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Sorted by where people actually get stuck rather than by topic. The four main articles cover the whole path; the shorter ones each answer one question that stops people mid-way.
Start with buying bitcoin for the first time, start to finish. It walks the whole path once, and every step links out to the detail below if you get stuck on it.
The four main articles#
Eight stages in real order, with what each costs and what to do when it fails. Security comes before payment, deliberately.
The long one Open an account Opening a Binance account, field by fieldEvery input: where the referral field hides, why the code never arrives, what the ID check wants, how to fix each rejection message.
The only registration link on this site Funding Getting money in: which methods actually workThree routes compared, roughly what works in which country, how long each takes, and what to do when your bank blocks it.
The step most likely to stop you Avoid these What beginners get wrong most oftenTen items, each explained from why a sensible person makes it — interface defaults, social pressure, misread terms.
Read before it happensBefore you start: clearing up the misconceptions#
- Can I buy just 0.001 bitcoin?Fractions of a coinYes, and smaller. It divides to eight decimal places — the smallest unit is called a satoshi.
- What is the minimum I can spend?With the mathsAround ten dollars. But “possible” and “sensible” are different things, and fixed costs are the gap between them.
- Do I have to verify my identity?Honest answerOn a regulated platform, yes. Why it exists, what they ask for, and why the routes around it are worse.
Stuck at registration or verification#
- The verification code never arrivesStop pressing resendPressing it again genuinely makes it worse. Email and SMS have different causes — check them separately.
- Verification keeps getting rejectedBy error messageFive categories, each with its real cause and specific fix. Plus how to photograph a document so it passes first time.
- How to buy on a phonePhone onlyAll of it works on a phone. Including what to do about two-factor when the phone is your only device.
Stuck getting money in#
- Can you buy bitcoin with WeChat Pay or Alipay?Straight answerNot offered by regulated exchanges. Some P2P sellers take them, but the real risk is a frozen account, not a banned one.
- Buying with a bank cardStep by stepTwo different routes go by that name. Plus the six places a payment gets stopped, and what to do at each.
- What do the fees actually come to?Three layersThe most expensive layer usually is not called a fee. Plus the one comparison nobody can game.
Stuck at ordering, or afterwards#
- Market or limit order — which first?OrderingExplained from what the exchange actually does when you press buy. After that the choice answers itself.
- I bought, but I cannot find my coinsDo not panicSix possible causes. Start with the first two: hidden small balances and the wrong account.
- Can I undo a purchase?Honest answerA filled order cannot be reversed. What is actually recoverable, and the right order to handle a mistake in.
- Checking your crypto trade history and feesReconcilingWhich tab shows the price you paid and the fee taken, why one order can appear as four rows, and how to export older records.
- My limit order has not filledOpen ordersRead the status and filled quantity in Open Orders, see what has to line up before a limit order executes, and find the edit and cancel controls.
- Funding account vs spot accountTransfersWhich account the trading page spends from, what Binance’s move of Funding assets into Spot changes, and when a transfer still fixes a low balance.
Tools — check one thing and go#
- First-purchase roadmapChecklistSeventeen checkpoints you can tick off across several days. Progress is stored in your own browser.
- Fee-share calculatorEnter your own numbersSee what proportion of your money becomes fees, at any amount and any route.
- GlossarySearchableA hundred terms, all of them things you will actually see on screen. No community slang.
Everything listed above is complete and current. The Simplified Chinese edition goes further — twenty articles and five interactive tools, including a payment comparison filterable by region and an order-type decision helper. If you read Chinese, it is worth starting there.
Last updated: 25 August 2026. Every article carries its own last-updated date. Where a page and your screen disagree, trust your screen — and please tell us.