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How to Buy Altcoins from Bittrex - How to Trade Altcoins Like Monero Dash NEO Lisk and Others

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Channel: Rules For Rebels · 2017 · Howto & Style

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I've been making some Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency vidoes lately and a question I keep getting asked is about how to buy altcoins. 

So one of the most common exchanges and probably most user friendly exchanges is Coinbase. Coinbase offers 3 coins Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin. Many people however want to buy other altcoins like Monero, Lisk, ARK, NEO and many others. To do this you need to go to an exchange that deals with more cryptos than Coinbase. 

The three most common exchanges for buying or trading altcoins are Bittrex, Poloniex and Kracken. Now I think pretty highly of all these exchanges, but personally I choose to use Bittrex as I find the user interface to be the easiest to navigate and cleanest, they have the widest selection of coins and they tend to get coins faster than other exchanges. That said you may find at times that not every exchange offers every coin you want to trade. For example right now I want to buy some EOS but Bittrex doesn't carry EOS so if I wanted to trade that coin I would have to open a Kracken account. That said BIttrex has most coins I trade and the widest selection so it's the one I use.

In this video I'm going to show you guys how to send Bitcoins from your Coinbase account to your Bittrex account. Now the process should be pretty similar regardless of which exchanges you use so if you buy your Bitcoins on Gemini and trade on Poloniex, again it will be a pretty similar process however in this particular example I'm going to be showing you Coinbase to Bittrex. 

So for starters to buy altcoins your going to need Bitcoins. If you don't have Bitcoins you'll need to buy some. If you don't have Bitcoins and aren't a member of any exchanges I personally recommend Coinbase. They are a trustworthy site and in my opinion make the process the  easist. If you use my link below you can get $10 in free Bitcoins when you signup for Coinbase and load $100 into your account so that's essentially a 10% bonus.

https://www.coinbase.com/join/5292cca65e96991136000831

Once you have a Coinbase account setup and have some Bitcoins your going to then open a Bittrex account. 

I walk you through everything in this video step by step and show you the screens but your going to click wallets in Bittrex. Your going to either find BTC or Bitcoin or type it into the search browser. It's very important you select Bitcoin and not another currency. 

Your then going to click the plus button. The plus button is for deposits the minus button is for withdrawls. Your going to click the + button and it's going to show you an address and a QR code. The QR code would be if you were sending Bitcoins from a mobile device or cellphone. I personally recommend doing most of your crypto activity on a computer so were going to assume your on your computer. You'll copy and paste that address. You'll then go over to Coinbase and click accounts. You'll select your bitcoin account and hit the send button. You'll paste in the receiving address from your Bittrex account, you'll select the amount of Bitcoins you want to send and then you'll hit send.

In a few minutes you'll probably see the transaction showing up as pending. After a few more minutes if you check your Bittrex account you should see the Bitcoin showing as pending. Once the transaction has 6 confirmations it should be moved over to available balance in your Bittrex account. At this point you can buy whatever altcoins you want to buy.

I briefly show you how to execute a trade in this video as well but for the most part I wanted to keep things pretty simple.

If you have questions or want guides on any other processes feel free to drop a comment in the comments section below.

Thanks for watching!!!!

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