Topic: Get started with bitcoin, and start earning with 15 easy steps! (Read 2843 times)

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You're thinking like a new user who knows what he's getting into when you say that.

Would you consider "weusecoins" a place that could have the title 'bitcoin for dummies' ?  I doubt it.

As someone who got into bitcoin 2 months ago, none of the sources can easily be seen as credible.  Especially not this forum.  I almost didn't even bother but I was determined, and I'm microsoft certified.

Half the people on here are scammers, theives or full of crap in one way or another.  (Okay, maybe not half, but as a newb, I wouldn't know).

As a new user, who is clearly reading in on bitcoin news, something like Mt.Gox "a top leader in the bitcoin world" I'm supposed to think that weusecoins is legit?  I'm supposed to think that bitcointalk.org is legit when there are threads with questionable content regarding legality?  

No offense to weusecoins but as a new user, I wound up there.  The technical mumbo jumbo, and the initial introduction to bitcoin gets me nowhere really.

They told me to start accepting bitcoin on my business website, and pointed me to websites where I can buy bitcoin with my local currency, and then turn around and spend said bitcoin on the internet.

With information like that, I'll just use my credit card to make an internet purchase?

My system allows new users to get Free Bitcoin without having to spend any money at coinbase.

As a new user, I wouldnt just jump into coinbase and buy some bitcoin.  

Weusecoins seems to be catered to established and/or new companies already generating income who can open a merchant account on lets say, bitpay, and start accepting bitcoin as payment for their products or services.  

Again, my website is a different approach.  

The ads on my site are minimal, and will only help keep my website up and let me bring future tutorials.

All the FAQ's on that website doesn't really cover what my website covers, either.  It's just a lot of reading material.

If I were a new user and was not very technical savvy, that website would get me totally started, but at that point, I'd have 0.00000000 BTC and I'm being told to go buy some.  

I'm catering to a regular citizen who is looking to get acquainted, and possibly earn small amounts of btc.

So again I am not sure what your approach is... I am not necessarily taking your comments as an attack, but what weusecoins is doing is in no way, shape or form similar to what I'm doing.

Bitcoin isn't just for technical savvy people... it's supposed to be for everyone.  My friend, who is not very good when it comes to computers, was so lost when I introduced this to him that he was not even trying to get involved.  

When I made the tutorial, it actually helped him.  So, weusecoins could not help him, but I could.  He's no moron either.  There is a technical gap between people like my friend and bitcoin, unlike you, or me, who would otherwise understand bitcoin and how it works a little better. and who actually has the time to understand it.

Does weusecoins list legitimate earnings sources or investments with real potential that are scam free? No.  They just send you off into the crazy world of bitcoin and let the user venture at his own risk.  

I'm definitely not trying to argue here, but I am not sure why you even bother to comment when you are not seeing the big picture no matter how much I try to explain it to you.

Then again, I expected a tough crowd here, so that's okay too.

You seem to think I've attacked your integrity in some way. I haven't. You want to provide a legitimate source of information for new users, fair enough. But if I were a new user, I'd rather find myself browsing weusecoins - a much more credible resource and free of ads.

Performed a much needed update on the website.  Working internally on multiple tutorials which will be released sometime next week.  Updates will be coming a bit slow in the coming month, due to a new bitcoin project I've been invited to be a part of.

Optimized site for mobile viewing.

Thanks.

... I was already there and got moved.  No place for me here then? Cool.

pls move to Project Development topic.

Bump; Thanks to all who have shown support.

Hi, I made a few website modifications and released version 1.1 of my tutorial.  Tutorial updates listed in the OP and in more depth in the tutorial.

Website Mods include:  Space for member pages to be shown (Example is listed) and a link to this thread linking back to Bitcointalk.  

Lots of tutorials coming in the near future!

Altcoin section will be updated soon with working faucets that are checked frequently to make sure they are in working order.

Changed foreigners to scammers, my apologies.  This was a misused term.

No, it is merely a service and I get that now, and it's now in the proper category.  You are wrong about its sole purpose.  The sole purpose is to create and provide legit information.  If it was all about referral earnings I would be using any and all referral sources.  The ad and referral earnings would allow me to keep the site up so I can provide a better service and expand on it and my ideas.  My ideas involve certain types of charity including charity for animals, but that is long term, along with many others. I'm sure you have me all figured out about what my sole purpose is, though.

As for your xenophobic remark, don't over exert yourself. 

Simply put, you clearly don't like what I'm doing here and think it's stupid, so I guess leckey is the king (queen?) of ideas and I'm sorry that my idea/site/service doesnt meet your standards but no one is forcing you to go there.   As a newcomer to bitcoin it can be a little overwhelming to find a legitimate source.  I'm just trying to provide another legitimate site to help add positivity to bitcoin and you seem to be bothered by this.  You, on the other hand, seem to think it's about greed and profit.  I have a job, and I own a small company.  I'm really not expecting much return out of this but I am still happy to provide my terrible service that is scam free and im sure will get better over time.  I wish I had a really cool and innovative idea like a car-bitcoin-miner type engine for commercial vehicles that are always on the move that is connected to the internet and will mine bitcoins too, but I'm just not capable of such innovations.  So I asked myself how can I contribute to the bitcoin community.  For now this is all i got.  Hopefully that will change in the future.  (It will).

