Bitcoin Resources

If you’d like to get started with Bitcoin, here are resources I recommend.

Don’t trust, verify. Do your own research.

Big Picture

“It’s an escape hatch from tyranny,” writes the Human Rights Foundation’s Alex Gladstein. “It’s nothing less than freedom money.”

Books

• 21 Lessons—to develop a basic understanding of the key concepts in under two hours
• The Bitcoin Standard—when you’re ready to dig deeper
• Inventing Bitcoin (free with this link)—on the technology underpinning Bitcoin

Podcasts

• Swan Signal
• What Bitcoin Did
• Closing the Loop

News

• No Bullshit Bitcoin
• My Bitcoin Twitter list

Bitcoin News

People, projects, and companies building on Bitcoin. Carefully curated. Delivered daily.

Buying Bitcoin

The best way to learn is to have skin in the game. That means owning bitcoin. I buy through Swan Bitcoin. Use this link to get $10 of BTC deposited into your account.