RE: The US Government Clamps Down on Ability of Americans To Purchase Bitcoin
Yup, Coinbase has been good as long at BTC and ETH were moving along "slow and steady." But after this last week when I couldn't get orders executed when BTC and ETH bottomed it was extremely frustrating. Now I plan to be here for the long haul and have made several buys during this move up. It's just again frustrating when I wasn't able to take advantage of the volatility.
Because of that I opened up a Gemini account which is still pending verification. Another "exchange"/wallet I guess we can call it that I've used to buy BTC with my USD is Abra. Just word of caution with Abra is that you purchase of BTC can take a few days. So if there has been recent volatility in BTC, you might get a better/worse price then expected. To I guess hedge against this, I am going to try to load USD in my Abra wallet first then, then convert over to BTC, by changing the wallets currency when needed. This is something I have done with Coinbase to save a few dollars in fees when I use my debit card. Just again hopefully BTC or ETH hasn't been too volatility as you wait the 7 days for the money to clear.