I’m quite new to cryptocurrencies, but understand the high level theory, and have never had any need to buy any of the now famous Bitcoins for any reason, however recently I have tried to purchase some Monero (XMR) but wanted to pay in GBP. This has proved more challenging than I first thought it would be! Quite a few exchanges will convert Bitcoin to to XMR, but I couldn’t really find any that would take a direct payment in GBP and convert to XMR, especially at a reasonable rate. So I had to buy Bitcoin in GBP, then convert to XMR. Here is the route I took: More »