I also have a (maybe rhetorical) question to OP: how comes it took you 8 months and almost 50 posts to ask the right question?

Some members here wander around for a while before realizing what the purpose of Bitcoin is and what advantage Bitcoin has for their financial life.
But thank goodness he has been given great tools that will build his knowledge, I have always suggested knowledge before any attempt in bitcoin and the entire cryptocurrency market.
I wouldn't want to suggest some more learning tools to ops since he already got quite a handful of educative links to learn and build with.