Topic: Do you struggle learning about bitcoin? (Read 719 times)

it's not strange if yo are finding it difficult to understand the technical part of bitcoin and the blockchain technology. It's even bold and good of you that despite your growth in the forum, you still see it necessary to face the reality that you need to be have to needed knowledge in the world of Bitcoin.
For me, I don't really have that ability to go into the technically that is involved in trading due to how demanding my current physical job can be and so I just focus on accumulating bitcon and participating in the forum discussion so as to keep myself up to spead with the latest happenings in the field. Depending on what you're doing and what you want to specialize in, you can choose to gradually make research on it and see yourself growing gradually in the process.

Wow!!  This is really awesome. It takes courage to drop an article like this even with your position in this forum, you are really sincere to yourself and I think you really want to learn more. some people are pretending to know everything but trust me they are deceiving themselves,  the truth is one can't know everything most people are facing same challenge here but because of their position they are shy to ask questions. Well there's a saying that " person wey dey ask for direction no dey loss for road.
However, I wish you locate someone that will enlighten you more with this thread.

You don't need to be embarrassed just because you don't really understand all the systems that exist in bitcoin, that's a natural thing, because not everything that is learned can be immediately absorbed into our brains. So deciding to ask in this forum is a very appropriate right, because reading articles is sometimes still confusing, but if explained from an experience point of view, it will usually be easier to understand.

I also don't fully understand the system that runs on bitcoin, but according to my measurements, that's enough for my trading needs.
And I will suggest it to you so that it is easier to understand, if you learn about bitcoin, crypto and blockchain. (essentially about all systems that run on crypto).
I suggest that you learn it while starting the practice, because if you go straight with the practice it will be more easily absorbed directly by our brains. Because until now I have proven it, I used to be very focused on learning about bitcoin/crypto and all its systems, I read on the internet every day, but I didn't practice it, and in the end, I got confused, because I kept reading, but the lessons I learned I have read before I forgot.
After that I took a short break, while I was looking for money, for my first capital in crypto, after I had the capital, I immediately started my investment, at that time I only studied occasionally, but while practicing, and oddly enough, even though I rarely studied specifically, but I understand and understand.

So the point is when learning, if you want to quickly absorb knowledge, it would be better if it was accompanied by practice.

Bro you are not the only person with such problem here. I guess we all beginner are facing the same issue. Especially I also experiencing the same issue. I also posted something like this and from those posts, I get one thing clear that there is no "aladdin's lantern" here that you can do everything in one day. You need to spend more time here read more and try harder.

Same thing happened to me,I struggled so much to know more things about bitcoin,and I found out that bitcoin is so broad,you can't know everything about it.I struggled for some months before I was able to know more things about it because of it broad nature,but up till now,there are still so many areas about it that I don't still know,and I'm working on exploring some areas that I haven't been able to explore since I started Bitcoin.I know very well that in less than no time,maybe in few years time,I will get to know about somethings that I haven't known.I'm happy today because my knowledge about bitcoin has been of help to me,and I don't regret struggling to learn it the time I did,the only thing that I regret about,is not having a knowledge about bitcoin earlier.

You should read other articles related to the bitcoin whitepaper for a simpler explanation, because if you have no knowledge of blockchain or other things related to programming languages it will be difficult to understand the actual explanation, so keep exploring in the forums for the technical section of the board to get closer to technical discussion.

I also struggle, even until now. I am also here for how many years and still cannot understand the technical side of Bitcoin. To be honest, I still haven't tried the 'node' thing. Moreover, if I try to read Bitcoin's whitepaper chances are I wouldn't be able to understand most of it because of its technecality.

People who don't have anyone to guide them have to struggle to know the various information about Bitcoin. Same thing happened to me. When I started Cryptocurrency I didn't have any experienced person to help me. I had to do my own work.  So you can say I was my own teacher. I have to work hard to learn something new. 
When I didn't understand something I would follow another experienced member on that same topic and try to copy exactly how he did it. Maybe there were many mistakes but that's how I slowly learned about crypto currency and I'm not saying that I know all about these things. Maybe I know a little something. I still have a lot to learn from cryptocurrency.

