Today we’re discussing the three main avenues of buying bitcoin, buying in person, centralized exchanges, and decentralized exchanges. There are risks and benefits of each as we discuss in today’s show.

Show Notes:

Market Minute

BTC price: $11044

Finney(0.00001 BTC): $1.10

24 hour volume: $7.8 billion

Market cap: $186 billion

@tipmayermultiple: 200dma – 7547.29, mayer multiple=1.47x

Transaction fees: 109sats/Byte(24) 150sats/Byte(7d)

localbitcoins – $80.2M(global)/ $7.9M(USA) last 7 days

bisq – $234,440(global)/ $20,570(USA) last 7 days

Buying in person

* LocalBitcoins

* Paxful

* Clark Moody’s Street Price Indicator

Centralized Exchanges

* Gemini

* Bitstamp

* Kraken

* Bitfinex

Exchange Comparisons

* Clark Moody’s Exchange Tickers – uncheck ‘all’, then add back the ones you want to compare

* Cryptowatch

Decentralized

* Bisq

* Hodl Hodl – not yet active

Articles

* Article about batching

* KYC/AML forum thread

* Wikipedia articles on KYC and AML

* Bitcoin.org’s list of SegWit Adoption

Hardware Wallets

* Trezor

* OpenDime and ColdCard

* Ledger

Other:

* Sorry the images on twitter about Coinbase outages have been taken down since 🙁

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Music Credits:

Morning Ritual by L’Indecis

Chillhop Records

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Thank You by Joakim Karud

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Fatherhood by Joakim Karud

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