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      "body": "Good stuff! Personally I write about small altcoins but if other investors who got a bit more money that are keen, I would show them this. Keep up the good work and spread the knowledge!",
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      "body": "Part 2: How to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies (Altcoins) that are not listed in any of the mainstream exchanges\n\nAs mentioned above, only a handful of  cryptocurrencies can be purchased directly using fiat. So how do we go about purchasing the other 1300 over cryptocurrencies?\n\nThere are 2 main ways in which people use to purchase other cryptocurrencies\n-Through shapeshift/changeally\n-Through exchanges like Bittrex/Poloniex/Binance and many others\n\nShapeshift/Changeally:\n\nShapeshift: https://www.shapeshift.io/\nChangeally: https://changelly.com/?ref_id=da899aa3acb9\n\n![shapeshift.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXgJDr3nEMszxxYBvWZYtQmXj6JiYP74LfXS8X8zTMFA7/shapeshift.JPG)\n\n![changeally.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmR4vZgrjyGjvRuo7Ph6yHsBxS19HbiDiLq5oc1JTVkrS3/changeally.JPG)\n\nShapeshift and Changeally are 2 different websites that provides similar services. 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If you lose the seed, you lose your coin, simple as that.\n\n![seed.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXEyZK23qpWr71zsMdHSh25gtVHHJkJ6Ez72TfTWKqJQb/seed.JPG)\n\nDo note that if you are using the web version of Shapeshift/Changeally, you will need to have the specific cryptocurrency wallet available on your desktop/phone to receive the coins after changing. Be very careful about the addresses, any miskey-ing of address would result in funds being lost. (Will be elaborating on this next time).\n\nShapeshift/Changeally do not support many alternative coins, but the alternative coins that they support are some of the top and most stable coins, so chances are, the coins that you are interested in would probably be there.\n\nUsing exchanges like Binance/Bittrex/Poloniex:\n\nBinance: https://www.binance.com/\nBittrex: https://bittrex.com/Home/Markets\nPoloniex: https://poloniex.com/\n\n![binance.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXQdpkmmXbseip72MHJSmW8ZeGexTiFqBg7KekwmZFEsm/binance.JPG)\n\n![bittrex.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmXLKy3zhdp3pcV6KGia54Usvp1fPMb9WBSTXR4Qg7qYem/bittrex.JPG)\n\n![polo.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeAm7KVMxxgskENNbtau88HFcmXsreAVDBtr1hWg2RNjt/polo.JPG)\n\nPersonally, I only own accounts from Binance and Bittrex and only have funds in Bittrex. But I will be transferring over to Binance once the coins that I own are listed there. \n\nIn this exchanges, the main pairing would be \n-BTC-A (BTC represents Bitcoin while A represents your alternative coins)\n-ETH-A (ETH represents Ethereum)\n-BNB-A (BNB represents Binance Coin) - Only for Binance\n-USDT-A (USDT represents USD Teter) - USDT basically is pegged to the prevailing USD price with maybe 3% deviation up or down)\n\nThis might seem to be a foreign concept to gauge but I will try to break it down into simpler terms for you.\nIn these exchanges, they do not accept fiat. Most of the trades are done in Bitcoin. In other words, the prices you see are all in term of Bitcoin or Satoshis. 1 Bitcoin = 100 000 000 Satoshis. So taking the current price of Bitcoin which is USD $17 000, 1 Satoshi is = $0.00017. \n\nIn crypto, we actually mainly look at satoshi values for trades. Why is this so? Most of the trading are done in BTC pairing and hence, if your coin value increased in terms of dollar but has fell in terms of satoshi, it basically means that you coin is doing worst in comparison to Bitcoin. Any increase in the coin value is due to Bitcoin and not due to your alternative coin. In this scenerio, your money would be better off being placed in Bitcoin.\n\nThis is quite confusing so let me try to help you digest:\nFor example, \nIn October 2017, Bitcoin was worth ~$5000 and your alternative coin A was worth 100 000 satoshi ($5)\nIn December 2017, Bitcoin has rosed to ~$15 0000 and your alternative coin A is now worth 50 000 satoshi ($7.50)\n\nAs you can see, the $ value of your coin A has rose by $2.50, which presumably might seem like a good thing, but the satoshi value has fell by half. Yes, you are making a profit, BUT your money would be better off being put into BTC because in the time your coin A grew by 50% in dollar value, Bitcoin has grew by 200% in dollar value.\n\nThis is a mistake that alot of newbies make. They think that the dollar value is almighty, but in this world of crypto, BTC/satoshi value is king.\n\nSo what do we need to do if we want to purchase coins from these exchanges? We will need to purchase Bitcoin from Coinbase/Coinhako/Gemini and transfer it to these exchanges for us to buy our alternative coins. But if you remember what I said earlier on, it is expensive to transfer Bitcoin around. So there is this small little hack that people use.\n\n1) Purchase Ethereum/Litecoin from Coinbase/Coinhako/Gemini\n-We do this because ETH and LTC have shorter block time (which means your funds will travel faster because it will need 6 blocks confirmation before a transaction is considered successful) and also it is way cheaper.\n2) Transfer it to Binance/Bittrex/Poloniex\n3) Sell the coins for Bitcoin or Binance Coin\n4) Buy the alternative coins you want.\n\nThis will greatly shorten your time and save you money as the fees for Bitcoin is ridiculously high and the block time is long. 