To be honest, we are in the same position. Though I can somehow grasp the whole idea of BTC and cryptocurrencies, I still find trouble understanding one of the focal points on this topic, which is something related with hardware, etc.

If you are still struggling to understand the basics of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, I highly recommend watching this TED TALK VIDEO as it simplified the explanation of the latter topics. When I watched this video, it somehow gave me an understanding about the potential of cryptocurrencies and its integration to the finances potentially in the future.

The technicalities of Bitcoin is difficult to understand. Bitcoin is not an easy thing to understand at a glance. Unless one just want to know about the basics of Bitcoin. May be how to send a transaction and receive a transaction and create a wallet. Anything more than that will need your time and proper attention to understand and this is one of the reason people did not want to enter into bitcoin because they have many things doing a life. Some people have real time job, they wouldn't have enough time to attend to their job and businesses and still have a lot of time to learn the technicalities of Bitcoin.
This could be one of the things hindering mass adoption of Bitcoin.

Isn't this exactly the perplexity I was driven into when I got to realize that there was, and yet, enough for.me to learn for myself technically?? Lol..
Achow even made a statement of such - can't  make any reference to such now though -but, trust me, it was really surprising to hear that... So I was like - Achow's complaining about it, how much more a mere newbie like myself?? Lol
The Bitcoin white paper has every history; the HOWs, the WHYs and for WHAT reason crypto was made. I mean, you need to put yourself into the divere sub-sections -- yeah? Cus without 'em, you won't understand a damn thing!! Like when you stumble on a regular word like P2P, make a technical research on it alone so as to be able to get the meaning of the word in the context of whatever you read.
Follow it...,it's a process!

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

In first glance, the concept of the bitcoin or the cryptocurrency itself is quite hard to understand this is the reason why better to get an investment in knowledge too once you want to get to invest in crypto, lack of knowledge might give you a lot of trouble in the path you are taking with.

By getting in time of knowing more a lot with crypto you will slowly understand what are the works of its purpose, use and more that can be an advantage to others. Based on my experience it took me a year to learn and still continuously learn more.

I think crypto currency is something you can just understand in a short time because the more you try to put effort in understanding it then the more it becomes more complex
This is a platform that is broad even when you are been educated on.it takes you to be more careful and attention most importantly is to concentrate on the activities
It has been a general problem because 90% find it more complicated to understand bitcoin

That is not the reason I feel ashamed. It is not about my merited rank. If we are talking about rank, am supposed to be a legendary rank from the activities I have acquired. Am concerned and worried because of the length of time I have known about bitcoin but yet am finding it hard to fully understand it. But now that I know am not the only old member who is still finding bitcoin difficult to understand I feel relieved that am not a dullard.

It was hard to know about Bitcoin in 2009 or a few years ago but today Bitcoin and crypto market, blockchain industry are something big enough that can help you to more easily be exposed with it.

The hardest part now belongs to you. Whether you believe in blockchain technology, cryptocurrency industry and Bitcoin, crypto market. If you have belief, you can walk along with it.

After being exposed to Bitcoin from media, people will have two sides to choose: positive (believe in it) and negative (disbelieve in it). If you fall into positive side, you will search Bitcoin Whitepaper, courses, youtube, articles to learn more about it. When you are more knowledgeable about it, your belief will increase.

If you have negative feeling, you will find fud news to read. It is not good and you have to filter news you read to not believe in fud and fake news.

What you describe applies to any crypto really (and other assets), not just to bitcoin.

It will depend on where you are looking at the data/charts, what view they are displaying (i.e. price variation in the last hour, last day, last 24 hours, etc.).

Take for example CoiinGecko’s bitcoin data. I believe the price increase or decrease there is expressed in terms of the last 24 hours as a rolling window. That means that the current price at any given point in time is compared to the price exactly 24 hours ago (give or take a few minutes).

Now take a look at the price chart, and you’ll see that, if the above is the way the price increase is being reported on the screen, the starting point of the comparison (price 24 hours ago) will logically vary as time goes by, as does the current price. That is the rolling window.

