<p>You can get bitcoins by <em>mining</em> them. This is currently done by special mining hardware. You can mine alone or as a part of a larger mining pool. Before that you should buy this relatively expensive hardware (for example AntMiner S9).</p>

<p>The usual way to get bitcoins is buying them with regular (so called fiat) currencies (like USD, EUR...) through bitcoin exchanges. More on the process: <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-exchange.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-exchange.asp</a>. To get more details you should check on particular exchanges mentioned in the article (like for example: <a href="https://www.kraken.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.kraken.com/</a>). </p>

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You can earn bitcoin. If you have a product to sell or a service to provide, instead of asking for regular currencies in exchange, ask for bitcoin.
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<p>So my first and main question is how do you get bitcoins? Do you use money off a card to purchase them, do you win them, or what? </p>

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# Learning as I go but needing help understanding the concept

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-30)

So my first and main question is how do you get bitcoins? Do you use money off a card to purchase them, do you win them, or what?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2017-11-30. Score: 0

You can get bitcoins by *mining* them. This is currently done by special mining hardware. You can mine alone or as a part of a larger mining pool. Before that you should buy this relatively expensive hardware (for example AntMiner S9).

The usual way to get bitcoins is buying them with regular (so called fiat) currencies (like USD, EUR...) through bitcoin exchanges. More on the process: <https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-exchange.asp>. To get more details you should check on particular exchanges mentioned in the article (like for example: <https://www.kraken.com/>).

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> **username_2**: You can earn bitcoin. If you have a product to sell or a service to provide, instead of asking for regular currencies in exchange, ask for bitcoin.  

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