Why this paper exists
Most of what is written about Bitcoin is written for people who already understand it, or for people who want to trade it. Neither helped me when I started. What helped was one idea at a time, in plain language, with something small to do about it the same day.
That is what this paper is. Every morning at seven you get one page, set for where you are: just curious, a little on an app, keys of your own, shares in a fund, or years in already. One short story. One thing to try. One word explained. Never a price, never a trade, never a brand.
There is no account, no wallet to connect, and no balance to enter. We ask five questions and keep your answers and your clippings. Nothing else. You can export them or burn them any morning.
Your first fourteen mornings are free. After that it is $21 a year, about six cents a morning. The paper is worth that or it is worth nothing. Your scrapbook stays yours either way.
About the editor
I found Bitcoin in 2017, and then I fell down the rabbit hole everyone warns you about.
Before that I was an ordinary office worker. Nobody taught me about money, not at home and not at school, and I didn't go to college. I earned a paycheck and spent it, like most people I knew.
Trying to understand Bitcoin forced me to understand everything around it: what money is, how banks work, why prices rise, why saving felt impossible. I read, I made mistakes, I kept going. Somewhere in there I became more careful with my own finances than I had ever been, and that change has outlasted every price swing since.
I am not a financial adviser, an engineer, or an economist, and this paper will never tell you what to buy or when. It is the paper I wish had landed in my inbox in 2017: one page a morning, written for where I was, by someone who had been there a little longer.
— The Editor
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