Over the last few years Bitcoin has risen from being a plaything derived from the dreams of cryptographers to gaining much wider spread adoption by growing audience of libertarians, anarchists and financial revolutionaries. The next step for this digital currency is a much wider public adoption. Right now is a great time to be at the forefront of innovation around Bitcoin. ##Why Bitcoin for Entrepreneurs? I’ve been following Bitcoin for the last couple of years, studying the technology and investigating ways of creating business solutions around it.

Adopting Bitcoin as a payment system, trading it as a currency, investing in Bitcoin for it’s incremental growth and mining it for profit all have fabulous advantages as well as huge pitfalls. If you’d like to learn how to take advantage of Bitcoin and get an understanding of where this ground breaking technology is going next then Bitcoin for Entrepreneurs is the course for you.

Bitcoin for Beginners is a short course which gives an overview of how to use bitcoin.

##Your First Bitcoin Wallet This is a good place to start where I begin by showing you how to get your first Bitcoin wallet. On the way you’ll learn a little about addresses and where to find information on what wallets are available for a variety of devices.

##Buying Your First Bitcoins Now you have a wallet, where can you get Bitcoins from? I’ll show you a few different options including cash, Bitcoin ATMs and currency exchanges. The last part covers sites that combines wallets and exchanges, we’ll look at the pros and cons of each.

##Spending Your First Bitcoins Now you have bitcoins, how do you spend them and what can you buy with them. This video will look at what the buying process is, where to find local vendors and start looking at transaction fees.