Welcome to our Bitcoin resources area. The most justified complaint about Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies is the learning curve when you are a beginner and trying to grasp the process for the first time. Learning about purchasing, transferring and then spending your digital currency takes a little preparation.
This was the inspiration behind this website, to initially create a concise educational guide to help friends, family, my clients and beyond to get to grips with this new financial ecosystem.
This page is aimed at outlining all of the websites, tools, resources and courses online dedicated to Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain technology.
Start Here & Essential Guides
Here is our list of the best websites and guides online to help you learn about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that underpins it all.
Introduction to Bitcoin & Crypto - Our beginners guide on the world of Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology, the ideal place to start if you are new to the space.
Buy Bitcoin Online Instantly - Our beginners guide on how to buy Bitcoin using the popular Coinbase exchange. If you are new and haven't purchased your first Bitcoin or Satoshi's yet then this is a great place to start.
Best Cryptocurrency Exchange - Want to invest in altcoins and ERC-20 tokens? Then you will want to read this guide on which crypto trading exchanges are the safest and have the most trading volume.
ICO Buyers Guide - Our ultimate guide to ICOs covering the basics of explaining what an ICO is and how to get involved in this exciting new investment space.
Bitcoin Wallets - Want to find out more about the best ways to store your Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies? We have created an ultimate guide to Bitcoin wallets to help.
Best Cryptocurrency YouTube Channels - One of the best ways to learn about Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, Trading, ICO's and Mining is to subscribe to the best channels on YouTube.
How to Earn Bitcoin - Learn different ways people are able to make money from crypto and blockchain beyond the obvious options of investing and trading.
Cryptocurrency News - We created a page to aggregate the best news feeds from the most influential and important news outlets in the blockchain space.
Glossary - A cryptocurrency glossary and dictionary to help you get up to speed with the terminology and technical jargon used within the market and this website.
Bitcoin Beginners Videos by Andreas Antonopoulos
Websites & Guides
Here is our list of the best websites and guides online to help you learn about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that underpins it all.
Get Free Bitcoin - By buying through certain cryprocurrency vendors and exchanges you can earn a free bonus (You don't even need a promo code).
Bitcoin white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto - A PDF by the creator of Bitcoin explaining the idea behind his blockchain technology.
Ethereum white paper by Vitalik Buterin the creator of Ethereum.
Reddit Subreddits / r/bitcoin & r/btc - Cover Bitcoin specific news and discussions. A word of caution, the Bitcoin subreddit contains mostly supporters of the original Bitcoin chain, while /btc mostly supports Bitcoin Cash (BCH/BCC) go figure! It's a complicated story.
Reddit Subreddit / r/cryptocurrency - A general cryptocurrency subreddit.
Reddit Subreddit / r/icocrypto - Best place for following Initial Coin Offering news for cryptocurrencies.
BlockGeeks - One of our favorite websites, blogs and guide websites covering everything blockchain related.
Bitcoin.Tax - Bitcoin Taxes for Capital Gains and Income. A great resource if you are curious about taxes and cryptocurrency.
CoinTaxGuide - The Crypto Tax Guide for beginners is a great PDF to help people get to grips with paying taxes on your bitcoin and crypto gains.
BabyPips - One of the best websites for beginners to learn about trading, technical analysis in an easy to understand manner.
Investopedia - The encyclopedia of investing, this website features all of the terminology and other learning resources.
Rhymes With Fiat - An ongoing Bitcoin webcomic that combines humor with educational notes. It is a great soft introduction to Bitcoin issues and technology.
weacceptcryptocurrency.com - A website that lists all websites and online services that accept cryptocurrency as a payment method.
Courses
Like any emerging technology, you can find lots of educational courses online covering the different aspects of this new financial solution and digital currency.
Whether you just want to learn the basics of how to use bitcoin and buy cryptocurrency to learning how to develop your own blockchain you will be able to find a high-quality course that will help you get up to speed in no time.
Free Course for Beginners to Crypto - Our course that is aimed at beginners and intermediate users of crypto. A must-have for anybody in the space, but then we would say that wouldn't we!
You can see our comprehensive list of courses on Bitcoin, blockchain technology, trading cryptocurrencies and Ethereum / Solidity development here.
