How to Buy Bitcoins Anonymously in the US, Instantly

Posted on Apr 25, 2012 by rasengan
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If CISPA or other privacy-busting legislations pass, every detail of our personal lives will be at risk – and you’ll want to buy Bitcoins for safety. Although many of our foundations are rooted in anonymity, everything we see, do and buy may soon be exposed. However, technology always evolves, and anonymity is no exception.

As many already know, Bitcoin is a decentralized, digital currency that can be used like cash. What many people may not already know, however, is that there is no need to hand over all of your information to an exchange to buy bitcoins. It’s already incredibly easy to buy bitcoins anonymously, in less than 10 minutes!

Update: The following is an antiquated method to buy bitcoins anonymously. Currently, the best way to buy bitcoins anonymously is still to use a VPN or Tor and use a service like described by the anonymous member of the Bitcoin community below.

How to Buy Bitcoins Online Anonymously

An anonymous member of the Bitcoin community has contributed these wonderful instructions detailing 6 simple steps to buying Bitcoins with near anonymity in the US.

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Step 1.
Download and install TOR from https://www.torproject.org/
Step 2. 
While using TOR create a Tormail account at http://jhiwjjlqpyawmpjx.onion
Step 3. 
While using TOR, visit http://www.bitinstant.com
Step 4.
Choose the Cash deposit to Bitcoin to email option.
Cash Bank Deposits
Step 5.
Follow the instructions on Bitinstant to make your cash deposit, and have your Bitcoins sent to your new Tormail account.
No ID is needed.
Step 6.
Receive your Bitcoins via email.
And voila.  Now you can use your anonymous e-mail account and anonymous bitcoins to buy goods and services online, truly anonymously.
Here are a few places you can spend Bitcoins:
Private Internet Access – Anonymous VPN Service
MemoryDealers – Transceivers, Cables, and Memory
CoinDL – The iTunes of the Bitcoin economy
BitcoinDeals – The Amazon of the Bitcoin economy

A quick search of the interweb will also display the thousands upon thousands of other shops that accept Bitcoin so you can buy bitcoins then spend them.

Have any other suggestions on how to buy bitcoins, or where to spend bitcoins?  Let us know in the comments!

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97 Comments

  1. Nazia Fatima

    Totally wrong now. Bitinstant requires your name, birthdate, last 4 of
    ssn, etc… Just read their terms of service. It was updated recently.

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    News US

    10 years ago
  2. arniel

    Wouldn’t it be easier to just buy bitcoins normally and place them in an insecure wallet, then transfer them to another wallet?

    The transfer can be done anonymously bretty easily.

    11 years ago
  3. fox

    Bitinstand and tormail were seized by the Federal Government yesterday… Got alot of people.

    11 years ago
  4. dave2day

    bitinstant? Still pushing that broken site? Where can you get bitcoins now that bitinstant has shot themselves in the foot with that crappy beta site that still doesn’t work?

    11 years ago
  5. Frank

    BitInstant appears to require name, phone, DOB, etc. Hardly anonymous… …

    11 years ago