Frequently Asked Questions

There is an initial one-time service fee that varies depending on your investment amount. This service fee covers our comprehensive services, which include full support services for rollover of retirement funds, complete set up of a self-directed retirement account with BitGo Trust, and best-in-class security storage, among other offerings. In addition, there is a minimal custodian and security fee. Please call our representatives to get the fees for your particular investment amount.

BitcoinIRA.com currently offers Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Digital Gold (DG). You can invest in entirely in one coin or a combination of multiple coins.

You can rollover funds from an existing IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA, SIMPLE IRA, 403b, or 401k into a self-directed Bitcoin IRA account.

There is a $3,000 minimum and no investment cap. Retirement accounts that hold Bitcoins require significantly more steps and procedures than with cash purchases. Bitcoin IRA provides a full-service solution that facilitates the process for account set up, rollover of funds from an existing IRA custodian, access to our self-trading platform, and moving funds to a secure digital wallet for all retirement account types.

No. You are unable to purchase cryptocurrencies for your retirement account with any other custodian or exchange at this time. Bitcoin IRA is the world's first, largest and most secure platform to offer this service.

Bitcoin IRA is a full-service company and we will walk you through the process from start to finish. Our specialists will set up your account, rollover your funds from an existing retirement fund, execute the self-directed trade, and move your coins securely into a digital wallet. Learn more.

Bitcoin is a new peer-to-peer digital currency created in 2009 by an unknown person that uses the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Transactions are made with no middle-man and there are no transaction fees. Learn more about Bitcoin here.

Blockchain is a form of distributed ledger where new transactions and interactions added to the ledger are collected and verified in groups referred to as blocks. A block is a cluster of transactions, gathered and cryptographically proven. Every ten minutes, a block is verified across the public ledger, granting each user in the network the ability to view the entirety of the network's transaction history. The history is made up of a long chain of blocks of transactions. Read more here.

Since the dollar is now the world’s reserve currency and has been around since 1794, you’ll of course find it has wider acceptance than bitcoin. Still, because of bitcoin’s advantages and its potential as an investment, it’s gaining increasingly faster acceptance.

According to CoinDesk, as of the second week in January 2016, bitcoins are bought and sold in almost 13,000 cities in 249 countries throughout the world. Because of its portability and efficiency of processing, bitcoin is ideal for large transactions. Bitcoin is virtual currency. Instead of paying for a product or service with cash, check or credit card, a user pays over the Internet through a peer-to-peer, decentralized fashion. The payment network through which a user pays treats the transaction as cash.

Spending or withdrawing the funds from any IRA account before you reach the retirement age of 59 ½ will result in early withdrawal tax penalties. Any IRA account is meant to be a fund drawn upon only after you retire. Selling your funds is approved so long as it is used to reinvest in an IRA or is held in your BitGo wallet in a liquid state.

No. At this time, you cannot transfer your current cryptocurrency holdings into a Bitcoin IRA. The IRS requires that buying into a cryptocurrency-based IRA be done with US dollars.

No. Your IRA funds are rolled over from your existing IRA account to a new IRA with BitGo Trust. Your funds remain in a retirement setting and will not result in any early withdrawal fees.

BitcoinIRA.com will attempt, but cannot guarantee, customers will receive any tokens derived from “hard forks.”

Similar to traditional banking, you are signing a lending agreement to loan your assets out to Genesis Capital. Genesis Capital then lends out your funds to vetted institutional borrowers and you receive the majority of the interest Genesis makes on those loans.

Interest rates should be available by Dec. 9th, but should be around 2%. You can sign up to be notified of the rates at bitcoinira.com/earn.

For now, BTC, ETH, LTC, XRP, ZEC, BCH, and XLM. As with online trading, additional assets will be added to the interest-earning program as volume permits.

We do not charge any upfront fees for you to earn interest on your account. We simply take a small fee premium from our lending partner based on your interest earned.

The rate is simple, but you are paid in-kind; meaning you receive interest paid in the asset(s) you’ve lent. For example, a Bitcoin IRA investor who lends 2 BTC at 2% interest will receive 0.04 BTC per year, paid evenly into the IRA every month.

Term lengths are open-ended. You or the borrower can cancel any time and the assets will be available to liquidate or transfer after no more than 7 business days.