Bitcoin
Everything so far, assembled: the properties of gold, rebuilt for a digital age — with no one in charge.
- 1 The digital revolution Everything got digitized — except, for decades, money.
- 2 The cypherpunks The activists who tried to build digital cash for 20 years.
- 3 Satoshi Nakamoto An anonymous whitepaper, and a creator who vanished.
- 4 The genesis block The newspaper headline that proved a fair launch.
- 5 Digital gold Gold’s scarcity, silver’s divisibility, at internet speed.
- 6 Who do you trust? Consensus with no central authority: trust no one, verify everything.
- 7 Proof of Work Making lying cost more than it could ever earn.
- 8 Mining The global race that writes the ledger and mints new coins.
- 9 Issuance & the 21 million cap The halving schedule — hard money on a fixed timetable.
- 10 Energy money Turning real-world energy into unforgeable digital scarcity.
- 11 Entropy & the power of large numbers Why 2²⁵⁶ keeps your coins safe forever.
- 12 The blockchain Interactive BitTorrent, but the shared file is a tamper-evident ledger — see it live.
- 13 What Bitcoin is Decentralized, transparent, auditable, cryptographically secure.
- 14 Bitcoin vs other assets Pros and cons against gold, fiat, stocks and property.
- 15 Wallets, keys & addresses Seeds, addresses, hot/cold/paper/hardware wallets, multisig.
- 16 Digital hygiene & security Keep your keys safe: the habits that protect self-custody.