what should a newbie do 1st on this forum?

[Edwardard]

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

It basically depends on the type of person creating an account. If the newbie account is business related, it should first buy a cooper membership in the forum before making an ANN thread (so that the images are visible to others). Usually, business related newbie accounts dont stake their btc addresses. But need to read the forum rules (especially the no plagiarism rule)

[lovesmayfamilis]

How does a beginner get a wallet and sign it if he is a beginner? I think that any average person who comes to any forum will first go through different sections to get comfortable. In addition, the platform is international, so any beginner should find their native language, and first, communicate with their immediate people who speak their native language.
But this whole topic again translates into manuals, which are full of other sections, and which beginners still do not read.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

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

It basically depends on the type of person creating an account. If the newbie account is business related, it should first buy a cooper membership in the forum before making an ANN thread (so that the images are visible to others). Usually, business related newbie accounts dont stake their btc addresses. But need to read the forum rules (especially the no plagiarism rule)

Irrespective of the kind of account a user is willing to operate with, once you create an account here and sign in, you need to go through the boards and check what each constitute and from there you will discover the titles and read up threads that specifically talks about newbies on this forum, rules and regulations, posting etiquettes, beginners and help section, if you dont get used to the forum first, how will you discover what's expected of you.

[yhiaali3]

I see that the first thing a newbies should do before starting writing here in the forum is to learn, newbies need first and foremost to read the rules of the forum.

After that, they have to go around the different sections of the forum, especially the beginners section, and try to learn everything about Bitcoin, because this is a Bitcoin forum in the first place.

After they get enough knowledge they can start writing topics with important ideas and start building reputation in the forum.

Of course, there are some members who have a lot of experience in Bitcoin and Crypto, but they are late in registering in the forum, such as these, they can start writing immediately because they have sufficient experience in advance.

[Eureka_07]

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Well, not newbie accounts are literally newbies, some of them might have enough knowledge from their experience or by reading though the forum before finally creating an account.

But yeah, for newcomers, if you want to just learn, then explore the forum. Try learning the structure first, boards, sections, threads, etc.
In my opinion, it depends on the users' preference... it boils down to things like what they want to know and explore. Meta and beginners & help boards are good head-start though.

[Hispo]

In my opinion, a newbie ideally would lurk a bit around here so they can tell how the dynamics of the forum are, and hopefully realize that plagiarism is against the rules.
From there (if they have enough common sense) they can participate with simple messages until they learn how to sign and verify a message, moving onto staking one of their addresses.

Reading the rules and staking an address, while important, I honestly doubt most of newbies do that at first; me being a good example, because I initially just asked some silly questions and made comments on other's threads.

[skarais]

How does a beginner get a wallet and sign it if he is a beginner?

If they are complete novices new to bitcoin and the bitcointalk forum then I guess 99.9% of them fall into confusion about where to start. So they definitely need time and guidance before they finally know where to start. But it will be different for those who have known bitcoin for long time, know about wallet, but are not on the forum. This will allow them to learn faster and better discuss bitcoin.

I think that any average person who comes to any forum will first go through different sections to get comfortable. In addition, the platform is international, so any beginner should find their native language, and first, communicate with their immediate people who speak their native language.
But this whole topic again translates into manuals, which are full of other sections, and which beginners still do not read.

The first step that you think is very appropriate, but I think the majority of beginners today have received guidance or have mentor before even registering their account. So their chances of getting lost are much lower than without mentor or by self-taught.

[Shamm]

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.

Your way is a good option and it will helpful to the newbie who enter in this forum. But all and for most a newbie must know the rules and regulations first on the forum before they do something.  Because once they don't know the forum rules then there's a chance that they can make against the rules. So they must know it first and then start searching using the search button. Because learning is must wherever you go.

[leonair]

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

This is a good thing because if his account is hacked or locked for some reason, it will be possible to recover the account by signing the message of that bitcoin address. I appreciate for this activities.

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

I think it would be more convenient for that person to ask his local board about his problem or any needed help than Beginners & Help. He can learn a lot from Beginners & Help, but  he can understand many times faster then B&H then from local board. And meta will inform him/her about all the important rules and facilities of this forum so it is very important to follow the Meta board as well.

[virasog]

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.

This question is too much subjective and the answer varies from person to person. The key point is that a Newbie on bitcointalk may not necessarily mean that he is newbie in the crypto world. There can be chances that he knows well about bitcoin and now he discovers this forum and make an account here. In this case, he will already have an bitcoin address and can do stuff like staking it. However, a newie who is totally new, he may not find staking bitcoin address easy initially.

I guess the first thing which any type of user should do on this forum is to read the rules of the forum and get aquatinted with it.

[Ndabagi01]

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

Going to the beginners and help boards to learn about the forum should be encouraged first; their discoveries there could lead them to learning more about the security involved in saving in bitcoin and broadening their horizons about bitcoin and a proper forum guide.

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.

Even people with no prior knowledge of the internet or programming can create Metamask and Trust wallet. I could easily make one by watching a YouTube video or getting help from someone who has already done so. So it's not surprising that members have no knowledge of bitcoin and are more familiar with metamask and trust wallet. The security that comes with creating a bitcoin wallet makes it unique amongst others, thereby staking an address becomes hard for a beginner without prior knowledge of bitcoin.

[coin-investor]

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.

