Step 1:

Get an ally.com account. This will help keep an exchange from directly connecting to your real bank account. It also has only $20 wire fees to Kraken. Ally.com can ACH funds from your local bank account.

Step 2:

Get a https://www.kraken.com/ account. You will need your driver’s license and a photo holding the license and a handwritten note to get to “tier 3” ( https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/201352206-What-are-the-Verification-Tiers- ). Once you get verified you will create a funding order and then wire the money from ally.com.

Step 3:

Buy bitcoin. Keeping it on Kraken is not recommended as the site has been having issues. If they resolve speed issues we will remove this line.

Advanced:

Transfer out to a wallet to store offline so it has LESS chance of getting hacked.

Hardware wallet: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/wallets/#hardware-wallets

Paper wallet : https://www.bitaddress.org/bitaddress.org-v3.3.0-SHA256-dec17c07685e1870960903d8f58090475b25af946fe95a734f88408cef4aa194.html

Transfer out to https://bittrex.com/ so you can trade.

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