For example, at 11:10 I was seeing on the chart:
Initial price 24 hours ago: 21.455,96 $
Current price (at 11:10): 21.104,28 $
Price variation: -1,67%

At 11:14, the readings were:
Initial price 24 hours ago: 21.462,39 $
Current price (at 11:10): 21.209,62 $
Price variation: -1,19%

The initial point in the rolling 24 windows changes every few minutes, therefore so does the comparison point for the current price, leading to apparent paradoxes as the one you described (not captured in my data above), especially if the initial point varies wildly as it will with yesterday’s drop between 15:30 and 16:25.

The key question is understanding how the data is being calculated, to understand exactly what we are seeing.

As far as bitcoin is concerned people major concern about it is to invest in it and be expect profit from it, and also to use it as means of exchange of buying and selling . This is the same way people see the traditional currency they use, they can't give good details about currency.  The profit of bitcoin are what people are interested of .

Like seriously, knowing about Bitcoin is a little bit hard to me. I don't know maybe this is because I'm yet to meet a guru that'll will put me through. The most confusing part of it to me is the percentage (positive and negative) which up to now I don't understand. As in, what I mean is this, you'll see positive sign for a moment and if it turns negative and later turn back to positive this time with higher percentage but with low price. What's the reason behind this? 🤔

based on my exp the more you curious the more you understand, i know about bitcoin because we can get free bitcoin back 2014 ago and then i start curious about it and learn from post on this forum and watch youtube video and so much tutorial and information about crypto nowadays. its like learning by doing and to be honest till this day im still learning about other cryptocurrency altcoin and token, crypto itself is evolving everyday

Well I know you feel ashamed based on your merited Rank, but there is no shame in seeking knowledge. To be sincere I'm also faced with the same problem, like reading of books and articles get boring and tiring. I wish I could get a life experience too.

Many of us encountered this kind of situation that it's hard to know more about bitcoin but we made it maybe for others were slow but for us it's okay to learn more in Slowly way than we don't know anything about crypto. We don't need to be hurry all we need is focus and hard work for learning, step by step we can reach what other forum mates  already achieve. Reading and searching is the best way to learn faster.

Same here with me. I also feel so difficult to understand the technical aspects of Bitcoin exactly. I commonly only understand the general knowledge about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.
I also tried reading the whitepaper, but it is too difficult to understand. that is why I only read from certain articles that bring it easier, although this may not be full enough to understand about those aspects.

I do have some struggle learning in some field but it doesn't mean that I can't learn it. The point is, it is not impossible to learn what you wanted to learn though you may struggle to learn it. Think of it as an obstacle towards your goal. Don't worry because sooner or later you won't be in that situation again when you are going to learn more about crypto related discussions. Other things that you will learn along the way is the explanation about crypto and you wouldn't have to do it yourself.

Bitcoin is really confusing in the first place, especially if you only know about fiat and its your first time to know that bitcoin also exists. Everyone is expected to struggle at first but as you gain more knowledge and experience while exploring the crypto market and bitcoin, you will understand that bitcoin is here because we need it, and that fiat is less valuable than bitcoin. Just continue to discover everything about bitcoin, soon you will come to understand what bitcoin is all about and why its blockchain technology is what we need the most.

I guess everyone has to go to this phase and up to this day majority of us still doesn't understand bitcoin because there is so much technically behind it. Could depend on the person itself, if he is inclined to learn or doesn't want to dig deeper on the technicalities of it. And just like I said, it's really journey for all of us, from bitcoin trading to understand how everything works for behind, (blockchain, fees, wallet etc.) So I would say take it as a challenge to ourselves, so that in the future, if we will meet someone, we can explain it on layman terms and dig deeper on some technicals.

You are not alone on this table mate.
I have had a hard time understanding some technical terms in Bitcoin. Despite my effort, I still find it quite difficult to comprehend. I have tried reading some books, but trust me, I couldn't even go past a few pages.
So, I have resolved to just exploring the technology,.don't wanna bother myself with too much technicalities.

