Education & Resources

Education & Resources

Bitcoin Core is the reference implementation of the Bitcoin protocol, and its site hosts release notes, security advisories, RPC documentation for every recent version and contributor guidance. It is the primary source for anyone running or building on their own full node.

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Bitcoiner.Guide is run by Ben, known online as Bitcoin QnA, and offers written guides plus personalised one-on-one mentorship on self-custody, cold storage, nodes, multisig and inheritance planning. The site has been publishing sovereignty and privacy resources since 2017.

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The 10x Security Bitcoin Guide walks a non-coding but tech-savvy audience through setting up bitcoin storage with no single point of failure using multisig. Its premise is that a fault-tolerant setup lets you survive one or more catastrophic mistakes that would be fatal in a single-key system.

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Base58 is a bitcoin protocol school offering online and in-person courses that run from beginner fundamentals to application development and advanced research topics. Tracks cover wire protocols, transaction construction and developer basics.

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The Bitcoin Core PR Review Club is a monthly club that reviews Bitcoin Core pull requests in a public IRC channel on the first Wednesday and Thursday of each month. It exists to help newer contributors learn the Bitcoin Core codebase and review process, and past meeting notes are archived on the site.

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The Bitcoin Design Guide is an open-source resource for people building bitcoin products, with reference designs covering savings wallets, backup and recovery, inheritance wallets, shared wallets and time-based recovery. It documents common user flows, bitcoin backup approaches and accessibility considerations.

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Bitcoin Optech publishes a weekly newsletter, podcast, topic pages and case studies that track changes to Bitcoin Core, wallets, services and the wider protocol. It exists to help bitcoin businesses and engineers adopt scaling and efficiency techniques.

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Bitcoin.org's Choose Your Wallet section is a long-standing reference that helps newcomers pick a bitcoin wallet by platform and by criteria such as control of keys, validation, transparency, privacy and fees. The wider site also hosts getting-started material, documentation and a vocabulary for self-custody concepts.

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BitDevs is a community for people who want to discuss and participate in the research and development of Bitcoin and related protocols, best known for its regular Socratic Seminars. Meetings are hosted in cities worldwide with New York City as the longest-running chapter.

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BTC Sessions has been producing bitcoin tutorials, interviews and panels since 2016, with a focus on walking beginners through using wallets and bitcoin tools step by step. It also runs local and international educational and community initiatives and offers one-on-one coaching.

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Econoalchemist is a blog focused on bitcoin self-custody and censorship resistance, publishing detailed hardware wallet setup guides, privacy tool walkthroughs and interviews. Each guide is mirrored in an accompanying GitHub repository.

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Glacier is a free, open-source, step-by-step protocol for storing bitcoin offline in a highly secure way using multiple keys. It is self-managed by design, so no third-party service or fee is involved, and it documents several approaches to keeping keys offline.

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Learn Me A Bitcoin, by Greg Walker, explains how bitcoin works from beginner concepts through to protocol-level detail, with sections on wallets, security, private and public keys, addresses, scripts, PSBTs and running a node. It also includes a blockchain explorer for inspecting real blocks and transactions.

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Mastering Bitcoin, now in its third edition, is the reference book on how bitcoin works at a technical level, covering keys, addresses, wallets, transactions, scripts and the network. The full text is maintained as an open repository on GitHub.

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Ministry of Nodes publishes written and video guides on running your own bitcoin node, self-custody, privacy and the Lightning Network, including a long-running Nodebox build series. It also offers paid consulting calls for people setting up their own infrastructure.

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My First Bitcoin is a non-profit, open-source bitcoin education network that has taught tens of thousands of students through independent community chapters in dozens of countries and languages. It publishes a free open-source curriculum and trains educators to deliver it locally.

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No Bullshit Bitcoin is a news desk covering bitcoin, Nostr and freedom tech, with hand-picked release notes, security advisories and guides. Its coverage regularly includes wallet firmware vulnerabilities and self-custody tooling updates.

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Plan B Network runs the Plan ₿ Academy, an open education platform offering structured bitcoin courses, tutorials and resources contributed by an international community of educators. Material spans beginner introductions through to technical and self-custody topics.

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Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song teaches bitcoin from the ground up by having readers build a library from scratch, covering elliptic curve cryptography, keys, signatures, transactions and script. The companion repository holds the exercises and code.

Node Software

A free step-by-step guide to building a sovereign Bitcoin and Lightning node on a Raspberry Pi from scratch, covering the operating system, Bitcoin Core, Electrum server, Lightning and supporting apps.

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River Learn is a free reference library covering bitcoin basics, markets, storage, mining, taxes and the underlying technology. The storage section explains custody options and how to hold bitcoin yourself.

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Saving Satoshi is an interactive, open-source game that teaches bitcoin's inner workings by having players write code through a series of chapters. It is a community production and is available in a dozen languages.

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WalletScrutiny reviews bitcoin wallets to check whether their published source code actually matches the binaries users install, publishing the results of thousands of reviews across mobile, hardware and desktop wallets. Its methodology pages explain reproducible builds and what verification does and does not prove.

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Yeti is an open-source script and set of instructions that installs Bitcoin Core and then walks the user through building a multi-key cold storage setup. It deliberately prioritises safety over convenience and does not rely on any third-party service.

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Chaincode Labs is a research organisation that supports Bitcoin through funded research and developer education programmes. It is known for its residency and seminar programmes that bring new contributors into Bitcoin Core development.

Privacy & Coinjoin

A reference site for BIP352 silent payments, a scheme that lets someone publish a single reusable static address while each payment still lands on a unique, unlinkable on-chain output. The site tracks which wallets support it.

Privacy & Coinjoin

A directory that reviews and scores Bitcoin and crypto services — exchanges, wallets, VPNs and more — by how much identity verification they require, with a privacy score attached to each listing.