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The Learning Path
Quick Start + 6 modules · 68 videos · pick up where you left off
Quick Start
Start here: Quick Answers
Short answers to the first questions everyone asks about Bitcoin. Watch one, or watch them all — each ends with a path into the full story.
What Is Money?
Start here if you're new
Understand what money actually is, what makes it good or bad, how it evolved from shells to gold to fiat, why inflation is silently destroying the middle class — and why you're not too late to Bitcoin.
What's Wrong With Our Money?
The structural problems with fiat
Go deeper into why fiat money is broken — savings erosion, hidden inflation, asset bubbles, wage stagnation, the debt spiral, and how money printing funds things you never voted for.
What Is Bitcoin?
The answer to the question
Bitcoin introduced — what it is, how it works, the 21 million limit, mining, decentralization, whether it can be stopped, and why it's in a league of its own.
Why Does Bitcoin Have Value?
The value thesis
Why is Bitcoin worth anything? Network effects, scarcity, the gold comparison, digital gold, and why volatility is expected — not a flaw.
Common Objections
Send this to your skeptical friend
Every objection you've heard about Bitcoin — energy, criminals, volatility, government bans, Ponzi claims, CBDCs, quantum computers — addressed honestly and factually.
Going Deeper
Your toolkit for what's next
Self-custody, common mistakes, the Lightning Network, dollar cost averaging, talking to your family, Bitcoin and freedom, the books to read next, and finding the Bitcoin community.
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