Explaining Bitcoin to Newbies, Nocoiners and Normies

Scroll to the bottom for lots of useful links.


Let’s start here, watch this video first 👇 (We know it’s about 4 hours long but you’ll need to know how finance works to understand Bitcoin)


Then these 2 👇

Now watch these 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0XxsabgJEI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKcHZ45y_k

  After watching the above videos, you should now have a basic understanding of Bitcoin
👍 Well Done.


Resource Center 👇

Whitepaper
Bitcoin Whitepaper

Education
James DeAngelo – Bitcoin 101 Blackboard Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Blockchain Courses
Princeton University – Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
Khan Academy – Bitcoin
Udemy – Bitcoin or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Crypto
Coursera – Cryptocurrency
University of Nicosia – Introduction to Digital Currencies
10 Hours of Bitcoin
Crypto Dictionary
Bitcoin Designed
Bitcoin Studio Slides
Bitcoin Designed
Teachbitcoin – Protocol Training for Developers
Binance Academy – The World of Blockchain
21 Lessons – Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole

Block Explorers
Blockchain
Blockchair
Coin Dance
Blockcypher
Bitaps
Wallet Explorer
1ml
oxt
Symphony

Visualizers
Bitlisten
Bionictrader
BTCwars
TxStreet

Price
Bittybot
Moon Math
BTC in Grams of Gold
WBN Bitcoin Price model
Coinmarketcap
TradeBlock

Converters
Preev
99bitcoins

Storage Protocols
Glacier Protocol
Cerberus Protocol

Development
Bitcoin.org
Bitcoin Improvement Proposals

Cold Wallets
Trezor
Ledger
Opendime
Cold Card

Cold Storage
Armory
Billfodl
Cryptotag
Bitstashers

Hot Wallets
Bitcoin Core
Samourai
Electrum
Wasabi
Jaxx Liberty
Blockchain
Mycelium
Blockstream Green
Green Address
ABCore
BRD
Muun
Edge
Dropbit
Coinb.in
Risewallet
Satoshi Wallet
Hodlwallet
Risewallet
Cash App
BitPay
Coinomi
Freewallet
Do Wallet
Luno
Quppy
Ripio
Xapo

Paper Wallets
Segwitaddress

Wallet Recovery
Walletsrecovery

Conferences
Coinfest UK, Manchester, UK
Blockchain Hotel Conference, Essen, Germany
UnChain, Berlin, Germany
Baltic Honeybadger, Riga, Latvia
Hackers Congress ParalelnĂ­ Polis, Prague, Czech Republic
Transylvania Crypto Conference, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Labitconf, South America

Portfolio Trackers
Blockfolio
Delta
Tab trader
Bitworth

Calendar and Important Dates
3rd January 2009: Bitcoin source code was released
3rd January : Proof of Keys
22rd May: Bitcoin Pizza Day
18 August 2008: The domain name bitcoin.org was registered
31 October 2008: Bitcoin Whitepaper was released

Exchanges
Abra
Binance
Bitbox
Bitfinex
Bitflyer
Bitonic
Bitpanda
Bitstamp
Bittrex
Bittylicious
Bitwala
CEX
Coinbase Pro
Coinfloor
Currency
Huobi
Itbit
Kraken
Kucoin
Paxful
Poloniex
Shapeshift
Upbit

Trading Platforms
Quadency
Crypto Facilities

Crypto Twitter
Hive.one

Analysis
Fiat Leak
locks.wizb.it Global view
Plan B
The Tie
Woobull Charts
Skew Bitcoin Futures
Mayer Multiple
Bitcoin Difficulty Estimator
Blockchain Stats
Bitcoin Visuals
Coin Dance
Glassnode Studio
Network Stats
p2sh.info
utxo-stats
Yogh
Outputs.today
Bitinfocharts
Bitcoincharts
Bitcoinops
Bitcoinity
Datamish
Look into bitcoin charts
Fee calculator
Johoe’s Bitcoin Mempool Statistics
Liquid issued assets
Liquid Horse
Luke Jr’s Bitcoin Node Script
sha256.network
statoshi.info
BitVol
Digitalik Bitcoin stock to flow model live chart
Bitcoin Rain
Clark Moody Bitcoin
bitcoinkpis.com
Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
aggr.trade
sk3w bitcoin futures
sk3w bitcoin options
Coin Trader Chart Viewer
The McAfee Bet
FTX Global Volume Monitor
Fear and greed index
Bitcoin stock to flow model live chart
Google Trends : Search Term “Bitcoin”
Sat-Cent Parity
Sat-Cent Parity
World Debt Clock
Bitcoin Treasuries

