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 Hi all

  First thing i have done is installed Bitcoin Core - had to wait 3 days for it to synchronize all the blocks.
Now looking to get some bitcoins to see how it works. I am mainly poker player whos excited to start using it.  ;)

 

you can begin to use it for poker room there are plenty of them, but last time i visited one they appear to be unfrequented

there were few players, it's sad because bitcoin and poker go very well together, no documentations are needed, cards verification, crap like that

Welcome to the forum, and congrats on installing Bitcoin Core. I would have gone for a easier option.. Online wallet or Coinbase account. It depends on your choice... really.

How familiar are you with Bitcoin? It will help us to give you better answers to your questions. There are some good and some bad poker sites out there, so chose wisely.  ;)

Do you only play poker or do you play other games too? Give us a bit more info to work with.  ;D

First of all welcome!

Although it is important that full nodes (Bitcoin Core) clients are running I would not recommend it to new people.
It takes a long time to synchronize and if you don't backup the wallet.dat file safely you risk loosing all your bitcoins.

I would recommend an SPV client like Electrum (https://electrum.org/).
There is no need to wait for it to synchronize and as long as you remember the seed (a few words that you can write down) you will be able to recover all your bitcoins.

 Yes few players, but rake is lower, and bigger poker rooms starts to accept Bitcoin, really a good thing.


 Hey Kprawn- not very familiar, just readding the forums collecting information, taking notes. I will use mostly for poker as its the only thing i am good at playing 6+ years.  :)


 Hi Torus,

  Now it took 3-5min to synchronize when i started it this morning. I have encrypted my wallet + made a backup and stored it in USB. I will try Electrum also :)

It is important but it isn't important if OP doesn't open port 8333 to allow nodes to connect to it. However, you do need to backup the wallet.dat file again once you have made 100 transactions.

SPV clients do not provide the same level of security as Bitcoin Core.

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Good luck on your poker. I like cloudbet a lot with their live dealer feature! Do give it a try.

I'm curious, have you turned to Bitcoin because you couldn't play poker with fiat?

Also, you can browse the gambling section of this forum to find a poker site that suits you well. You obviously won't find anything as good as PokerStars, but most sites are good enough.

 Ok will do that, it will take long time till my 100 transactions  :)

 I can play on any site i am from EU, but i like to try new things (bitcoin is not new, but its new to me :) , pokerstars is getting worse and worse in 2016 they will loose a lot of their long term grinders.

i prefered you to join mining bitcoin :)
it's better than you play poker, im sure you can buy "high Quality Right" because you bitcoin core user

usually core user is "richman" ;D
#IMO

Actually it is not the number of transactions but the number of addresses you have used.
The Bitcoin Core client creates 100 addresses when you create the wallet.
Every time you use an address a new one is created.
But your backup will not include the new ones until you make a new backup.

P.S.
Better safe the file on the different devices.
And if you can keep them in two locations.

Wallet does pregenerates 100 wallet but it would be renewed every time you do any activity or rather, key in your password and it tries to maintain a 100 pregenerated address key pool everytime. Since change address is one of the pregenerated address everytime a transaction is made, you do have to back it up every 100 transaction

Hello mate and welcome to the forum and to the Bitcoin world! I suggest that you read, learn and research about Bitcoin to get yourself familiar with this amazing technology.

Feel free to ask questions if you don't understand something. And do not hesitate to bring us a friend or two of yours to the Bitcoin world!

Cheers!

I already love you guys, thank you for support

First welcome to community.If you want to play a poker you can try bitcoin video to play poker but you need to earn bitcoin first in any way like joining campaign or solving a faucet rotator.. I have experience in bitcoin core and its too long to install because my internet is slow so i use online wallet like coinbase...

We love you too, welcome to the forum and have fun!  8)

Hello and welcome! hope you find your way around the forum  :)

Welcome, you should now choose carefully bitcoin exchange to buy some.
Im using bitstamp but not everyone likes it.
Have fun using bitcoin, after first transaction you will see how easy it is :)

 Bitstamp seems good to me, thank you

Welcome on board! This forum is a great community and the best place to start with and learn about Bitcoin!

Btw you can use software like Electrum which won't take 3 days to download!
And welcome!

You have any wicked bad beat or crazy win stories for us?

welcome to the world of Bitcoin,enjoy your stay. oooh if you like poker check out betcoin (in my signature) they have all types of bitcoin games includng poker. :D

 Oh man lots of bad beat stories, i thought people hate listening to them :)

 I will try betcoin.ag for sure, nice promotions you have there for poker, table starters really nice + VIP love it

I also play bitcoin.ag, they have a lot of users and it also has a lot of tournaments with a big reward. but sometimes the tournament makes me bored because there was a late registrant system

There should be some kind of a tutorial for new bitcoin users (Im not saying it doesnt exist) which would be very popular and easy to find.
The most important thing in this tutorial would be why you should not download the bitcoin core as a new-born in this world (at least, I think that is one of the most important aspects).

Everybody can be scared about the amount of data needed to download for using it, and the newbie can think like "So, if I can only use bitcoin by bitcoincore, then Im going to quit that because Im not going to download over 100 GB of data just to transfer money!".

Im pretty tired of teaching the new people here to not use bitcoincore, but different wallets which do not require such an action.