How to Buy Bitcoin Anywhere in the World
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If you can send/receive International bank transfers then you should be good to go.
The only condition is that it requires that you already own a small amount of bitcoin used as security deposit..
[1] Generally the site say "use https://coinatmradar.com/ or use LocalBitcoins"
Mexico is usually included in the definition of North America: "[its usage] sometimes includes Greenland[11][12][13] and Mexico (as in the North American Free Trade Agreement),[12][14][15][16][17] as well as offshore islands." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America#Extent
"Other: Citizen of the United Arab Emirates can use bitoasis.net to buy Bitcoins directly; in Kuwait you can buy Bitcoins on bitfils.com; in Vietnam you find the Broker bitcoinvietnam.com.vn and the exchange vbtc.vn; in Malaysia coinbox.biz and coins.my provide an online wallet and an easy method to buy and sell Bitcoins, while oinhako.com is a wallet with the option to buy and sell for Malaysia and Singapur and bitx.co offers an exchange for Malaysia and Indonesia. In Indonesia, you can also buy Bitcoins at bitcoin.co.id. Citizen of Taiwan can use maicoin.com to buy, sell and use Bitcoins."
These should probably be broken out into separate paragraphs for each country. I think that someone looking to buy bitcoin in Kuwait is very unlikely to be looking in the Israel section. But otherwise, I find this very useful.
EDIT: Actually, after looking it up, this is interesting: In most languages except English, Switzerland is referred to by the adjective. That is, in Italian it's "Confederazione Svizzera," or just "Svizzera" for short, in French it's "Confédération suisse" or "Suisse"... huh!
"Welcome to the official website of the Swiss Government", quoting from https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start.html
The country is Switzerland; if you are from Switzerland you are Swiss.
Not the best example perhaps, as strictly speaking the British Government (or more formally Her Majesty's Government) governs the United Kingdom (which is a sovereign state or country), not just the geographical region of Great Britain (which includes the countries England, Scotland, and Wales).
Not a worthwhile amount of obfuscation (almost none), and it provides evidence of nefarious intent.
[0] https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/ [1] https://bitcoin.org/en/getting-started
As a citizen of the US this appeared more or less impossible through any reputable means.
I'd say that's a show stopper to adoption. The most practicable thing for small amounts (a few K or less) still seems to be: buy a gift card at a service you actually use; or, shop Dell, Expedia, Tiger Direct, or New Egg.
To put blame where it is absolutely due: this is a direct result of aggressive intimidation by the federal government on institutions attempting to provide consumer banking services for bitcoin, or attempting to do business with startups and the like in the industry.
I love ringing them up and negotiating prices. OTC is the best and fastest (no accounts, you give them your public address and they send you bank wire instructions), but I don't always have the minimum amount.
Kraken is also a national currency exchange that has various markets, I think including Ethereum and Monero.
Here's a really useful website that lists altcoins by market cap and other factors: http://coinmarketcap.com/
That's incorrect
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And at least the black market use case of bitcoin is really hard to replace with a better product. Not because Bitcoin is so great, but because it's politically and legally hard to develop a good product that works in a black market environment.
Adoption is still niche, there are technical issues to be taken care of and there are "existential" threats based on the uncertain legal implications but by and large both Bitcoin as "currency" and bitcoin as "p2p network" are doing ok as far as I'm concerned.
As an alternative investment, it's very much alive.