Site Review: Mt.Gox

After setting up your digital wallet, mining a bit and gambling away your first free bitcoins, you are ready to enter a Bitcoin exchange and buy a couple of shiny coins with real world currency. With them you'll be able to speculate, gamble more or "expend them on tons of products and services", as the Weird Hippie CoinTube Woman says. There are several Bitcoin exchanges around, but the largest is Mt.Gox:

The virtual Forex: https://mtgox.com/

Site Review: SatoshiDice

You set up your digital wallet. You earned your first free bitcoins. You joined a mining pool and got some freshly-generated coins. Now it is time for you to venture into the most developed Bitcoin industry: Gambling! And for that, what better place than the most popular Bitcoin betting game in the universe? Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves because it is very addictive! Beware, ludopaths! I present you... SatoshiDice!

http://satoshidice.com/

How To Join A Mining Pool (CPU Edition)

Update 1, 09/11/2013: Download this Bitcoin Mining Package I prepared, read the README.txt inside and then read this tutorial. (Note: browsers and antivirus software consider miner programs are malware, so you might get a warning. Ignore it!)

Have you got your digital wallet set up? Nice! Have you collected your first bitcoins from some of these websites? Great! Then I guess your next logical step is to get a first taste of Bitcoin Mining!

Become a happy Bitcoin Miner!

Getting Into Bitcoin

You have heard about Bitcoin. Maybe you even know what Bitcoin is and how it works. And now you want to be part of the increasing Bitcoin user base.

Although there are plenty of tutorials and websites that tell you how to get into Bitcoin, none of them warn you about some details that might make you think twice about the method you'll use to do this. Here I'll present you the two options you have with its advantages and drawbacks: