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Bitcoin Beginners Newsletter #124
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Announcements

Welcome to the newsletter. It was a good week, with some decent instructional posts. If it's a close call choosing top posts, I will favor the basic over the more advanced, since this is a beginners territory.

Have a good week!

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Link to last week's newsletter: Bitcoin Beginners Newsletter #123

Top 5 Posts Of The Week

There will be a zap award for the top 5 posts weekly. It will be broken down as follows:

  1. 1000 sats
  2. 250 sats
  3. 250 sats
  4. 250 sats
  5. 250 sats

I choose the top 5 posts each week based on sats, engagement, and overall quality. The cut off time is 9:00am EST (1300GMT) Friday morning. I will post the top 5 winners shortly after 9:00am every Friday morning.

I reserve the right to not award any sats for the week. I also reserve the right to deny sat awards to bare link posts. I recognize that link posts can be valuable, so I will only exercise discretion for low quality links that garner few sats or engagement from stackers.

  1. 🥇 1000 sats - Do you tell people to "read the whitepaper"? by @capaneus_the_blasphemer
  2. 🥈 250 sats - 📣AMA Announcement: Morgen Rochard, CFA, author of Bitcoin Personal Finance by @Scoresby
  3. 🥉 250 sats - Just got this little toy. Already working. by @30cbadb3f2
  4. 250 sats - Emergency Exit on Blink - What It Is and How to Keep It Ready by @hasherstacker
  5. 250 sats - Machankura: Bringing Collaborative Self-Custody to Clans âš¡ by @hasherstacker

Learning Resources

Start Here

  • The White Paper - Everyone knows about the white paper, but have you read it?
  • Get On BTC - Five foundational lessons covering money, ownership, getting started, pitfalls to avoid, and FAQs. Includes wallet recommendations and an AI chatbot for questions. Great starting point for true beginners.
  • Jameson Lopp's Getting Started With Bitcoin - Lopp's website is an incredible resource for people interested in learning about bitcoin at any level. For those who can do without Lopp's shitcoinery, here is a curated fork of the site.
  • Learn Me A Bitcoin - Greg Walker explains bitcoin in a way that everyone can understand.

Go Deeper

Directories

  • Why Bitcoin Only - This is a massive trove of links, where you can find just about anything you're looking for. It's also fun to browse around.
  • Bitcoin Apps Ecosystem 26.03.08 by @R4DENT0R - A comprehensive ecosystem map. The most recent version is from March 2026, so some entries may be out of date, but beginners and experienced bitcoiners alike will benefit from checking it out.

Best Stacker Posts

DarthCoin Posts

Top Posts Of All Time

Here you will find a few of the top posts to this territory. I am not going to adhere to a rigid zaprank system, since my purpose is to highlight content that has educational value. I will use an informal combination of zaprank and my own evaluation. For instance, some posts, though of high quality, are solely about Stacker News, and might have more appropriately originated as a meta post.

Lightning

Self-Custody & Security

Buying, Spending & P2P

Nodes & Mining

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