What is Bitcoin? A beginner’s guide
Understand Bitcoin, satoshis, wallets and the blockchain, then follow a payment from a digital signature to its first confirmation.
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20Getting started
How to buy your first Bitcoin
Compare the total cost, choose the correct Bitcoin network and understand withdrawals before making a small first purchase.
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BTC, sats and fiat: convert Bitcoin units correctly
Convert satoshis to BTC, check decimal places and separate an amount of bitcoin from its changing fiat price.
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How to choose a Bitcoin wallet
Compare custodial, mobile and hardware wallets by key control, backup, payment needs and fee features.
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How to back up and recover a Bitcoin wallet
Protect recovery words, understand backup formats and passphrases, and check recovery without risking a funded wallet.
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How to move Bitcoin from an exchange to your wallet
Prepare self-custody, verify a withdrawal address and check the amount that actually reaches your wallet.
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How a watch-only Bitcoin wallet works
Monitor balances without placing spending keys on your everyday device, and understand the privacy limits of public wallet data.
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How to send and receive Bitcoin
Check the network, address, amount and fee, then track the transaction and understand when a payment is confirmed.
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Bitcoin fees and confirmation times explained
Calculate a fee in sat/vB, see why transaction size matters and choose a confirmation target without treating it as a guarantee.
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How to handle a stuck Bitcoin transaction
Check an unconfirmed payment, compare RBF and CPFP, and avoid duplicate sends or fake transaction accelerators.
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How to use Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Learn Lightning invoices, wallet custody, payment fees and liquidity before trying a small Bitcoin payment.
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Bitcoin address types: 1, 3, bc1q and bc1p
Recognize common mainnet address formats, check wallet compatibility and understand why a fresh receive address is useful.
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How to read a Bitcoin block explorer
Find a transaction ID, inspect confirmations and fees, and avoid confusing change outputs with a second payment.
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Bitcoin confirmations and chain reorganizations
Count confirmations correctly and understand why a payment becomes harder to replace as more blocks follow it.
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How to scan and verify a Bitcoin QR payment
Read a Bitcoin payment request safely, check its amount and distinguish an on-chain URI from a Lightning invoice.
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Paying a merchant with Bitcoin and requesting a refund
Check invoice expiry, payment amounts and refund details without confusing a commercial refund with a Bitcoin reversal.
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What is the Bitcoin halving?
Understand the 210,000-block subsidy schedule, previous halvings and why the next date and Bitcoin’s price are uncertain.
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Practicing Bitcoin with testnet and signet
Try receiving, sending and backup checks on a separate practice network before risking real BTC.
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Bitcoin safety: avoid scams and protect your privacy
Recognize fake support, recovery-phrase theft, address substitution and guaranteed-return scams before sending bitcoin.
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Signing and verifying a Bitcoin message
Understand address-control proofs, compatible signature formats and why a signed message does not prove a person's identity.
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10Wallets & backups
PSBT: prepare and sign Bitcoin transactions offline
Understand the coordinator, offline signer and broadcaster, and verify destinations before moving a signed transaction online.
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Setting up a recoverable Bitcoin multisig wallet
Understand a 2-of-3 policy, independent signers and why recovery needs wallet configuration as well as keys.
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Bitcoin output descriptors and wallet recovery
Understand script policies, key origins, receive/change branches and checksums before relying on a descriptor backup.
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Lightning channel backups and safe recovery
Understand why recovery words may be insufficient and why an old channel database must not be restarted casually.
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Bitcoin UTXOs and coin control
Choose transaction inputs deliberately, understand change and balance fee efficiency against privacy.
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How to consolidate Bitcoin UTXOs
Evaluate a self-transfer that reduces future input count, while checking present fees and permanent privacy links.
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SegWit, Taproot and Bitcoin transaction weight
Connect address formats with witness data, virtual size and Taproot's key-path and script-path spending choices.
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How to plan and run a Bitcoin full node
Choose archival or pruned storage, verify the software and connect a wallet only after understanding synchronization and access controls.
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Bitcoin timelocks: absolute and relative delays
Distinguish transaction locktime from script-enforced conditions and plan recovery without assuming an automatic future payment.
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Connect your Bitcoin wallet to your own node
Reduce address-query disclosure with a supported private backend and understand the limits of Tor and on-chain privacy.
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