Learn about bitcoin from others

[Riginac111]

Learning of Bitcoin is something you can acquire through the forum, most of the new users are not not seeing as new people, most of them know it all, I'm not seeing almost of them asking questions to know what they don't know, I learnt many things through forum, even when I registered newly in the forum I don't about private key of Bitcoin wallet, I also don't know how to exchange Bitcoin to my country currency, I have to meet a senior forum member, and he helped me to exchange my Bitcoin to naira through his exchange

It's there he teaches me how I can exchange my Bitcoin to our country currency, he told me that anything i dont know if should not hesitate to ask questions in the forum,

Since then I began to ask questions and also make research from other people's questions, what I'm saying is that anything newbies dont know about Bitcoin they should ask, examples

They should ask this type of questions, especially the one's that's ready to learn about bitcoin privacy

1. What's privacy
2. What is Custodial wallet
3. The difference between Custodial wallet and Non Custodial wallet
4. How should I store my seed phrase
5.How should I recover my Bitcoin if misplace my system were my Bitcoin is kept

[Hazink]

They should ask this type of questions, especially the one's that's ready to learn about bitcoin privacy

1. What's privacy
2. What is Custodial wallet
3. The difference between Custodial wallet and Non Custodial wallet
4. How should I store my seed phrase
5.How should I recover my Bitcoin if misplace my system were my Bitcoin is kept

Asking questions in a public space like this is good, but when it comes to asking questions concerning how to store a seed phrase and how to create a wallet for someone, we should be careful who we trust with that, especially when who is asking doesn't have much knowledge about the importance of a private key.

Asking the wrong person can get you exposed to threat and your key compromised even before it's being backed up, I will add that we should mind who we trust from getting information from them.

[Creeper0]

It is not always necessary to ask questions to know something, since the creator has given us talent, we can know the basic things by using that talent. All the things you mentioned are the basics of Bitcoin usage and investment, you can easily know these things through research. Even YouTube tutorial videos should be enough to learn how to exchange Bitcoin to Fiat.

I am not discouraging asking questions, but rather encouraging you to do research for simple things. By asking questions, you will only know relevant things, you will learn something additional and also practical experience through research. When your research fails, feel free to ask questions.

[Riginac111]

Asking the wrong person can get you exposed to threat and your key compromised even before it's being backed up, I will add that we should mind who we trust from getting information from them.

You don't need to ask the randomly, the question should be ask here not outside forum, people outside the forum may not know what you're asking, people in forum have high IQ compare to novice who don't know about Bitcoin privacy, some people outside may know answer you wrongly for them to have access to your wallet, it will be mistake for asking questions that has to do Bitcoin wallet outside the forum user.

[nakamura12]

It is not all newbies are new because some of them already knows about Bitcoin but isn't in the forum. Me as an example where I know about Bitcoin from my brother-in-law before joining the forum. I also came across some newbies who created a thread explaining that he did know about Bitcoin but new in the forum. Not all information can be learn on the forum but also other sources but newbies should be very careful as some sources provide wrong information so it's better to have many sources of information.

[Cricktor]

I learned about Bitcoin and mining in 2011, did some mining myself when it was still possible with a GPU. I registered my first account back then and spent a lot of time simply reading, rarely posting. All I needed to know I could find here in the forum or at some other places.

Did I understand Bitcoin back then? Hell, no, not really. I learned that later when I had to recover a wallet from a dying harddrive image I was able to take before the device completely gave up.

I lost my first account due to a forum hack and because I missed the (easy?) recovery period. Due to the hack, login passwords of affected accounts were reset, but I didn't stake a GPG public key or a Bitcoin address to prove that I'm the legit owner of my former account. Well, no problem, I don't have to clinge to that first account. Screw it...

The experience with my wallet recovery showed me, I didn't understand the technical inner workings of Bitcoin and how wallets work. And I don't like to deal with things I don't understand.

You can learn a lot here in the forum, but only if you manage to find the good stuff that is here. There's a lot of crap in this forum, too. The built-in forum search is, how can I put it politely..., not quite user friendly, especially due to quota restrictions for Newbies. Better use https://bitlist.co/search to do your searches and honestly put some effort in your searches.

I don't get tired to recommend https://learnmeabitcoin.com, it's a great learning resource for beginners and other levels. I like the presentation and interactive parts and this site can go pretty deep down the rabbit hole. I visit it regularly to lookup stuff I need to brush up my knowledge if it faded a bit.

Other nice sources of Bitcoin knowledge are (no exhaustive list, but my first gotos):
Mastering Bitcoin
No bullshit Bitcoin
Bitcoin Information & Resources

[Mhizlove]

You see bitcoin learning isn't something that you know immediately, if you're someone that is new or you're a newbie and you don't understand anything, you have the forum for you to ask questions and from asking your questions and learning from others experience  will really be of help to understand bitcoin. I will urge you not to be ashamed of asking questions because keeping mute and pretending that you know about something you know nothing about can cause a big loss of money .

So just learn about bitcoin, ask questions and have understanding about it to avoid loss of your money .

[Ziskinberg]

People will be more eager to learn if they do it just learning the basics first. As a newbie, all you have to do is just to read and explore the forum first, and even study its terminologies so that you will gain clear understanding about bitcoin.

You don't go straight to the complexities of bitcoin because your goal is to invest straightly. That is a wrong mindset. Just take your time trying to absorb the whole nature of bitcoin and assess yourself if you really want it or not.

Now, if you think you are excited to learn more about bitcoin, that's when you start digging it deeply until you start learning its security and privacy matters.

