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First off, welcome!

Here are a few tips to get you started:
1) Always read the stickies at the top of subforum categories, they contain important information about the subforum
2) If you participate in any kind of trade (in the marketplace most likely), use escrow!
3) Trust yourself and only yourself (conmen lurk everywhere and always do prior research before trusting someone)

Where to head?
1) Questions about the forum? Go here > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0
2) Participate in the central discussion board here > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=1.0
3) Marketplace, for all things trading (goods both digital and physical), buying, selling, auctioning and services > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=5.0
4) Basic help, you may be able to find specific help in more specific subforums such as services, mining or economics > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=39.0

Enjoy!

Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ
* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0 *

thanks, ill be using this since its hard to navigate some times on the forum.

Don't shitpost in off-topic or post rubbish with a signature or you'll very likely be banned. Lot's of people don't seem to realise that before it's too late. Have fun  :D.

Mprep created a thread of all the general rules. I suggest all newbies take a few mins to read it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0

Maybe you should include a link in the op as it'll be beneficial I think.

I have added the link into the thread :)

Added!

Can you add this site as a suggestion? It's not mine but It's very helpful for the new guys, it has everything it need to help newbie.

BITFEVER.ORG (http://BITFEVER.ORG)

The sticky threads are the best place to get started.

hi, i am new here and read everything atm. thanks.

One bit of advice for new users, don't ask what the price will be. Although you will get pages of confident responses about how BTC will be $1 or $100k, no one in the universe knows the answer. Don't waste your time and delude yourself just because you found someone on the internet who shares your desire for a certain price.   

Also: "Dont invest what you cant afford to lose" Make of it whatever you wish, dont be greedy.

Be safe: A lot of people will scam you, a lot of people will tug at your heart strings in order to get what they want in this case bitcoin.

Be secure.

Also hi, not really new but lurked and here I am.

Don't create topics about how the activity works if you don't want people bothered with your and mods looking your posts to find a pretext to ban you.

There are tons of topics about how activity works.

my question is; in wallet, (Threads (2)) what does that do, what if I change that number to 10 or even 20? I downloaded and read the pdf which is fine for setting up my wallet but it doesn't explain what my wallet is doing. But anyhow I have it running on Solo Mining for a couple of days now. When I try to run it on Pool Mining I get a miner failed to start. Make sure you have the minerd executable in the same directory as Phoenixcoin-Qt. So no pool mining for now.

very nice info
thanks for advice :)

Very nice info for newbies.

Bump.

even Bitcoin Jesus does not know the future - damn  ;)

nice advice for newbies :)

thanks for informing us (newbies)  :)

Nice tips or beginners here!

thanks

good advice for newbies  :D

good info for newbie
thanks

thanks for informing us  :)

nice tips for begginers man  8)

thanks for advice mate :)

Hello everyone. It will be a pleasurable experience for me to enhance my knowledge through discussions.

Thank you for this :D

thanks for advice friend :)

No problem everyone.

Also make mention about investing your money into the right places.

Watch our for obvious Ponzis and HYIPs

Newbies should read this.

cheers.

Nice list  :)
Newbie should read this thread

thanks for the info bro

nice guide for me

Hey ValueAccounts! May I ask what is an escrow? I'm new to this forum and bitcoin and I want to buy some bitcoin in the market place.

Never download a wallet by a link in this forum which was posted by a random guy. Could contain a keylogger!

Be sure to download from the official coin developer's account (which should be "full member" or above). Use virustotal.com before unpacking the wallet files.

It's an independent and trusted third party (the "escrower") in a deal. For example, if you (the "buyer) want to buy some bitcoins by wiring USD to someone, the other party (the "seller") could betray you by not delivering the coins after the money was received. So you want the seller to first deliver the bitcoins to the escrower who will signal you that he has received them. Then you will wire the money, because the bitcoins are safely held by the escrower. Upon reception of the money, the seller will signal the escrower, who will release the bitcoins to you.

I can recommend this guy: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=303281.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=303281.0)

Bump.

thanks for info about escrow mate
for now, i know whats escrow :)

You're welcome!

You should use escrow in every trade. Even if you think you know the guy who you are trading with, his account could have been hacked! Escrow secures your money even in that case.

Always choose an escrow with higher green trust.

5+ is always good.

Thanks a lot for the newbie information!

There is a nice list of escrows https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=686529.0, that you can check the escrow fees and their profile pages easily.

Any other tips ? I just started today  :)

Download a wallet and starts with faucets (http://www.kwaasteniet.eu/faucet/). Faucets are websites which gives you small amounts of Bitcoins for looking to adds on that site. You don't have to do anything with the adds. Fill in your Bitcoin adress and do the captcha to prove that you are an human being and push the button "get reward" or similar. Don't think you become rich of the faucets. :)

Another list of escrows is here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276897.msg2955628#msg2955628 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=276897.msg2955628#msg2955628)

It was the best escrow list, until Financisto became very busy and didn't have time to update it.
The info in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=108716.0 is more up-to-date.

thanks for the newbie guide sir
just joining

Ah, I see, the thread is locked, my bad.
Thanks for sharing the link, mate!

Check out the Meta section. Read that up.

Bump.

This useful for newbie like me, thanks for the information
:)


Thanks for your warning :)