Seriously. Download Bitcoin-QT. Sign up to an exchange. Buy yourself 0.1 BTC and spend some of it on junk.
To continue to plough this much time and effort into researching cryptocurrencies without having gone through that simple step seems daft.
Before I do that I must create that "jorgeology" thread, so that you can all share my experiences and feelings at using bitcoin and watch my conversion to the
Seriously, what do you expect that I will learn, what opinons you think I will recant, if I tried using some bitcoin?
Surely I am entitled to have an opinion on global warming and energy sufficiency, even though I have not burned a single poud of coal in my life?