Hi guys,

I was introduced to Bitcoins last September. I didn't know anything about that and I started studying more about that.

I also found this forum and learned A LOT from you guys, so, to thank you all and to give back, I thought about doing a small summary of what I have learned so maybe new guys can find this helpful.

I will post a lot of links from outside and to my own posts, so people with the same doubts that I had can look for the answers that I got there and maybe that may answer their question too.

I learned:

•     In September 2012, the very first thing I learned was from this video (like many of us ) : http://youtu.be/Um63OQz3bjo   and this website: http://www.weusecoins.com/
•     My friend introduced me to my first wallet and my first pool:  http://bitcoin.org/   and   http://bitminter.com/
•     I still didn't know what I was doing.
•     This amazing post resolve 99% of your doubts: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/9430.0
•     At the end September I found out that mining as we know it (or as I just knew) was about to end thanks to the ASIC machines. I didn't know what mining was and less idea of what ASIC was. So I started reading about that and I find many companies like Butterfly Labs, Avalon and BTCFPGA (http://bitcoinmagazine.com/tag/asic/)
•     I learned how awesome this forum is, willing to help a new guy like me
•     I was still learning how to mine, so I asked in this forum about that (https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/114723.msg1236829#msg1236829) and they told me about pools, mining and I ended upgrading my graphic card (you can compare the speed of mining here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison and you can calculate how many bitcoins here: http://tpbitcalc.appspot.com/)
•     I found out all the pools out there (https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/104664.0)
•     In October I was looking for rigs to mine (https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/114823.msg1238027#msg1238027) because I found this video: http://youtu.be/eLt8Se3vVNg
•     Then I didn't understand why pay fees when mining, but this forum was even greater than what I thought   https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/115260.msg1242456#msg1242456
•     So once I learned about mining, I download GUIminer and I started mining in 3 pools at the same time (https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=3878.0)
•     After 40 days I mined my first bitcoin YAY!  now, I wanted to know what I can do with that and I found places to buy with bitcoins like www.bitmit.net
•     I wanted to control my mining from my cellphone and I found Bitcare very useful (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cryptcoins.btcare&hl=en), and also Bitcoin Wallet to have a new wallet in your phone (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImRlLnNjaGlsZGJhY2gud2FsbGV0Il0).
•     I wanted to buy more bitcoins, didn't know where. Dwolla https://www.dwolla.com/ and Mt.Gox https://mtgox.com/ were there for me. I found out that Dwolla is a pain in the ass. I had to wait 3 weeks to verify me and 3-5 days every time to make a deposit. But besides that, it works...althought I found this today: http://codinginmysleep.com/dwolla-begins-suspensions/
•     People who likes bitcoins don't usually likes PayPal
•     I also found places where they give bitcoins away...for free!   http://makebitcoinsfast.com/ and http://earnbitcoin.wikidot.com/
•     I was new and happy until I found what a block is and how it dropped from 50BTC to 25BTC https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Blocks and http://blockchain.info/
•     You can know when the new block will happen: http://bitcoinclock.com/
•     More companies started to use bitcoins like WordPress (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/11/16/whats-your-bitcoin-strategy-wordpress-now-accepts-bitcoin-across-the-planet/). You can even buy a house with btc! http://bitcoinmagazine.com/where-to-spend-your-bitcoins/
•     Cool sites that I still don't understand like: http://cognitivemining.com/ or http://bitcoinstatus.rowit.co.uk/
•     The biggest wallet so far had more than 613,000 BTC and its own site (http://1dkybekt5s2gdtv7aqw6rqepavnsryhoym.com/)
•     You can watch how bitcoins are going higher or lower in sites like here: http://bitcoinwatch.com/ and http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/
•     That a guru of Gold and Silver, is accepting Bitcoins in his web:  http://mogamboguru.blogspot.com/
•     They have more names than just bitcoins... Sub-units of a bitcoin such asmillibitcoins ("Millies") or microbitcoins ("Mikes"). The Bitcoin protocol uses a base unit of one hundred-millionth of a Bitcoin ("a Satoshi")
•     What 2013 has in store for bitcoins: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/the-next-year-in-bitcoin-what-2013-has-in-store/
•     Some companies are afraid of bitcoins like apple and why: www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/06/13/why-apple-is-afraid-of-bitcoin/
•     You can help others by crowd founding with btcs: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/118458.0
•     You can bet anything: http://betsofbitco.in/   or  http://bitbet.us/
•     And also short cut your wallet: http://payb.tc/
•     Hitler sells alls bitcoins: http://youtu.be/alc0gG0u48M
•     That if the bitcoin drops to $4 (it was my dream )... 82% of the people would buy all the btc they could https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/137249.0
•     Casinos will make money....ALWAYS, any currency, any country: www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/01/22/bitcoin-casinos-release-2012-earnings/
•     There is wikipedia about bitcoins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin) and there is a wikipedia only of bitcoins: (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page)
•     Blogs keep growing to understand better about bitcoins: http://www.thebitcointrader.com/
•     I learned the hard way that if you have several wallets in your Bitcoin Wallet in your phone, it can crash and lose money. Be careful. https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/137785.msg1468748#msg1468748
•     You can have multiples wallets in your computer thanks to: https://multibit.org/
•     I thought a fork was for eating, but there are more https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/136802.msg1457287#msg1457287
•     There is no flaws in bitcoins: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/136740.msg1456910#msg1456910
•     Also, if you sign your account of the forum with your wallet, your nickname would be attached to it, always: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/137667.msg1467500#msg1467500
•     You must create a SECURE wallet: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/17240.0

And that's it so far. I'm still learning but I can see how much I have learned in just 4 months. I got my wallets secured, with many bitcoins and waiting for an asic.


I hope this post can help anybody.


Thank you guys!

All the best.