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Tinkercoin

buy bitcoin with credit card, in 10 minutes

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ezra
@ezrasuki · developer
This is a very clever idea. They only let you purchase $20 worth of bitcoins and as a result can get away with lots of things.
Jonathan Howard
@staringispolite · Growth engineer & founder
Interesting. 10 mins seems like a along time. How do you think they compare to Coinbase? (My total time invested there was less than 10 minutes before purchasing, though I suppose the pauses in the verification steps are what they remove?)
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ezra
@ezrasuki · developer
"It takes only 10 minutes to buy your first bitcoin on Tinkercoin. We won’t make you wait for 24 hours while we approve your account, and we won’t ask you to link your bank account."
Jonathan Howard
@staringispolite · Growth engineer & founder
Yeah, saw that. They also offer to open you a CoinBase account for free too. It'll be interesting to see if their hypothesis works out that the verification steps are the main conversion blocker.
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ezra
@ezrasuki · developer
@staringispolite I can totally imagine people saying "I want to try out this Bitcoin thing, but all these websites ask me to add my bank account, and I also hear a lot of these Bitcoin companies are so ghetto and shady, like that magic card trading site going bankrupt with several hundred million dollars. I think i'll just try it out with this where I have n… See more