Crypto 101
What is cryptocurrency and what does it all mean?
The plain-English starting point: what crypto is, and what it is not.
Education only · not financial advice
Learn the game
Learn the game
before you play it
Step-by-step lessons on how crypto actually works, from setting up an exchange account to buying and selling safely. No signals group, no promises, no "next hundred-x". Just the mechanics, explained by someone who already made the expensive mistakes.
Live prices shown for context only. Nothing on this page is a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and past movement tells you nothing about what happens next.
LoadingWhere we stand
We are not a signals group, and you should be suspicious of the ones that are
If someone can reliably predict the market, they do not need your fifty dollars a month. That single sentence would have saved most people we know a great deal of money.
What we sell is the education. How the plumbing works. What custody means and why it matters. How to size a position so a bad call costs you a small amount instead of your retirement. How to write down a plan before you are emotional, and how to hold it when you are.
Kurt publishes what he is watching and, more importantly, why. You get the reasoning, so that after a few months you no longer need him for it. That is the point.
Things we will never do
- Tell you what to buy or when to sell
- Ask you to send us funds, ever, for any reason
- Take custody of your assets or your keys
- Promise a return, a range, or a timeline
- Take payment from a project to feature it
- Pretend the last trade went better than it did
Risk warning
Digital assets are speculative and highly volatile. You can lose everything you put in, quickly.
We are not registered investment advisers or broker-dealers and we do not give personalized
investment advice. Read the full financial disclaimer before you act on anything here.
In the member library today
Eight lessons, from the basics to your first buy
Work at your own pace, and ask our team questions at any point. Education only, never a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
Crypto 102
Before you get started with crypto
What to understand, and what to have in place, before any money moves.
Crypto 103
Setting up Coinbase
Creating and verifying an exchange account, step by step.
Crypto 104
Setting up Binance
The same walk-through for a second exchange.
Crypto 105
What is Bitcoin and how does it work?
The basics of the original coin, without the hype.
Crypto 106
How to use CoinMarketCap
Reading the numbers on the most common price-tracking site.
Crypto 107
Buying on Coinbase, sending to Binance
Moving funds from one exchange to another.
Crypto 108
Buy and sell orders on Binance
How the different order types work before you place one.
A risk lesson in miniature
The math nobody wants to do first
Almost every painful story starts the same way: a position far too large, taken because it felt obvious at the time.
So do this instead. Decide the total you could genuinely lose without changing your life. Decide the most you will put at risk on any single idea. Then the size of your position is simple arithmetic rather than a feeling.
Move the sliders. The number on the right is the most you would put into one position, and how many consecutive bad calls it would take before you were meaningfully down.
This is an illustration of a common risk framework, not a recommendation and not advice about your situation. It ignores fees, tax, slippage and correlation, all of which make real outcomes worse.
$5,000
$500$50,000
2%
1%15%
Max risk per position
$100
the amount you accept losing if that idea fails
Bad calls to lose a quarter of it
13
in a row, with no wins between them
Money questions
The ones people ask twice
Never. You pay a membership fee for education and that is the only money that changes hands. Your exchange accounts and your wallets are yours, opened by you, controlled by you. Anybody in this space who asks you to send them funds to trade on your behalf is doing something you should walk away from.
No, and we deliberately do not offer that. Copying somebody else's position without their reasoning, their size, their time horizon or their tolerance is how people get badly hurt. What you get is the reasoning, published in writing, so you can decide for yourself.
The education is suitable for anyone. Whether holding volatile assets is suitable for you is a different question, and one for a qualified financial adviser who knows your full circumstances. Our honest general position: money you will need inside five years does not belong anywhere near this asset class.
That is a completely reasonable outcome and several members have reached it. Understanding the space well enough to decide it is not for you is worth the price on its own, and it makes you much harder to scam.
We are not registered investment advisers, broker-dealers or financial planners, and we do not hold ourselves out as any of those. Everything provided is general educational content. If you want advice tailored to your circumstances, you need a licensed professional in your jurisdiction.
Understand it first. Decide later.
The curriculum comes with the same membership as the coaching. Fifty dollars a month, cancel whenever you like, and no one will ever ask you to send them a coin.