Topic: Help a newbie with links to useful threads (Read 641 times)

You don't need to stick to your local board only, you are free to go and surf any section and board in the forum and participate in any discussion you want as long as you think you can contribute something to it.
Don't be hesitant, post what you think is good based on the topic being discussed and if you don't see someone else having the same response. Ask questions about things you are confused about, no one will eat you up for doing that. This is a very active forum, and you will find a lot of experienced, knowledgeable, and helpful users.

Don't try to learn everything in a single day, give the forum some time, everything needs time if you want to learn about it, so keep learning and reading posts and taking part in discussions, and soon enough, you will learn everything.

Welcome to this forum, I am providing you some threads which will be very useful for newbies,

firstly a thread to know the rules of this forum,,

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7955645

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.28250551


I hope you understand all forum rules by reading these.


Now I am giving you some threads which you must read, because these are the threads you have to post and by reading these threads you can gain a lot of knowledge about crypto currency and forums. The threads are;
1) Bitcoin Discussion

2) Development & Technical Discussion

3) Mining

4) Economics

5) Trading Discussion

6) Beginners & Help

7) Meta

8.) Altcoin Discussion

And lastly is your own language locale board.  Many countries have their own local board, find the local board of the country you are from and read that local board well.

 I think if you read these things well you can go far and you don't have to stop anywhere. Best wishes to you.

Welcome to bitcoin, firstly you should bother about reading the forum rules so you dont end up failing one rule and get a tag on your account, spamming is not allowed on the forum.

A thread I'll always recommend is the buy the dip and hold thread at the economy speculation board, as a newbie that wants to invest you would learn all about investing an the best strategies that woudl keep you afloat in doing them.

Welcome dear. Yeah it is true that when you join for the first time you would probably get confused. You will get used to it soon when you spend some time on the forum.

You should check out also the local board and must read from the beginner and help section. Here You will learn A Lot from a lot of experienced members. Read a lot and interact with posts and you will grow gradually. Just don't rush. Take things slow and steady. Hope you will get a great outcome one day

 That's my point exactly! If you are so bored and curious (as those are two good qualities someone who is hungry for knowledge should possess) you should have been able to find your way round the forum without asking for guidance. Well, you say you know nothing about crypto, and I dont remember mentioning anything crypto related, just knowing the mechanics of the forum, I hope you get what you are looking for and don't get dettered along the way by criticisms. Enjoy the journey..
 

Perhaps you have been given alot of useful links to threads and website where you can get as much know as you can if you wish but the task there is to actually use them not just asking for them or visiting them just one and after that it's over, No you have to read, in order not to get lost in discussions.

There are few other things that could guide you on the crypto space which one is terminology, the crypto world especially this forum has its own vocabularies used in conversations, this terms if well know can help you follow up most conversations, and additionally do not take the learnmeabitcoin website for granted it's the place I got the few things I have know about bitcoin and crypto at large including shitcoins.

Perhaps you're interested in the bitcoin technical knowledge how it works and how programming language associate with bitcoin you can also get them on the website, or you can also go to GitHub to get more technical knowledge most technical knowledge are share in GitHub. You should also read the mastering bitcoin book.
There are lot more to visit and read from but if you need more you can come here in this thread to ask for the exact link which you seek.

If you have limited knowledge on other boards, then you can stay on your own local board and make quality posts there. However, exploring the other boards as well will help you grow in the forum, so don’t limit your self in your local board when you know you also have relevant information that you can share in other boards.

I guess all the links that have posted above are good enough to serve as your guide. My only advice is always keep your interest to learn in the forum because that will serve as your strength and motivation to keep going and keep acquiring learning while you are still in the process of exploration and discovery.

I learnt how to quote multiple users out of my curiosity as I have seen other members do the same I decided to explore my capacity, I was bored and I entertain myself by trying new things buddy, I know nothing about Bitcoin and we all know that the only way to grow in a forum that it's discussion are mostly about Bitcoin is to acquire the knowledge hence one of the reasons why I asked for links. Thanks for acknowledging that I am intelligent and sharp as a newbie, it's a boost for me.

You are warmly welcome mate to Bitcointalk forum, I could say that it is very important for you not to only limit yourself to certain threads of links boards given by other users, I will advice you navigate as much threads and boards as possible that way you are going to have more of wider knowledge and much exposure about how things are being done in this forum, however once again you are welcome and I wish you the best.

