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I’m completely new to bitcoin, haven’t downloaded anything or done any serious research, but I have listened to a lot of youtube commentators I respect extolling its virtues to the ends of the earth and I want in.

Basically what I want to know is, which wallet system would you recommend, how would you recommend going about trading virtual items for bitcoin or could you point me to a site or preferably youtube video that could help me directly with these things.

I have like 300-400 or so dollars of Steam items, which in case you are unfamiliar is a gaming network that allows trade and sale of in game items between users. They have a steam money marketplace that uses your national currency as its valuation and automatically exchanges between different monies as you can’t actually extract any real money back out of your wallet once put in. Selling your items on their market also involves giving them a cut. I’m not trying to avoid this at all, just trying to get Bitcoin.

Many people sell their items for paypal or amazon money etc, so I doubt I’d be violating any terms of service or anything, but let me know if I would be please.

I’d like to point out that on Steam there has evolved a trading reputation system based on positive reputation being built up on your profile page, and I have a considerable amount of “+reps” from trading so anyone familiar with Steam trading should be willing to trust my word for the relatively small transactions I’m looking to make.(I don’t want to liquidate my account, I just want to get a little bit of bitcoin to see what its about, and to speculate on it rising 😉

I was thinking that I would first try and figure out the wallet system and then find a trading forum to post my steam account info, then take offers on my items in Bitcoin. I have successfully traded steam items for steam game serial numbers in very insecure trades based solely on the reputation system and it works fine, I’d probably post something like the person with the better reputation should give first.

Any help or comments would be appreciated.