How to Buy Cryptocurrency Coins?

Genesis Vision
Genesis Vision Blog
4 min readSep 14, 2017

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Here’s a basic guide and recommendations for buying cryptocurrencies like ETH or BTC.

There are many different ways to obtain cryptocurrencies. Most advanced users purchase cryptocurrency via exchanges: Coinbase, Kraken, Cex.io Bitstamp etc. Also we recommend to use something like blockchain.info — it is quite simple to purchase and hold cryptocurrencies. The choice of the exchange may depend on the residence country and verifications conditions.

We will review the purchase of cryptocurrency through a two services: ePayments and Changelly.

Now let’s have a look at how you can purchase it.

The very first step you have to take in order to purchase and being able to hold your coins is to open up a cryptocurrency wallet. All the different cryptocurrency coins have their own wallet that you can generate them on the website. You can use any Ethereum or Bitcoin wallet. For example, MyEtherWallet, Metamask,Parity or Mist or Ledger for ETH, and Coinbase or 99bitcoin for BTC. Just figure out, what coin you want to buy and seek for a stable wallet version.

How do I buy coins via ePayments?

Go to epayments.com and pass the registration. Enter your username. This can be an email address or phone number in its international format.

Enter your email address and fill in the required forms. You will enter Main page.

In order to add funds to your internal ePayments wallet, you have to pass verification process. Open settings tab and provide your: personal details, residential address, upload a necessary documents and confirm your phone number.

The system will then request that you create a payment password.

The payment password is essential for confirming transfers from your ePayments personal area. Be sure to memorise it and do not give it to anybody.

The funding operation via bank account and bank cards is only available to a verified user. As verification accepted, you can add funds via bank card or bank account to your ePayment wallet and transfer them to any cryptocurrency wallet.

How do I buy coins via Changelly?

Go to changelly.com and pass the registration.

Just enter your email address and you are logged in.

Select the coin you want to exchange above and the coin you want to buy below and go next. Check the amount specified and the amount you’re going to get.

Specify the recipient’s wallet address. In general, the recipient’s wallet address is the address Changelly sends coins to, once a transaction is finished.

Once again, check everything attentively. Note that the amount is estimated, so it may be more or less in the end of your transaction. If you’re OK with this, proceed to the next step.

You will see bank cards payment method

After that you have to fill your phone number (the phone number must be associated with your credit card information) and your birthday date.

Make payment with your bank card.

After a transaction is finished, you get a receipt with an output transaction. This receipt is a proof that your transaction is finished.

Changelly transactions take 5–20 minutes to be processed. If a transaction is large (over 1 BTC worth), processing may take longer depending on the size of your transaction and blockchain capacity.

Millions of people already use digital currencies including Bitcoin and Ether. Join the fast-evolving crypto community!

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