If Op can be active, there are many things he will also discover about the forum, the thing has to do with how determined one is and how committed to learning, this will show with time and be seen that you have acquired up to a certain extent some required knowledge about the forum and bitcoin, learning is what we value most here because that has been the same route that brought us all to where we are today.

What are you trying to say OP? You have already made it clear that you know things that goes on in the Forum but you're hiding under the umbrella of a newbie. To me nothing is confusing to you, these days the questions we get is very funny.
If you know the country you're from you stick to the board of your country and I believe you won't start posting on another LB that's not yours. I also feel the person that introduce you to Bitcointalk has already showed you things on the Forum so no need to feel lost.

It doesn't necessarily mean that we are to learn everything here in the forum, just pick the important ones and as time progresses if you feel like expanding your knowledge, it your decision to make. But it's preferred that we try as much as we can to understand more so that, when the time of application comes, we'll be able to ditch out from our knowledge. The more you know, the more flexible you become in solving problems and helping others out. I have always love to study more complex parts of crypto network, like programming but, due to my tight schedule I have not been able to learn, but I believe once I change I
My routine, I'll go for more knowledge.

This forum is relatively easy for a newbie as each topic is included in separate sections so a new member can easily find out which section they are looking for or which section a new member is posting in. Before I post this many people have already shared some primary section of the forum through their posts so I didn't share the same link again. You can post various informative posts as well as share your own views by accessing the links that other members have shared with you and there are many other sections in the forum besides these links that you can visit in your interest. If clicking on other sections of the forum will not deduct your money, dare to click on other sections and try to see them, it will increase your knowledge.

Before anything, I'd like to welcome OP in the forum, hopefully you're not discouraged by the advises of our enthusiastic veteran forum users, there's a shortage for new people so we're all too eager to help you out, my suggestion for you, just take your time to explore the different boards of the forum, and follow the advice of sticking to your local language board too, that's going to help you a lot even more than just aimlessly exploring. I wouldn't really want OP to have this as their only reason to be in the forum, it's a really weird thing to say to a newbie but on one side I do agree that there's ways to make money here but it's a conflicting thing, it's probably in your best interest that you should be advising on other things, let OP discover this on their own, that way they're not overwhelmed by what they have to learn which is sometimes the thing that discourages most newbies into digging deeper because there's so much to learn all at once.

Welcome to the Bitcoin Forum. First of all don't be disappointed when entering a new place everything may feel uneasy for the first few days, everything may seem complicated. If you give enough time to the forum everything will become easy for you. Try to master all the guidelines already given to you by the rules and regulations of the forum. Stay with the board no problem but show your talent everywhere else. Being on a forum requires a lot of patience and time. The most important thing is never to cheat here, if you try to cheat you will not survive here. Anyway, I wish you all the best for the coming days on the forum.

Is there any thing else you need allot is already at pin post ,study the rules and guidelines, avoid spamming the board make quality post and comment. Most importantly don't engage on shiltcoin and altcoin that you have not good knowledge about remember the forum is not quick to rich platform don't be to haste to make it here this link can help   https://learnmeabitcoin.com/

Just to play the devil's advocate, you strike me as an intelligent and sharp newbie to be asking for links when it's obvious you have learned how to quote multiple users at a time. My point is, instead of asking for these links which may not be used by you since you probably may know your way around, why not just use the search button. Its even better to ask for the search button so that can help you better instead of links.
For me it gets quite old when users ask for links and even the rules guiding the forum but end up flouting them.
 

Welcome to the Bitcoin Forum. Here many of have given important links from there you can enter and see everything and can do it your way. Don't just stick to your local board, of course you have the right to post in all sections. But always stick to the forum with something good don't give something where the forum will suffer a lot. If your post is very important and likeable then you can earn merit. But remember if you can spend more time and create important posts then you can build the rank as per your expectations. Finally I want to tell you never try to cheat here if you try to cheat you will end yourself

Hello dear, I encountered such experience when I joined the forum but with the advise I got from the senior ranking members I was able to attain the rank I'm in currently and I believe if you follow the advise you'll get in this thread trust me you'll find it very easy being in this space. First off, you should know your purpose of being here, the forum is a very big space where you can learn and also impact knowledge on others while in your learning process and I must say that the best place to learn about the forum is the beginners and help board.

