I first got into bitcoin back in May. A friend helped me set up a Robinhood account and all this time have been buying bitcoin through there. Thanks to twitter I recently found out that I don't actually own my bitcoin keys and this whole time I thought I did. Now I'm panicking. How do I take ownership of them? It says on the Robinhood website they are thinking about giving people their own keys but who knows when that'll actually happen if at all. What should I do?
there is no guarantee they'll ever allow crypto withdrawals. it's been almost 3 years already---i wouldn't count on it.
if you want your keys, you need to liquidate your positions on robinhood, withdraw the fiat to your bank account, then use it to buy real bitcoins on an exchange (kraken, coinbase, etc) or p2p marketplace (localbitcoins, localcryptos). then withdraw the coins to a wallet you control.