[Rashlyowl]

Learning of Bitcoin is something you can acquire through the forum, most of the new users are not not seeing as new people, most of them know it all, I'm not seeing almost of them asking questions to know what they don't know.

I'm one of them, I came to this forum with a lot of what I already know about BTC. I haven't mastered BTC yet, but at least I'm not like pure person who doesn't understand. There are so many resources & references on the internet now, without this forum, I think people would know what they were looking for if they wanted to know.

They should ask this type of questions, especially the one's that's ready to learn about bitcoin privacy

1. What's privacy
2. What is Custodial wallet
3. The difference between Custodial wallet and Non Custodial wallet
4. How should I store my seed phrase
5. How should I recover my Bitcoin if misplace my system were my Bitcoin is kept

These questions are essential, but we can't force someone who just joined to not know about them all. Have you ever seen a low-rank user answer questions so well? If not, you should check it out, they're usually in Bitcoin Technical Support.

[Natalim]

Same here. Most of the people I know aren’t really interested in the technical side or even the basic process of how to transact Bitcoin. Guess what they are interested in? Quick returns, the kind you usually see in Ponzi schemes.

That’s exactly why they end up getting scammed. And what’s worse, even after getting scammed, they don’t really stop. They start treating “investing” like gambling, thinking they just need to get in early and get out fast to secure profit. These Ponzi-style setups are very popular in our country, and a lot of people involved honestly think they already understand Bitcoin, when in reality, they don’t.

[uchegod-21]

They should ask this type of questions, especially the one's that's ready to learn about bitcoin privacy

1. What's privacy
2. What is Custodial wallet
3. The difference between Custodial wallet and Non Custodial wallet
4. How should I store my seed phrase
5.How should I recover my Bitcoin if misplace my system were my Bitcoin is kept

All of these topics have been discussed here in this forum. It doesn't make any sense for newbies to promote spams in these forum by asking same questions over and over again when they can simply just use the search option here to get the threads they need and the information therein. If you don't see newbies asking questions, maybe they are just doing the right thing instead of asking repeated questions because they are not smart enough to search.

[Kavelj22]

They should ask this type of questions, especially the one's that's ready to learn about bitcoin privacy

1. What's privacy
2. What is Custodial wallet
3. The difference between Custodial wallet and Non Custodial wallet
4. How should I store my seed phrase
5.How should I recover my Bitcoin if misplace my system were my Bitcoin is kept

6. What are altcoins and what's the difference between them and bitcoin?
7. Are stablecoins real cryptocurrencies?
8. Does there stablecoins not covered by fiat money?
9. Who are miners and can they manipulate the network?
10. What about bitcointalk? 😃

There is an infinity of questions. The wise user is the one who knows how to ask the right question before looking for answers. I think this topic can help them out.

[Rruchi man]

I'm not seeing almost of them asking questions to know what they don't know,

Expression does not come easy for everyone; some newbies who are actually newbies, that is, have no knowledge of bitcoins, may find it difficult to immediately start posting on the forum and asking questions, maybe because they have no forum experience and are taking some time to observe, and others could due to the unnecessary intimidation that they may feel.

There are also newbies in the category of those who are in the forum for the community benefit of association; they want to learn more from reading and not asking questions that they feel have already been asked or questions that they can easily get answers to on the internet.

[Yamifoud]

Learning does not only happen if you keep on applying the art of questioning to other people or to the forum itself, but learning comes with the best way of endless research and studies not just inside the forum but definitely outside the forum. This is the reason why one should be resourceful and diligent to come up with the most secured and reliable information from legit sources.

But I have to say, those experiences that are shared in the forum are really useful, as they can also lead us in avoiding the same mistakes that those early forum members have experienced, and for that we can also minimize the losses in the future.

[notocactus]

Learning of Bitcoin is something you can acquire through the forum, most of the new users are not not seeing as new people, most of them know it all, I'm not seeing almost of them asking questions to know what they don't know, I learnt many things through forum.

The forum has many Bitcoin experts and technical gurus so it is logical if you learned many things from forum resources as well as forum members. The following list does not collect all helpful resources in the forum, there are missing topics, there are posts are not included there and by spending time in the forum rightly, you can learn a lot of things.
[Mega resources for newbies] Check here, find most of your need, before asking.

If through your time here, you still don't know about this welcome message, it's time for reading.

As a member of the forum, you are surrounded by legends; phenomenal successes and catastrophic failures. The forum was created by Satoshi Nakamoto and saw the first exchange, the first altcoin, and the first ICO, but also catastrophic software flaws, massive thefts, and incredible scams. You too have an opportunity to become part of the forum's history: whether and in what way you do so is up to you.

They should ask this type of questions, especially the one's that's ready to learn about bitcoin privacy

Newbies must ask themselves those questions, even more ones, and use searching for finding available helpful topics and posts, before asking by creating their topics here.
[Guide] Searching effectively.

[noorman0]

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people in forum have high IQ compare to novice who don't know about Bitcoin privacy, some people outside may know answer you wrongly for them to have access to your wallet, it will be mistake for asking questions that has to do Bitcoin wallet outside the forum user.

I've never found any statistics or IQ indicators for forum users as a reference.  I don't think this claim is entirely true based on my feelings. It's probably already a known fact that:

The Bitcointalk Inversion Rule: The higher the bitcoin price rises, the lower the quality of the forum becomes.

I simply feel the advantage of seeking information on dedicated forums is that one can directly ask questions about existing explanations and can correct other users' answers based on facts or opinions. There are many heavily moderated forums, like Reddit, that also allow for education about Bitcoin privacy.