 There you'll be able to get the vital informations you'll need to know about the forum, you'll be thought of how to find your way in this space, over there you could also get the rules and regulations of the forum and if you take note of them carefully, then you'll be good to go. Yes you have to stick to your national board, you don't have to encroach another countries board, over there in your national board you could also seek help from your compatriots and they'll help you find your way in this space.

 Also in this space, patience is virtue, do not be in a hurry to jump into different spaces when you've not mastered the rules and regulations, you could get yourself banned if you're in a rush to learn everything, so take your time, study  the forum and learn from senior ranking members. Also, I'll leave you a link concerning an opinion from a senior ranking member, which is one of my motivation in this space, here is it.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5485539
You could also check the thread to get more advice from other members.

That's is absolutely false. It is not an organization; here members come for discussion like it is a forum not an organization or methodize place it is a forum and here people are together to raise awareness of the Bitcoin or crypto industry in the form of a community.


Yep OP it's a true that the Forum has its own rules, dos and don'ts. And it is to our advantage that everyone can express their opinion under these rules in a good way because the rule is a code of conduct on which the community is based. That is, it is necessary to have a rule to be united, so the rule has been introduced to make the forum a community, which is the first step for every individual to become a part of the community. 
 
So the forum is based on the principle of do this and don't do that.

Well said i think if  you don't know your way round the forum, you need to take your time to read and understand what the forum is all about before making any post, so as to avoid making a wrong quote.however if you're not familiar with other board you can stick to your local board, but you also need to keep visiting some other board so as to learn how to use the forum.

Op if you can stick to your local board for the case effective communication there's nothing bad in doing that since you re unfamiliar with the forum yet but posting in your local board shouldn't stop you from visiting other board to read and learn while you learn patiently on how to uae the forum. You can respond to threads that you understand what the topic is all about but don't border responding to what you don't know so that you won't be tagged as someone who's going off point.

No problem. 

IMO = in my opinion

IMHO = in my humble opinion

IIRC = if I recall correctly

CMIIW = correct me if I'm wrong

BTW = by the way

There are many others that are not related to crypto slangs but for you to have an idea of what the others are, you can check this list of it: https://kb.iu.edu/d/adkc

If you can express your words to your local go ahead there's nothing on that because they will guide you with your concerns, if you think that information is not enough you don't need to hesitate to ask a question here in the community, that's the reason why we have a forum, to engage, and share information. Of course, add on it is you must need to follow the rules most of which are in the pinned thread or link the link given by the other members. For now, you get overwhelmed with the information but sooner or later you will understand that knowledge. Enjoy the learning here.

You're welcome to the forum, this is the best place for you as a newbie to learn, increase your crypto knowledge and join in discussions with quality posts, most of us joined the forum without any crypto knowledge, and today we can make meaningful contributions, so don't worry , with time you'll get into the groove.

About where to start, I believe that you're in the right place in this beginners and help section, your local board is another good place to start, feel free to ask questions in any thread that you don't understand and experienced members will guide you through. Don't limit yourself to this forum alone, regards learning about Bitcoin and the crypto space, explore other avenues like Google, if you don't understand anything, then start a topic and ask questions.

You are welcome to this forum,earning here in the forum is really easy if you stick to forum rules, you won't have any complications learning here. So I advise you take the forum rules serious as breaking any of them can lead to DT member giving you a tag a that can be the end of the reputation of your account. To succeed knowledge from here, you just need to stay on tack, read and if you encounter any complications along the way, asked questions, and we'll be ready to help at any time. E joy your days here in this forum.

A lot of members already reply to the rules here in the forum, just make sure to follow that so that you can avoid getting banned here in the forum, The Local Board is actually a good one where you could start here in the forum, all of the post there on native language so you're not gonna have a hard time understand it, plus you could interact with your fellow countrymen on a discussion about cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, etc.

I mostly recommend that newbies to start investing already in cryptocurrency, I mean there is no actual way around it, you are not going to learn it truly unless you're going to actually experience it yourself, you could easily start at a very small amount of investment doing Dollar Cost Averaging so that you could lower the risk of your investment in cryptocurrency, with your journey that is where this forum comes in, there are a lot of experience members here in the forum that could easily help you if you encounter something or wanted to learn something on cryptocurrency you could easily make a thread or topic here in the forum asking and learn about it through the help of the members here.

Also, you dont need to worry about the ranks here in the forum, you're eventually going to rank up for sure as you post a lot you're going to get merits, etc.

