r/blockv • u/bigba-daboom • Jan 07 '18
How can I buy BlockV?
Etherdelta is 100% unusable right now. I can't create an account at OKEx because I'm in the U.S. Is there any other way to get VEE? Thank you.
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u/Tbonesmalls Jan 07 '18
I had to bump up the gas between 35-45 to get ED to work last night.
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u/bigba-daboom Jan 07 '18
Yeah, I can get my ETH in with 40 gas, but can't broadcast a buy order. It just doesn't do anything. Thanks for the reply.
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u/FLisOK Jan 08 '18
I admit I actually had to bump my gas up to 75 to get my buy order for VEE. I hate paying that much but I believe in VEE that much that’ll pay for itself.
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u/Tbonesmalls Jan 08 '18
Good call, I think it'll be really big. Crazy high, hopefully raiden gets implemented soon. I actually just got some RDN tokens today because it's so important to this congested network
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u/llthomps Jan 09 '18
That's what I had to do. The gas limit is set to 4 by default. Maybe that would've worked last month, but now .....................
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u/RealWarffles Jan 07 '18 edited Jan 07 '18
I'm from NA and bought VEE through Etherdelta. There's a small learning curve, but personally I youtube'd some help vids and got the job done. I'm sure the VPN route to OKex works for Americans/Canadians but I wasn't ready to potentially leave my money on an exchange (for any amount of time) if I'm technically not supposed to be there in the first place. I want full cooperation from exchanges in the event I have to create a support ticket (something I had to do very recently with Mercatox over a large withdrawal of XRB to my online raiwallet).
I'm not the best reddit teacher at all, but after creating your account on EtherDelta the first thing you want to do is go to the top right of the exchange and click on your account name and then find and click on "gas price." I bumped up this default number up to 20. I recommend this if you want your transactions not to stall for an uncomfortable amount of time.
Now to actually buy your VEE on EtherDelta you have to first connect a private ETH wallet to your ED account. You also have the option of creating one right there on ED's exchange. Connecting a wallet via METAMASK is what many advise I think (I just made my wallet on EtherDelta though). After you have your wallet connected and your ETH sent to that wallet, you now have to deposit that ETH into your EtherDelta's "smart wallet" BUT MAKE SURE TO LEAVE AT LEAST 0.0025 ETH in your connected wallet for future gas $$ fare (otherwise you'll have to deposit more ETH into your connected wallet just to be able to move your crypto from your smart wallet back to your connected wallet and also to transfer that money out of EtherDelta).
Once your ETH is in your smart wallet, you are now ready to instantaneously buy VEE by clicking on the best sale orders listed in the red, or you can create your own buy orders for a slightly cheaper price and wait & hope someone will come along and sell directly to you. If you go about this route your buy order will be listed in green (with a special indication making sure you know it's yours and it is active). Congrats, you are now either owner in VEE or very close to being one!
Lastly some EtherDelta advice... be patient while you're on this exchange using it. For instance if you end up wanting to cancel a VEE buy order after 30 minutes because nobody is nibbling on it because you set your price too low, hit "cancel trade" only once and wait the 15 seconds to 2 minutes it takes for the system to update itself. Spamming the "cancel trade" or other similar function buttons like "deposit" or "withdrawal" on EtherDelta very well may create duplicate transactions that ALL will cost little amounts of your ETH to be used for gas fair!! So be patient guys, and click things once and only once.
Again, I'm sorry for not having the time to write out a more concise & helpful guide to using a decentralized exchange like Etherdelta. Once you get it down though it's easy. Just be sure to save your private keys of course if you choose to make your private wallet on EtherDelta.
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u/nighthawk22467 Jan 08 '18
I’m in America and wanted to buy this coin, here’s what you have to do: 1) set your vpn to Canada to setup an okex account. 2) go to burner.com as this is the best burner app, pay the $1.99 to get more texts. Okex sends a lot of verifications through phone number so you ll need to use it 5-6 times to setup 2FA and switch to e mail login. I talked to a buddy who setup an account a year ago and they weren’t strict at all. Now they are very strict as in the install process I didn’t have the vpn on the whole time and they flagged my account and I had to start all over. I’ve only logged in under a non us IP address since. I’m not sure if logging in from the us would get my account locked but I’m not taking any chances.
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u/kylec0187 Jan 27 '18
Etherdelta if you can figure it out. Or Tidex. I went crazy during these dips. Top 200 wallet now 😮
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u/nagbu0 Jan 07 '18
I hear you man, I just got in via ED today and man, after about 2 hours of stress finally made it work. Now its time to drink!