Tools
Learn me a bitcoin
Bitcoin Fees
How Many Confs
Bitcoin Savings Calculator
Mnemonic Code Converter
Mule Tools

Transaction Accelerator
Bitaccelerate
Viabtc TxAccelerator

Block Reward Halving
Bitcoin Block Half
The Halvening
Bitcoin Clock

Forums
Bitcointalk
Reddit Bitcoin
Reddit BitcoinBeginners

Podcasts and Blogs
World Crypto Network
a16z
What Bitcoin Did
Adaptive Capital Publications and Talks
Off The Chain
Ivan on Tech
Crypt0
Unchained
Stephen Livera
Into The Ether
Chain Reaction
Epicenter
Decentralise This!
CNN
Tales from the crypt
Crypto Street
Let’s Talk Bitcoin
Zero Knowledge
Bitcoin & Markets
Block Digest
Bottomshelf Bitcoin
Pierre Rochard
Bitcoin Knowledge
Coin Pod
Bitcoin Uncensored
Juan Galt
Kenn Bosak
Georges Landry
NeoCash Media
HungryHodler

Trading Analysis
Crypto Crew University
Tone Vays

Blogs
Adam Fiscor
Aleksander Svetski
Bitcoin Tech Talk
Bitcoin Tech Weekly
BitFury Research
BitMEX Research
Sergio Demian Lerner
Chris Burniske
Nick Tomaino
Dan Hedl
Eric Lombrozo
Ian Grigg
Freedom to Tinker
Gavin Andresen
Emin GĂĽn Sirer
Hugo Nguyen
Jimmy Song
JP Koning
Matt Corallo
The Memory Pool
Erik Voorhees
Nic Carter
Nicolas Dorier
Oleg Andreev
Peter Todd
Richard Gendal Brown
Spencer Bogart
Paul Sztorc
Tuur Demeester
Uncommon Core
Nick Szabo
Willy Woo
Wladimir van der Laan

Articles of Note
Speculative Bitcoin Adoption/Price Theory, Michael B. Casey
Bitcoin: an Accounting Revolution, Decentralized Credit
The Bullish Case for Bitcoin, Vijay Boyapati
The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain, Eric Budish‡
Bitcoin’s Security is Fine, Dan Held
Bitcoin bites the bullet, Nic Carter

ATMs
Coin ATM Radar
General Bytes
Lamassu

Payment Cards
Wirex
Tap Global
Fold
Crypto.com

Full Nodes
Running A Full Node
Bitcoin Full Node on RBP3
Bitnodes
Nodl
Casa
Dojo
Raspibolt, Raspiblitz
MyNode btc
Node Launcher
Umbrel

Mining Pools
BTC.com
Antpool
Slushpool
F2pool
Viabtc
BTC.top
Dpool
Bitfury
58coin

Books
Mastering Bitcoin
Bitcoiner Books


Sidechains
Rootstock
Blockstream Elements
Commerce Block
Liquid

Regulation
Legality by Country
Coin Center
Cointelegraph Regulation News
Regulation of Cryptocurrency Around the World
Global Bitcoin Regulations
Empowered Law
Mishcon de Reya Cryptocurrency Case Tracker
MoCo Cryptocurrency Litigation Tracker
Stanford Journal of Blockchain Law & Policy
Perkins Coie Virtual Currency Report
Carlton Fields Reports

Communication
TxTenna
Locha Mesh
Global Mesh Labs

Security
CryptoscamDB
No More Ransom

Art and Collectibles
Cryptograffiti
Moonbits
Physibit
Lynx Art Collection
Ludvigart
Casascius Tracker
Casascius Analyzer
Casascius eBook
Fraktality
Satori
Infinity Tagger
Cryptoart
Voltage Goat Neon

Tax
BittyTax
Recap

Terms
Lindy Effect
Cantillon Effect

Social
Tippin.me
Bottlepay

Out of this World
Blockstream Satellite
Myriota
Bitcoin Astronomy

Hat tips to..
Jameson Lopp
Bitcoin Resources
Lightning Resources

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If you have any recommendations or see any broken links please mail [email protected]

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