Learn: Why Bitcoin?
How Money and Banking Work, and Why They’re Broken Today (video): a great introductory video to understanding the problems that bitcoin solves.
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 removing 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 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.