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Student Guide
Bitcoin Diploma
Financial Education for the Bitcoin Era
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Table of Contents
What's Inside4 modules60 sectionsPDFAudiobookSlidesPrint Book
- Welcome to the Bitcoin Diploma
- How the Bitcoin Diploma works
- 01Understanding Money13 sections
- 1.1 Opening questions about money
- 1.2 Why money exists
- 1.3 Functions and properties of money
- 1.4 Barter and the double coincidence of wants
- 1.5 Scarcity, value, and exchange
- 1.6 Beginner monetary history from barter to digital money
- 1.7 Fiat money
- 1.8 Fractional reserve banking
- 1.9 Inflation and purchasing power
- 1.10 Why the US dollar is a world reserve currency?
- 1.11 Alternatives for saving and holding value
- 1.12 Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
- 1.13 Review: How can money break?
- 02How Bitcoin Works18 sections
- 2.1 Why Bitcoin was created
- 2.2 The search for digital and decentralized money
- 2.3 Early digital-money attempts and the double-spend problem
- 2.4 Digital scarcity and independently verifiable supply
- 2.5 The Blockchain: Bitcoin’s Public Ledger
- 2.6 Decentralization
- 2.7 Digital signatures
- 2.8 Peer-to-peer transfer
- 2.9 Users, nodes, and miners
- 2.10 Proof of work
- 2.11 Finite supply
- 2.12 Satoshis and unit bias
- 2.13 Bitcoin as sound digital money
- 2.14 Bitcoin, stablecoins, and other crypto-assets
- 2.15 Learning and responsible use are not trading or promotion
- 2.16 Bitcoin origin timeline
- 2.17 Empowerment, risk, and responsibility
- 2.18 Review: How Does Bitcoin Address Monetary Flaws?
- 03Using Bitcoin Safely16 sections
- 3.1 Using Bitcoin Safely
- 3.2 Wallets
- 3.3 Addresses
- 3.4 Keys
- 3.5 Seed phrases
- 3.6 Custodial and non-custodial use
- 3.7 Hot and cold wallets
- 3.8 Wallet recovery and seed phrase testing
- 3.9 Receiving bitcoin
- 3.10 Sending bitcoin
- 3.11 Verification, block explorers, and irreversible transactions
- 3.12 Safety checklist
- 3.13 Acquiring and exchanging bitcoin
- 3.14 On-chain and Lightning payments
- 3.15 Practical competency check observed by an educator
- 3.16 Review: What does self-custody responsibility mean?
- 04Bitcoin in Your Community13 sections
- 4.1 Bitcoin in Your Community
- 4.2 Your local Module 4
- 4.3 Practical workshops and demonstrations
- 4.4 Local Bitcoin tools and resources
- 4.5 Lightning payments
- 4.6 Daily-life Bitcoin use
- 4.7 Local spending and receiving scenarios
- 4.8 Local on-ramp and off-ramp pathways
- 4.9 KYC and no-KYC trade-offs
- 4.10 Circular economies
- 4.11 Merchant or community use cases
- 4.12 Local resource maps and community discovery
- 4.13 Review: Connect this to your community
- Optional next steps