Here I shall describe what first day of bitcoin should’ve been like had I not slack around that much

  1. Register for coinbase.com account (so that at least you have a bitcoin wallet address to play with) I know…I know…I should use a local wallet. But wait, I’m recording what I did right? ps. embedded referral

  2. Register for bitcoin exchange. I went with Poloniex. There’s also btc38 which allows easy facebook login

  3. Now, the community. bitcointalk. Be sure to search and read the newbie guide. Took me awhile to realize that if you post images as a newbie the image won’t show. If you read Chinese, I think 8btc is probably the place to be too. Surf away! Digging articles traversing back in time is a time consuming task.

  4. Try some faucets…get the feel of how satoshis are handed out Keep in mind I’ve only been playing around bitcoin for maybe a week or two? The consensus is that faucets are generally not worth the time… but instead of sitting around I don’t mind clicking on random CAPTCHA. (Note: all links below are embedded with my referral…I mean why not?)

    YourBit This one is my favourite. Since I started, this one racked up the most. At the rate of 1 click per hour. Not too long, not too short.

    BonusBitcoin Second favourite. The CAPTCHA experience feels smoother for some reason… This one is 1 click per 30 minutes

    ClaimBTC TakeFreeBTC These two have near identical interfaces. Difference being one is one click per 20 minutes and the latter one is one click per 5 minutes. Honestly, 5 minutes is too frequent to my liking…Doesn’t give you enough time to focus back on whatever you were working on

    Moonbit LooTool FieldBit The above three are similar in that they have 5 minutes minimum wait time, and beyond the gain gets slower and slower. For best rate, 1 click per 5 minutes. Fieldbit being last because the rate is slow and the CAPTCHA flow isn’t good… For me, almost every time I click I have to do one more CAPTCHA to log-in and then one more to submit.

    Regarding all faucets… They all require you to turn off ad-blocker. Sometimes I can hear my laptop screaming as the ads and videos overloads as I prefer to have them open in 7 tabs and just leave them there. Also, all of them seem sketchy, please don’t be too serious with them. There are way more faucets out there. These are just what I selected in the beginning after some brief research