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Crypto From Zero

Build your financial base and understand the world of crypto. Simple explanations, practical exercises, and one clear path forward. Taught by Alex Lorenzo.

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What this course is, what it isn’t, and how to work through it.

  1. Start with one ordinary question.5 min read

    You can understand the system before you decide what to do with it.

Module 1

What Money Actually Is

How trade becomes a shared record, what useful money needs, and why its purchasing power can change.

  1. Money is a scoreboard.8 min read

    A small story about what makes a trade possible.

  2. What makes good money?7 min read

    A good payment tool has to work on an ordinary day.

  3. The money that stayed still.6 min read

    On Yap, an enormous stone could change owners without moving an inch.

  4. The pile and the trickle.6 min read

    One ratio can describe supply. It cannot tell you a price.

  5. The promise behind the paper.8 min read

    A receipt is convenient. The promise on it is what matters.

  6. What your savings can buy.7 min read

    The number in an account is only half the story.

  7. Follow the money.7 min read

    Bring the first six lessons back to one ordinary market.

Module 2

Build Your Financial Base

See your monthly gap, strengthen your earning power, and give savings a purpose before taking investment risk.

  1. The gap that builds options7 min read

    A little room between what arrives and what is already spoken for.

  2. Your 30-minute money reset8 min read

    One clear picture. One useful change. A reason to come back.

  3. Make the extra work add up.7 min read

    More money coming in is useful when you know what it took to earn it.

  4. Choose a direction you can test.8 min read

    A career question becomes smaller when you look at the actual work.

  5. One hundred applications, with a reason for each.7 min read

    A month of careful attempts, useful feedback, and room to change the plan.

  6. Give each dollar a job9 min read

    Choose a priority before the next surprise chooses it for you.

  7. Addition, then multiplication7 min read

    What you put in and what happens afterward are two different things.

  8. A plan with room to breathe.7 min read

    Bring your cash flow, career plan, and savings decisions together.

Module 3

The Idea of Bitcoin

Copying, centralization, decentralization, and the pieces Bitcoin brought together.

  1. A copy is not a payment.7 min read

    Sending information is easy. Agreeing who can spend is the harder part.

  2. The pieces before Bitcoin.6 min read

    The invention becomes clearer when you see what it was built from.

  3. Make rewriting expensive.7 min read

    Bitcoin checks the rules, then uses work to settle competing histories.

  4. Nine pages, then a network.7 min read

    Bitcoin’s beginning is a record we can examine, not a legend we have to believe.

  5. From a message to an agreement.6 min read

    Try the whole design problem without a slogan to lean on.

Module 4

The Bitcoin Machine

Keys, payments, linked blocks, mining, monetary rules, and the people who adopt them.

  1. Your wallet holds keys.7 min read

    What survives when a phone disappears.

  2. Whose permission moves the money?7 min read

    Two identical balances can mean very different things.

  3. Follow one payment.7 min read

    From a signed instruction to a place in the shared history.

  4. How a blockchain remembers.7 min read

    Change one line and watch the links stop matching.

  5. The race to write the next page.7 min read

    Hard to produce. Quick to check.

  6. What the work protects.7 min read

    A real cost, a specific kind of security, and honest limits.

  7. The rules, and who can change them.7 min read

    A constitution is a useful analogy—if we keep its limits in view.

  8. A supply schedule you can check.7 min read

    What the limit tells you—and what it cannot tell you about price.

  9. Put the Bitcoin machine together.7 min read

    One payment. Several separate jobs.

Module 5

The Bitcoin Story

Important episodes, scaling choices, and the strongest open questions about Bitcoin.

  1. Pizza, a broken exchange, and a disagreement.7 min read

    Early Bitcoin history makes more sense when we separate the lessons.

  2. The market and the machine.7 min read

    A price chart cannot tell you which part failed.

  3. A payment does not need its own page.7 min read

    How Lightning moves repeated payments above the base chain.

  4. Ask better questions about Bitcoin.8 min read

    You do not need a comeback. You need a way to judge a claim.