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      "body": "Hi guys, \n\nI have been actively reading up about cryptocurrency in the past few months. Some of the people around me have also been coming to me to ask me about cryptocurrency and how do they go about purchasing them. So I reckon it would be good for me to spend my leave writing some articles to share with you guys about it to make it easier for you to join in the cryptocurrency fever.\n\nThe fact that you are reading this post makes me assume that you are interested in buying cryptocurrency too. Cryptocurrency might seem to be a foreign concept until recent weeks where mainstream media kept reporting about Bitcoin smashing price barriers (mainly due to the launch of CBOE and CME futures). This is a highly speculative market and most coins/tokens DO NOT actually have a working product. You are investing in the development of these products, unlike conventional stock market where you are investing in company that has certain amount of market share. 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It has a clean user interface which allows you to navigate easily. It is currently one of the top downloaded apps on the app store. The downside is that Coinbase charge absurd fees.\n\nCoinbase fees for credit card purchase is 3.99% (which is way higher than any other exchanges), and the fees for purchase using bank account is 1.49%.\n\nDo note that what I mean by bank account here is using this platform called xfers (https://www.xfers.com/sg/)\n-Do note that xfers currently SUSPENDS digital wallet top up until further notice. (Digital wallet is the wallet we use to purchase crypto currency)\n\nSo what does this imply - From now until the foreseeable future, we can only purchase through Coinbase using credit card. All new account would only have a limit of $200/week. The limits would be progressively increased overtime.\n\nFor example, I am looking to purchase $200 worth of Ethereum.\nThe cost break down would be as follows:\nYou would pay 3.99% of Coinbase fees - $7.98\nYou would pay $5.20 of DBS bank transfer fees.\nSo effectively, you will need to pay $205.20 to get $192 worth of coins.\n\nThis would technically set you back by almost 10% before you even begin looking at any profit. But fret not, this first time purchase can actually be covered through a referral code. \n\nI shall shamelessly put my referral link here for you: https://www.coinbase.com/join/59efdc0c1ac76d0239e2a282\n\nAny $100 worth of any cryptocurrencies purchase would give you $10 worth of Bitcoin. I would also be getting $10 worth of Bitcoin for myself. Subsequently, you can share your referral link to your friends. \n\nTo be honest, if you purchase say any other currency other than Bitcoin, this $10 of Bitcoin that is given as part of the referral would be pretty useless. Because, before any transaction within block chains can occur, you will need to pay network/miner fees. In this case, because Bitcoin network is always congested, the fees are astronomical. You will have to pay $7 to transfer $10 worth of coins, so a better solution would be to keep the money in Coinbase. Comparatively, it cost about $0.40 to transfer Ethereum/Litecoin.\n\nI will be covering network/miner fees in subsequent posts.\n\nCoinhako:\n![coinhako.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmeQj3j27Z1XXiWYTHVQbqKCT9HFoX9YsHWT8UK9cD32nm/coinhako.JPG)\nAnother alternative would be using Coinhako (https://www.coinhako.com/),\nCoinhako charges a significantly lower fees of 0.9%, by using the promo code COINGECKO (not sure if still applicable), it will reduce the fees to 0.7%.\n\nBut there are a few drawbacks in using Coinhako\n-It only allow purchase through bank transfer (xfers) but currently, xfers is down until further notice which means that Coinhako is useless until xfers is up and running again.\n-You are only able to purchase Bitcoin and Ethereum in Coinhako\n-Coinhako prices could be slightly more inflated than Coinbase at times, the opposite holds true because the price mainly depends on the demand and supply at that point of time.\n\nIf you are interested, you can sign up through my referral link where every $100 of purchase would net you $5 worth of additional coins which will help in covering your initial Coinhako cost. https://www.coinhako.com/referrals/sign_up/KOHQINHON_375707\n\nGemini:\n![gemini.JPG](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYskVTHGV1YGVpn7TThB4G4yetk4wvQqjNyheJmNYP91G/gemini.JPG)\nThere is another exchange called Gemini (https://gemini.com/) which allows bank transfer (through DBS to US bank account). I personally have not tried using this before and hence couldn't give much input. I made an account but it is still being verified after almost a week. You can try using it and share your inputs with me!\n\nWhat I normally do would be to refer to before exchanges and see which exchange would give me more coins or a better rate before deciding from where I would like to purchase my coins from.\n\n*Do note that exchanges would require you to set up 2FA, sending proof of address or even take a selfie for verification purposes.\n*Also, as most exchanges are experiencing unprecedented surge in applicants, it might take sometime for your verification to be processed.\n\nAs the post is getting too long, I will be covering how to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies in Part 2.\n\nThanks for reading and feel free to drop me a message about what you would like to learn more about (so long as it is within everything I know).",
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