Ripple (XRPUSD)

[slwing]

I was new too and in exactly the same place as you when I bought my first Ripple, I had an open coinbase but not verified and with nothing in it... plus I live in WA state which is highly regulated and exchanges like Kraken and Polinex aren't licenses to trade here . ...

It does work for newby's. Buy bitcoin on whatever exchange you're able to purchase from (for me it was Coinbase) .. download the desktop wallet to your computer and set up the wallet (I believe mine is Ripplex - am not in front of my computer so going off memory) .. I went into coinswitch and entered the pairs (btc to xrp) and the amount of coin I wanted to use .... entered my desktop wallet address as the "to" address and copied as per the instructions the Coinswitch address for my order to be put into Coinbase . .. back into coinbase, send bitcoin, paste the coinswitch address and waited

It does work (Coinbase will likely say it's going to take 72 hours, but it does give the option to verify identity and if you do it only adds 10 minutes or so)

I did a very small transaction to make sure everything worked properly at first and it did, so have done 3 this way now