I will not advice that you stick to your national board alone because Sticking to just your national board alone won't help you grow.  If you must grow in the forum, then you should spread accross different boards in the forum. For now, you can frequent your local board while you  visit other boards once in a while to read posts and follow up threads. You do not have to be in a hurry to know everything in this forum because you might end up limiting what you can actually learn if you do not take things slowly. Learning never ends, even the legendary members here are not above learning,  they learn new stuffs everyday in the forum. Just be dedicated and committed then you will grow. Welcome to the forum newbie!

When you are in rush to learn everything about the forum, you will end up being confused, but just try and navigate through the forum gradually, the more time spent here, the more you will keep on understanding the forum. Definitely when you join the forum newly you will be confused, but with time you will see that the forum is not a difficult place.

You don’t have to stick to only your board, but if you notice that you are learning faster in your local board, then you can be more active there, since it will be easier for you to learn in your local language, but that shouldn’t stop you from posting in other sections, there are things you will learn there, and won’t be in your local board.

There are rules and regulations guiding the forum, so you can just go to different sections to check them out, and make sure you don’t go against any of the rules because you will be punished for that.

Welcome here, OP (Original Post(er); double meaning), you don't need to rush it and there's no obligation to understand the forum first day you registered, nor do you need to post immediately. But hey, you might feel some excitement, that's fine.

Did you not see the sticky post from Lauda right in this Beginners & Help section? Newbies - Read before posting

You got links for forum rules, netiquette and more. Try not to break forum rules, that's probably the first thing to grasp and understand. Rules may be a boring thing, but in such a forum they are a necessity or we'll drain in chaos, spam and worse.

To learn about Bitcoin, I recommend https://learnmeabitcoin.com, it's fun, it's interactive here and there and the creator Greg deserves a coffee or beer for his awesome Bitcoin treasure trove.

A lot of topics have already been covered in various places of this forum. The difficulty lies in finding the right spots, threads and posts. You can search this forum nicely and with good performance at https://ninjastic.space, I prefer this over the forum's in-built search function.

Take your time to get to know this forum better. Read, read, read... we can't read and understand for you, it's that simple.

"IMO" and "IMHO" are abbreviations, basically internet shorthand for "In My Opinion" and "In My Humble Opinion".

Speaking of which, here's another interesting topic link that you can bookmark:

Terminology
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/terminology-126798

And here's another one with frequently used abbreviations:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-word-abbreviation-in-english-2925719

Thank you buddy for sharing this link.Thanks for letting me know, what is the meaning of IMO?
Thank you for sharing the link to the rules and guidelines for the forum, I find the posting etiquettes really interesting, a bit difficult to comprehend but yet educating.
I have also wondered why users have different positions (rank) but now I know how it works.


Everyone; thanks for the help and tips.
 

We welcome you to come over to BitcoinTalk.org. It's a pleasure to see. I am glad to see that another member has joined this great forum. 
 
Mate should not be worried at all. You can ask questions without any hesitation. A local board or thread is better for you in that it will be in your native language and it will be easy for you to understand, whereas in other sections or boards, you will require English. etc can ask questions. 
 
My personal preference is that I should post outside of the local board or share knowledge on questions because outside of the local board you can find many high-ranking members who have mountains of knowledge. which i think is very beneficial for a newbie it can facilitate the newbie in knowledge collection.

Whichever is comfortable to you just stay on the topic but if you've got some off topic questions, just take note of that and tell it when you ask more specific questions.

We're a community, an organization doesn't sound good IMO.

And we have those rules and of course aside from those guidelines, you have your judgement and others judgement that you have to consider as well.

I think you better start here: Newbies - Read before posting

Among those localities you knows your country so you can stick onto your country don't try to involve yourself with other country you can't speak or write where you would want to communicate using translator, the forum doesn't allow that you can use translator to read text but do not involved yourself with any discussion that is not english or your local language. Again, this section is the right section to remain as a beginner you can read lot of post over here and I know as newbie there are lots of questions you would want to asked just for you to get clarified but I will tell you to find time over here because similar questions has been asked and you just need to thoroughly go through this section to find them out otherwise I don't think there is any need for you to create any additional topic asking question rather than just going straight to those question they have already asked and pick the areas you wanted to asked read them and understand it more better.

