Learn
From curious to sovereign, in order
1. Start Here
Bitcoin 101
A Canadian guide to the future of money: what money actually is, why ours keeps losing value, how Bitcoin fixes digital scarcity, and why any of it matters. Everything else on this page builds on this.
Start reading →2. Use It
Using Bitcoin as Money
Bitcoin is for spending and earning, not just holding. Sending, receiving, fees, confirmations, and the Lightning Network, plus Value-for-Value: supporting creators directly with sats.
Read the guide →#40HPW: Listen and Boost
Value-for-Value podcasts about Bitcoin, community, and building in the First Turning. Pick a show, load a Lightning wallet, and send your first sats to someone who earned them.
Browse the shows →3. Own It: Wallet Guides
Choosing a Wallet
The overview: what a wallet really is, custodial vs. self-custody, hot vs. cold, why Bitcoin-only, and our picks for phone, desktop, and cold storage, including SeedSigner, Krux, and Specter DIY. Start free and build security in step with your skills.
Read the guide →Zeus
Your first sats, five minutes from now: the Bitcoin-only Lightning wallet that grows from pocket change into a node of your own.
Read the guide →Sparrow Wallet
The desktop command centre: privacy, coin control, and your own node.
Read the guide →Krux
Open firmware that turns a cheap gadget into an air-gapped signer, Miniscript included.
Read the guide →4. Go Deeper: Technical Resources
The Technical Library
Twenty guides across six categories: Bitcoin Fundamentals, Security & Keys, Privacy, Hardware & Firmware, Nodes, and Bonus Projects. Plus the Bitcoin whitepaper itself.
Browse the library →5. Read
Money Education
A free PDF library of Austrian economics and sound money: Mises, Rothbard, Hazlitt, Hülsmann, and more. The economic foundations underneath everything above.
Browse the books →The Long View Series
Six essays on freedom and the systems that shape us: money that quietly loses value, education that frames what we ask, the pull of the crowd, and what Bitcoin changes about all three.
Read the series →Owen's First Year
One newcomer's first year with Bitcoin: what made him look twice, what he learned, and why he started keeping part of his savings in rules instead of promises.
Read the post →You do not have to learn alone. Bring any step of this path to a meetup and work through it with people who have done it. Then take what you learned and build something with it.