Or, as I just heard yesterday - if I kick the bucket, my wife needs to deal with it, and she'd have no idea how to deal with self-custody bitcoin.

Yeah, they're the ones that are (sometimes) kind of interested.

But also sometimes they're in the "why bother" camp.

I think the only thing I'll give up on is doing anything like an in-person workshop, especially putting a lot of work into trying to promote it.

I'll try to figure out some new ideas. One thing I'm thinking of is somehow open-sourcing it - putting it on github or something. I don't need to make a ton of money on it, I just need enough to motivate me to continue to work on it.

But of course, just putting something on github isn't much use, people also need to look for it there. 2 people so far have told me I need to post on Instagram. Hmm...

Ha! Love it.

I'm no Andreas Antonopoulous, but it's definitely making me think I need to try something different...

No kidding, Zeus? I tried that (it's been a while now) and had endless issues. I was using it for Lightning.

There was always a way forward, if you do the research and hang out in the forums and ask questions. But it was very tricky, at least back then.

So, now it's much better? Is this mainly for bitcoin, or lightning?

What self custody tools in particular did you think were good?

plus...everyone ELSE is leaving it on exchanges or in ETFs, so...safety in numbers.

Another corollary to this concept, of "when holding your own bitcoin is looked upon as being as important as driving, people will learn", is this:

Some people (perhaps many) will NOT learn. Just like they can't learn to drive. Or can't learn a foreign language.

I went to a neighborhood pool, which happened to be empty, and just floated in the sun, hat over eyes. In a pool you don't get hot, and the sun feels so good - and is so good for you.

MoreBirths is interesting to follow - https://xcancel.com/morebirths?lang=en

Here's one thing he says works, at least in Mongolia - better status for mothers. And it's mostly free, too.

If you're looking for a set of straightforward step-by-step exercises, check out my book Bitcoin, Hands-On! 28 “learn by doing” exercises to master the basics of managing your own Bitcoin, including wallets, transactions, and self custody

It doesn't deal with hardware wallets, I find them to be just a distraction until you really understand the fundamentals of seed phrases/private keys, transactions, etc. Not to mention that hardware wallets are all so different and change constantly.

I've helped a number of people through the exercises. The most motivated ones tend to be older people, whose kids are pushing them to learn and invest.

Anyone that wants a free pdf, email me at feedback@BitcoinHandsOn.com. And feel free to share with friends.

Here's the table of contents: Introduction 1 Exercise 1: Install Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet 5 Exercise 2: Create wallet in Sparrow—Alice 8 Exercise 3: Buy Bitcoin 12 Exercise 4: Receive bitcoin into your Alice wallet 16 Exercise 5: Recover your Alice wallet 21 Exercise 6: Create wallet Bob 23 Exercise 7: Your first send—transfer bitcoin from Alice to Bob 25 Exercise 8: Review the Alice to Bob transaction 28 Exercise 9: Explore the Settings window of the Alice wallet 31 Exercise 10: Create watch only wallet based on Alice 34 Exercise 11: Explore the Alice Watch Only wallet 36 Exercise 12: Receive bitcoin via a watch only wallet 38 Exercise 13: Use the Alice Watch Only wallet to send a transaction 40 Exercise 14: Create wallet Bob Legacy Script Type 42 Exercise 15: Create wallet Alice With Passphrase 45 Exercise 16: Review some transactions 48 Exercise 17: Send bitcoin from Alice to Bob—review fees 52 Exercise 18: Bitcoin fees—what you pay, and why 54 Exercise 19: Install Blue Wallet and create the Carol wallet 58 Exercise 20: Send bitcoin from Bob in Sparrow to Carol in Blue Wallet 61 Exercise 21: Send bitcoin from your exchange to Blue Wallet Carol 63 Exercise 22: Import the Alice wallet to Blue Wallet via the public key 65 Exercise 23: Import the Alice wallet to Blue Wallet via the descriptor 67 Exercise 24: Set up password protection on Blue Wallet 68 Exercise 25: Recover the Bob wallet in Blue Wallet 70 Exercise 26: Send all bitcoin from the Bob Recovery wallet in Blue Wallet to Alice in Sparrow 73 Exercise 27: Bonus—use Blockstream wallet 75 Exercise 28: Clearing practice wallets and creating a long-term wallet 78 Final notes and next steps 80 Resources 89

Think first about how you'd market it. That's extremely important.

Would you put it on Amazon? Would you use Amazon ads (very expensive, maybe not worth it). Or would you just sell it on your own, and find other ways to market?

If you just want to sell some ebooks, you could consider http://Gumroad.com, or maybe https://www.lemonsqueezy.com. All payment processing, etc, would be taken care of with these 2 companies.

If you need a website, and you're new at this, you could do worse than trying something simple yourself, like https://carrd.co/.

A lot of the anti-family propaganda out there IS, I believe, fiat related. Don't have kids because:

Any more specifics on how to reach out to local universities?

For instance - what types of groups would be interested? What might they be interested in, what would be a good initial offering?

I just published this book Bitcoin, Hands-On: 28 “learn-by-doing” exercises to master the basics of managing your own Bitcoin, including wallets, transactions, and self custody.

I'd love to talk to university students, and walk them through it. But it's not an orange pilling book, it's more of hands-on self custody book.

I tried quite a bit through...now I'm forgetting what service I tried to use. This is many months ago. But it never worked, Telegram never accepted the number. Could you suggest a specific site?

Are you able to get a telegram account without a phone number? I tried a while back, couldn't do it.