Get Off Zero beginner guide
What Bitcoin is, how to buy in Canada, custody, safety, and taxes.
Books & resources
A short shelf. Not an infinite feed.
These are starting points we actually recommend. None of this is sponsored. If a link is a referral, we say so.
Start here
Read our guides first, then one book. That is enough for month one.
Bitcoin for businesses
Accepting payments, convert vs hold, and Canadian bookkeeping notes.
Books that age well
Buy paper if you can. You will highlight it. Titles and availability change — search your local shop or library.
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Nine pages. The source document. Read it once slowly, then again after you hold some sats.
The Bitcoin Standard
Why hard money matters, in economic history terms. Opinionated. Useful even if you argue with parts of it.
The Price of Tomorrow
Technology, deflation, and why an inflationary unit of account fights the future. A strong Canadian entry point.
Broken Money
How money actually moves: ledgers, credit, and why Bitcoin is a new settlement layer. Dense, fair, current.
Inventing Bitcoin
The shortest technical explainer that still respects the reader. Proof-of-work without the fog.
The Blocksize War
How Bitcoin’s governance actually worked under pressure. Required if you want to understand “who controls this.”
Layered Money
Gold, treasuries, eurodollars, and Bitcoin as a new base layer. Short and structural.
Check Your Financial Privilege
Human rights, capital controls, and why “number go up” is not the whole story.
Canadian tools & people
Independent educators and platforms. Vet them yourself. We are not them.
BTC Sessions
Ben Perrin’s tutorials for wallets, Lightning, and self-custody. Watch before you click.
Bull Bitcoin
Non-custodial Canadian exchange. A different model than an app that holds bitcoin for you.
Shakepay
Beginner on-ramp with Interac. Referral link (disclosed) or go direct.
Learning Bitcoin
Workshops and conferences (Victoria / Vancouver area). Hands-on, not a pitch deck.
Bitcoin Coalition of Canada
Policy and education directory. Useful map of other Canadian educators.
BTCPay Server
Open-source invoicing for businesses that want to control their payment stack.
What we will not list
Leverage products, “yield” on bitcoin, altcoin casinos, recovery services that ask for your seed, and anyone who DMs you first. If a resource cannot survive a boring Tuesday, it does not belong here.