Bitcoin Essentials
The complete Bitcoin standard course. Nine modules that take you from first principles — what money is and why fiat fails — through acquiring, securing, and spending bitcoin, to tax, privacy, inheritance, and living on a Bitcoin standard. No prior knowledge required. No price talk. Free.
Modules
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Sound Money Foundations
What money is, which properties make it sound, how inflation actually works, and why Bitcoin is the first money in history that satisfies every requirement without a trusted authority.
7 min read
- 02→
Acquiring and Securing Bitcoin
The three ways to acquire bitcoin — buy, earn, or trade peer-to-peer — and the custody practices that make it actually yours: wallets, seed phrases, and the rules that prevent loss.
5 min read
- 03→
Using Bitcoin in Everyday Life
Spending bitcoin at real businesses, the Lightning Network for instant low-fee payments, paying bills in sats, and the practical strategy for moving your financial life onto a Bitcoin standard.
4 min read
- 04→
Tax, Regulation, and Financial Independence
How jurisdictions classify bitcoin, which events are typically taxable, the lawful strategies that reduce friction — long holds, jurisdiction choice, borrowing against bitcoin — and how to operate with confidence.
5 min read
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Privacy and Censorship Resistance
Bitcoin is pseudonymous, not anonymous. What the public ledger reveals, how identity gets linked to coins, and the lawful habits — address hygiene, Lightning, self-custody — that keep your finances your own.
4 min read
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Inheritance Planning and Wealth Protection
Bitcoin has no account recovery and no probate department. How to build an inheritance plan that keeps your keys secure while you live and accessible to your heirs when you're gone.
4 min read
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Bitcoin as a Long-Term Store of Value
What a store of value must do, how bitcoin compares with gold, property, equities, and fiat on each requirement, and the discipline — cold storage, DCA, thinking in sats — that makes decades-long holding work.
3 min read
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Circular Economies and Earning in Bitcoin
The bitcoin circular economy: earning in sats, running a business on bitcoin rails, spending without touching fiat, and the communities — from El Zonte to Lugano — proving it works today.
3 min read
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Hyperbitcoinisation: Where This Goes
The end state the transition points toward: bitcoin as the global monetary standard. The four stages of monetisation, the forces accelerating it, and how to position yourself before the crowd arrives.
4 min read