My Introductory Message

[Soadex]

Good day Bitcointalk community

I am a newbie here tho I have been on the forum for like 5 months now. The forum is kinda difficult to take in all at once, so I have been trying to read the rules and regulations of the forum to understand better, but, I have been distracted with my catering business, I guess that is why it has taken me a while to make my first post.

I have a major interest in Bitcoin, and the concepts around it like, Blockchain, decentralization, how to transact peer to peer, and how Bitcoin can affect real life financial systems. I understand these concepts to an extent, but there is still a lot I am yet to know.

My first question is about resources I can use to learn about Bitcoin; what Bitcoin book can I start with as a newbie?

-Soadex

[Charles-Tim]

You are welcome. Welcome to Bitcointalk, the bitcoin forum. It would be good to always not go against the rules. For starting, you can go through this article:

What is Bitcoin? The Basics of Bitcoin Explained.

You can start to read about Mastering Bitcoin if you want to have more technical knowledge about what bitcoin is.

You may also like to read these books:

[RESOURCES] Free bitcoin/blockchain/finance eBook.

[mk4]

* If you like reading articles: https://coindesk.com/learn
* If you like reading books: https://theinternetofmoney.info/
* If you like watching videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPQwGV1aLnTuN6kdNWlElfr2tzigB9Nnj

Security related:
* https://cryptosec.info
* https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/security.html

If you want to get more technical
* https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook#chapters

[Soadex]

Thank you Mk4 and Charles Tim for the useful links. They are a lot to take in at once but I will try to get through them in due time. 

-Soadex

[witcher_sense]

My first question is about resources I can use to learn about Bitcoin; what Bitcoin book can I start with as a newbie?

Welcome to the forum!

1) https://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Bitcoin-Technology-Decentralized-Explained-ebook/dp/B07MWXRWNB to get the idea of why bitcoin was created, what problems it solves, and how and why bitcoin works. When you are reading this book, you are "inventing" bitcoin from scratch in your head.

2) https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861 to get an idea of the economic aspects of bitcoin: this book explains what monetary characteristics bitcoin possesses, what is stock-to-flow, and why it is important for determining the value of bitcoin, what makes bitcoin better than government-issued money, etc.

3) https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Programming-Open-Blockchain/dp/1491954388 to get the idea of how bitcoin works on a low level: what is a private key, what is a wallet, how transactions propagate over the network, why mining is important for securing the network, how decentralization of consensus emerges, etc.

[aysg76]

Good day Bitcointalk community

I am a newbie here tho I have been on the forum for like 5 months now. The forum is kinda difficult to take in all at once, so I have been trying to read the rules and regulations of the forum to understand better, but, I have been distracted with my catering business, I guess that is why it has taken me a while to make my first post.

Welcome to the forum man with your first post finally after 169 days on registering on the forum and hope you have gone through all the rules and regulations of the forum in this time as you have said.We all have our certain priorities but i would suggest if you are keen to learn then be little active on the forum to be part of healthy discussion or even if you want to have a look at good threads.

This forum is huge library for those who wants to dive into knowledge ocean but you have to make some efforts on finding out your suitable threads.

My first question is about resources I can use to learn about Bitcoin; what Bitcoin book can I start with as a newbie?

-Soadex

See there are lot of useful resources from which you can learn about bitcoin and @Charles-Tim and @mk4 have provided you with certain useful links for your help.But if you want some more of guides on the forum for enhancing your knowledge then here are some links :

5 Resources to teach Average Joe about Bitcoin

Re: Beginners & Help Encyclopedia

If you are interested in finding out more from books then here you can find it here:

Some Books we need to read

But still if you want to explore more on the forum use search function or simply type your input with bitcointalk at the last on Google search that will provide you with list of threads as forum search is messed up.Like this :

Code:

 bitcoin books bitcointalk

Or use https://ninjastic.space/ for having optimised results that will help you lot better and other useful things also.

So there is lot to learn if you want to and ask any doubt you have here and it will be resolved soon by high rank and experienced members.

[Munir575]

Bitcoin is difficult take in at once especially as a newbie it will be a bit difficult at tbe beginning so don't be in a hurry to post, just try to understand bitcoin and gradually you will get to somewhere but you need to familiarise with the rules guiding the forum.
Here are some links to guide you as a newbie
http://learnmeabitcoin.com
https://bitcoiner.guide
https://bitcoiner.guide/qna/common/
https://bitcoin.design/guide/glossary/

Read about forum rules: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=703657.0

[acroman08]

Welcome to the forum, you don't have to rush to learn everything about the forum, learning one step at a time is a great way to start.

I just want to add the list compiled by Ratimov Big Library of Bitcoin & Blockchain Books. if you are going to look for more bitcoin books to read I suggest visiting the thread I shared. if you have more questions feel free to use the search bar on the upper right side of the forum and if you can't find what you are looking for, don't be afraid to ask.

[Upgrade00]

Welcome to the bitcointalk family.

Better late than never, or too quick on your first post. It best to read and learn, before replying or posting.
There are already lots of links already posted on this thread to cause an information overload, so I would not add more.

The forum is not that difficult to understand; avoid plagiarism, spreading malwares and spam. Bitcoin itself is a bit more complex, but if you take it one step at a time, you should get a hang of it.

[Proro]

Welcome to Bitcoin talk, it has helped me in before, like I have learnt a lot of stuff about Bitcoin here and and I'm still learning and I know you will learn if you can just give your time to reading the links that are posted there. And follow the rules of the forum.
 

[Soadex]

Welcome to the forum man with your first post finally after 169 days on registering on the forum and hope you have gone through all the rules and regulations of the forum in this time as you have said.

Thank you for welcoming me to the forum and I have actually gone through the rules although that shouldn't take up to 169 days to read.
Thank you to everyone else that dropped links, I will try to read them.

I can see that there is an option to lock the thread so I will do that as I have gotten my answers.