4﴿ EDUCATION: Lack of a good guide to newbies
This forum is great to learn bitcoin, but i still feel that the information about bitcoin is too scattered, and people are lazy to learn it all in pieces.
ex: newbies still asking how to mine bitcoin with laptop (which tells us that they dont have the knowledge, nor a source of knowledge available to them to learn the basics)
We either need a solid e-book/normal book, or a more summarized site (perhaps a good promotion of the en.bitcoin.it wiki site), because I find the bitcoin.org site a little bit hard to understand.
I think a professional website building team needs to look at the bitcoin.org site and make it much easier to understand and go through it, and perhaps it can be expanded better with more information about well established sites
When I was first getting started with Bitcoin, I didn't find the bitcoin.org website particularly helpful either. Once I was up to speed, I tried cobbling together my
own version, but it's probably a little too long-winded because there's so much to cover. I'm always trying to think of ways to improve it, but it seems like there's no easy one-size-fits-all solution. Everyone absorbs information in different ways, so some might find one site easier to comprehend than another. The other issue is that many established people in the community have vastly differing views on what exactly Bitcoin
is, so getting everyone to agree on exactly what we should be teaching to the new starters could be difficult. As an example, I deliberately left out web-wallet services because I think we should be teaching users the importance of looking after their own wallets and not relying on websites that may become compromised.