(Part 2) Top products from r/BitcoinBeginners

I would suggest training for a week Karate Kid style. Grab some chopsticks and practice catching flies, although you can also attempt to catch mosquitoes or lightning bugs. Avoid worms, you won't get much benefit from training with them. Do some pushups too for upper body strength and increased bloodflow. Finally practice snapping for a few hours daily with all digits on both hands to increase your dexterity.

If you don't want to do that method then I suggest you code an app that allows you to have two other apps open on your phone side by side. This way you can skip steps 1, 2. If you can't code fly to India and start interviewing potentials coders.

If that doesn't work then you're simply SOL. There is no known solution to this issue unfortunately. It's just how ETH was coded.

Which leaves us with my final suggestion. Sell your ETH since they're only good for smart contracts and will never be money, and buy bitcoins, which are recognized as money except by the "dumb money", whom were mislead to believe that ETH is going to make them wealthy as bitcoin2.0 chuckle. Then log onto Gemini thru a COMPUTER while you have your Authy app open on your phone. Be sure the computer, yourself, and your phone are all co-located in the same room, preferably within 1 ft of each other. Unless you type with one finger you will have enough time to enter the code as you wont need to bother switching between apps. To ensure success, hold your phone just above the number pad so you don't have to look more than a few degrees away from your typing fingers. I would suggest you buy both of these so that you have both hands free;

https://www.amazon.com/OESS-Clamp-Finger-Rubber-Coated-Laboratory/dp/B071D38HSY/ref=sr_1_13?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1499463429&sr=1-13&keywords=stand

https://www.amazon.com/American-Educational-Stamped-Support-Resistant/dp/B00657VUQK/ref=sr_1_11?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1499463429&sr=1-11&keywords=stand

Good luck, Grasshopper!!

PS. You may also wish to ask this question in an ETH forum although they'll probably just tell you to buy more ETH which is really bad advice.

For general understanding of TA, my favorite it The art and science of technical analysis by Adam Grimes for both simplicity and completeness

To understand the importance of trend, the indispensable book is The trend following bible by A. Abraham (some people get disappointed by the fact that it does not go very deep in presenting the actual trading strategies, but the importance of the whole trend following concept cannot be overstated).

For understanding of trading, the required mindset, market psychology, and everything that comes along with the territory, the two books are most often listed, and the definite part of trader's must read list:

Market wizards, by James D. Schwager,

and The reminiscences of a stock operator, by E. Lefevre

Also check all the online resources on Intraday flow trading you can get your hands on.

Hope you guys get successful and have fun in the process.

Several ways to gift btc -

1. If you have a coinbase account , you can simply send btc via
   Email, even if he doesn't have an account, and if he doesn't claim it it will automatically come back to you in 60 days
   
   
2. Create a paper wallet and gift it to him . Paper wallet should be 12 or 24 word seed phrase and not the obsolete standard that includes a BTC private key
   
   
3. Buy a hardware wallet like a ledger or trezor and place some btc on it and give to him
   
   
4. Consider more secure means of backing up your 12 or 24 BIP39 backups in case of floods or fire - https://cryptosteel.com/
   Or https://billfodl.com/products/the-one-and-only-billfodl
   or https://bitkee.com/ or https://cryptokeystack.com/
   
   or a metal backup plate like safe seed
   
   https://www.amazon.com/Safe-Seed-Recovery-Passphrase-CryptoCurrency/dp/B07CLMK3WJ/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=bitcoin+safe+seed&qid=1573784209&sr=8-2
   
   
   and than load up a wallet with btc that you backup to it
   
   
5. Buy a btc physical coin that you send btc to -
   
   https://www.casascius.com In person or bulk only 500 for 0.39 BTC
   
   https://www.titanbtc.com/ 105 USD - ~2k USD
   
   http://www.lealana.com/ various prices
   
   https://www.infinitumbitcoins.com/ 179 to 339 USD per coin
   
   https://denarium.com/ 19.9 € to 2199 € per coin
   
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   Personally since your target is 50 USD gift I would use electrum to make a paper wallet (12 words) with 50 USD of BTC on it and if he is young than give the paper wallet to his parent
   
   or an alternative get the dual safe seed metal plate kit and 1/8 inch metal stamp kit, keep one for yourself and stamp out his 12 words for him
   
   Further instructions -
   
   https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinBeginners/comments/do866t/any_good_diy_way_to_write_seeds_on_metal/f5krza2/

I got myself a cheap laminator and a pack of credit card sized laminate sleeves. I print my bitaddress.org paper wallets (LiveCD, of course), cut them out and then tri-fold them to cover the private key. Then run them through the laminator for a nice, clean paper wallet. You can still shine a light through them to reveal the private key, but I've been considering some holographic foil to help prevent that. For 85 BTC, I'd be using BIP38 encryption, and printing out / laminating 2 or 3 copies each, and storing one set of copies in a safe deposit box.

