If you want to test out how it works in practice, try playing with instawallet.org , maybe buying small amount of coins and tracking how it works. There are als

If you want to test out how it works in practice, try playing with instawallet.org , maybe buying small amount of coins and tracking how it works. There are also free bitcoins sites, I don't have much experience with them or either with mining. You can track transactions on blockchain.info If you want to learn about technicalities, Satoshi paper would be a good start: http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Then bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page I especially like the myths page: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths