Bitcoin and the Future of Money
Like Duolingo, but for Bitcoin and the Future of Money. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Bitcoin and the Future of Money
- A Bitcoin address is a unique string of characters used as a destination
- Bitcoin has no central authority or 'bank' to undo mistakes
- Sharing your address is safe and necessary to receive funds
- Addresses are specific to the Bitcoin network
- Once a transaction is broadcast and confirmed, it is permanent
- How to use a Bitcoin address to receive funds
- The sender is solely responsible for verifying the recipient's address
- Network fees act as an incentive for miners to process your transaction
- Higher fees lead to faster processing during times of high traffic
- Low-fee transactions may take hours or days to complete
- The finality of Bitcoin transactions
- A transaction is first announced to the network
- The lifecycle of a transaction from broadcast to security
- The Bitcoin ledger is public and viewable by anyone
- The relationship between fees and transaction speed
- Block explorers are the standard tool for tracking transaction status
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Bitcoin and the Future of Money the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you want someone to send you Bitcoin, what do you give them to show where the coins should go?
Get it right to open this lesson and 94 more in the app.
Where Bitcoin and the Future of Money takes you
Go from curious observer to confident owner. This course covers everything from sending your first transaction to understanding the math and philosophy that makes Bitcoin the world's first digital gold.
- 1
Your First Bitcoin Steps
- Sending and Receiving Bitcoin
- Choosing Your First Wallet
- Reading the Public Ledger
- 2
The Power of Ownership
- Private Keys: The Digital Signature
- Seed Phrases: Your Emergency Backup
- The Philosophy of Self-Custody
- 3
How the Network Stays Honest
- The Distributed Ledger
- Mining: Securing the Chain
- Nodes: The Network Referees
- 4
The Economics of Scarcity
- The 21 Million Limit
- The Halving Events
- Divisibility and Satoshis
- 5
Transactions and Fees
- How Fees are Calculated
- Understanding UTXOs
- Transaction Finality
- 6
The Bitcoin Ecosystem
- Exchanges and On-Ramps
- Cold Storage and Deep Security
- Privacy and Pseudonymity
- 7
Advanced Concepts and Scaling
- The Lightning Network
- Forks: Upgrading the Code
- Smart Contracts on Bitcoin
- 8
History and Philosophy
- The Mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto
- The Genesis Block
- Bitcoin as Digital Gold
8 sections · 24 units · 95 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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