Now I write the plain‑English explanations I wish I'd had. No hype. No price predictions.
Get the free Security TemplateRead by 8,330 Bitcoin learners on YouTube. Five years a skeptic before that.
I spent five years telling anyone who'd listen that Bitcoin was a scam. Tulip mania. For libertarians and drug dealers. Smart people I trusted said the same thing.
Then lockdown hit in 2020 and handed me time I'd never had. The question I couldn't duck any longer: had I ever actually read a word about it? I hadn't. So I started reading. The hole I was looking for never showed up. This is what I found.
Most people lose money on Bitcoin before they ever own any. Scams. Exchanges. Themselves. These two tools are what I wish I'd had when I started.
The 17-point checklist I use myself. How to think about seed phrases without losing sleep. Why most "secure" advice quietly assumes you'll be lucky.
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Jeff Booth's argument in The Price of Tomorrow. Five properties any real money needs. They spell DOPES.
No one can change the rules.
Anyone can use it.
Only one can exist.
Tied to reality.
Sixteen years, no successful attack.
If all five are true, how is that not a free market? Here's the long answer.
Two hours. One claim. Every counter-argument I could find.
I turn down most sponsorship offers. Casa, because I wouldn't honestly recommend it. Vault Co., because there's no independent security audit and no Mac support. What's left on this page is what came out best after trying a lot of the alternatives.
One-to-one help setting up self-custody, nodes and hardware without losing your seed phrase down the back of the sofa. For people who'd rather pay someone to walk them through it the first time.
A node in a box. Bitcoin node, Lightning node, password manager, photo backup, all running on hardware you own instead of somebody else's. Not cheap. Worth it.
The one I'd put a beginner on. Open source, properly air-gapped, and no Bluetooth pretending to be a feature. It talks to your computer by scanning QR codes and nothing else, which is the whole reason it is safe. In Europe buy from Bitcoin Brabant; in the US and Canada, Solo Satoshi assemble them in Texas.
A stamping kit that punches all 24 of your recovery words onto a steel or titanium washer. Fireproof, waterproof, and it looks like something off the bottom of a toolbox rather than a backup worth stealing. Paper burns. This is the version that outlives you.
Two short field guides. How to buy without handing over your passport for £20 of Bitcoin. Which Lightning wallets I actually recommend (and the two I quietly stopped using). Sent in the welcome email.
Some of these are affiliate links. I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Nothing gets on this list for paying well. Everything here beat the alternatives I tried it against, and I will say so plainly when I think something is the wrong fit for you. The full disclosure is at the bottom of every page.
Same voice. Same skeptic-turned-believer arc. Different format. Start here if you'd rather watch than read.
Nine of my explainer videos cut into one long-form proof. DOPES, the free-market thesis, Steve and his Bitcoin-heated house, the village in Kenya getting electricity from a hydro miner. The "I tried to prove this wrong" version of the whole pitch.
A sovereign government quietly mining its way out of the IMF system. Pakistan went public. India's scaling up. Most people missed it.
Watch →Hit 11.3% click-through. The single mental model that unlocks the rest. Once you see it, the price chart starts looking like a measurement, not a guess.
Watch →Not the maths you've been told to memorise. The reason a sixteen-year-old system has never had a successful attack on the protocol itself.
Watch →Start free. Stay free as long as you like. If you want to go deeper there's a path. Pay less if you've actually got the thing the course is about.
The 17-point security checklist. The one thing I wish I'd had on day one.
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Everything from the channel, written down properly. The whole skeptic-to-believer arc in one PDF you can actually finish.
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Two hours of video. Zero waffle. The shortest path from "I'm not sure" to fully self-sovereign that I could write down.
A handful of hours with me directly. For people who'd rather pay to skip the four-hundred-page reading list.
One promise: you get 60 days on any paid tier. Not happy, for any reason? Email me and I'll refund you, no questions asked. I've never had to. The offer is there for the same reason the channel exists. This isn't supposed to feel like being sold to.
In closing
I called this stuff a scam for half a decade. Read the template. Watch the two-hour video. Read the chapter on energy. Then come back and tell me where the maths goes wrong. If you find a hole I genuinely missed, I'll buy you dinner.