What Is Money?
Money explained from first principles — what it is, the properties of good money, and why sound money matters.
Free courses and lessons with quizzes to test what you learned — from total beginner to advanced. Works over Tor, no JavaScript required. 10 courses, 62 lessons and counting.
Money explained from first principles — what it is, the properties of good money, and why sound money matters.
A plain-English introduction to cryptocurrency: digital money you can hold and send without a bank.
Why cryptocurrency exists: censorship, inflation, gatekeepers, and trusting third parties with your money.
An overview of all the routes to acquire XMR and the trade-offs between them.
How centralized exchanges work, what KYC means, and the risks of buying Monero with your identity attached.
How to get Monero by swapping another coin with no account and no KYC, straight to your wallet.
Privacy isn't one-size-fits-all — define who you're protecting against before choosing tools.
Hiding the network layer with Tor and I2P so your IP doesn't undermine Monero's on-chain privacy.
The subtle ways you can deanonymize yourself around an otherwise-private transaction.
Every course ends with a quiz so you can prove to yourself the material stuck.
Start with the basics