Learning like they always say is a continuous process, and no man is an embeddlement of all knowledge, and it is good to have knowledge in one field and learning the other. I still have difficulty learning things about Bitcoin, which I sometimes do my research asking questions on Google, youtube, crypto related reddit and Facebook groups to get other people's idea

I wouldn’t say I’ve overcome through the same scenario as you, I have not gone through it much yet, but each time I try to also, it gives me hard times. I only get to understand little or nothing at all. How painful it is to learn and not to understand. I don’t know why I get frustrated trying to learn something new and I don’t get it. I’ll just feel like leaving it and go and do something else. But nevertheless we didn’t give up yet, I’ll still try to learn something about the technical part of bitcoin, gradually am sure something will be achievable.

I can relate, seriously, and I am still in it, even for how long I've been in this space, I can admit that I still find it difficult to understand the technical part of Bitcoin till date, like you, I've tried reading the bitcoin whitepaper on several occasions, but I understand close to nothing, and this also is one of the reasons why I cannot comment on any topic/discussion on the Bitcoin Development and Technical Discussion Board because i understand little to nothing of what is being discussed there, though i visit the board quite a lot and always wish i can join the conversation, but is better to stay mute (read only mode) than to put than a comment that will end up being deleted by the mod.

But then, the good thing about this whole thing is that, one actually doesn't have to know how a car engine functions to be able to drive it, there are great drivers out there, who know close to nothing about car engines or how they function.
You will need to know car engines and how they function if you wanna become a car mechanic, same also it is with Bitcoin, if you are just a regular trader, its not important to know the technicalities of Bitcoin though its very nice to know if you can, but for someone who wants to contribute to the Bitcoin network in any way, I believe this knowledge is very important.

If you know anything about Bitcoin then I need to do some research on Bitcoin first.  I don't think it's easy to learn about Bitcoin because you don't understand one of them.  Of course this bitcoin needs to be researched.  I think you can learn about Bitcoin depending on your knowledge and skills.  To learn about Bitcoin you need to create Form Theod.  If you want to know about Bitcoin form, you need to know about Bitcoin from the beginning, how to work, where to post and which coin to buy and get an idea about these.  The more time this bitcoin form takes, the better.  Learning about Bitcoin is not a very difficult subject and you can learn very fast if you want.

This is evidently true. People here about bitcoin, associates it with currency and that's where it ends for most. If you ask me, I don't blame them. After all, it was meant to be used for a currency and if it should act as such, what is there to be worried about? Like, most citizens of the world don't care about how there individual nations fiat currency is been printed and circulated. All they do is earn and use it and that's the same energy they direct towards bitcoin.

The issue with this is that, bitcoin is created to be a scares commodity with a definite number from which, after thee last is mined, what remains is its circulation. Now, its virtual and you can have a whole lot right where you walk and that comes with some risk. Worst of all, you can transfer just any amount and with devices susceptible to hacks, there are needs to learn other aspects to better guide yourself.
You can't know it all nor learn all in a go but, you could always push for more knowledge.

When one hears about bitcoin you would think that bitcoin is just a decentralised currency and it ends there. But when going dipper trying to know more about bitcoin,  you would realise that bitcoin is too wide and the brain is just empty,  knows nothing about bitcoin. Bitcoin can complicated, most especially technical parts of bitcoin.

Of Course  we need Carefully Learn About Bitcoin
Bitcoin is The One Of Most Important Right Now in The World. If We not Learn about Bitcoin Then How We Are Know About Bitcoin.
So we need Learn Bitcoin All Information

This is why I want to understand those technical things because I do not want people to see me as contracting myself when am taking about bitcoin. I like to find answers to what confuses me and not run away from it and this is why am putting effort in knowing the technical aspect of bitcoin because it confuses me. I will keep trying to find a way out of this. Thank you.

I believe there’s always struggles at first particularly that bitcoin is new to us, and even those higher positions still do that’s why they never stop learning as that can overcome their fears not to make profits. I understand you OP because everyone has been there too, but always be optimistic that by being consistent in studying and learning about bitcoin, you will come to understand what bitcoin is all about and it’s real worth. Add more experiences in the crypto market because that will also open you to great possibilities of learning more on bitcoin.

There's no reason to be ashamed of that, instead make it a good motivation to learn more about bitcoin through available resources in the internet and build your real life experiences with bitcoin, only by then you can overcome your weakness. Just love what you are doing and give your passion to it, then believe me everything will come so easily that you won't even noticed it that you have discovered and learned bitcoin a lot. 

maybe you will right that mate cause this exactly what happen to me when I came across in the world of crypto currency and especially in bitcoins  I did not know or let say did not get what I reading from searching about crypto but all of a sudden day by day slowly  I learn and know more about what I am aiming for. And for OP you don't need to be hurry cause in the right time knowledge will come and you understand what is in the world of crypto.

The way I see it, learning crypto is like falling in love. At first you may not understand your partner but with each passing day and the quality of time spent together, you get to know the person better. I failed at my first attempt to learn about Bitcoin. But then, I started again by asking a lot of questions. I'd ask my queries on Google and click on the first search result. As time when on, even after I had found Bitcointalk forum, my interests started to become streamlined. One other thing I did was to avoid joining a lot of communities online because they were just too many and distracting with message notifications popping up here and there. By now the OP would have already gotten an idea on the direction to take from the replies of the other users.

I have been faced with such challenges and I am still facing it.

But I discovered a perfect way to solve the problems.

See the trick. I stopped reading some technical things about bitcoin because it sometimes difficult to understand and even tends to contradict. What I do now is to practicalize everything. I will intentionally try to send a very low Satoshi to my other wallet and check the wait time. I will also send by reducing the transaction fees. I will send when the mempool is congested.
I send from legacy to see wit address.
I now see the difference in fee between ERC and TRON networks.
I see the high fee of exchanges.
I do alot of things between my two wallets and then I keep learning at my pace.

It's the same thing as being confused when you are trying to learn how the paper money is printed and the whole economy itself.
Don't worry about it too much, bud. This forum is open for everyone trying to learn or just trying to have a discussion.
I, myself, am just interested in blockchain programming but that's it. I do not know a lot about the technical stuffs in Bitcoin, but it does not worry me same goes on how I learn programming in general. It would be beneficial to learn a lot, but you don't need to nor should feel bad about it.

First off.  If you have a general question about Bitcoin then start researching yourself.  Google or Bitcoin Talk search are your best friends in this case.  See if the question has ever been answered before, and I am almost convinced it has since you are new to Bitcoin's technical side, and if the question does not exist anywhere then ask us over here.

There are a few members on the forum who insisted with a ton of questions and all of them are usually answered, unless they are trolling or asking really dumb questions.  Even if some will mock you, if your ultimate goal is learning and some are happy to help then who cares.

Second of all.  What I strongly suggest is risking a few dollars to test out Bitcoin thoroughly.  Install Bitcoin Core, install Electrum, put some dollars on these two and start trying everything out.  When you do not know what a function of the wallet does, ask Google or Bitcoin Talk.  To me at least, the key to easy learning of technical stuff is simply doing some practice.  Or if you want to do this without risking the money, I am pretty sure you can get some testnet Bitcoin to do it all for free.

There must be no shame in your mind about not knowing more about Bitcoin.  None of us have been born with the complicated stuff in our brains so we all had to begin from the same point, zero knowledge.

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It's never easy to learn bitcoin actually. Even if you keep reading the whole time, that won't be a guarantee that you'll know bitcoin well. That is why we have to gain not only knowledge but definitely more on skills as we can be more confident if we have a lot of experiences that will teach us valuable lessons from the past mistakes we did. But i believe if you are really eager to learn, reading is a good start and by that time you will gain a lot of ideas that will be more possible if you also supplement it with youtube demos and videos that are readily available on the internet. Always create the first steps and you'll eventually discover that you are learning already every now and then.

Of course and there is; it depends on how much time you're willing to devote for learning more about bitcoin. Things like how cryptography works theoretically, how a Bitcoin client works, how other software work etc. One thing that's also recommended is to make questions. You can't learn something if you're not willing to question it.

I strongly recommend reading learnmeabitcoin.com, the Bitcoin wiki and lopp's Bitcoin information. Also, Mastering Bitcoin is a must-read. For questions, I suggest visiting this forum often and for more technical, stackexchange.

Yes, books make it even worse. And that was why I said I did not want book recommendations. But it is a relief to read from people here to know that am not the only one who finds it difficult understanding bitcoin. Though I have invested in some tokens which are all down now, I do not want to end only at this level. I want to be able to know more so I can also teach and mentor others. Am not going to allow my blockhead stop me here. I will keep watching and learning. Thank you all for all your contributions. Am happy people took their time to respond to my issue.