Bitcoin & Alt Coin Tools
There are a lot of tools to help you with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum and other altcoins. These can range from reporting tools to assist you in analyzing the markets to websites that help you work out projections, check transactions taking place and more.
All Cryptocurrency Markets - Here you can see the current price of all available cryptocurrencies right here on BuyBitCoinX.
CoinMarketCap - Probably the most popular website for those that want to see the prices for pretty much all cryptocurrencies and digital assets available on the exchanges.
CoinCap - See and analyse all of the cryptocurrency market capitalization, price performance and charts.
Coinigy - A tool that allows you to trade on multiple exchanges from one very intuitive and attractive GUI. Also has lots of other features such as an iOS & Android App, arbitrage opportunities and much more.
CryptoCompare - A website that allows you to compare a wide range of different metrics on coins, ICOs, mining and more. A great way to evaluate altcoins side by side.
Coin Spectator - A website that aggregates cryptocurrency news and articles from over 100 different sources putting everything in one easy and convenient place. This one of the best sources of crypto news.
TradingView - This is an advanced financial visualization platform you can access within a user-friendly website interface. Whether you are looking at basic price charts or plotting more complex spread symbols with overlayed strategy backtesting, this website has all the tools and data you would ever need.
AltPocket - An awesome website that you can connect to your Bittrex or Poloniex API's and use their beautiful interface to track the performance of your existing positions and previous trades. This is the best alternative to Blockfolio that is web-based we have seen so far.
Blockfolio - The most popular mobile app for checking your crypto gains and setting alerts though involves more manual work if you make a lot of trades.
Delta - A newer trade tracker for Bitcoin and altcoins that is quickly gaining popularity and features a beautiful interface.
Coin Dance - a community-driven Bitcoin statistics and services website with lots of useful tools & data.
BitBonkers - A Bitcoin transaction visualization website. This website shows the transactions going through the blockchain as objects landing on a surface and then rolling off as they complete.
Blockchain.info A website dedicated to showing you all of the transactions that take place with Bitcoin.
Etherscan.io - A website that shows all Ethereum transactions that go through the blockchain.
State of the DApps - A comprehensive list of DApps (Decentralized Apps developed for Ethereum).
Coindar - A cryptocurrency events calendar that covers everything from upcoming ICO's to forks and even when exchanges are delisting coins (very handy to know).
Solume.io - A tool that compares the number of Twitter mention increases and decreases to the price movement. A fantastic public sentiment checker.
Bitcoin Price Equivalence - This tool gives you a calculation of the price of altcoins if the coin had the same supply as Bitcoin. BPE is an interesting tool as it normalizes the price by removing unit bias that leads to people incorrectly thinking a coins price is cheap.
World Clock and Map - Not a cryptocurrency tool perse but still an essential when trading cryptocurrencies. Why? Unlike the FX & Stock markets crypto never sleeps, so trading is happening 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, keeping an eye on which major players and nations are just waking up or just going to sleep can give you an edge.
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Other Useful Cryptocurrency services
The world of cryptocurrencies is evolving rapidly and new more functional uses of the blockchain technology are being invented every week. Here are a few of those interesting projects that revolve around the same technology pioneered by Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Talk - This forum is one of the main arenas in the crypto space for people to discuss bitcoin, altcoin, and ICOs.
BitcoinATMRadar - A website so you can see all Bitcoin cash machines around the world for buying Bitcoin on the high street or in store.
Steemit - A social network that rewards content authors and curators with their own cryptocurrency "Steem". Possibly one of the most exciting innovations in both social media and blockchain technology. Steemit is also a great place to research cryptocurrency news.
Best Investment Apps - A useful article covering non-crypto related investment apps. This should help you work out what the best and safest options are.
Initial Coin Offerings / ICOs
An ICO is an unregulated fundraising mechanism that trades future crypto tokens or coins in exchange for existing cryptocurrencies. They are essentially digital coupons distributed by the ledger or blockchain.
Here are some great resources for learning more about ICOs and keeping up to date with the latest news.
ICO Stats - Track the stats and performance of cryptocurrency ICOs.
ICO Alert - Get updates and alerts with an ICO reminder calendar.
ICO Drops - A great site for evaluating ICO's and finding out more information on the progress of a token sale.
ICO Bench - Another website that is great for checking out ICOs that also includes ratings and analysis.
Token Filings - An aggregated directory for all news relating to new ICOs and token projects.