Bitcoin explained for plebs.

The whole idea in 5 minutes. The scoreboard, the notebook, and 21 million.

The 5,000-year backstory — gold, paper, 1971 — that makes Bitcoin make sense.

What actually happens when you hit send — and why there are no bank hours.

How bitcoin goes from settling like gold to spending like cash.

A global lottery every 10 minutes that turns electricity into security.

Why regular people keep their own copy of the notebook.

The honest map: bull case, bear case, and the −80% crashes.

Quantum, criminals, bans, volatility — every argument steelmanned, then answered.

Every term — sats, HODL, halving, UTXO — in one breath each.

27 years of failed projects — DigiCash, Hashcash, Bit Gold — that became Bitcoin.

Blocksize, Knots, BIP-110, CTV, OP_CAT — Bitcoin’s internal fights, both sides argued.

Power law, stock-to-flow, the 4-year cycle — charted free, graded honestly.

The genesis headline, the pizza, the 184-billion-coin bug, and block 666,666.

“Running bitcoin.” “Cypherpunks write code.” The famous lines, with their stories.

Individuals, companies, countries, whales, Satoshi — toggle the eras, watch the pie change.

Why it’s a different species — plus the graveyard of 100+ forks that tried.

Live countdown to block 1,050,000 — the machine that enforces 21 million.

All 12 sections in plain English, plus the 8 references graded by influence.

A spinning globe of live nodes. No continents drawn — the network draws them.

Real transactions firing into the next block, scooped every ~10 minutes.