Making a space for People who just want to find out what Bitcoin is & new miners

[Entropize]

I've been coming here for answers for a very long time and just recently started contributing and I see people ask the same questions dozens of times. On top of that, I'm sure everyone on the forum has had to explain to a family member of friend what, exactly, bitcoin is and how it works.

Since I've had that conversation a few more times than I care to, I decided to make a place where you could send the curious loved one and it would break it down in mostly normal English, with out having to wade through forums. I don't have all that much up yet and I'm not sure what the self promotion rules are here so I'm not linking to the site. I'm just looking for what you guys think would be the most useful stuff to put right out in front.

I've got a basic breakdown of how I've been able to get most people to understand Bitcoin. I've got a, probably much longer than it needs to be, breakdown about mining.

I plan on having step by step walkthroughs on how to set up stick miners and S3s and stuff like that for people who want to get into mining and just don't know what all is involved.

What do you all think should make the short list?

[HabBear]

It's a great idea, friend. The more resources and "simple" introductions and explanations for us to share with our family and friends, the better.

How do you plan to set this up? Do you have a website yet? Or will it be a series of videos on youtube?

One thing you should absolutely promise us is that you'll come back on here and share your work and the location with everyone, so the entire community can benefit from it.

So many times people come on here seeking the opinions of the community for some project and then they don't share the outcome of that project with us...it's a real shame.

Good luck to you!

[jumbo]

What do you all think should make the short list?

The short list items shall really relate to that particular segment of mining you are going to talk about (e.g. BTC ASIC mining or ETH protocol ASIC/GPU mining).
It simply doesn't make a lot of sense to make a dedicated resource for all types of mining, since they are not only different by the type of hardware setup, software, pool services etc, but are also vastly different for different protocols and their tokens, if you go down to altcoins.

[Love!]

The short list should include the basic economics of it all. Starting with how many bitcoins 10 USD will buy.

From there, add daily updated charts showing the ups and downs of the value of a BC.

That's all I have for now.

[Kakmakr]

A lot of focus should be on the sub-division of a bitcoin into smaller units. < 0.00000001 BTC = 1 Satoshi > because a lot of newbies are struggling with that concept and are not buying because they think that they must buy whole bitcoins to be in the game. You should also highlight the advantages of using Bitcoin over other payment methods. < Answer the question : Why should I rather use Bitcoin > When people realize the difference between centralized payment systems and decentralized payment systems, they usually buy into the goal of this experiment. < Political & Security implications >

The last and most important section must be, "How do I secure my coins" You have to show them the safest methods to secure their coins. ^smile^

[Postalgia]

I've been coming here for answers for a very long time and just recently started contributing and I see people ask the same questions dozens of times. On top of that, I'm sure everyone on the forum has had to explain to a family member of friend what, exactly, bitcoin is and how it works.

Since I've had that conversation a few more times than I care to, I decided to make a place where you could send the curious loved one and it would break it down in mostly normal English, with out having to wade through forums. I don't have all that much up yet and I'm not sure what the self promotion rules are here so I'm not linking to the site. I'm just looking for what you guys think would be the most useful stuff to put right out in front.

I've got a basic breakdown of how I've been able to get most people to understand Bitcoin. I've got a, probably much longer than it needs to be, breakdown about mining.

I plan on having step by step walkthroughs on how to set up stick miners and S3s and stuff like that for people who want to get into mining and just don't know what all is involved.

What do you all think should make the short list?

Maybe start a blog, or start a youtube channel? I'm sure people love videos and pictures to make it easier to understand

[Entropize]

Thanks for all the great feedback everyone!

I've already got the site up and got twitter and IG accounts up and linked so that people can reach out if they have questions they want to ask directly. I think I lucked out and got a really good URL. The link is in my sig now.

My simple answer and the one that's been the most useful so far is "what is a bitcoin" since the answer I wrote was intended for friends or family, I stayed out of what has normally bogged people down in conversation when they've never dealt with Bitcoin before.

I've decided to start with the stuff I have the most experience with so I'm going to be doing some writeups this weekend on basic miner setup and components. I've already been getting questions from IG so I'm going to be answering those to the best of my abilities ASAP in the attached blog.

The addition of a page detailing what a satoshi is and how micropayments are regularly used is a great suggestion and I'll definitely be adding that as well.

The site is still in it's infancy, I'm actively creating content and editing things to be as clear as possible and I'm completely open to any constructive criticism.

Thanks everyone, please keep the suggestions coming!

[CoinBuzz]

I would say the best for newbies is to get access to some very tiny amount of bitcoin and then they can see how transfer and the whole system works.