BA-00Foundation
Start here: How Bitcoin works
Follow one payment from a wallet to confirmations before choosing a deeper path.
THE READING ROOM
Find your next question.
23 modules, 211 lessons. Follow the course in order or go straight to what you need. Every lesson is free and open.
01 · Understand the ideaNew to Bitcoin? Start with one payment.
A ten-minute tour, with no setup or prior knowledge.
02 · Put it to useReady to use a wallet? Practise safely.
Receiving, sending, fees and recovery with simulated funds.
23 modules · in suggested learning order
BA-00PFoundation
Use Bitcoin safely: a practical first path
Practise choosing a wallet, receiving, sending, fees, backups, recovery, scams, and privacy with simulated funds before protocol theory.
BA-01Foundation
Foundations of money and computation
Build the mental models needed before touching a transaction.
BA-02Intermediate
Mathematics and cryptography
Understand the primitives without treating cryptography as magic.
BA-03Intermediate
History, economics, and game theory
Place Bitcoin in its cypherpunk, monetary, and institutional context.
BA-04Intermediate
Keys, addresses, wallets, and custody
Control keys safely and understand every encoding layer.
BA-05Intermediate
Transactions, UTXOs, and the mempool
Construct, inspect, price, and debug Bitcoin transactions.
BA-06Advanced
Bitcoin Script
Execute locking conditions one opcode and stack item at a time.
BA-07Advanced
SegWit, Taproot, and modern signing
Understand the upgrades that made modern Bitcoin protocols practical.
BA-08Advanced
Mining, blocks, and consensus
Follow a transaction from gossip to deeply buried block state.
BA-09Advanced
Nodes, networking, and Bitcoin Core
Operate and reason about the software enforcing the rules.
BA-10Expert
Privacy, security, and threat modelling
Protect users against both cryptographic and operational failure.
BA-11Expert
Lightning, channels, DLCs, and layered systems
Understand off-chain enforcement and its on-chain escape hatches.
BA-12Expert
Data protocols, Ordinals, Runes, and BitVM
Analyze protocols built from Bitcoin transaction semantics.
BA-13Expert
Markets, financialization, and risk
Connect protocol mechanics to real financial systems without confusing forecasts with facts.
BA-14Expert
Bitcoin protocol engineering
Move from understanding to building, testing, and reviewing.
DA-01Advanced
Ducat system architecture
Map every actor, state object, trust boundary, and Bitcoin commitment.
DA-02Advanced
UNIT and the Runes layer
Understand UNIT as one component of Ducat and trace how its token state relates to Bitcoin transactions and vault debt.
DA-03Expert
Ducat vaults and transactions
Build and inspect every vault action end to end.
DA-04Expert
Guardian, FROST, DKG, and custody
Understand what Guardians can sign, refuse, coordinate, and never learn.
DA-05Expert
Ducat oracle and liquidation
Trace price data into a Bitcoin-enforceable liquidation spend.
DA-06Expert
Ducat economics, LPs, and revenue
Model incentives with explicit formulas and versioned assumptions.
DA-07Expert
Ducat validation, operations, and governance
Operate the protocol and challenge its security story.