitcoin in your area.
Sellers have reviews and feedback scores to help you choose.

Use a Bitcoin ATM

Bitcoin ATMs work like a regular ATM, except they allow you to
deposit and withdrawal money so that you can buy and sell Bitcoin. Coin ATM Radar has an interactive map to help you find the closest Bitcoin ATM near you.

Support Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a protocol that was born from a small
community and has grown fast since. There are a lot of things you can do
to help Bitcoin to spread and improve over time.

Using Bitcoin

Using Bitcoin is
the first thing you can do to support Bitcoin. There are probably many
cases where it can make your life easier. You can accept payments and
make purchases with Bitcoin.

Be the network

If you have a good Internet connection, you can strengthen the Bitcoin network by keeping full node software running on your computer or server with port 8333 open. Full nodes are securing and relaying all transactions.

Mining

You can start mining bitcoins
to help processing transactions. In order to protect the network, you
should join smaller mining pools and prefer decentralized pools like P2Pool or pools with getblocktemplate (GBT) support.

Translate

You can help to increase Bitcoin availability by translating or
improving translations inside important parts of the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Just pick a project you would like to help.
Bitcoin Core - Bitcoin.org - Bitcoin Wiki - Bitcoin Wallet (Android) - Electrum

Development

Bitcoin is free software. So if you are a developer, you can use your super-powers to do good and improve Bitcoin. Or you can build amazing new services or software that can use Bitcoin.

Donation

The easiest way to help is to donate
a few bitcoins to BitGive. Or you can help directly fund any project
related to Bitcoin that you believe will be helpful in the future.

Organizations

Many non-profit organizations
are dedicated to protecting and promoting Bitcoin. You can help these
groups by joining them and taking part in their projects, discussions
and events.

Spread

Speak about Bitcoin to interested people. Write about it on your
blog. Tell your favorite shops you would like to pay with Bitcoin. Help
to keep merchant directories up to date. Or be creative and make yourself a nice Bitcoin T-shirt.

Documentation

Bitcoin.org and the Bitcoin wiki
provide useful documentation and we are constantly improving the
information they contain. You can help to improve these resources and
keep them up to date.

Meet the communities

You can join Bitcoin communities
and talk with other Bitcoin enthusiasts. You can learn more about
Bitcoin every day, give help to new users and get involved in
interesting projects.