all right, in this video, we're going to show you how to actually go about purchasing bitcoin from a peer to peer network.
this means it's decentralized and likely you will not need anything like kyc details, right?
no address, no passport, no, no identification card or anything like that to actually purchase the bitcoin.
this is going to be one of the better ways to purchase bitcoin.
if you go through a normal exchange, that's kyc, you're going to want to then probably mix or tumble your bitcoin, which can be illegal depending on where you're at.
and then you'd want probably several transfers in between your destination wallet to actually make things secure.
but even then that trail is definitely trackable.
and we'll show you that in future videos in this course where we actually show like a bitcoin transactions and how we can track them.
but in this video specifically, the best way to initially get bitcoin is going to be one of two ways, either using an atm or using peer to peer.
even atms, right, they have cameras on them.
they're likely in places with cameras.
so it's not as anonymous as you would want, but using peer to- peer is going to be the better way to go.
so for this, we'll jump over to our browser and we'll use something called bisque.
bisque is a desktop application that we can use to actually do peer- to- peer purchasing.
they do have it for many operating systems, cubes itself, it's on there.
debian or ubuntu, so you can install it on tails if you need it, the straight source code, arts, red hat.
we're on windows right now as of recording this, so we'll just download the windows version.
it may look a little differently depending on what operating system you're on, but that would be the preferred one.
so i've already done the downloads.
what i'll do is actually launch the application right now.
and here you can see the application is booting up and you'll notice right here on the bottom, it's actually creating your tor network.
so it does actually connect over tor when using the application.
now they do have tor built into it.
so you have to be careful on like trusting that by default, assuming they didn't modify the tor connection settings or anything like that, but they are pretty transparent in their documentation.
so it does actually connect using tor to make it more anonymous and secure.
once it does launch up, it'll give you some basic information, but we can just close this.
and there's a lot of different options here, but what we really care about.
there we go.
okay, we went to the settings really quickly to turn on dark mode because wow, that hurt.
and there's a lot of different information in this tool.
definitely feel free to browse and look around.
there's information about your network, information about urls.
there's different bitcoin network, bis network information.
obviously, it's all using.
onions.
that's how it's connecting through everything.
so it is very secure, right?
there's a checkbox here saying use tor for bitcoin network under the settings.
we want to do that.
but all you really need to do is go to the buy page and you can start looking at how to actually buy something like bitcoin.
you can also buy monero through here.
so this works for both monero and bitcoin, but bitcoin is the main thing we're talking about in this video.
and there's a lot of different ways to buy it.
so the payment method is when you want to look at when considering which way to actually purchase the bitcoin.
there is zelle, right?
if you have zelle with popular banking applications, although that does tie to your name, so you have to be careful there.
but this is peer to- peer, right?
the idea is this is peer to- peer, so it's a little more secure, right?
a single person's probably not going to care, but you also don't really know who is collecting that information.
there is strike, which if you click on this, you can kind of get more information about what it is.
there is strike as well, which is another type of payment method.
there is just general banks, ach, and then there's specifically cash by mail, which can be an interesting way to do it, but it does take a little longer to get, obviously, because you have to mail it and then do that.
so what's valuable on this page is the account info, like how long have these accounts existed?
and some of the accounts are even a bit more verified.
they've completed a lot of transactions and verified to be trustworthy.
if you didn't like anything they're offering, you can go to the top right here and create a new offer, but you do need to set up payment accounts to actually get started.
to do that, you can add a new account and you can add payment methods in here and there are a ton.
so this can accept pretty much any way you are able to pay, you can add in here.
and cash by mail is probably going to be the most anonymous way, but you'd have to put some address here, all that information in here.
so there's a lot of different options in here.
definitely explore this now, but this is going to be one of the most more anonymous ways specifically to get bitcoin.
but this is why i say for most situations, better just to start with monero from an exchange.
this can get a little bit involved, a little bit complicated.
so much easier to start with just purchasing, go to regular exchange, purchase monero, then just transfer it.
if you really want, you can swap it or do some sort of coin join and then you can move on with your life.
so if you have any questions on this, let me know.
otherwise, this is the basic basic method for peer to- peer transactions and purchasing using to purchase bitcoin or xmr or some other cryptocurrencies that are available here.