At the beginning, I was confused by everything: Blockchain, wallets, seed phrases, private keys, lightning, fees, self-custody… and especially trying to figure out who actually knew what they were talking about online.
I realized this today when I was talking with a friend about Bitcoin, wallets and so on. He was looking at me with a strange way and he was confused about everything I was telling him, while those things were so familiar to me.
Looking back, I realize every beginner probably has that one thing that makes them stop and think: “Wait… what exactly is going on here?”
So I’m curious: What confused you most as a Bitcoin beginner?
Fee not being a field
Liquidity management in LN channels.
That the coins weren’t actually in my wallet. Haha
Bitcoin UTXO
I got very lucky in how quickly I landed in Stacker News.
I also found many things confusing but this was a great place to gradually learn
I’ve learned a lot from Stacker News as well. I wasn’t here from the very beginning, but I think I joined pretty early.
It was already pretty active when I found it but a lot of those stackers have moved on.
I think the answers depends also WHEN did you joined or started to read about Bitcoin.
Somebody that started in 2010-2012 will not have the same answer as somebody started in 2017-2020.
For me,, as starting in 2012, it was the mining process. Maybe that's why I started with mining, tinkering with installing software, miners etc but it was quite different than what is today's mining.
Back then also weren't so many wallets, apps etc to test and learn. LOL was BitcoinQT and later Schildback (mobile) and Electrum among other dead apps.
The experience was way different than for a guy starting in 2018-2020 in full shitcoining era... and also LN.
But in general, once I read the Bitcoin whitepaper, it was all clear for me: I must learn this "new thing" as much as I can and use it. I wasn't too much confused, I get it strait to what it is: a powerful weapon against the fucking fiat system.
If I would start again, I think I will do the same path...never shitcoining.
I came after 2018. I can’t even imagine how was in those early years.