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Articles on the history of money, Bitcoin and other high-growth, high-risk digital assets, custody and the psychology of long-term investing. Free to read.
Education · 4 min read
A new fortnightly series working through the CWG course in order, from the first lesson to the last. Part 1 covers why a course about digital wealth begins with fiat money and inflation, before mentioning anything you could buy.
Education · 5 min read
If your savings never seem to stretch as far as they used to, the problem may not be you. It may be the money itself. Here's what sound money means, and why it matters before you think about Bitcoin.
Education · 5 min read
Most of us know prices go up. Fewer of us stop to ask what that means for the money we've set aside. Here are five simple reflection questions that help it sink in.
Education · 5 min read
Your savings balance can grow while what it buys quietly shrinks. Here's why money loses value over time, with plain examples from the US, Australia and around the world.
Education · 5 min read
Worried inflation is quietly eating your savings, but no time to research? A simple question about supply can show you more about what you hold than most portfolio reports.
Education · 5 min read
You've heard inflation is eating your savings, but how much, exactly? Here's a simple three-step way to work out the inflation impact on your own savings, and what the answer can and can't tell you.
Education · 5 min read
Your balance hasn't dropped and your pay went up, yet everything feels tighter. Here's how inflation erodes savings, wages and retirement income quietly, and why it hits different people in different ways.
Education · 5 min read
Currency collapse sounds like something from a history book. Look closer and the same pattern turns up again and again, and it has a quieter lesson for anyone watching inflation nibble at their savings.
Education · 5 min read
Your savings balance goes up, yet it seems to buy less every year. Here's a plain-English look at how fiat money and inflation work, who carries the cost, and what history does and doesn't tell us.
Education · 5 min read
Most people jump straight to the price of Bitcoin. To understand what problem Bitcoin was built to solve, you first need to understand how inflation quietly works on your savings.
Wealth Mindset · 3 min read
The greatest risk to your stored economic energy is not the market or technology — it is the predictable psychological biases operating inside every human mind. Explore the gap between knowing and doing, and why awareness is the first step toward disciplined action.
Education · 8 min read
Discipline is what separates those who preserve their stored economic energy from those who don't. The ninth instalment in our Seashells to Satoshis series explores practical ways to build the long-term discipline that protects your wealth.
Education · 7 min read
Protect your stored economic energy with the right mindset and protective habits. Week 7 of Seashells to Satoshis covers the psychology of risk, common digital economy pitfalls, and practical scam avoidance strategies.
Education · 7 min read
This final week of our Seashells to Satoshis series brings everything together into the most practical topic: custody, security, and building your personal long-term strategy.
Education · 7 min read
The blockchain is best viewed not as hype, but as a practical solution to longstanding problems of trust and verification in monetary systems — supporting the six timeless properties of sound money.
Education · 5 min read
The most important takeaways from the free chapter and the full book, designed to help you protect your stored economic energy as you navigate the new digital economy.
Education · 6 min read
One of history's most successful practical applications of sound money principles — the gold standard — and the lessons it offers for navigating the new digital economy.
Education · 6 min read
Money is the vessel we use to store the value of our time, skill, labour, and ingenuity. For thousands of years, six timeless properties have determined whether a monetary system preserves or erodes that stored economic energy — and they still apply today.
Education · 8 min read
For thousands of years, the value created by human effort has been stored as economic energy. Money is simply the vessel we use to hold, protect, and transfer that energy across time and distance.