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Depending on where you’re located, you can purchase bitcoin through a variety of sources, including digital wallets, ATMs, and brokers. However, a cryptocurrency exchange is the most popular choice for trading bitcoin.

Before buying, check Bitsgap’s bitcoin converter and crypto market cap calculator, do your research, and develop a trading strategy to succeed in earning money.

A bitcoin wallet is a piece of software or specialised hardware that secures, sends, and receives bitcoin. Contrary to popular belief, the wallet doesn’t actually store bitcoins but secures the cryptographic keys that prove the bitcoins’ ownership. Whenever you execute a transaction and transfer the ownership of bitcoins to another person, the network assigns the receiver’s keys as the new “password” for accessing the bitcoin.

To own bitcoins and conduct bitcoin transactions, you need a private key and a public key. Both are randomly generated alphanumeric characters used to encrypt and decrypt transactions. A public key is generated from a private key using a one-way algorithmic formula. Since it’s almost impossible to regenerate the private key from the public key, you’ll have to make sure you don’t lose them.

In addition, you’ll have a public address, which is an encoded or abbreviated version of your public key. To receive bitcoin, share your public address, just like you do with your physical address to receive snail mail. To execute transactions, you’ll need the public address of the recipient, along with your two keys to encrypt and sign your transactions.

To start trading bitcoin on Bitsgap, you’ll have to sign up first. After you do that, you’ll get a seven-day free trial on the PRO plan. With Bitsgap’s PRO plan, you can start as many as 250 DCA and 50 GRID bots, not to mention unlimited smart orders and futures trading.

Your next step will be connecting Bitsgap to your exchange account via an encrypted API key. You can connect up to 17 exchanges (including Binance!) to a single account on Bitsgap and operate on them almost simultaneously by switching to different exchanges via the terminal.

After linking your exchanges, you’re ready to roll and execute your first bitcoin trade or start a bot. For example, if bitcoin’s price is dipping, you can buy into the dip by starting the BTD bot to start accumulating your bitcoin portfolio at a discount.

Don’t forget to come back to Bitsgap’s bitcoin converter to check prices in real-time!