In Malaysia, you really do not have much choice for exchanges.
Personally, I use XBit Asia, but the liquidity is low and the spread is not very attractive.
As I understand, there is another one called Remitano which I've not used before.
There were another 2 - 3 more before, but for some reason, their bank accounts have been closed by their respective banks (likely some form of interference by BNM methinks) and therefore can no longer deposit or withdraw MYR.

Can buy from me.

Trade fees (XBIT)
Market Maker fee        Taker fee 
BTC/MYR 0.25%        1.00%

ESCROW FEE: (Remitano)
If you are the person that created the advertisement: Free
If you are NOT the person that created the advertisement: 0.5%
Remitano charges is the lowest currently

If you do use Remitano later, do share your experience with us after.
Good luck!

I've bought all my bitcoins, around RM 600 worth over a period of time via localbitcoins.com

They have sellers which sell exactly at market price or maybe 0.5%-1% higher. I don't buy from those who sell >1% market price and the escrow system prevents fraud for sure.

If you're still young, I recommend to buy hashpower instead you mine bitcoin film trusted could mining providers.

The 5 - 10% "premium" is not charged by localbitcoins.com, but rather it is just the going rate of the exchange, i.e. the price that buyers and sellers are willing to trade at.
Localbitcoins.com itself charges only 1% of all trades.
Most other exchanges require some form of identification, like your ID, address, phone number, bank account number, etc., but Localbitcoins.com does not require those, since it is basically just a P2P platform. It only acts as a middle man between two parties, who agree to buy and sell at a certain price.
This means that it is extremely anonymous and private, and some people are willing to pay a higher price for this privacy.

I haven't used it myself.
Let us know your experience later.

anyone who wants bitcoin can buy from me.. hehe

Congratulations mate.
Now, the very first rule of thumb in investing in bitcoins......NEVER EVER put your bitcoins in your online wallet, especially wallets offered by exchanges, other than a small amount that you are planning to trade or use in the very near future.
If you are planning to invest in the long term (i.e. keep and hold, instead of frequently buying and selling), then I strongly recommend investing some money in a good hardware wallet, and practice cold storage (i.e. keeping your bitcoins offline, where it can never be hacked or stolen).
There are several good and trusted brands out there, like Trezor, Ledger, Coolwallet, etc. that you can look up in Google and review yourself.
I cannot stress this enough......online wallets are NOT suitable for storage of cryptocurrencies, no matter how secure they say they are, or how many factors of authentication they use.
Cold storage, no exceptions!
:thumbsup:

I also new to bitcoin but read online is to only put small amount in the online wallet like on coinbase.com and blockchain.info
hardware wallet i saw review online at www.coingecko.com/buzz/cryptosteel-review

Good for you. Trezor is a good brand.
Personally, I use Coolwallet, and paid USD 119 for it.

That's something like RM 1k per year if you run it full time.
Not bad at all.

just download reliable apps like mycelium or airbitz on your phone,
and keep it offline as long term storage.

1. Buy a hardware wallet from a respectable company, and verify that the code is open source.
2. Set up the hardware wallet. VERY IMPORTANT: Write down the recovery phrases, in case your hardware wallet is stolen or broken.
3. Hardware wallet will generate an address.
4. Send all your bitcoins into the address given by the hardware wallet.
5. Keep hardware wallet in the safest place you can find, like in a household safe.
6. Ta-da! You're done.

What this means is, instead of the online exchange/wallet provider generating the address and the public/private keys on your behalf (which means they know all those private keys), now the private keys are generated directly by the hardware wallet, offline.
Nobody knows the private keys except the person who is holding the hardware wallet.
It is practically impossible to hack or steal your bitcoins because hardware wallets are not connected to the internet.
But of course, like I said, you need to keep the hardware wallet safe, so it is not stolen. Anyone who has control over the hardware wallet, controls all the bitcoins stored there.
Always keep in mind: bitcoins = cash.

Good luck!  :thumbsup:

If the hardware wallet is broken, definitely all the bitcoins are safe; just get another wallet and initiate the recovery process, which is relatively simple. (Usually you just have to enter a 12-word or 24-word recovery phrase. But make sure you have kept your recovery phrase safely accessible somewhere, because if you lose it, then your coins are gone forever.)
Now, if the wallet is stolen, on the other hand, that will depend on whether the thief knows what he stole.
If he's smart enough to know what a bitcoin wallet is, then he could quickly do a transfer from your wallet to his own account, and then, sorry to say, your coins are gone. End of story.
But if, for example, he just ransacked your house and took it without knowing what it is, then you could quickly get a new wallet, initiate the recovery, then quickly transfer the coins to a new address, and you're safe.
Thanks very much for the offer mate, but I'm not considering it at the moment.

there have been many hacking incidents,
https://hacked.com/biggest-bitcoin-hacks-thefts-time/

Some hardware wallets do allow you to set a PIN as a password to access it, but also many that do not.
I suppose you are referring to the famous Mt. Gox incident, but since then, there were quite a number of exchanges that got hacked to various degrees, and many lost a significant amount of bitcoins.
One thing to ponder about: the more famous the exchange, the more users it would have, and consequently the more bitcoins it would have. That would make them the prime targets of hackers, as the potential returns are astronomical. With the level of sophistication of hackers these days, it's only a matter of time before they find a fatal flaw in the security system and gain access.
Different hardware wallets handle this differently, but usually they would be capable of creating several different accounts and private keys.

for iOS try Airbitz or Copay.

Copay is managed by BitPay.

Yes, Trezor comes with a PIN function.
So, even if a thief steals your Trezor and tries to send all your bitcoins to his own address, he cannot complete the transaction unless he enters the PIN.
And if I'm not mistaken, it is set up so that the reset time increases exponentially every time you key in a wrong PIN.
So, don't worry, it's pretty secure.

for iOS try Airbitz or Copay.

Copay is managed by BitPay.

no issues if you swap SIMs as there is no correlation.

before using the Airbitz or Copay mobile app, it will prompt you to copy the secret words for backup purposes.
really easy.

see

https://news.bitcoin.com/learn-download-use...beginner-video/

Yes, totally right.
Never leave your bitcoins on exchanges.
That's the first place that hackers will target.