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The Best Bitcoin Resources

As you make your way down your own bitcoin rabbit hole, you are going to need help from all of the various bitcoin (and bitcoin only) resources. The following services are just some of the best bitcoin resources available worldwide. If you would like to request that we add a resource to this page, please fill out our contact form.

The Bitcoin Whitepaper

The Bitcoin Whitepaper is one of the absolute best bitcoin resources in the world. If you want to learn more about bitcoin, this is one of the absolute first things you should read.

Bitcoin Articles

There’s no shortage of quality Bitcoin content available online. These are some of the best and most insightful pieces written by some of the best minds in Bitcoin.

Shelling Out by Nick Szabo

The Bullish Case For Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati

Gradually Then Suddenly by Parker Lewis

Bitcoin Podcasts

Bitcoin podcasts are one of the most popular ways to consume high-value bitcoin content from plebs and thought leaders all around the world. If you are looking for some informative educational material from some of the world’s greatest bitcoiners, these podcasts are worth listening to.

Stephan Livera Podcast with Stephan Livera
The Bitcoin Standard with Saifedean Ammous
Citadel Dispatch with Matt Odell
Tales From The Crypt with Marty Bent
Pleb Underground with Phil & Walton

You can find a comprehensive list of Bitcoin podcasts curated by Jameson Lopp here: https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/podcasts.html

Bitcoin Websites

Bitcoin.org – The original Bitcoin website started by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Nakamoto Institute – A collection of writings from some early Bitcoin adopters and thought leaders.

Bitcoin Forums

There’s no end to discussing bitcoin online. If you have a desire to learn, there are tons of forums and discussion boards all across the internet. Here are some of the industry favorites.

Stacker News – A reputation-based forum setting with threaded replies where you can post, reply, and upvote content by making a micro-donation via lightning.

Bitcoin Talk – The original Bitcoin forum with posts from Satoshi Nakamoto as well as numerous other early adopters, developers, and industry leaders.

Reddit: r/Bitcoin
Reddit: r/BitcoinBeginners
Reddit: r/LightningNetwork

Block Explorers

  • MemPool.Space is the most popular explorer for viewing data on the Mempool, lightning network, mining metrics, and more.
  • OXT.me is a sort of chain analysis tool for the people. You can view and analyze transaction privacy and the flow of coins across different addresses.
  • KYCP.org is another sort of chain analysis tool for the people to better understand how private their transactions are.
  • Breadcrumbs.app is a paid chain analysis tool to follow the flow of funds along the blockchain and across multiple known exchange wallets.
  • Glassnode is a tool to explore blockchain data in all sorts of different ways that provide valuable insight into

    Bitcoin Memes

  • The Best Bitcoin Memes Obviously we are a little biased with this one but we think it is a really great collection of bitcoin memes.
  • r/BitcoinMemes is a reddit community dedicated to sharing bitcoin memes.
  • Bitcoin Memes Info is one of the largest repositories of bitcoin memes on the internet. Made with love by the team at CoinKite.
  • Buy Bitcoin

    Buying bitcoin is the first step toward hyperbitcoinization. Here are all of the best services to buy bitcoin all around the world.

  • Agora Desk (Affiliate) – A peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling bitcoin with multiple different payment methods, currencies, anywhere in the world.
  • Azteco – A centralized service that sells vouchers that can be redeemed for bitcoin. Azteco currently operates in a limited number of countries but looking to expand.
  • Bisq – A decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling bitcoin in multiple currencies, payment methods, and with no need for personal identification. Bisq runs behind Tor on your desktop computer.
  • RoboSats – A decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling bitcoin on multiple currencies, payment methods, in any country in the world. RoboSats runs in the Tor browser and can be run as its own instance on multiple full node softwares (Umbrel, Start9, Citadel, and more to come).
  • LocalSats is a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling bitcoin in person. LocalSats enables anyone to place a buy/sell order and add a point to an online map. Buyers and sellers arrange a meeting time and location.
  • Cash App (US Only) – A centralized platform to buy and sell bitcoin using US dollars. Cash App is an entire suite of basic banking tools. It enables cash deposit, direct deposits, payments to/from other Cash App users, buy stocks, and send/receive bitcoin both on-chain and on lightning.
  • Fold (Affiliate) (US Only) – A centralized platform for buying gift cards with fiat or bitcoin. Users can also sign up for a debit card which can earn you bitcoin rewards.
  • Peach (Europe Only) is a mobile application on both iOS and Android that connects buyers and sellers to trade bitcoin peer-to-peer. The application is currently only available in Europe.
  • Relai (Europe Only) is a privacy focused bitcoin vendor that enables anyone to buy bitcoin with Euros or Swiss Francs. Limited KYC is required to buy bitcoin with Relai.
  • Pocket (Affiliate) (Europe Only) is a privacy focused bitcoin vendor that enables anyone to buy bitcoin with Euros or Swiss Francs. Limited KYC is required to buy bitcoin with Pocket.
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    Secure Your Seed Phrase & HODL.

