The Bitcoin Journey
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  • Why learn about Bitcoin?
    • Introduction
    • Table of contents
    • Changing nature of money
    • Role of money in protecting human rights
  • Trust problems with our money
    • Introduction
    • Banks: insolvencies, confiscation, and censorship
    • Central banks: money supply and currency debasement
    • A note on CBDCs
  • So, why do we need banks?
    • Introduction
    • Hard money and gold
    • Problems with gold and resulting centralization
    • Abandoning hard money
    • Digital money and eCommerce
    • Summary by Lyn Alden
  • What if?
    • Hayek on money the government can't stop
    • The first email
    • The first post
    • The Bitcoin whitepaper
  • How does Bitcoin work?
    • Introduction
    • Computers, code, and a ledger
    • Mining and proof-of-work
    • Where do bitcoins come from?
    • The superpowers of a Bitcoin user
  • What is Bitcoin?
    • Outro
  • Getting started with Bitcoin
    • Using Bitcoin
    • Working for Bitcoin
    • Learning more about Bitcoin
  • Contribute
  • Support me
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  1. Why learn about Bitcoin?

Table of contents

  1. Why learn about Bitcoin?

  2. Trust problems with our money

    • Banks: insolvencies, confiscation, and censorship

    • Central banks: money supply and currency debasement

    • A note on CBDCs

  3. So, why do we need banks?

    • Hard money and gold

    • Problems with gold and resulting centralization

    • Abandoning hard money

    • Digital money and eCommerce

  4. What if?

  5. How does Bitcoin work?

    • Computers, code, and a ledger

    • Mining and proof-of-work

    • Where do bitcoins come from?

    • The superpowers of a Bitcoin user

  6. What is Bitcoin?

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