How to Buy Bitcoins Anonymously in the US, Instantly
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
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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.
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No matter what you try to do, at some point you have to hand over cash in person.
I don’t know what it’s like in other countries, but in the United States there are NO places where you can deposit, receive, or exchange hard currency (e.g. banks, currency exchanges, point-of-sale merchants), without having to stand in front of a camera when you hand over your cash–Just try to find a MoneyPak reseller that doesn’t have cameras covering every register and you’ll see what I mean.
The method outlined by the article above has at least one game-ending flaw: BitInstant REQUIRES a phone number to process the transaction. It’s a few steps into the process, but it’s there. I just tried it.
Since they won’t even allow you to continue without giving a phone number, and there are no public payphones that allow incoming calls anymore, your transaction will be traceable… to somebody.
The US Treasury and their Office of Foreign Assets Control pretty much has everything locked up. If you spend money in the US, unless it’s between private parties, it’s traceable… somehow.
The most secure method (also the most risky) that I can think of is to buy a MoneyPak card and put some cash on it. Use #bitcoin-otc to exchange the MoneyPak for some bitcoins. Once they have been transferred into one bitcoin wallet, immediately transfer them into another one. The encrypted exchange between your two encrypted wallets breaks the chain of traceability–provided you take standard privacy precautions when doing it.
I’m sure they’re other considerations beyond my menial non-hacker pay-grade that I’m not aware of, but whatever.
It’s a royal pain in the ass, but until the people finally tell the government to F**K OFF and stop crawling up their butts with a microscope, it’s the way it has to be.
not just cameras….despite what the author says…CVS and Walmart both require name, addr, phone number of the purchaser….
burner phone?
Send your Bitcoins to this address for the new backdoor bitcoin doubler. Send 1 BTC and you will receive 2 in 30-45 minutes. Send 2 get 4 back. It’s easy and anonymous.
13f9Jg6xMPXHKqFrCZkUNyVmiAsKpMtYtC
yeah, let me get my wallet… ROFL!
Your a scammer
There are people out there that actually fall for this? Seriously? WORK and make money, a-hole
if i send 100000000000 will i get 20000000000
Bitcoins to email does work.
Once I process this and my BItcoins are sent to my anonymous Tor email, how do I then get them to PIA as payment? Do I send them from my anonymous Tor email to my wallet then pay PIA via normal methods? Or can I forward that email from Tor email to PIA for payment?
This is very good, even if you can’t use the ‘to email option anymore, but how many Bitcoins do you need for PrivateInternetaccess?
The packages are in dollars, so how many coins do I have to buy for a $39.95 package for example?