If that's the case then they have started on the wrong foot, it should be Bitcoin first before anything else anything than this is a wrong start, Bitcoin is a truly decentralized coin, and many coins and tokens that follow are centralized so they are missing something very important in their journey to Cryptocurrency.
Those who invested in altcoins before Bitcoin, probably are bounty hunters and airdrops participants, so it's recommended that Bitcoin should have the biggest part of your portfolio.

[Smartvirus]

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.

Yeah, when it comes to the forum or any forum, the first thing that is expected of a newbie is to go through the rules. Am just glad Rikafip did come up with that because, on every introductory thread by a newbie, it's always the first response you would find and a link to them rules.
Unfortunately, the rules remains the most ignored until it gots broken, either by the individual or someone else before it drags one's attention to it. A few might seek the rules first but, not so sure for most.

The next, you get to scavenge the forum to see what it is about, how much freedom you've got, lots of reading and the others would be discovered as you ride along.

[Sarah Azhari]

I received many arguments about point no.1, yes I know almost newbies here don't know about bitcoin what else of creating wallets. (but expert on smart contract, defi, dapp, doge which look funny to me)
 
what the newbie must to noted is, they came on bitcoin forum where they must know that very basics of bitcoin like offline wallet. If they know that basic knowledge I really sure they be save, they will not lose the money and be scammed here.

Almost newbies come to crypto world, especially on this forum got scammed by keeping the fund on online wallet, exchange or any third party., they don't know how to sign a message offline and stake it here.

[Welsh]

what the newbie must to noted is, they came on bitcoin forum where they must know that very basics of bitcoin like offline wallet. If they know that basic knowledge I really sure they be save, they will not lose the money and be scammed here.

The reality is for a lot of new users is they're coming to the forum to learn more about Bitcoin, and they don't have a whole lot of knowledge. Some might have just heard of Bitcoin, and don't own any. In fact, I'd probably say the vast majority of new users don't own any Bitcoin. That's alright, I don't believe I owned any when I first joined the forum.

Asking them to stake an address so early could actually be a security risk. They need to learn the very fundamentals of security first, and to be honest there's not much to protect early on when your account is new. So, I wouldn't worry about staking of an address. I've used addresses in the past that were online wallets, I've made that mistake, and I can guarantee many experienced users that are now using offline wallets or hardware wallets have used online wallets before. I feel these days, people are more aware don't get me wrong, but when I first joined I didn't really value Bitcoin as much as fiat, and therefore I didn't look after it nearly as much as I do today.

New users come here to ask whatever they want. If that's altcoin related or Bitcoin related it doesn't matter to me.

[aysg76]

I would also say that if you are seeing it as open discussion forum then you don't need to follow any particular procedures and just start with engaging in different conversations putting forward your point through your posts or if not then gain knowledge with various threads on forum.

But most newbies run behind merits in the first case in order to rank up because they want to take part in signature campaigns to earn some amount and this is where they make mistakes by copy pasting some articles or violating any other forum rules which is why it's advisable to go through forum rules in the first case and then start your journey on the forum.

[m2017]

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.

It is unlikely that newcomers to the forum begin their journey by reading the rules on the bitcointalk. Usually they immediately create a topic on the question they are interested in, without even checking the existence of similar topics with already available answers to their question.

If you dig a little deeper, many people just read the forum without creating an account here. After a while they do it.

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.

True, there is such an illusion that bitcoin is already expensive. Satochi is still cheap ~0.000224$. Can buy 10, 100, 1000. It's not too late to do it.

[skarais]

It is unlikely that newcomers to the forum begin their journey by reading the rules on the bitcointalk.

On the other hand, some newbie also know how forums work before they even start posting.
So not all newbies have to be the same, some of them are already familiar enough with online forum that understanding the rules and how different forum work is the most likely thing for them to do since signing up.

Usually they immediately create a topic on the question they are interested in, without even checking the existence of similar topics with already available answers to their question.

That's just the most common thing most newbie do, but we shouldn't generalize that all newbie are the same.
Not even all newbie are interested in discussing something useful with other users on the forum, creating topics and responding to other users' posts. While they are only very focused on making money as bounty hunters.

[Cryptomiles1]

There are many people who don't read, that's why you see many questions on the beginner & Help section, like when I begin using this forum there were lots of questions in mind to asked but what came into my mind was why do I want to ask questions while there have been lots of threads and topics created here for people to read and understand what the forum is saying about, most times I feel ashamed of how people asked some silly questions knowing too well that they have asked those questions over times here.

So to cut the story short, all newbies are meant to familiarize themselves with the rules, don't and does of the forum, along side they will come across staking their wallet as well.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Every beginner on this forum should first and foremost read the forum rules before any other thing, this is very important as it helps equip them with knowledge about the forum, and from the rules, they can learn  to stay away from doing things that could have their account banned.

Personally, I think they the idea of staking a bitcoin wallet should come much later when the user have started Ranking up, this is based on the fact that the main purpose why we are required to stake a bitcoin address is to be able to recover our bitcointalk account just incase we lose it to hackers or so, and I believe that no hacker in their right mind would be interested in hacking a newbie or even a junior member ranked account, so the idea of staking a bitcoin address should come much later when the user have become an established user of this forum with a rank higher than newbie and junior member..
This is just my thought and opinion though.