Phase 1 — Foundation

Money, Responsibility
& Bitcoin

Seven lessons on money, Bitcoin, risk, and community decision-making. Free. No signup required. Start at Lesson 1 and go at your own pace. No deadline. No pressure to do anything after you finish.

Audience
The most skeptical person in the room
Prerequisite
None — no prior knowledge assumed
Cost
Free. Always.
Goal
Competence, not compliance
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Lesson 1 of 7
Money, Power, and Control
Money systems are not neutral. Understanding who controls money is the starting point.
Before Bitcoin, before wallets, before any decision — we start with what money actually is. Not how to earn it. How it works, who controls it, and why that matters.
~12 min→
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Lesson 2 of 7
Why Fiat Systems Fail Communities
Centralized money concentrates power and exports risk.
Inflation in plain language. The distance between decision-makers and consequences. Why the costs of monetary policy don't land equally — and who absorbs them last.
~12 min→
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Lesson 3 of 7
What Bitcoin Actually Is (and Is Not)
Bitcoin is a monetary system, not a company or a product.
The distinctions that matter: Bitcoin vs banks, Bitcoin vs crypto, what a fixed supply actually means. No jargon. Written for skeptics.
~14 min→
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Lesson 4 of 7
Wallets, Keys, and Self-Custody
Ownership requires competence.
Read this before you download anything, open any account, or move any money. The decisions made in the first week of using Bitcoin are the ones most likely to cause lasting problems.
~15 min→
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Lesson 5 of 7
How People Lose Bitcoin
Most losses come from human error, not hacking.
A map of the patterns — social engineering, seed phrase mistakes, rushed transitions. Every pattern here is avoidable. None require technical sophistication to prevent. They require awareness.
~12 min→
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Lesson 6 of 7
Risk, Volatility, and Reality
Risk is broader than price.
Price volatility is obvious. The quieter risks — emotional, operational, social — are often more damaging. This lesson covers all of them, including the risk of not acting at all.
~13 min→
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Lesson 7 of 7
Bitcoin in Community Context
Education precedes any collective decision.
Communities face different questions than individuals. This final lesson asks what education, governance, and responsibility look like at a collective scale — especially for Indigenous communities and remote northern BC.
~13 min→
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