Learning Curriculum
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Bitcoin Associate
Lessons 1–20Money, monetary history, Bitcoin's origins, fixed supply, and why sound money matters.
What is Bitcoin?
The Genesis
Origins of Bitcoin
How Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin and published the whitepaper in 2008.
How Bitcoin Works
Understand the blockchain, mining, and the proof-of-work consensus mechanism.
Wallets & Private Keys
Learn how Bitcoin ownership works through cryptography and key management.
Bitcoin vs. Other Cryptocurrencies
Why Bitcoin is fundamentally different from the thousands of other digital assets.
What is Money?
History & Context
From Barter to Money
The evolution of trade from direct barter to commodity money and beyond.
The Properties of Good Money
The six key properties that make something suitable as money.
The Gold Standard & Its End
How governments abandoned hard money for fiat currency and the consequences.
Understanding Inflation
The hidden tax that erodes your savings and why it happens.
The Problem with Fiat
Why Modern Money Fails
Why All Fiat Currencies Fail
The historical pattern of currency collapse and why fiat is designed to lose value.
The Cantillon Effect in Detail
How money printing creates wealth inequality.
The Debt-Based Monetary System
Why modern economies are built on an unsustainable foundation of ever-growing debt.
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
The dystopian future of programmable money and financial surveillance.
Bitcoin's Monetary Policy
The Hardest Money
The 21 Million Cap
Why Bitcoin's absolute scarcity makes it unique among all assets.
The Bitcoin Halving
The four-year cycle that makes Bitcoin progressively scarcer.
Stock-to-Flow Model
Quantifying Bitcoin's scarcity and comparing it to gold and other assets.
Low Time Preference
How sound money encourages long-term thinking and civilization-building.
Why Adopt Bitcoin
The Imperative
Financial Sovereignty
Taking control of your own money and exiting the legacy system.
The Nation-State Strategy
Why countries are adopting Bitcoin and the geopolitical implications.
The Bitcoin Mindset
Thinking in decades, not days. Building a better future through sound money.
Your Bitcoin Adoption Roadmap
Practical steps to start your Bitcoin journey — including how to buy, sell, send, and receive bitcoin.
Bitcoin Professional
Lessons 21–40Blockchain internals, cryptography, running a node, mining economics, and Lightning fundamentals.
Blockchain Deep Dive
How the Ledger Really Works
Anatomy of a Block
What's inside a Bitcoin block — header, transactions, nonce, and the previous block link.
Merkle Trees & SPV
How Bitcoin proves a transaction is in a block without downloading the whole block.
The UTXO Model (Bitcoin's 'Coin Jar')
Why Bitcoin uses 'unspent outputs' instead of account balances.
The Mempool & Fee Markets
How transactions wait for confirmation and how fees get set.
Cryptography Foundations
Math That Secures Bitcoin
Hash Functions (SHA-256)
One-way functions, why they matter, and how Bitcoin uses them everywhere.
Digital Signatures
How private keys prove ownership without revealing themselves.
ECDSA & Schnorr: Two Flavours of Signatures
The two signature schemes Bitcoin supports and why Schnorr is a big upgrade.
Bitcoin Address Types Explained
Legacy, SegWit, and Taproot addresses — what changes and why it matters.
Running a Bitcoin Node
Don't Trust, Verify
Why Run a Node?
Nodes are the constitution of Bitcoin — they enforce the rules.
Hardware & Software Choices
Raspberry Pi, mini PC, or full server — and which node software to pick.
What Rules Your Node Actually Enforces
The rules your node checks on every block.
Node Privacy & Tor
Connecting your wallet to your own node over Tor for real privacy.
Mining & Energy Economics
Securing the Network
Mining as a Business
Revenue, costs, and margins of a Bitcoin mining operation.
From Laptops to ASICs: A Hardware Story
Why mining moved from laptops to specialised chips.
Bitcoin and the Energy Grid
Why miners are becoming a key part of modern power systems.
Mining Pools vs Going Solo
Why most miners join pools and how that's evolving.
Lightning Network Basics
Bitcoin Payments at Scale
Payment Channels: Lightning's Building Block
Two parties, one on-chain transaction, unlimited off-chain payments.
Routing: Paying People You Don't Have a Channel With
How a Lightning payment hops across multiple channels.
Invoices, Keysend & Lightning Addresses
How you actually pay and get paid on Lightning.
Self-Custodial vs Custodial Lightning Wallets
Phoenix, Breez, Wallet of Satoshi, and what you give up for convenience.
Bitcoin Expert
Lessons 41–60Advanced scripting, custody, privacy, Lightning at scale, and Bitcoin's macro-geopolitical thesis.
Advanced Bitcoin Scripting
Beyond Pay-to-Address
Bitcoin Script: A Tiny Language for Money
What Script can and intentionally cannot do.
Multisig: Sharing Control of Your Coins
M-of-N signing for individuals, businesses, and inheritance.
Taproot: Hiding Complexity in Plain Sight
How Taproot makes complex scripts look like simple ones.
Miniscript: Writing Wallet Rules Safely
A structured language on top of Script that prevents whole classes of bugs.
Bitcoin Wallets & Self-Custody
Owning Your Coins Safely
Hot Wallets vs Cold Wallets
The big picture: what kind of wallet to use for what — and how to move bitcoin from exchanges to your own custody.
Setting Up a 2-of-3 Multisig Vault
A practical blueprint for the gold standard of personal Bitcoin storage.
Seed Phrases, Backups & Inheritance
How to back up your keys, store them safely, and make sure loved ones can recover funds.
Operational Security: Staying Off the Target List
Habits that keep you from becoming an attacker's next victim.
Privacy & Fungibility
Defending the Open Ledger
How Chain Analysis Tries to Track You
The heuristics surveillance firms use to deanonymise Bitcoin users.
CoinJoin: Group Transactions for Privacy
Collaborative transactions that break the common-input heuristic.
PayJoin: Invisible Privacy in a Normal Payment
An ordinary-looking transaction that also breaks chain analysis.
Silent Payments: One Address, Unique Outputs
Reusable receive identifiers that don't reuse addresses on chain.
Lightning Advanced Topics
Running Lightning Seriously
Lightning Liquidity: Inbound vs Outbound
Inbound vs outbound capacity and how to keep both healthy.
Splicing & Taproot Channels (Lightning, Upgraded)
Resizing channels without closing them and the next generation of channel constructions.
LSPs: The Plumbers of Lightning
Liquidity Service Providers and the emerging market for channels.
The Lightning Economy: Streaming Sats & Bitcoin-Native Apps
Streaming sats, podcasting 2.0, and Bitcoin-native APIs.
Bitcoin Macro & Geopolitics
Bitcoin Among Nations
Why the Dollar System Is Cracking
Why the dollar reserve system is structurally unstable.
Central Banks (Quietly) Discovering Bitcoin
From hostility to accumulation — how official-sector attitudes are shifting.
Hyperbitcoinization: A Plausible Long Arc
What a transition to a Bitcoin standard would actually look like.
Bitcoin & Civilisation: Why Sound Money Matters
The civilisational case: why sound money matters beyond your portfolio.
