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If you want to destroy some fiat money, you can set fire to it.

Like a lot of Bitcoiners, I’ve spent much of the last few days processing the Coldcard revelations and trying to spread the word.

If you don’t own any bitcoin but want to “get off zero”, this is the guide for you.

Anyone who’s signed up for a crypto platform in the UK will be familiar with the FCA’s risk warning and “appropriateness assessment”.

“Bitcoin is too slow to be money”.

“A new key pair should be used for each transaction to keep them from being linked to a common owner.” - Satoshi Nakamoto In the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi alluded to the privacy cost associated with address reuse.

This is my start-to-finish guide to buying bitcoin on Peach, a mobile-first peer-to-peer marketplace.

This guide will be most useful to people who already own some bitcoin.

Most guides to owning Bitcoin dive straight into specific topics or debates.

Ask five people what Bitcoin is and you’ll get five different answers.

Today is April 1st, but this is not an April Fools’ joke.

This is a step-by-step guide to buying bitcoin on Bisq, a decentralised peer-to-peer exchange.

You’ve probably heard that Bitcoin uses more electricity than all of Switzerland.

This chart compares Bitcoin and gold across time using two complementary views: a direct price ratio, and an indexed performance comparison.

Hashrate is simply hashes per second: how many times per second a miner can run Bitcoin’s proof-of-work function while searching for a valid block header.

Dollar cost averaging (DCA) is a simple way to invest gradually over time without obsessing over timing.

Solo mining sits at an interesting intersection of Bitcoin’s incentives, its security model, and its culture.

The Bitcoin Rainbow Chart is a long-term, logarithmic view of Bitcoin’s price history, designed to show broad, long-term market patterns rather than short-term price action. 🛠 Rainbow chart - visit the live site to use it.

Bitcoin has gone from a niche experiment to a global, free-market monetary asset.

One satoshi (or ‘sat’) is the smallest unit in Bitcoin: 100,000,000 sats = 1 BTC.

Solo bitcoin mining is basically a lottery: you’re hashing against the entire network, hoping to find the next valid block before everyone else does.

In my explainer on mnemonic seeds, we explored how recovery phrases emerge from pure entropy - coin tosses, dice rolls, pure randomness.

This tool can tell you when a specific Bitcoin block was mined - or, conversely, which block a specific moment falls in.

Update, April 2026: The sub-six-month window in which crypto ETNs could be held in a Stocks & Shares ISA has now closed.

Looking to learn more about Bitcoin?

If you’ve ever wanted to accept Bitcoin donations on your site without trusting a payment processor or exposing your wallet, this page is for you.

Your Bitcoin wallet’s security boils down to a list of random words.

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to build a system for accepting Lightning payments via your own node.

Today I’ll show you how to build your first Bitcoin node using a Raspberry Pi 5 and several off-the-shelf parts.

“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” - Satoshi Nakamoto Everyone starts out thinking they’re late to Bitcoin; I certainly did.