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Originally Posted by Jel
Idiots guide to buying bitcoins?
Say I wanted to buy 1 bitcoin - how/where?
Let's say I wanted to sell 1 bitcoin - how/where?
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One simple way is
http://localbitcoins.com/
This marries together buyers and sellers with an escrow service.
https://localbitcoins.com/guides/security
Note that you will not get the absolute best price, but with all of the mucking around it may take to get USD into a proper exchange the price would have gone up by then anyway (ie buying it now at a 3% loss is better than buying it in a few days when the market rate has gone up by 10%...)