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Your Bitcoin is about to become actually yours.

Eleven short lessons. Plain English. By the end, your Bitcoin lives where only you can reach it. Bookmark this page — it's the home base for your whole course.

Start with Lesson 2

~90 minutes total · Watch one a day or all in one sitting · Lifetime access

A few things before you start
The full course

All 11 lessons

Lesson 01 FREE
~10 min

Buy your first Bitcoin — and pay for the course with it

The free preview. Set up an exchange, buy your first BTC, and use a slice of it to unlock the rest of the course. Lessons 2–11 then teach you how to actually own what you just bought.

Lesson 02
~7 min

What Bitcoin actually is — and why safety is critical

You've just bought some Bitcoin. Here's what you actually bought — and the version of Bitcoin that matters when it's your money on the line.

Lesson 03
~3 min

The three pillars — exchange, wallet, backup

A quick map of everything that's coming. Three concepts. You've already done one of them.

Lesson 04
~6 min

Choosing and installing your wallet

Install a real Bitcoin wallet. No Bitcoin goes in it yet — we're just building the container.

Lesson 05
~6 min

Writing down your seed phrase

The lesson where 90% of people who lose Bitcoin lose it. Focus completely. We'll do it right.

Lesson 06
~6 min

The 25th word — two-factor Bitcoin storage

If someone steals your seed phrase paper tonight, what happens to your Bitcoin? Without this lesson, they take it. With it, they get an empty decoy.

Lesson 07
~6 min

Moving Bitcoin from the exchange to your wallet

The lesson where Bitcoin becomes yours. We move it from the exchange (where it's a promise) to your wallet (where it's actually Bitcoin).

Lesson 08
~3 min

Receiving Bitcoin — sharing your address safely

Eventually someone will want to send you Bitcoin. Here's how to give them your address without getting scammed.

Lesson 09
~5 min

Securing your stack — the long-term habits

Making sure everything you just built still works in five years, in ten years, after you've forgotten you ever took this course.

Lesson 10
~5 min

What NOT to do — the five scams that take everyone's Bitcoin

Almost everyone who loses Bitcoin loses it for one of the same five reasons. After this lesson, none of them will work on you.

Lesson 11
~3 min

Where to go from here

You did it. Your Bitcoin is in a place only you can reach. Welcome to the smaller group that actually self-custodies.

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Course resources

Five printable companions to the lessons. The seed-phrase sheet is meant to be printed and written on by hand — keep these somewhere safe.

PDF · 1 page

One-page cheat sheet

The whole course distilled to a single page — the golden rules, safe sending, and the 30-second scam test.

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PDF · fillable

Seed-phrase storage template

The actual paper you'll write your recovery words on, with numbered lines and storage instructions. Print it before Lesson 5.

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PDF · guide

Wallet comparison guide

Mobile vs. desktop vs. hardware, side by side — what each is best for, and which to use as your stack grows.

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PDF · printable

Common-scam reference list

A field guide to the eight tricks that take people's Bitcoin — how each works, the tell, and exactly what to do.

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PDF · playbook

"If I lose my phone" recovery playbook

A calm, step-by-step plan for restoring your wallet and exchange access when a device goes missing.

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