Are you watching your local currency lose purchasing power year-to-year and month-to-month? Wishing there was a currency that wasn't controlled by anyone and didn't not favor any particular party? Do you think cryptocurrencies have the potential to allow people to save the value they make by working in the economy and transact with each other without censorship? But is it overwhelming to try to understand how the blockchain technology works?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions then this course is for you. This is your chance to understand how Bitcoin works a technical level, why it was designed, and how it is creating freedom and opportunity for those that come to adopt it. Bitcoin is revolutionary and the term is a bit confusing because it refers to many aspects of the technology, including the network, the protocol, the currency, and the community of participants, but we will learn how all of those fit together and create an unstoppable force.

This course will start with a section on the technical foundations of bitcoin, such as data hashing, cryptographic key pairs, and proof-of-work. Then we will show how the network processes transaction information for a consensus on ownership and transactions. The third section will get into the monetary implications of bitcoin, and the new monetary standard that is coming about. The next section will address limitations in bitcoin, and how these are being actively addressed. A final section will go into advanced topics, so we can be bitcoin super users.