Learning Curriculum

How Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin and published the whitepaper in 2008.

Understand the blockchain, mining, and the proof-of-work consensus mechanism.

Learn how Bitcoin ownership works through cryptography and key management.

Why Bitcoin is fundamentally different from the thousands of other digital assets.

The evolution of trade from direct barter to commodity money and beyond.

The six key properties that make something suitable as money.

How governments abandoned hard money for fiat currency and the consequences.

The hidden tax that erodes your savings and why it happens.

The historical pattern of currency collapse and why fiat is designed to lose value.

How money printing creates wealth inequality.

Why modern economies are built on an unsustainable foundation of ever-growing debt.

The dystopian future of programmable money and financial surveillance.

Why Bitcoin's absolute scarcity makes it unique among all assets.

The four-year cycle that makes Bitcoin progressively scarcer.

Quantifying Bitcoin's scarcity and comparing it to gold and other assets.

How sound money encourages long-term thinking and civilization-building.

Taking control of your own money and exiting the legacy system.

Why countries are adopting Bitcoin and the geopolitical implications.

Thinking in decades, not days. Building a better future through sound money.

Practical steps to start your Bitcoin journey — including how to buy, sell, send, and receive bitcoin.

What's inside a Bitcoin block — header, transactions, nonce, and the previous block link.

How Bitcoin proves a transaction is in a block without downloading the whole block.

Why Bitcoin uses 'unspent outputs' instead of account balances.

How transactions wait for confirmation and how fees get set.

One-way functions, why they matter, and how Bitcoin uses them everywhere.

How private keys prove ownership without revealing themselves.

The two signature schemes Bitcoin supports and why Schnorr is a big upgrade.

Legacy, SegWit, and Taproot addresses — what changes and why it matters.

Nodes are the constitution of Bitcoin — they enforce the rules.

Raspberry Pi, mini PC, or full server — and which node software to pick.

The rules your node checks on every block.

Connecting your wallet to your own node over Tor for real privacy.

Revenue, costs, and margins of a Bitcoin mining operation.

Why mining moved from laptops to specialised chips.

Why miners are becoming a key part of modern power systems.

Why most miners join pools and how that's evolving.

Two parties, one on-chain transaction, unlimited off-chain payments.

How a Lightning payment hops across multiple channels.

How you actually pay and get paid on Lightning.

Phoenix, Breez, Wallet of Satoshi, and what you give up for convenience.

What Script can and intentionally cannot do.

M-of-N signing for individuals, businesses, and inheritance.

How Taproot makes complex scripts look like simple ones.

A structured language on top of Script that prevents whole classes of bugs.

The big picture: what kind of wallet to use for what — and how to move bitcoin from exchanges to your own custody.

A practical blueprint for the gold standard of personal Bitcoin storage.

How to back up your keys, store them safely, and make sure loved ones can recover funds.

Habits that keep you from becoming an attacker's next victim.

The heuristics surveillance firms use to deanonymise Bitcoin users.

Collaborative transactions that break the common-input heuristic.

An ordinary-looking transaction that also breaks chain analysis.

Reusable receive identifiers that don't reuse addresses on chain.

Inbound vs outbound capacity and how to keep both healthy.

Resizing channels without closing them and the next generation of channel constructions.

Liquidity Service Providers and the emerging market for channels.

Streaming sats, podcasting 2.0, and Bitcoin-native APIs.

Why the dollar reserve system is structurally unstable.

From hostility to accumulation — how official-sector attitudes are shifting.

What a transition to a Bitcoin standard would actually look like.

The civilisational case: why sound money matters beyond your portfolio.