Beginner guide
Buying bitcoin for the first time, explained properly
One site with one job: take somebody who has never touched crypto and get them to the point where they have actually bought some. Nothing skipped, nothing assumed, and no opinion about where the price is going.
If you want the whole thing in one read, go to the full walkthrough. It covers all eight stages in the order you actually hit them.
If you already know you want an account, opening an account, field by field covers every input and what to do when each one fails.
The whole path, in five steps#
- Prepare A phone number that receives SMS, an unexpired ID document, and an amount you could lose entirely. Settle these three and most of the later problems never happen. What to prepare
- Register and verify Sign up with email, then complete identity verification. The two things that actually stall people are codes that never arrive and ID photos that keep getting rejected. Opening an account
- Do the security setup first Most guides put this last — by which point there is money to lose. Two-factor, anti-phishing code, withdrawal whitelist. All of it before you fund anything. Why security comes first
- Get money in Bank transfer, card and peer-to-peer each have their own limits, and each is closed in some places. Which one works for you depends on where you are and who you bank with. Funding routes
- Order, then find your coins What happens when you press buy, why the balance reads 0.999 instead of 1, and which screen your coins actually appear on afterwards. Ordering and after
What is worth reading#
All eight stages in real order, with the cost of each one and what to do when it goes wrong. Security is placed before payment, deliberately.
The long one · worth bookmarking Open an account Opening a Binance account, field by fieldEvery input explained: where the referral field hides, why the code never arrives, what the ID check wants, and how to fix each rejection message.
The only registration link on this site Disclosure How this site is paidA referral commission from the exchange, costing you nothing extra. What it does influence, what it does not, and how to use the site without it earning anything.
Read before using the link About About this site and our editorial policyWho it is written for, how we decide what goes in, and the hard rules — no price predictions, no investment advice, nothing done on your behalf.
Including what we never doThe Chinese edition goes further#
This site started in Simplified Chinese and that edition is considerably larger: sixteen articles and five interactive tools, including a payment-method comparison by region, a fee-share calculator, an order-type decision helper, a progress checklist and a glossary.
The English edition is being built out page by page. What is here is complete and current — it is simply narrower for now.
Before you start#
This site will not tell you whether bitcoin is going up or down, and will never say “now is a good time”. Crypto prices move sharply and you can lose everything you put in.
What this site does is explain how to operate — including the parts guides usually skip: what to do when you are rejected, where to look when you are stuck, and which routes simply do not work where you live.
The registration link on this site carries our referral code. If you open an account through it, the exchange shares part of its trading fee with us. It does not cost you more, and it does not bend what we write — you will find payment methods here that we tell you not to use. See the revenue disclosure.