Legally buy? Bitcoin doesn't have age limits. What you mean is you can't open an account with a CEX. Good news, you don't need one.

What you want to do is use a Bitcoin DEX. You sound smart enough to learn these. I use Robosats which is a Lightning Network based DEX. You can buy sats there and swap into an L1 wallet you want. Or learn to use Bisq. HodlHodl is maybe the easiest. Here's a site with a list of the main bitcoin DEX's and ranked:

kycnot.me

These DEX's have a bunch of different payment options for their offers. CashApp is one (If you live in the US you should be able to open one at age 16). Zelle with your bank account is another. F2F (face to face in person). Gift cards. ACH. Wires. PayPal. There's a bunch of options. Just watch some tutorials on whichever platform you use.

lots of ways at https://stacksats.how

Personally for me it was doing my job, I also went down the rabbit hole of trying to earn sats here and there but in terms of trading time for the most sats, I found that working was the best and then converting that into bitcoin.

If you can't work full time, I get that and you're better off trying to do jobs on freelance sites and then getting cash, lets say completing tasks on upwork, taking the cash into paypal and then selling it P2P for bitcoin

There are some native bitcoin freelance apps that offer micro tasks like stakwork and microlancer and pick up a few sites

Robotsats. Youll need some way to fund (cash app, strike, ect)

Bitcoin atm.

Bisq -> cash by mail or us postal money order. But bisq has much more friction

Participation here will help you build your stack!

You could try Bitcoin ATMs (CoinATMRadar.com) or Azte.co vouchers to buy Bitcoin with cash (no ID required). Or buy Bitcoin with Amazon/Google Play/Steam/etc. gift cards with Robosats.com, or cash by mail with Bisq.network, HodlHodl.com or AgoraDesk.com.

Also you could earn Bitcoin via gigs/microtasks/remote work with Microlancer.io or sell products/services for Bitcoin with Bitejo.com or t.me/BitcoinP2PMarketplace

(Some examples: You could learn how to setup Wordpress/WooCommerce websites and sell this service, or make graphics with Canva.com. Both are free to learn.)

learn programing and take the stacker.news or nostr bounties

You can buy peer to peer or if you want to stack "free" sats you started in a good place with stacker news. Create good content and people will tip you. You can also listen to podcasts on Fountain app, play games on Zebedee, Thndr, there are a number of other apps that have daily sats giveaways. I am sure other responses have covered all these.

If you have a skill set that you think you can market maybe you could offer to work for sats. Even if that skill set is merely youthful energy. You can probably find someone who will pay you sats to mow their lawn, shovel their snow, clean their gutters, paint a fence and so on. Maybe try the Orange Pill App to find bitcoiners in your area and see if any of them have some work for you.

Happy stacking.

Cheers, GR

I use foxyrating + referral links. Don't have money because i am unemployed. https://vida.page/mauriciodegen

Get more funds. Generally, the two options there are employment or going into business for yourself. Of course, the fiat standard would suggest the highest expected value option is starting a business that can become a pseudo-monetary substrate for pumping and dumping.

If you can get angel investor funding for a startup on a SAFE, you can put 100% of the corporate balance sheet into bitcoin and simply lower your burn rate. As long as you still intend to build the business, nothing unlawful there.

The final option is to do gig work on nostr and get paid in bitcoin directly for all sorts of tasks -- however, this does not yet exist, but nothing is stopping you from posting on Nostr whatever offers you want today, e.g. "located in X -- will deliver groceries without Instacart price gouging".

Do Yourself a favour and try to bitcoinize Your family. Try to fight together against the Fiat Ponzi Fraud. They will help You stacking in the moment they understand that BTC lowers Your time preference and transforms You into a responsible well-educated person with a bright future. Good luck to You

Start memeing for zaps on nostr

buy a miner

create a website, for example exchange reviews, learn SEO and stack sats through the commission you get.

I wouldn't say running a LN node profitably is easy to do. But if you had a reasonable allocation, chose peers reliably, have low time preference frame of mind, available resources and carefully minimize chain fees, there's nothing to stop you making smallish regular/irregular fees from routing.

I guess there's a learning curve there, you could also incur more fees than you take, but it is what it is. Your not increasing your stack in cold storage.

Deliver value to somebody else who has Bitcoin and wants to trade.

Your age does not matter.

Bitcoin is Permissionless so you need no approval from anyone to start buying

купи майнер. s9

Para comprar yo utilizaría el bot de telegram @p2plightning o Robosats.

También puedes conseguir sats aquí en Stacker N. y jugando juegos como Turbo '84 de THNDR Games.

Gift cards and robosats maybe?

Cash app. Weekly savings. Work extra hours, save money for the long-term.

It can be any amount of money you want to /can save. Just start asap

Get good at fiat mining, then convert to Bitcoin.

Free ways to get some SATS:

Ways for buying SATS: No KYC, so no problem about your age!

Second hand Markets: try to sell old stuff you don't use for bitcoin. Try to work and get paid in bitcoin.

Create BTC content for twitter and Youtube and receive donations using @getalby wallet.

Use https://twitter.com/RoboSats?t=HfYIVLOh3tMn0Tm4fFayBw&s=09

Pretend to be a hot horney chick on nostr and talk about how zaps give you tingles. You'll make a fortune in a day lol

You can create digital content. This is the easiest to sell for cryptocurrencies and you can leverage the global market to grow your sats exponentially.

They’re always p2p! Get some one to trade with you! Fiat for crypto! Good on you for getting started early :$

The most important thing you can do is to understand Bitcoin as deeply as possible, the sats will automatically follow.