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Practical Bitcoin guides you can actually use.
Plain-English worksheets, checklists, and guides for beginners, families, and small businesses learning Bitcoin safely.
Featured guide
Bitcoin Beginner Safety Checklist
Start with practical safety before moving into wallets, seed phrases, or meaningful self-custody.
Interactive guide
Lightning Network Explained
Understand Bitcoin’s payment layer through a visual deck covering everyday payments, payment channels, liquidity, HTLCs, time locks, and atomic swaps.
Open the Lightning deck
A visual guide to Lightning, from the bar tab analogy to HTLCs, time locks, liquidity, and atomic swaps.
Open the Lightning deck
Beginner guides
Downloadable and coming-soon resources for beginner learning.
Start Here Bitcoin Learning Map
A printable learning path for understanding broken money, Bitcoin basics, sats, wallets, and safe next steps.
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Bitcoin vs. Crypto: Why They Are Not the Same Thing
What Are Sats? Quick Reference
A one-page reference for understanding sats, bitcoin units, and tiny practice payments.
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Bitcoin vs. Crypto One-Page Explainer
A plain-English handout explaining why Bitcoin and the broader crypto casino are not the same thing.
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Family learning guides
Downloadable and coming-soon resources for family learning learning.
Family Sats Activity Sheet
A parent-supervised activity sheet for teaching sats, saving, earning, QR payments, and money responsibility.
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Homeschool Bitcoin Vocabulary List
A simple family glossary for words like money, saving, sats, wallet, seed phrase, fee, and scam.
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What Is a Bitcoin Wallet?
Kids Scam Spotting Worksheet
A supervised worksheet for teaching kids how to spot urgency, secrecy, fake support, and free-money promises.
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What Is a Seed Phrase?
Small business guides
Downloadable and coming-soon resources for small business learning.
Bitcoin Payment Readiness Checklist
A practical worksheet for owners preparing to test Bitcoin or Lightning payments.
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Lightning Payments Staff Training Sheet
A staff training outline for invoices, QR codes, payment confirmation, and escalation rules.
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Customer Bitcoin FAQ Template
A short customer-facing FAQ template for businesses that want to explain Bitcoin payment options clearly.
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BTCPay Server Planning Checklist
A planning checklist for owners evaluating BTCPay Server, hosting, custody, staff training, and recordkeeping.
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Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins
Self-custody safety guides
Downloadable and coming-soon resources for self-custody learning.
Seed Phrase Safety Checklist
A printable checklist for writing down, storing, and protecting seed phrases safely.
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Not Your Keys Readiness Checklist
A readiness checklist before moving from an exchange balance to self-custody.
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Wallet Setup Practice Sheet
A practice worksheet for learning wallet setup, small test transactions, and backup habits.
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What Are Sats?
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