I knew it had to be a “virtual” coin but hadn't looked into it. Now, I've watched those UTube descriptions, and I get how it works. Sending a gift card over the internet is kind of like a bit coin. You buy the gift card on the net, giving the store the email address of the person to get the gift, and that person gets an email from the store telling him/her they have a gift card of “x” amount of money to spend at their store. You go to that store on line, spend that money, and get whatever you bought sent to you. You never dealt with money and the person buying the card paid for it on line with a credit card.
A person has to buy bitcoins with regular money using a credit card on the web just like the gifting person has to buy the gift card with regular money.
Isn't the only way to get bitcoins is to pay regular money for them and it's done on line?