Beginner Resources to Get Started with Bitcoin

What is Bitcoin?

The White Paper: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System (annotated version without the technical jargon)

Bitcoin Explained:

1. Illustrated guide in simple terms
2. How Bitcoin works 5 minute video (non technical)
3. Bitcoin 101 (30 minute video)

Going Down the Rabbit Hole (and then even further down…)

Why Bitcoin?

Book: The Bitcoin Standard by Dr. Saifedean Ammous

Article: The Bullish Case for Bitcoin

Podcast: The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency (Nick Szabo)

YouTube: Andreas Antonopoulos

Courses:

• 24 Lecture Series by MIT professor and SEC Chairman, Gary Gensler
• Bitcoin for Everyone

How to Buy

How to Buy Bitcoin: 2-minute tutorial

• Getting Started: Example #1 via an Exchange
  • Open an Account with an exchange (like Coinbase)
  • Authenticate / Link Bank
  • Use Fiat to buy Bitcoin
    • Automatically stores in online coinbase wallet
    • Can then send to a hardware wallet for enhanced security
      • Example: Ledger Nano
• Getting Started: Example #2 via an “Intermediate”
  • Simply download / register with CashApp or Robinhood
  • Then buy directly from the app

Bitcoin for Corporations: Microstrategy Playbook

Technical Analysis

• Stock-to-Flow (chart)
• Stock-to-Flow Cross Asset Model (chart)
• KS Model

Twitter

• PlanBTC
• Willy Woo
• Rational Root
• Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano
• Michael Saylor
• Vijay Boyapati
• and many more

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