To buy PTS you need to
A) Buy bitcoins,
B) Exchange bitcoins for PTS.A)To acquire bitcoins, go to the website
www.coinbase.comClick the Sign Up button in the top right corner.
Enter your email and desired password.
Check your email and find "Please verify your email" in your inbox.
Follow the instructions in this mail, and sign the terms of agreement form.
Now you have a Coinbase account!
Under "General" on the left hand side click the "Buy/Sell" button.
In the middle of the page (coinbase.com/buys) you'll see two blue buttons:
1) "Verify a Bank Account" and
2) "Verify A Phone Number"
Click the first and follow the instructions.
(??)Go back to coinbase.com/buys and click the second and follow instructions.
(??)When you now go back to coinbase.com/buys you'll be able to buy your first Bitcoin!
Just enter the total amount of bitcoins you want to buy and click buy.
(??)You now have bitcoins!
B)To exchange bitcoins for PTS, go to the website cryptsy.com
Click the Register New Account in the top right corner.
Enter all the details in the form and click the green "Register New Account" button.
Check your email and find "Confirmation of Registration" in your inbox.
Follow the instructions in this mail, and then login to at cryptsy.com/users/login
You now have a Cryptsy account!
On Cryptsy you can exchange your Bitcoin for PTS! BUt first we need to transfer your bitcoins from Coinbase to Cryptsy.
Go to coinbase.com/transactions
Click the "Send Money" button on the top right.
Here you can specify the bitcoin address you want to send to and the amount.
Now we need the address to send our bitcoin to Cryptsy (where we can exchange it for PTS!).
Open a new window and go to cryptsy.com/users/balances
Here you should see a list of different currencies sorted alphabetically (if you don't, select "Show 'all accounts'" in the top right)
Scroll down until you find Bitcoin.
Click on Bitcoin and you should see a list of options, select "Deposit / Autosell BTC"
From here you can get a bitcoin address. Click "Generate New Deposit Address."
This long string of mixed characters is a unique bitcoin address to your Cryptsy account!
Now just copy this string of characters and paste it in the form you get by clicking "Send Money" at coinbase.com/transactions
Click send money and you're done! You've just sent your bitcoin to from Coinbase to Cryptsy!
It can take up to an hour, and sometimes longer, for the bitcoins to be available for use. Within fifteen minutes you should your bitcoins as "pending deposits" on cryptsy.com/users/balances Be patient and don't worry!
When your bitcoins are listed under "Available Balance" you can finally exchange them into PTS.
Go to cryptsy.com/users/balances
Here you should see a list of different currencies sorted alphabetically (if you don't, select "Show 'all accounts'" in the top right)
Find Protoshares (PTS) and you should see a list of options, select "Go to BTC Market."
Here you can select the amount of PTS you want to buy, and see the bitcoins it will cost.
Click the green button "Submit Buy Order" and you will place a buy order for PTS.
When someone takes the offer a notification of the purchase will appear.
You now have PTS!
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