# The Bitcoin Journey ## The Bitcoin Journey - [Introduction](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/why-learn-about-bitcoin/readme.md) - [Table of contents](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/why-learn-about-bitcoin/table-of-contents.md) - [Changing nature of money](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/why-learn-about-bitcoin/changing-nature-of-money.md) - [Role of money in protecting human rights](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/why-learn-about-bitcoin/role-of-money-in-protecting-human-rights.md) - [Introduction](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/introduction.md) - [Banks: insolvencies, confiscation, and censorship](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship.md) - [Gunman takes hostages at Beirut bank](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/gunman-takes-hostages-at-beirut-bank.md) - [Nigerian aid group finds sovereign lifeline in Bitcoin](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/nigerian-aid-group-finds-sovereign-lifeline-in-bitcoin.md) - [Nigeria's central bank freezes accounts of police brutality protesters](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/nigerias-central-bank-freezes-accounts-of-police-brutality-protesters.md) - [Chinese depositors left in dark as three local banks freeze deposits](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/chinese-depositors-left-in-dark-as-three-local-banks-freeze-deposits.md) - [Freezing of bank account to shut down pro-democracy outlet](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/freezing-of-bank-account-to-shut-down-pro-democracy-outlet.md) - [Hong Kong bank account freezes rekindle asset safety fears](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/hong-kong-bank-account-freezes-rekindle-asset-safety-fears.md) - [Belarus tells banks to seize money raised to help out protesters](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/belarus-tells-banks-to-seize-money-raised-to-help-out-protesters.md) - [Banks have started to freeze accounts linked to Ottawa protests](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/banks-have-started-to-freeze-accounts-linked-to-ottawa-protests.md) - [Whose bank accounts can be frozen through the Emergencies Act?](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/whose-bank-accounts-can-be-frozen-through-the-emergencies-act.md) - [Kremlin critic Navalny's bank accounts frozen](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/kremlin-critic-navalnys-bank-accounts-frozen.md) - [Long lines at Myanmar banks after coup](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/long-lines-at-myanmar-banks-after-coup.md) - [The Cyprus banking crisis and its aftermath](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/the-cyprus-banking-crisis-and-its-aftermath.md) - [Bailout blackmail claims Cyprus president](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/bailout-blackmail-claims-cyprus-president.md) - [Afghan central bank says U.S. plan for frozen funds an 'injustice'](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/afghan-central-bank-says-u.s.-plan-for-frozen-funds-an-injustice.md) - [Afghanistan sanctions from a first-person view](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/banks-insolvencies-confiscation-and-censorship/afghanistan-sanctions-from-a-first-person-view.md) - [Central banks: money supply and currency debasement](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement.md) - [Inflation by Wikipedia](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/inflation-by-wikipedia.md) - [Monetary inflation across the world](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/monetary-inflation-across-the-world.md) - [Inflation affecting Argentinian citizens](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/inflation-affecting-argentinian-citizens.md) - [Inflation affecting Turkish citizens](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/inflation-affecting-turkish-citizens.md) - [Egypt devaluates currency by 48%](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/egypt-devaluates-currency-by-48.md) - [Bitcoin has saved my family](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/bitcoin-has-saved-my-family.md) - [Problems with the CFA](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/problems-with-the-cfa.md) - [Role of money in protecting human rights](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/role-of-money-in-protecting-human-rights.md) - [Hanke's inflation rates](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/hankes-inflation-rates.md) - [Milton Friedman on inflation](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/milton-friedman-on-inflation.md) - [Inflating away sovereign debt in developed countries](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/inflating-away-sovereign-debt-in-developed-countries.md) - [How inflation is disproportionally affecting the poor](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/how-inflation-is-disproportionally-affecting-the-poor.md) - [Financialization of an economy](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/central-banks-money-supply-and-currency-debasement/financialization-of-an-economy.md) - [A note on CBDCs](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/a-note-on-cbdcs.md) - [Impact of CBDCs different across the world](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/trust-problems-with-our-money/a-note-on-cbdcs/impact-of-cbdcs-different-across-the-world.md) - [Introduction](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/introduction.md) - [Hard money and gold](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/hard-money-and-gold.md) - [Money and hardness](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/hard-money-and-gold/robert-breedlove-pt1.md) - [Gold as the hardest money (p1)](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/hard-money-and-gold/saifedean-ammous.md) - [Gold as the hardest money (pt2)](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/hard-money-and-gold/lyn-alden.md) - [Hard money survives](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/hard-money-and-gold/robert-breedlove-pt2.md) - [Problems with gold and resulting centralization](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/problems-with-gold-and-resulting-centralization.md) - [On centralization of gold](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/problems-with-gold-and-resulting-centralization/on-centralization-of-gold.md) - [Layered money speeding up commerce](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/problems-with-gold-and-resulting-centralization/layered-money-speeding-up-commerce.md) - [Global gold standard](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/problems-with-gold-and-resulting-centralization/global-gold-standard.md) - [The order of technology leading to centralization](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/problems-with-gold-and-resulting-centralization/the-order-of-technology-leading-in-centralization.md) - [Nations inflating their debt away](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/problems-with-gold-and-resulting-centralization/nations-inflating-their-debt-away.md) - [Abandoning hard money](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/abandoning-hard-money.md) - [Abandoning the gold standard](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/abandoning-hard-money/abandoning-the-gold-standard.md) - [Abandoning the gold standard (pt2)](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/abandoning-hard-money/abandoning-the-gold-standard-pt2.md) - [Breaking the gold standard completely in 1971 pt1](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/abandoning-hard-money/breaking-the-gold-standard-completely-in-1971-pt1.md) - [Breaking the gold standard completely in 1971 pt2](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/abandoning-hard-money/breaking-the-gold-standard-completely-in-1971-pt2.md) - [WTF happened in 1971?!](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/abandoning-hard-money/wtf-happened-in-1971.md) - [Digital money and eCommerce](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/digital-money-and-ecommerce.md) - [Summary by Lyn Alden](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/so-why-do-we-need-banks/summary-by-lyn-alden.md) - [Hayek on money the government can't stop](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/what-if/hayek-on-money-the-government-cant-stop.md) - [The first email](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/what-if/the-first-email.md) - [The first post](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/what-if/the-first-post.md) - [The Bitcoin whitepaper](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/what-if/the-bitcoin-whitepaper.md) - [Introduction](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/introduction.md) - [Computers, code, and a ledger](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/computers-code-and-a-ledger.md) - [Role of nodes](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/computers-code-and-a-ledger/role-of-nodes.md) - [Full nodes](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/computers-code-and-a-ledger/full-nodes.md) - [Mining and proof-of-work](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/what-is-happening.md) - [Reaching decentralized consensus](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/what-is-happening/reaching-decentralized-consensus.md) - [Reaching decentralized consensus (pt2)](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/what-is-happening/reaching-decentralized-consensus-pt2.md) - [Dealing with conflicts](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/what-is-happening/dealing-with-conflicts.md) - [Where do bitcoins come from?](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/where-do-bitcoins-come-from.md) - [Bitcoin's money supply](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/where-do-bitcoins-come-from/bitcoins-money-supply.md) - [Difficulty adjustment](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/where-do-bitcoins-come-from/difficulty-adjustment.md) - [The superpowers of a Bitcoin user](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/the-superpowers-of-a-bitcoin-user.md) - [Public addresses and private keys](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/the-superpowers-of-a-bitcoin-user/public-addresses-and-private-keys.md) - [Signing transactions](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/the-superpowers-of-a-bitcoin-user/signing-transactions.md) - [Wallets and mnemonic phases](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/how-does-bitcoin-work/the-superpowers-of-a-bitcoin-user/wallets-and-mnemonic-phases.md) - [Outro](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/what-is-bitcoin/outro.md) - [Using Bitcoin](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/getting-started-with-bitcoin/using-bitcoin.md) - [Obtaining bitcoin](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/getting-started-with-bitcoin/using-bitcoin/obtaining-bitcoin.md) - [Storing bitcoin](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/getting-started-with-bitcoin/using-bitcoin/storing-bitcoin.md) - [Paying with bitcoin](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/getting-started-with-bitcoin/using-bitcoin/paying-with-bitcoin.md) - [Working for Bitcoin](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/getting-started-with-bitcoin/working-for-bitcoin.md) - [Learning more about Bitcoin](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/getting-started-with-bitcoin/learning-more-about-bitcoin.md) - [Contribute](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/contribute.md) - [Support me](https://btcjourney.gitbook.io/start/support-me.md)