    Securing your seed phrase is step 2 of 8 steps to hyperbitcoinization. If you use these resources below, you can rest assured that your bitcoin is backed up.

  • SeedSticks is an entropy tool from to generate your seed words with physical randomness.
  • Waterproof Paper can be found on Amazon or at your local sporting goods store or military surplus store.
  • Shieldfolio Stonebook (Affiliate)
  • Cryptosteel Capsule – Steel capsule with a central rod to stack first 4 letters of each of your seed words. One size fits both 12 and 24 word seed phrases. Standalone device so no tools are needed to “write” or stamp your seed words.
  • Vulcan 21 – QR code format seed phrase storage plates designed specifically to work with SeedSigner specifications. Different size QR code plates for 12 and 24 word seed phrases. Vulcan 21 also offers an onboarding card for stamping first 4 letters into a single piece of steel.
  • Codl Co. produces some of the highest quality grid punch plates at very reasonable prices. You can use a Punch Plate to encode your seed phrase in all sorts of different ways from alphabet and seed word index.
  • BlockPlate DIY is a method for attaching a sticker on top of a blank piece of steel and the punching each letter through the sticker for a more DIY method without the need to buy any specialized hardware.
  • Hodlinox produces steel plates to be stamped with all 12-24 of your seed words with a letter punch set. These can then be concealed with a cover to hide the words.
  • Wallets Recovery is the most complete reference list of bitcoin wallet key derivation paths. If you are having trouble recovering your bitcoin wallet, knowing the key derivation path used by the wallet that generated your seed phrase will help recover a wallet.
  • BTC Recover is a tool to help you recover your bitcoin wallet using a number of technical methods including wallet passwords and BIP 39 passphrases. This tool is the industry standard for recovering bitcoin wallets that you might have accidentally locked yourself out of or forgotten a scrambled word order of 12 words.
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    Run A Full Bitcoin Node

  • The Core Bitcoin Protocol Software
  • Start9
  • Umbrel
  • MyNode
  • Citadel
  • Ronin Dojo
  • Nodl
  • BTCPay Server
  • RasPi Blitz
  • RasPi Bolt
  • Parmanode
  • Practice Good Privacy

    Using bitcoin privately doesn’t happen as automatically as we would like but good privacy practices, you can not only enhance your own privacy but also preserve the privacy of other bitcoin users. You can learn more about how to use bitcoin anonymously here.

  • Privacy Tools is one of the best resources for increasing your privacy online.
  • MullVad VPN is an open-source VPN that doesn’t collect any personal information about their users and accepts bitcoin as payment.
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    Bitcoin Educational Resources

    Just some of the best educational resources from some of the nest names in the bitcoin space. All of these services, tutorials, guides, etc. are well worth your time.

  • 10 Hours Of Bitcoin
  • Arman The Parman is a bitcoin educator dedicated to helping you progress your understanding of some of the technical aspects of Bitcoin.
  • Bitcoin Explorama is a simple website for learning some of the basics of bitcoin along with a quiz as you learn. Explorama has some great visual aid as you grow your knowledge about bitcoin, the blockchain, and many other important bitcoin elements.
  • Bitcoin News Sources

  • Bitcoin Magazine is the single largest bitcoin publication in the world. They are focused on building bitcoin’s image and providing the world with quality bitcoin content from some of the best writers and thought leaders in the industry.
  • Bitcoin Maxi News is a news aggregator of all of the best bitcoin-only publications around the world as well as a list of useful educational YouTube channels, resource links, and some of the best bitcoin forums to discuss and learn more about bitcoin.
  • Bitcoin News is a bitcoin publication focused on delivering all of the latest bitcoin news from around the world. Their content seems to be more focused more on news and less on opinions or fluff.
  • No BS Bitcoin is an excellent bitcoin only publication with none of the bullshit that bogs down other sites. No ads. No trackers. No sponsors. No paywalls. No clickbait. Just quality bitcoin news.
  • The BTC Times newsletter that publishes quality content about bitcoin but they also sometimes cover topics relating to crypto as well.
  • Submit A Bitcoin Resource

    If you would like to see a particular Bitcoin resource listed here on this page, please fill out our contact form and if it meets the following requirements, we will get it added.

    – Bitcoin only or at least bitcoin dominant/focused. No blatant shitcoin resources will be added.
    – No NFTs projects for now. Even if it is on the Bitcoin blockchain, we will not add any NFT projects until further notice.
    – No scams or pump and dump schemes.