Thanks

Xenophobic much?

Bump;  more new legit earnings sources coming soon

I do not require anyone to sign up anymore but you need to sign up if you want the page.  The details are above and any questions can be answered if you PM or email.

I just gone through , it didn't require signup

Thanks for your constructive criticism.  I have made it easier to get to the tutorial.  I also see that I need to work on other information.  I'm not expecting someone familiar to bitcoin to want one of my pages.  I'm not exactly targeting the high rollers of bitcoin or someone that owns a cloud mining website.  I am targeting completely new users.  I would however, like the support of the people who are not new to bitcoin.  While they may not have any interest, I am doing the best I can to promote bitcoin in a scam-free environment..  I will consider your advise, and I had some similar things in mind already.  I will definitely be putting up a scam section to warn people of scams and how to avoid them.  I have an IT background and I own a small cab company, and I accept fares for bitcoin.  (No fares given yet - bitcoin market non-existent).  I first heard about bitcoin maybe 6 months ago and ignored it.  A customer mentioned it to me about 2 or 3 months ago and I decided to look into it and see its potential and growth.  There are ways to accumulate small amounts of BTC without getting scammed and there is a lot of misinformation regarding some earnings sources that even I am currently listing with improper information (working on immediate update).  

When it comes to the website page I am offering, there is a world of people that would not otherwise have the time, skill or desire to try to set a page up, even if it was free.  I am offering an already set up page for easy use.  This also has the potential of stopping thousands posts on every social aspect from thousands of members posting their referral links for 100s of different earnings sources, scam sites included.  I see a lot of potential with what I'm doing, I'm not asking for help or money, but I understand that while I may think it's good it probably isn't, it doesn't hurt to promote or support something positive in the bitcoin community.  If anyone wants to help they are more than welcome to, and my contact info is posted on the website, and I check my PM's here often.  If I were to gain full support, by the time my web host renew is up I would be able to keep the pages free.  Unfortunately, you can't edit your page, but that could change in the future.  Selling your own ad space on your user page is a possibility as well.

Good luck with your site, I guess I was a bit harsh, so I appoligize. I think you should consider making your 15 steps easier to find. Your offer of a free website with referral links is probably not something people unfamiliar with bitcoin will be doing, so you might want to rethink that. Most people here are looking for advanced solutions to get involved with. Maybe describe how you got started bitcoin and what your background is. Also, if your target market is newbies to bitcoin, explain what a faucet is, warn against pay per click scams or how to identify them, how to protect your privacy, etc. Link back to the forums here and how they can contact you for advice, etc.

Hardly what I'm trying to accomplish here.  I've put together a tutorial that helps new users get started.... I guess the bitcoin community doesnt need that.  Let's keep signing up to mybitcoinjob because they're for real.

Registering a domain/website in the bitcoin world and advertising it = be prepared for scammers trying to contact you trying to get you to fall for their scams.  

Spending the time to create a website with referral links (or individually sending/spamming referral links everywhere) is not doable by average users and could be considered a waste of time by skeptics or someone that may be on the fence about joining in on the bitcoin frenzy.

Having the money/time to invest in some of the bigger projects and/or mining equipment etc. is not something a new bitcoin user is trying to sink their money on... much less a company like leancy, or starting an exchange, or much less buying any amount of bitcoin on any exchange whatsoever, especially with the recent Mt.Gox issue.

Geocities you had to build your own web site.  This is not what I'm offering.   This is a way to earn small amounts of bitcoin to get started with little to no effort.  Excluding all the brick walls that a new user would typically go through just to understand how bitcoin works, and learning about certain websites that are giving away btc for free to get new users acquainted with bitcoin, I have accepted bitcoin. The brick walls (scams) could easily drive new users away from bitcoin.  I put something together that would keep a new user from hitting the same brick walls.  Kind of like how everyone advertises "get free bitcoin and get IMMEDIATE PAY OUTS!!!!" but in reality you have to spend a few hours clicking before you can accumulate your first payout.  Yeah nobody mentions that part.

But I guess that's a joke and is equivalent to offering ten $1 bills in exchange for one $10 bill.   So I guess that's what I'm offering here.

If you want 2000 nickels in change I'll be more than happy to provide it, but I would never give you 2000 nickels if you didn't want them.

I have to say, the joke made me laugh.  Or should I say the video.  Too bad it wasn't yours.  You weren't that clever and needed SNL to bail you out.

Clearly he's built the geocities of bitcoin there...  These types of "projects" remind of that SNL skit for the change bank.

http://screen.yahoo.com/first-citywide-change-bank-1-000000088.html

This is my project and it's in development

You tell me where it goes.