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2025-04-12 14:29:49Directory
📖 Day 1 - In the Beginning, an Idea...\ 📖 Day 2 - When Money Dies\ 📖 Day 3 - One Coin to Rule them All\ 📖 Day 4 - Transacting Adversarially pt. 1\ 📖 Day 5 - Transacting Adversarially pt. 2\ 📖 Day 6 - Not your Keys not your Coin\ 📖 Day 7 - The Seventh Day
Foreword
This is more than a curated list of articles.
This is more than a guide.
It is not a how-to or tutorial.
This is the first unschooled course syllabus and it is based entirely on the peer-reviewed work published by Stackers.
In undertaking such work as building a beginners course in bitcoin, one might stop and appreciate the plethora of other Bitcoin courses that live in the blogs of various company sites, such as those you will find on exchanges, wallet providers and the like. These are great, but the spirit of Bitcoin is in its community, so why not learn from the community directly?
Course Intro
What you will find below is a selection of some of the best that has been written by the thriving community on Stacker News. It is being referred to here as a course syllabus for the reason that it is intended to be used as a guide that you can follow as you take your first steps into the rabbit hole. Exploring new spaces online, especially those surrounding Bitcoin, can be intimidating and anxiety inducing, so rest easy and let this syllabus be your guide.
Included are a carefully selected list articles, spread across seven days of learning. Each day also has included the learning outcomes for that day and post-reading reflections.
It is recommended you come ready to learn, with a note-taking implement/software and an open mind. Feel free to share your responses to the questions in the comments. The discussion questions are obviously optional, but have been written with the purpose of prompting further engagement in the materials.
Target Audience
This particular Unschooled course is geared toward the intellectually curious and self-directed (much like later iterations will be).
No prior knowledge of Bitcoin is required as the course has been designed to suit the absolute bitcoin initiate.
Expected outcomes
By the end of the seven-days, learners will have
- developed an awareness of peer to peer electronic cash
- engaged some of the philosophical currents in the Bitcoin community
- analyzed the quesiton: why Bitcoin not crypto?
- reflected on the important concepts in Bitcoin such as wallets, UTXO's, Nodes and Lightning Network
- answered the question: what is KYC and AML?
- seen the relevance of the phrase "not your keys, not your bitcoin"
A Final note by way of Introduction
The course is designed to familiarize you with the technology that you will ultimately use to interact with the Bitcoin network, not to give investment advice. It is recommended that you finish the course before making any financial decisions, as there is important insight to be gained in all seven days.
Lastly, nothing stated herein is intended as financial advice.
Let's begin!