BITCOIN FOR DUMMIES.

Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
	About This Book
	Foolish Assumptions
	Icons Used in This Book
	Beyond the Book
	Where to Go from Here
Part 1 Bitcoin Basics
	Chapter 1 Bitcoin in a Nutshell
		In the Beginning, There Were . . . Digital Currencies?
		The Birth of Bitcoin
		But Who Is Nakamoto?
		Understanding What Bitcoin Actually Is
		Understanding Bitcoin Units
		Cryptocurrency or Cryptoasset?
		If There Is No Bitcoin, How Can It Be Valuable?
			Milton Friedman and the rai stones
			Money is belief
		Understanding Bitcoin Benefits
			Portability
			Verifiability
			Fungibility
			Durability
			Divisibility
			Open access
			Final settlement
			Borderless, stateless
			Pseudonymous
			Monopoly-resistant
			Debasement-proof
	Chapter 2 Bitcoin Tech Explained
		Understanding That There Is No Bitcoin!
		Discovering the Bitcoin Ledger
			So where is this “Bitcoin ledger”?
			Bitcoin uses a blockchain ledger
		Looking at the Bitcoin Distributed, Peer-to-Peer Network
		Using the Bitcoin Blockchain’s Blocks of Business
			Hashing the blocks
			The Bitcoin blockchain is “immutable”
		Finding Out How the Ledger Functions
			Your address: Where your money is stored in the ledger
			What’s the crypto in cryptocurrency?
			Public key encryption magic
			Messages to the blockchain
			Signing messages with the private key
			Sending a transaction message to the Bitcoin ledger
			Unraveling the message
			But you’ll need a wallet
Part 2 Using Bitcoin
	Chapter 3 Buying, Using, and Selling Bitcoin
		Finding the Price of Bitcoin
		Your Options for Acquiring Bitcoin
			Bitcoin ATMs
			Retail Bitcoin
			Person-to-person trading
			Bitcoin exchanges
		“Bitcoin Back” on Credit and Debit Cards
		Earning Your Bitcoin
		Mining Bitcoin
		Finding Bitcoin Everywhere
		Selling Your Bitcoin
	Chapter 4 Taking Control of Your Wallet (and Hodling Your Bitcoin)
		What Is a Wallet?
			Wallets store private keys
			Wallets create and store keys and addresses
			Wallets communicate with the Bitcoin network
			Wallets can be hot or cold
		Exploring Wallet Hardware
			Brain wallets
			Paper wallets
			Metal wallets
			Hardware wallets
			Web wallets
			Dedicated full nodes
			Software wallets
		Finding a Wallet
		Setting Up a Bitcoin Wallet
			Creating and securing your first wallet
			Creating a 24-word seed
			Increasing security with a fake account
			Receiving Bitcoin
			Getting those notifications
			Checking your addresses
			Sending Bitcoin
			Following the money
			Backing up your wallet
			Importing (or recovering) a wallet
			Creating a watch-only wallet
			Exploring multiple-signature wallets
		Using the Lightning Network
	Chapter 5 Keeping Your Bitcoin Safe
		Understanding How You Can Lose Control of Your Bitcoin
		Grasping the Goal: Private Key and Seed Protection
		Making a Choice: Custodial or Private Wallet?
		Devising Your Cryptocurrency Safety Plan
			Producing powerful passwords
			Protecting passwords with password programs
			Protecting your computer
			Watching out for sophisticated phishing
			Employing two-factor authentication
				The dangers of 2FA
				The danger of SIM swaps
		Exploring More Ways to Protect Your Bitcoin (and Everything Else)
		Knowing What Happens When You Kick the Bucket
			Choosing the multi-sig solution
			Scheduling future transactions
			Using a digital inheritance feature
	Chapter 6 Investing in Bitcoin
		Bitcoin: Valuable Asset or Bubble About to Burst?
			Bitcoin’s got to rise in value!
			Bitcoin’s bound to bust!
			Understanding stock-to-flow
			Bitcoin: digital gold
		So You Want to Buy Bitcoin. . .
			The basic strategy — buy and hodl
			Dollar cost averaging
			Timing the market
			Arbitrage
			Other Bitcoin-related investment vehicles
			Don’t forget your retirement
		Hodling II — An Even Better Strategy
		The New Frontier — Other Cryptocurrencies
		NFTs — What’s It All About?
Part 3 Getting Geeky
	Chapter 7 Understanding the Bitcoin Network and Bitcoin Mining
		The Bitcoin Network
		Submitting Transactions
			Looking at transaction fees
			Change address
			Verifying the transaction
			Mining for Bitcoin — the 10-minute contest
			Winning the Bitcoin
		Bitcoin Presets
	Chapter 8 Bitcoin Adoption in the Real World
		Bitcoin in the Boardroom
		Bitcoin in Nations
			When governments love Bitcoin
			Nations promoting crypto
			It’s not just the rich
			When the nation collapses
	Chapter 9 Bitcoin Botheration
		Bitcoin Is Too Volatile
		Governments Ban Bitcoin
		Bitcoin: A 21st-Century Ponzi Scheme
		The Bitcoin Bubble
		Bitcoin Costs Too Much to Use
		Bitcoin Security Risks
		Bitcoin Energy Usage
Part 4 The Part of Tens
	Chapter 10 Ten Tips to Hodl and Stack Sats
		Invest in Knowledge, Do Your Homework
		Get Off Zero (B)
		Lower Your Cost Basis, Buy the Dip
		Dry Powder, or Get on Zero ($)?
		Run Your Own Bitcoin Node
		Secure your Keys, Test Seed Backups
		Bitcoin Price-Prediction Models
		Bitcoin Technical Analysis, Market Indicators, and Other Tea Leaves
		Slow and Steady Wins the Race
		Tell Everyone, or Speak Softly?
	Chapter 11 Ten Types of Bitcoin Resources
		Bitcoin Documentaries
		Bitcoin Books
		Bitcoin Guides and Walkthroughs
		Bitcoin Block Explorers
		Bitcoin Data Aggregators
		Bitcoin Forums
		Bitcoin Volatility Charts
		Bitcoin Foundational Documents
		Bitcoin Wikis
		Bitcoin Data Visualizations
	Chapter 12 Ten (Plus One) Thoughts about the Future of Bitcoin
		Bitcoiners Love Lindy’s Law
		Bitcoin’s Limited Supply Drives Price
		Bitcoin Adoption Coin Rush
		Bitcoin Adoption by Corporations
		Bitcoin Is Dead!
		Bitcoin Boom-and-Bust Cycles
		The Halvening and Bitcoin Price
		New Bitcoin “Layers”
			Bitcoin Lightning Network
			Bitcoin sidechains
		Bitcoin Will Get Easier
		Bitcoin Development and Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
		What Is the Future of Bitcoin?
Index
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