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Resources

Welcome! This is our collective stash of trusted learning tools curated by the Bitcoin Network NYC community. Whether you're new to sats or helping others level up, start here and share what you discover.

📚 Books

  • The Bitcoin Standard — A macro look at why Bitcoin matters as resilient, sound money in a fragile financial system.
  • Mastering Bitcoin — Andreas Antonopoulos’ free, open-source deep dive into the protocol for curious developers and tinkerers.
  • Check Your Financial Privilege — Alex Gladstein shares global stories that reveal how Bitcoin empowers people facing capital controls, inflation, and authoritarian regimes.
  • Grokking Bitcoin — Visual, approachable explanations that bridge the gap between high-level concepts and how nodes actually speak.
  • The Sovereign Individual — A foundational read on digital sovereignty that inspired many early Bitcoin builders.
  • Bitcoin Dev Philosophy — Kalle and Linnéa Rosenbaum distill a decade of Bitcoin engineering lessons into nine chapters on decentralization, privacy, scaling, and more—perfect for devs who know how Bitcoin works and want to understand the “why.”

🎥 Documentaries

  • Unbanked — Explores how Bitcoin sparks financial empowerment worldwide, spotlighting members of the Harlem Bitcoin Community. Premiered at the Harlem International Film Festival and the Manhattan Film Festival, taking home multiple awards.
  • Banking on Bitcoin — Captures the movement’s early characters, debates, and the fight for legitimacy.
  • Bitcoin: The End of Money As We Know It — Explores the history of money to spotlight why Bitcoin is a break from the legacy system.

▶️ YouTube Channels & Creators

  • Andreas M. Antonopoulos — Clear, security-first explainers on everything from seed phrases to multisig.
  • BTC Sessions — Hands-on wallet, node, and Lightning tutorials geared toward self-sovereign use.
  • Matthew Kratter – Bitcoin University — Focuses on Bitcoin fundamentals, macro context, and investing strategy explained in simple, no-nonsense language. Ideal for newcomers and self-educators.

🎙️ Podcasts

  • What Bitcoin Did — Danny Knowle’s wide-ranging interviews make complex topics approachable for all levels.
  • The Bitcoin Standard Podcast — Saifedean Ammous connects hard money theory to real-world Bitcoin use cases.
  • Citadel Dispatch — Matt Odell convenes privacy advocates and open-source contributors for candid conversations.

✍️ Articles & Blogs

🧪 Courses / Tutorials

  • Mastering Bitcoin (Online Text) — Read the full book for free, complete with code samples and exercises.
  • Start9 Docs — Step-by-step guides for running your own sovereign server and Bitcoin stack at home.
  • Umbrel Docs — Friendly walkthroughs for setting up an Umbrel node, apps, and Lightning services.

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