What is money?
Learn the basic jobs money performs, the properties that make those jobs possible, and why different forms of money make different tradeoffs.
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Money Literacy
Before Bitcoin makes sense, money has to make sense. Start with the fundamentals, then follow the questions that matter to savers.
Learn the basic jobs money performs, the properties that make those jobs possible, and why different forms of money make different tradeoffs.
See why a rising account balance and preserved purchasing power are not always the same thing, especially when the future target keeps moving.
Understand supply responsiveness and why the difficulty of creating additional monetary units matters when money is expected to preserve value over time.