Welcome to this fantastic forum Mate, I understand your statement mate. Always feel free to concentrate on what brought here. What you are talking about everyone here has passed through it, and that's how every newbie finds this forum so difficult for the first time, but one thing is certain: you will never regret joining this forum, since you cannot know you continue to be in this condition because it is not permanent  is temporary. You can only be on it for a short time.

What you request for here, is some links and guidelines and I can see many of the users have provided you with so many links, which, if you take your time and go through those links, it will make your journey very easy. Everything now is a gradual process, just endure with little time, they can also count you as a high-ranking members. And again we've different types of boards here, which if you try to visit them and read the paste thread, it can be really helpful, which will definitely lead you to become an expert.

what I will advise you to do is that you should be able to read across all the sessions in this community to be able to understand exactly what is the appoint of you and the what is the objective once you are clicking around sections of this community you will master, the environment and this community that making you to feel like it is strange to you, after you have take your time to observe it very well you will, acclimatize with the features of the community one after the order

You are welcome, Op. I can really see the seriousness in you by starting to approach like this. Now I can see that my followers and other members have provided you with different links. I think my own is not necessary again because it contains the same information, but my advice for you is to go through those links one after the other and that I will really a great help to you. When going through these links, if you come across anything you don't understand, don't hesitate to ask questions, and I believe a lot of members are there to help.

Exactly, that’s the right approach that is expected from a serious newbie that has a goal target to meet in the forum. Understanding the forum layout, pattern and mode of arrangement and how the discussions is going on is very important, and also the rules and regulations of the forum to avoid violating any of them.

Some newbies come with different aim to the forum, some come with the aim of making quick money while some come with the aim of learning something new or to improve their bitcoin and crypto knowledge. Nevertheless, these links should be enough for a newbie to start his or her crypto journey.

That’s how it should be at first, a new user is supposed to find it difficult here, the whole forum layout and arrangement should be a new thing to you so it is supposed to take a little time to get familiar with it so don’t make a fuss out of it it’s quite normal and with time you will get used to the forum.

The forum is a discussion place where people share ideas about understanding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and it is a place where one can easily get educated about bitcoin, it is not an organization or an office as you might see it but of course it surely has its own rules and regulations to help keep things in order. I can see some members sharing you some useful links already, you should check them out they would be really helpful.

I don’t know your purpose of being here but if you are new to cryptocurrency and want to learn about bitcoin learnmeabitcoin is a place you can start from as a newbie.
Also you can ask questions on https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ or you can carryout search on this forum using https://ninjastic.space/search which i think is more effective than using the forum search tool.

You can choose to stay in your local for discussions that you're familiar with in your language. But you seem to have an understandable English and I can say that you're better than me so should you join other boards for discussions, don't get scared as long as you don't get off topic.

No worries, ask what you want to ask and check out the stickies first from this section and if you're done, go with the other sections.

Welcome to Bitcointalk.org this is a forum for making discussions about bitcoin and you are free to engage witht he use of the local board you belong to in other to help make an effective learning and disccusion ground possible for you, but remember its not a must to go to the local board, you can maintain the general boards for english disccussions.


Here is not an organization, its a forum where you can learn and discuss about bitcoin.


You're right, here they are.
Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unofficial-list-of-official-bitcointalkorg-rules-guidelines-faq-703657


posting etiquettes
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52459430

everything you need to know about forum rank, activities and merits.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/faq-everything-you-need-to-know-about-forum-activity-account-ranks-and-merit-2766177

Mastering Bitcoin
https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

Welcome to Bitcointalk forum mate.

You can go through the forum’s unofficial rules and regulations to know the rules governing the activities of these forum.

Faq: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit

Also you can go through all the pin 📌 threads in all sections before you go through the sections so that you can get little guide on the section and the type of discussions happening there.

If you want to learn the basics of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, read learnmeabitcoin.com.

Welcome to the forum mate, I suggest you stick to your local board and do more of reading, in every board there are pinned thread at the top, I believe you will get your answers in those pinned threads. Here's one of the pinned useful thread in this board https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/newbies-read-before-posting-1689727 you will get your answers there.

 

Hello users, I was registered today and I don't seem to find my way around the forum because everything is confusing to me, I see a lot of boards for many countries, should I stick to my national board alone? this place is also like an organization right? And in every organization there are rules, do's and don't's guiding the organization right? I have a lot of questions and I don't want to stress everyone with my many questions hence the reason why I am asking for  links to useful threads. Thanks for your help.