Learn: Why Bitcoin?

Learn: How Bitcoin Works

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 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.

  • 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.