Learn: Why Bitcoin? (start here)
Instead of watching that movie, TV show, or sports game tonight, begin watching these presentations, in order:
Bitcoin is not a Hedge by Parker Lewis
The Digital Gold Rush by Michael Saylor
There is No Second Best by Michael Saylor
21 Rules of Bitcoin by Michael Saylor
The Fundamental Value of Bitcoin by Tom Honzik (my pitch attempt from a while back)
Learn: How to Buy and Hold Bitcoin
River.com: The best place to begin buying bitcoin for the first time.
Strike.me: An alternative place to buy bitcoin that can also serve as a great way to transact with other people.
Unchained.com: The best place to get help securing bitcoin holdings without single points of failure, protecting you from both third-party custodians, as well as from yourself. Unchained allows you to buy bitcoin, but setting up the secure custody is a prerequisite. You can even upgrade an IRA or 401k to bitcoin here.
11 Imperatives to Defend your Bitcoin from Modern Scammers: After you get bitcoin, you need to understand how to keep it safe and not become the victim of a trick.
Learn: Why Bitcoin? (do the work, grow your conviction)
Nakamoto Institute Literature: Discover the building blocks that laid the groundwork for bitcoin.
Nakamoto Institute Memory Pool: The highest-signal articles about bitcoin over the years. In particular I recommend The Bullish Case for Bitcoin, and Why Bitcoin Will Continue to Grow.
The Saif House: An online shop which is a great place to buy the best bitcoin books, such as The Bitcoin Standard, Broken Money, and exclusively, Gradually then Suddenly.
Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?
Priced in Bitcoin: See the price of pretty much all assets, priced in bitcoin over time. For someone who saves in bitcoin, prices of other goods are plunging!
WTF Happened in 1971?: A website that shows a disturbing trend of deterioration in the world, and particularly the United States, coinciding with Nixon formally turning the U.S. dollar into fiat currency.
Learn: How Bitcoin Works
The Bitcoin Whitepaper: Where it all began.
Mastering Bitcoin: A book by Andreas Antonopoulos explaining how bitcoin operates technically, made available for free on GitHub.
The Unchained blog: A great place to find articles answering basic bitcoin questions.
LearnMeABitcoin: A website by Greg Walker that has helped me understand the details of how bitcoin works.
LearnMeABitcoin (Youtube Channel): A few video lessons with Greg talking through the nuts and bolts of bitcoin.
Learn: Navigating Bitcoin
BTCSessions (Youtube Channel): If you have your eye on software, hardware, or an app related to bitcoin, chances are Ben has a helpful tutorial on his channel.
Bitcoin Optech: A weekly newsletter describing the current technical and directional debates in the bitcoin community and other bitcoin news.
Metal Seed Storage Reviews: Jameson Lopp has stress-tested most metal seed products on the market.
Mempool.space: One of the most useful websites for visualizing the bitcoin protocol acting in real time; its API is also available for people running their own node.
Clark Moody Dashboard: A nice dashboard for up-to-date data related to bitcoin.
Timechain Calendar: Another nice dashboard for visualizing the current state of the bitcoin network.
Glassnode: Create a free or paid account for playing around with on-chain analysis.
checkonchain: A resource with many great charts to examine bitcoin trends and data.
Pay Me in Bitcoin Theory: An article by Parker Lewis explaining why a money must first be acknowledged as a reliable store of value over time prior to becoming widely used for payments.
Advanced Technical Tools
Transaction Size Calculator: Tool to learn how transaction sizes are calculated, and thus, transaction fees as well.
CPFP Calculator: I website I created to help calculate the fee rate for a CPFP transaction.
Deconstruct Transaction Hex: Learn how transactions work behind-the-scenes.
Coinb.in: Open source tool to create, verify, sign and broadcast raw transactions. Warning: unsafe for beginners.
Wallets Recovery: A list of derivation paths for recovering funds from different wallets.
IanColeman.io: A collection of useful tools to play with behind-the-scenes operations including BIP39 mnemonic code converter, and Shamir’s secret sharing. Warning: do not use for keys securing funds.
Address Calculator: Several tools to demonstrate how to start at private keys and end at addresses. Warning: do not enter private keys that are securing funds.
PSBT Explorer: Decode raw PSBT data.
OP_RETURN Bot: Easy way to create a permanent message in the bitcoin blockchain.
Txstats: A collection of interesting dashboards showing popularity of address types, etc.