Learning path · 16 steps
Sovereign Money
Money that cannot be frozen requires keys you hold, a node you run, and habits that keep your history private. This path goes from first principles to self-custody to private payments.
Who it is for Anyone who wants to hold and move value without asking permission, and without broadcasting their finances.
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Financial Sovereignty
The landscape: custody, privacy and censorship-resistant payments.
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Bitcoin Self-Custody, Step by Step
A step-by-step setup that balances security, privacy and recovery.
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Compare: Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Acquisition
Compare Bisq, RoboSats and other acquisition routes by custody, identity checks and payment privacy.
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Hardware Wallets
How signing devices work and where their trust boundaries lie.
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CoinJoin and Payjoin
On-chain privacy techniques for Bitcoin and their current legal context.
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Silent Payments (BIP 352)
Use a reusable Bitcoin address while understanding scanning and wallet compatibility.
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Lightning Network
Fast, cheap payments, and what they reveal.
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BTCPay Server
Accept payments into your wallet and understand the responsibility of running the processor.
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Cashu and Chaumian Ecash
Chaumian ecash: near-cash privacy, in exchange for trusting a mint.
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Fedimint
Compare guardian custody and Lightning gateway contracts with the trust in a single mint.
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Monero
A currency where privacy is the default for every transaction.
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Zcash
Understand shielded pools, viewing keys and the information revealed at pool boundaries.
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Threshold Signatures
The cryptography behind multisig, FROST and shared custody.
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Blockstream Satellite
Receive Bitcoin data during internet outages while planning a separate path for sending transactions.
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Bitcoin and the Post-Quantum Migration
What a future quantum computer would mean for coins held today.
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Stablecoins and sovereignty
Distinguish control of wallet keys from issuer freezing and redemption powers.