Welcome to the first issue of the Bitcoin Beginners Newsletter. Every Friday morning I will post this newsletter, which for now will contain the Top 5 Posts of the Week, as well as the top posts of all time. I hope to gradually make this a frequently updated source of high quality bitcoin educational material.

@Fabs posted his idea for a new contest directed at encouraging quality educational content. I really like the idea, and I hope he moves forward with his plan. If it’s successful, I may gradually phase out the Top Posts Of The Week contest and support his contest instead.

I will probably begin to include part or all of my Bitcoin Learning Resources pinned post links into this newsletter. This will make the index easy to edit and update on a weekly basis.

Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.

There will be a zap award for the top 5 posts weekly. It will be broken down as follows: 1. 2500 sats 2. 1000 sats 3. 500 sats 4. 500 sats 5. 500 sats Posts will be judged using SN zaprank. The cut off time is 9:00am EST (1300GMT) Friday morning. I will post the top 5 winners shortly after 9:00am every Friday morning.

Here are this week’s winning posts:

Here you will find a few of the top posts that have been posted to this territory. I am not going to adhere to a rigid zaprank system, since my purpose is to highlight content that has educational value. I will use an informal combination of zaprank and my own evaluation. For instance, some posts, though of high quality, are solely about Stacker News, and might have more appropriately originated as a meta post.