I don't understand and don't care either, it's ok to not understand.

I'll admit you just expressed the way I feel and what am currently passing through about Bitcoin trading.
Like the technicality is one that overwhelms me.

I'll love to read through others experience to add to my own personal growth in this business. So pls I look forward to see more encouraging live experienced and thoughtful comments.
Thank to OP for such thread.

Bitcoin technical is a big challenge to me, I tried reading books to get knowledge about the technical aspect of bitcoin but it was very complicated for me to understand it, since then I gave up about it. I think to learn it requires more time which some person may not have because of other daily activities consuming time.

Learning is a gradual process especially when you are determine to learn cryptocurrency, you will have a specific directions or part you want to understand fully. I believe that bitcoin is something education you can achieve when you are conscious to learn. The technical aspects of bitcoin or cryptocurrency will say it's the hardened part of it, and if you are a good observer you will notice that even majority of users who create topic and thread here doesn't respond or create topic in technically board of bitcoin. But i believe that with attention you learn and understand the rudiments.

You can't be a multi-learner at times. Just like the other said, choose the area that you think suits you and have an idea about it. I know it was fun learning new things but if it does not our interests, I'm not sure if it will absorb into our minds, which probably will disappear after. Even for me, the technical aspect of Bitcoin is hard, I can do reading but to figure out how it was been doing, I can't.

I could see some limitations which I consider myself about this. Oh, I accept the thing that I can't do things like that so I move on and focus on the area where I think I was good.

I must commend that your doing okay. To have discovered that, you've got difficulty in grasping what is about a particular aspect of the cryptocurrency industry and you are actually making moves to its understanding is a welcomed development on your path @OP. You know, not so many care about visiting these boards. I ca tell you, I left it at a time and the more I do now is trying to read and see if I could link ideas from previous articles or threads to make sense. Don't just limit it to the forum alone, you could search out confusing terms using Google search engine and see how well you could follow. The cryptocurrency industry is such a vast one and it's forever evolving and one has got to be willing to go the length to understand what is really contained in it. Keep pushing and you'll sure to get the hang of it in time.

I can relate, OP. I'm in Bitcoin world for relatively long time, but I can't say that my knowledge is advanced. Actually, I'm not even trying to go deep into technical details - it's dark forest for me. I'm not geek and these complicated technical things is difficult for me.
And I don't think that all this advantage knowledge is needed for average user. For geeks, yes, it's interesting, but not everyone can be geek. Same like you don't have to know how to build your PC from scratch in order to use it.

I also faced the same kind of struggles you are currently battling with, but i guess the reason was that i kept doing things wrongly then, trying to learn everything all at once, even when i am pretty sure that i am not tech-savvy, thus i just decided to go with the basics of Bitcoin, without delving into anything complex, and that was when i understood that i had been taking the wrong approach to learning Bitcoin, i learnt all i needed to know about how to use Bitcoin, how to store it safely, the best kind of wallets and the most secure of them, how to secure/protect my funds, etc.

Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulus is a somewhat complex book divided into different chapters, but mind you that it is not all of its chapters that are complex, some are easy to understand and should get you to understand what is very necessary about Bitcoin, it is even written in the book that:
So i can recommend that you read the first two chapters, and chapter 11 too that covers "Bitcoin security" which is a very important aspect for any Bitcoin enthusiast, this three chapters are easy to understand and will be of great help.
Chapter one:  https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch01.asciidoc
Chapter two:  https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch02.asciidoc
Chapter eleven: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch11.asciidoc
 

Don't force yourself to understand it all, because not everyone have same brain to understand it all in exact times. Keep slowly learning at the small thing by understanding how it's work and how to use it, how to secure your coins etc. Honestly an average Joe doesn't really need to understand the whole whitepaper in order to use Bitcoin, but there's nothing wrong if you want to understand the technical stuff.

I'm also in learning progress to learn everything in the Bitcoin whitepaper, foremost you need to understand some alien words e.g. node, hash, nonce etc that really help you. For me, every time I learn each part or sentence about Bitcoin, I wrote down in my own words with a deeper research to understand more.