There's also self-adhesive laminate sleeves: http://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Self-Sealing-Laminating-LS851G-Business/dp/B00004TS5X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1398517602&sr=8-1&keywords=credit+card+laminate

To make sure no one has gained access to your paper copies. I love that you’re planning like that. Not a lot of us are. I learned about the evidence bag idea in the book cryptoasset inheritance planning

I'm a bitcoin beginner and just finished Bitcoin: And the Future of Money by Jose Pagliery. It's thorough and covers a lot of ground. Not too deep in a single area. Definitely recommend :)

Security:

1. Hold funds in a hardware wallet (such as Trezor / Ledger / KeepKey etc).
   
2. In other words - Not your keys, not your Bitcoin (worth watching).
   
   Investing (“when to buy”):
   
3. No one has a crystal ball. No one!
   
4. Read “Unshakable” by Peter Mallouk and Tony Robbins. Best book I’ve ever read on investing, which was written very well for beginners (despite me not being much of a fan of the authors).

I always throw out Blockchain for Dummies by Tiana Laurence (of Factom) as a good place to start for non-techies.

Amazon link

Wiley publishing link

Coindesk has a good section called Blockchain 101

I just read Digital Gold, which I'd recommend. It's more about the history of Bitcoin and major events around it, as opposed to details about the technology. But it does explain what Bitcoin can do, who can benefit from it, etc.

I'm a coder and I found that it jumps from beginner level to more advanced elliptical curve cryptographic math very quickly past the 100 page mark. I think a better book would be the following one which is the basis for a Coursera course:

https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Cryptocurrency-Technologies-Comprehensive-Introduction/dp/0691171696

> requiring knowledge of economics, computer programming, and the blockchain.

Unfortunately, to become an expert in Bitcoin, those are the competencies you'll need to master. There are some better ground-up instructions. What I would recommend.

• Economics: Wealth of Nations
  
• Programming: Official Python Tutorial
  
• Blockchain: Mastering Bitcoin
  
  If you even skim those three books you'll know more than 90% of the people who hold Bitcoin today.

That's why you store seeds in something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/MMF-Industries-2362010N06-12-Inch-Tamper-Evident/dp/B000J05F06

No one can "peek" without you knowing.

It is still a good time to invest, but only the amount you can afford to lose. A good read is
https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoassets-Innovative-Investors-Bitcoin-Beyond/dp/1260026671

Wallets: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/de38xz/z/f2s3ixh

I go with blockstreams green wallet. Beginner friendly.

Buy bitcoin. Depends where you are. Try an ATM machine. Coinatmradar.com

If you want to invest more, buy a hardware wallet. Never leave your coins online. Never save your mnemonic seed digital. Pen and paper. Only invest what you are willing to loose.

Books: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Bitcoin-Book-Matters-Finances-ebook/dp/B07W957N7T

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B07BPM3GZQ/ref=pd_aw_sbs_351_1/137-6810604-7750710?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07BPM3GZQ&pd_rd_r=783905ed-d612-43b3-b9b7-a257d5233a8e&pd_rd_w=urbsA&pd_rd_wg=uaqwC&pf_rd_p=53e036f8-8d3b-407e-beae-88d349e4fc13&pf_rd_r=HVHAC91GS6YR4M3A45N2&psc=1&refRID=HVHAC91GS6YR4M3A45N2

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/gp/aw/d/B077LD9YKB?ref_=dbs_w_series&storeType=ebooks

Videos:
Bitcoin for beginners by Andreas Antonopolous.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPQwGV1aLnTuN6kdNWlElfr2tzigB9Nnj

How Bitcoin works under the hood:
https://youtu.be/bBC-nXj3Ng4

https://blog.lopp.net/metal-bitcoin-seed-storage-stress-test--part-ii-/

The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and the Blockchain Are Challenging the Global Economic Order https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250081556/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_IZngAbT8MRDRB

A simple install mining app would be multiminerapp.com ... it has a user interface and what now. I use this with my Antminer U2 USB based miners.

I started out with the U2 USB miner. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00ITD5NV6/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1421524190&sr=8-1&keywords=antminer+u2&condition=used

A newer model would be the U3 miner http://www.amazon.com/Bitmain-Antminer-Bitcoin-Miner-Domestic/dp/B00OQSXMA2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421524228&sr=8-1&keywords=antminer+u3

You might be able to make your money back over time with the U3 miner if you dont take electricity into account (which im assuming your not when u use the word 'hobby')