what should a newbie do 1st on this forum?

[Sarah Azhari]

I am still confused, what is the ideal brand-new or newbie account to do 1st before creating any post and thread?

1. Create bitcoin address and stake it here: Stake your Bitcoin address here
2. going to Beginners & Help and learning all about forum on sticky post

Because when staking the address, the newbie account must have a bitcoin wallet where that information has on sticky post.

As I feel, many members here don't know anything about bitcoin, they don't know how to create a bitcoin wallet, but very experienced with metamask and trust wallet, which I think is a very strange person in the world.

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[Rikafip]

I am still confused, what is the ideal brand-new or newbie account to do 1st before creating any post and thread?

Ideally, they should spend some time reading the rules (especially if its their first time on a forum) but this is just a discussion forum, there are no rules what you have to do.

As I feel, many members here don't know anything about bitcoin, they don't know how to create a bitcoin wallet, but very experienced with metamask and trust wallet, which I think is a very strange person in the world.

That's probably because vast majority of people that are new to crypto are altcoiners. They often (wrongly) think that its too late to invest in bitcoin so that makes them turn to altcoins instead.

[Solosanz]

I think any newbie should read the unofficial rules first in order to learn about the rules in this forum, especially if they're plagiarism and it would make them get banned.

Stake a Bitcoin address isn't that important, as long as you've mentioned your address anywhere in this forum, you're fine as long as you can sign from that's address.

A newbie doesn't need to go to Beginners & Help section, he can learn from any board which he interested.

It's not strange if they not know about Bitcoin wallet, because Trust wallet support Bitcoin, so they think why they need to have a specific wallet for Bitcoin? but if they've learn from read few threads in this forum, they will know how important is Bitcoin wallet that offer to verify signature and open source.

[PX-Z]

You mean newbie accounts? Because not all newbie accounts has "newbie" knowledge.
Well, reading and following the forum rules is the first thing they should. Staking address is optional, it's not that important, account recovery can be done even using the email they used in registration.

As I feel, many members here don't know anything about bitcoin, they don't know how to create a bitcoin wallet, but very experienced with metamask and trust wallet, which I think is a very strange person in the world.

Many? How many you think? ^{(Not that important anyway)}. Creating trustwallet can create bitcoin wallet though. If you're referring the wallet like electrum, well, this depends on what wallet they are used to use because electrum has different vibe and look than the other good UI and UX wallets especially in mobile wallets where most newbies are using.

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Click on "more" from the top menu. https://bitcointalk.org/more.php



there are most of the most important links for getting to know the forum and its rules better.
I assume that a real Newbie does not know that there are important pinned posts in Beginners & Help section.
and they should first read and get to know the forum at least a little, before opening useless topics

[LoyceV]

Newbies should do whatever brought them here. In my case, that was complaining about faucet captchas. There's no need to stake an address or jump through any other hoops. If they're what I consider "real Bitcoin users", they'll be fine.

As I feel, many members here don't know anything about bitcoin, they don't know how to create a bitcoin wallet, but very experienced with metamask and trust wallet, which I think is a very strange person in the world.

Those aren't Bitcoin users, they use Bitcointalk for other things.

[mk4]

To be honest, mostly nothing. You can simply immediately start just talking about stuff you're interested in concerning bitcoin/crypto/investing/economics. No need to make Bitcointalk so formal that there should be a chronological order on what to do.

And yea sure don't plagiarize and yadda yadda and all those rules, but most of the rules should be common knowledge by now for any other platform.

[Welsh]

Let them do whatever they came here to do. I feel like we put a lot of expectations on new users because of the culture here. It's turned to a very business minded culture, which a lot of new users just want to ask their questions, and not necessarily continue posting from there on out, and that's fine. It's what brought a lot of us here, to just ask a simple question, and then we likely started reading a little more on the forum, and it hooked us.

Not every new user is here to go join a signature campaign, and earn money, but it seems we're very suspicious from the get go, which turns into hostility, and new users are less likely to stay. Staking a address isn't needed for most new users, and when they do come to doing it, they should probably do it with a securely generated address, which I imagine a lot of new users haven't got when first joining.

[UchihaSarada]

Create account, log out and log in.
Read forum rules and sticky topics
[Bitcointalk sticky threads] Newbies - read before starting.
Read forum help: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help
Use forum search: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=search

Newbies have to read and search for reading more.

2. going to Beginners & Help and learning all about forum on sticky post

In Beginners & Help, it has a sticky thread Newbies - Read before posting

[digaran]

Depends, for example, anyone trying to advertise NSFW content, a nude would be great. I believe other members covered the rest, I just said what wasn't mentioned.😂

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

2. going to Beginners & Help and learning all about forum on sticky post

Exactly, this must be your first thing to do and it begins with reading the forums rules and regulations here, going through the sticky threads and learning first from what the forum offers and is all about learning about Bitcoin from boards applicable to Bitcoin discussion,  when you follow the ideal protocol it will be easy for you to understand the system or forum better than jumping up and down creating no value to the community because you have nothing to offer, only those that has passed through the learning ground have something they can deliver with best quality as expected.

