Thanks again for all the advice, I'm going to rest my head a bit now and will try and learn more tomorrow! Night ^_^

Thank you, it appeared like magic!

What do you use for transactions do you think multibit is safe for my to start with?

I will see if I can do a transaction back to you using the address in your sig...

I generated this new address on bitaddress - 12rwSKo4YaE5usyosPXLHcAb2w2nUdwHP2

But on my downloaded multibit I have - 1A5MXXnbsobGB5rHGxe2eanVfzfqQfmRWM

I see on multibit I can generate as many as I like HmMmMmmmm!!! I think I understand my address now, lol! ^_-

Sorry I just found I have an address already in Multibit. *Feels stupid*

Wow thank you for helping me scratch the surface.

So now what i'm confused about are the addresses. I go to bitaddress and 'generate new address' and am given a bitcoin address and a private key - what do I do with them now? How do you keep that number as your own? Do you attach it to your wallet? If I give someone that address to send me bitcoins would they find my way to my wallet?

Haha >.<

Thank you!

So does Blockchain show literally what has just been mined?

I apologise if what I say next sounds stupid but I really am teaching myself from scratch. I'm just investigating wallets because I don't even know much about those - are there different hosts for wallets then? I just downloaded Multibit but your signature has a different wallet provider and there's one on Blockchain too? Do you get a generic wallet file that can be imported into any host? Does it matter which host you use?

I've seen people posting a wallet address - is that their own personal wallet reference to send stuff to? It looks like a long series of letters?

Wow I really am lost down this rabbit hole bare with me!

I'm new to the world of the Bitcoin, I've been reading about it a lot over the past few months and I'm intrigued. I'd be looking into buying and selling not mining, where would I start? I was also wondering if there's a major rival to the Bitcoin/ Litecoin that might grow in the next year, or if one of those two would be a better investment? Also, how much money do I need to invest at this stage?