I definitely had to read this one. Since I got started with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies recently, it's been TOUGH to concentrate on anything else. I'm constantly looking at exchanges, currency rates, evaluating pools, trying to get things to compile, and more.
They say that one of the symptoms of ADHD is that you have periods of intense focus that events things out with your periods of complete lack of focus. Who knows. I've never been diagnosed, but sometimes I really feel like I have it.
Something that really has helped me out in my quest for more information is to bookmark and categorize the pages that are useful to me. I can then go back and look at the categories to see where I've done my research. For example, my categories are as follows:
- Currencies (the primary sites of each currency, helpful links for each one)
- Exchanges (Links to MtGox, BTCe, etc.)
- Market Tracking (Coinchoose, Profitability Calculators, etc.)
- Mining
- Mining Software and Documentation
- P2Pool
- Pool Software
- Hardware (HW Comparisons, ASIC manufacturers, etc)
- Contracts (Places that sell mining contracts)
- Community (Sites like this)
- Development (Mostly GitHub links to the various Currency wallets, Multibit, P2Pool, Stratum Proxy, etc.)
- Other
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I find that as I continue to organize what I find, that I start to get a picture of what's going on in the community, see patterns between different technologies, and learn more easily. Then I peel away another layer of the onion and find that I have to learn even more!
I hope that helps.
- G
EDIT: Sorry for the poor formatting, the options are limited.
