Bitcoin Education Centre | The Coin Shack

Learn Bitcoin, at your own pace

Free, hand-picked resources from around the web, plus our own plain-English guides.

First steps

• Some things you need to know (Article, bitcoin.org)
• Getting started with Bitcoin (Article, bitcoin.org)
• Bitcoin FAQ (Article, Bitcoin Wiki)
• Download the Exodus wallet (Tool, exodus.com)
• Set up and back up your Exodus wallet (Video, Exodus on YouTube)
• Send and receive Bitcoin with Exodus (Video, Exodus on YouTube)

How Bitcoin works

• Explain Bitcoin like I’m five (Article, freeCodeCamp)
• How Bitcoin works (non-technical) (Video, CuriousInventor)
• Bitcoin for beginners (playlist) (Video, Andreas Antonopoulos)
• Bitcoin 101 (Video, Balaji Srinivasan)
• The value of blockchains (Video, Odyssey)
• The ultimate Bitcoin guide (Article, Upfolio)
• River Learn: Bitcoin explained (Article, river.com)
• Bitcoin infographics (Article, Bitcoin Designed)

Our free calculators

• DCA calculator (Tool, thecoinshack.ca)
• Sats calculator (Tool, thecoinshack.ca)

The whitepaper

• The Bitcoin whitepaper (PDF)
• The whitepaper with annotations (Article, Fermat’s Library)

Check a Bitcoin transaction

• mempool.space (Tool, mempool.space)
• Blockstream Explorer (Tool, blockstream.info)

Network stats

• Exchange volume (Tool, Bitcoinity)
• Payment and fee stats (Tool, mainnet.observer)
• Map of Bitcoin nodes (Tool, Bitnodes)
• Network and community stats (Tool, Coin Dance)

Stay safe

• Crypto assets: what investors should know (Article, Canadian Securities Administrators)
• Report or learn about a scam (Article, Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre)
• Investor protection and scam alerts (Article, InvestRight (BC Securities Commission))

Further reading

• The bullish case for Bitcoin (Article, Vijay Boyapati)
• On sound money (Article, Galaxy Digital Research)