Learning bitcoin is just as thesame procedures required in general learning in life which has to be from the basics down to the advance level of a system, bitcoin is what one can encourage newbies to start by learning what cryptocurrency means and how bitcoin stand out of all other cryptos, learn about wallet and types, learn some basic terms in bitcoin, how to buy and sell it, exchanges and their types and so on, one cannot start with the technical aspects without the basics fundamental knowledge first which is more easier to learn than the technical aspects.

There's no need to learn deeper on technicality as long as you know the basics and how to use it properly. Not all user here has the programming skills to fully understand the code and math behind Bitcoin specifically blockchain. I myself am not familiar with the technicalities, especially the code but I know how the blockchain works and what's Bitcoin feature, Further than that is I already leave it to developers and people who have worked in the same field.

Let's sight some examples here. Smartphone, You knew how to use it and what its part but do you even bother how it's inside work, especially its program?  We don't need to know everything but it's always good to have a knowledge on it.

There is no shame in it buddy, bitcoin whitepaper is tehnical indeed and you need some prior knowledge to understand it properly. But even understanding every aspect of bitcoin, you can use it without any issues whatsoever as you you really have to know is how to secure your bitcoins and how not to overpay transactions. After all, vast majority of people that that are using fiat have no idea how its created yet it doesn't stop them from using it. So don't let lack of deeper bitcoin understanding stop you from using it.


If you are not fan of reading the books, I suggest you to check  series of YouTube videos Bitcoin for Beginners Playlist: Intro to Bitcoin, Satoshi, Security, Mining and More in which Andreas Antonopoulos covers Bitcoin basics in layman terms. His videos (and books) were a great help for me and it can probably help you as well.

I also had the same question before^[1][2], but you know what? I have realized that it is up to you to decide what specific area of knowledge in crypto you want to dive in and what approach you need to take to best absorb the knowledge like a sponge. In general, cryptocurrency is a multifaceted discipline that includes themes such as finance, economics, investing, trading, security, cryptography, and whatnot.

Personally, since my course is inclined toward the technical aspects (e.g., programming, hardware, etc..) and is interested in trading; I chose both fields where I read 1 article related to them per day. Joined a Reddit community that has access to quality resources, and I've been watching videos to supplement what I've learned because I grasp the concept better with visuals and narration.

It might be overwhelming at first, but as long as you learned something new, the knowledge you get will surely accumulate overtime  . Hope that helps

[1] https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/advice-on-how-to-cope-up-with-my-frustrations-3315217
[2] https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/advisable-approach-to-study-bitcoin-5253901

There is no shame in having less knowledge in a certain field or having trouble learning that field. We are not all supposed to be best at everything.

Bitcoin paper is a bit hard to understand, it is too abstract and not written in a newbie friendly way. I suppose every newcomer has trouble fully understanding everything about it.

It depends on how much you want to learn. To have a general idea of how the technology works there are some websites that have good information like Coindesk's learn section in user friendly language.
Obviously if you want to learn more and take a deeper dive into the technology, your work becomes increasingly harder and you have to find a book to read like Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos.

The way I learned was by selecting a small topic and focusing on that. For example focusing on wallets and basic cryptography used in a wallet like what private keys are, how they are created and how does that create an address. Then moved on to addresses, their types and bitcoin scripts.
In this process, for a long time since mining didn't interest me I had no idea how it worked although I knew almost everything else.

I don't think there is a solution that fits everyone, you just have to first decide how much you want to learn and then slowly start gathering knowledge and keep asking others to help you on specific topics (instead of a general question).

I do not know if this topic has been shared here before but it is something that has given me serious concern. Eventhough I have been registered here a long time ago, I still find it difficult learning and understanding bitcoin technical aspect, the blockchain and development. I know this is a shame to admit but that is what am faced with. I once tried to read the white paper but could not make much meaning out of it. Is this just only me as someone who has zero knowledge of science or there are also people who are in science but still find learning bitcoin confusing and challenging? Is there a way out of this? Please am not asking for books to read. I need real life experiences of those who passed through this and overcame it.