Made it to the 24 hour grocery next to the pizza place with the great pernil across from what used to be Roosevelt Hospital, where a hospital worker was feeding cash from her pay envelope into the bitcoin machine back by the cold sodas, after some time with customer service on the phone. Another noob. Noobette. Then it was my turn to input my phone number, which it didn't like, perhaps because it isn't my phone, and demanded a government ID. With a barcode. Well I guess my New York pedestrian's license was issued before they had barcodes. There's one on my passport card, but who walks around with a passport card? In fact it took some time to find it today. Try again with that tomorrow, unless Coinbase will accept a picture of my license made with a better camera. Or plan a trip into Jersey City, where a computer repair shop is part of the Libertex network. It ain't easy being nongreen.