[bullrun2024bro]

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Well, let the user get here first and let them do what they want. Nobody is obliged to search the Beginners & Help Board if they don't want to. No one has to do a in-depth Bitcoin research if they don't want to.

However, there is some common sense: When you sign up for a new website, you usually familiarize yourself with the rules and read the relevant threads with the basic instructions.

And since Bitcointalk is a Bitcoin forum, it wouldn't be bad if you could get a basic understanding of Bitcoin afterwards. Although, if a user doesn't want to do that, that's their right and we shouldn't force them.

[Eternad]

There’s no need to rush on Stake Bitcoin address because they might use multiple wallet along the way while that thread purposed is for verifying ownership of the account in the future. When I’m a newbie, I have a lot of wallet address because I always change address after I use it on a transaction.

I believe reading stickies on Meta and Beginners & Help is the best thing to do by newbie to become a established member that can engage on a informative discussion.

[Popkon6]

Create account, log out and log in.
Read forum rules and sticky topics
[Bitcointalk sticky threads] Newbies - read before starting.
Read forum help: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help
Use forum search: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=search

Newbies have to read and search for reading more.

2. going to Beginners & Help and learning all about forum on sticky post

In Beginners & Help, it has a sticky thread Newbies - Read before posting

If a newbie of this forum follows the rules given here, he will surely know about the forum. Because here everything is mentioned from the beginning to the end. The longer a new member stays active in the forum the more he can learn. In this case he has to go and post in different sections of this forum and learn many more educational things.

Click link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.msg1861412#msg1861412

The link has lots of updated information which you can follow. A newbie is more senior members posts and rules and DT1 & DT2 them You can definitely learn a lot if you follow.



Through this image, you can also know the details about the rank up of the account. All information about activity post and merit is also provided.

[jackg]

If you stake a bitcoin address when you've just registered, you're probably not getting your account recovered anyway, you could wait a month or two for that (unless you really love your username).

The majority of newbies would probably register an account and make a post straight away. A lot of newbies will have been lingering on the forum for a month or a quarter before making their posts so will know more about what's expected of them. I think the lingering before making an account or a post might be more "ideal" but it might be unnecessary too (similar to reading the rules here - even though both would give them a better understanding of what and how to write).

[Belarge]

When I was newbie, what I first did was that, I introduced myself at local board, I read through the rules and regulations on the forum, I also look for a way to be active on the forum and try my best to make meaningful contributions under topics, if I have issues I need to rectify, I ask other members for help....

[The Sceptical Chymist]

As I feel, many members here don't know anything about bitcoin, they don't know how to create a bitcoin wallet, but very experienced with metamask and trust wallet, which I think is a very strange person in the world.

I'm not quite sure how you formed that impression, although you might be right about metamask.  There are a lot of bounty hunters here who get paid in ERC20 tokens (if I'm not mistaken; I don't how they're paying out these days) and who otherwise might not know about or even be interested in bitcoin.  That's pretty sad, isn't it?

And yeah, I concur with everyone who said to read the rules before doing anything else.  Unfortunately it doesn't matter how many times that's written in posts, because newbies keep coming here and doing all sorts of crap that's against the rules.

[jrrsparkles]

Because when staking the address, the newbie account must have a bitcoin wallet where that information has on sticky post.

There is no such rules in bitcointalk, and staking bitcoin address can be helpful with recovering your account incase if gets hacked but if you don't want to post any of your bitcoin address for privacy reasons then you can keep posting without staking any address too.

[Mpamaegbu]

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I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all type of response in this as it's different strokes for different folks. People come to this forum with different intentions in mind and it will really not be easy trying to streamline everyone's attitude. As that may be, I don't think it's necessary for newbies to stake their wallet addresses here. They should grow their accounts first before anything. The most important thing newbies should do is read and read to gain knowledge and then respect the rules and regulations of this forum to stay out of trouble.

[Sandra_hakeem]

You seee, sometimes it seems that since we've been repeating the same thing for years now, there's every possibilty that peeps already knew every tips to make an account; on the other hand, it ain't true.
I'm not disputing the fact that different sites ain't got similar rules yunno,(say perhaps should be a normal thing), but as long as these rookies keep asking valid questions - matterless of how many times it's been answered -- an answer should be provided or atleast a good reference would also do. You've given a nice objection and yeah?? Alot of peeps that are flaunting the rules today don't even know them.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