Information is the understanding half of this site: where Bitcoin came from, which famous claims about it survive checking, and how its stranger machinery really works.
Read these when a headline, a slogan, or a confident stranger has left you with a question. Plain answers, sources of confusion named, and no sales pitch waiting at the end.
The story of Bitcoin in plain language: the 2008 whitepaper, the first block, pizza for 10,000 BTC, exchange collapses, halvings, and how a mailing-list idea became a network nobody owns.
Seven claims everyone hears about Bitcoin — it is anonymous, it is only for criminals, it will make you rich, it wastes more energy than countries — checked one by one against the facts.
Bitcoin mining explained without the hand-waving: what miners are really computing, what difficulty means, why the ten-minute pace holds, and where new bitcoin comes from.
Why does Bitcoin’s price move? Supply, demand, liquidity, regulation, macroeconomics and sentiment, explained plainly — including why nobody can tell you next month’s price.
Seven named candle shapes — hammer, doji, morning star and the rest — drawn by us and described in plain language, with a copy you can save and keep.
All twenty-four terms from the home page, each with its full plain-language definition — the reference page to keep open while you read everything else.
Ready to put it into practice? The Guides section teaches the practical skills in order.