Bitcoin 101
Bitcoin is easy to trade and surprisingly hard to explain. Most “explainers” either drown you in jargon or wave their hands at “magic internet money.” This section does neither. It's six short, plain-language pages covering the parts of Bitcoin that actually matter if you want to understand what you own — written the same way as everything else on this site: by a person, researched, no filler.
Start anywhere. If you're brand new, read them in order. If you came here for one thing — why mining exists, what a hard fork is, why the block reward keeps shrinking — jump straight to it.
The Bitcoin White Paper
The nine-page 2008 document that started it all, and the one problem it set out to solve.
Bitcoin Mining
What miners really do, why it burns electricity on purpose, and what they get paid for it.
Block Rewards
The shrinking subsidy that pays miners, why it halves every four years, and what happens when it hits zero.
Hard Forks
What it means for a blockchain to split, why Bitcoin Cash exists, and how a fork differs from an upgrade.
Bitcoin Encryption
The cryptography behind ownership. Spoiler: Bitcoin barely "encrypts" anything — it signs.
Proof of Work
The mechanism that makes the whole thing hold together without a company, a server, or a person in charge.
These pages are reference explainers, not financial advice. Bitcoin is volatile; do your own research.