  5. Read the story without borrowing its certainty.6 min read

    Use history to locate risks, not predict the next ending.

Module 6

Ethereum & Shared Applications

Shared applications, proof of stake, the changing web, and how automated markets work.

  1. From websites to wallets.6 min read

    What changes when a record can outlive the app that shows it.

  2. A shared machine for agreements.6 min read

    Why Ethereum added programs to the public record.

  3. Follow an instruction through Ethereum.6 min read

    An account, a request, and the work needed to update the record.

  4. When the program and the promise disagree.6 min read

    The DAO shows why software rules still lead to human choices.

  5. An unfinished machine, improved in public.5 min read

    Read Ethereum’s history as a sequence of problems and responses.

  6. Another way to agree on the next page.7 min read

    What validators put at risk, and what their stake does not let them decide.

  7. What the shared machine made possible.8 min read

    Payments, loans, markets, and the dependencies underneath them.

  8. A market made of two reserves.6 min read

    How an automated market maker turns an exchange into a rule.

  9. Different pools, different jobs.6 min read

    Why one exchange formula is not ideal for every pair of assets.

  10. The other side of every swap.6 min read

    Why earning fees and making a profit are different things.

  11. Compare the job before the coin.6 min read

    Two networks, different priorities, overlapping capabilities.

  12. Follow the whole application.6 min read

    Connect the record, the program, the market, and the risk.

Module 7

The Rest of Crypto

Tokens, liquidity, incentives, and a disciplined way to investigate a project.

  1. A token is easy. A useful system is hard.6 min read

    Start with what a new token actually proves.

  2. Price, supply, and the buyers on the other side.7 min read

    A tiny price can hide a large valuation.

  3. How a token can lose its reason to exist.7 min read

    Look for failure paths before you fall in love with the story.

  4. Turn a pitch into questions.7 min read

    A small written investigation you can repeat.

  5. Look behind the token.6 min read

    Bring the questions together in one small investigation.

Module 8

Practicing Safely

Custody, transaction checks, recovery, and recognizing dangerous requests.

  1. Start with the life the money supports.7 min read

    The first decision can be to wait.

  2. The address bar comes before the buy button.7 min read

    Make the route into an account part of its protection.

  3. The key stays inside. The decision is yours.8 min read

    Understand the device, the backup, and the approval.

  4. Notice what the request is trying to make you do.8 min read

    The costume changes. The dangerous action is often familiar.

  5. Protect the route, the keys, and the decision.7 min read

    Follow a possible action from intention to recovery.

Module 9

Thinking for Yourself

Uncertain markets, decision habits, and a plan you can explain and revise.

  1. A market pattern is not a timetable.7 min read

    Prepare for a difficult path without pretending to know it.

  2. A feeling is a signal to pause, not a price signal.7 min read

    Give the decision a little room.

  3. Write the page you will want to read later.6 min read

    Your reasons, your limits, and a way to reconsider.

  4. You can keep asking better questions.8 min read

    Read the proposal, check the evidence, and leave room to change your mind.

  5. Keep the explanation clear enough to check.6 min read

    Finish with a decision process you can carry forward.

Reference

Reference

Look things up here any time.

  1. A word should open a door.8 min read

    A quiet reference to return to whenever the language gets in the way.

  2. The questions that tend to stay.11 min read

    Short answers, honest limits, and a route back to the explanation.

Track 2

The CoinPicks System

The strategy, research, and risk management we use, explained in seven parts.

  1. The StrategyRead lesson

    Seven years of live trading, built into an AI system — how much goes in, how it splits, and how every coin earns its spot.

  2. The TerminalComing soon

    Set up the exact trading desk we use — your screens, your accounts, and your AI research assistant — step by step.

  3. The Easiest Explanation of Crypto Ever MadeRead lesson

    What money actually is, why every empire’s currency ends the same way, and what crypto actually is — all in plain English. No jargon, no hype, no assumptions.

  4. The PortfolioComing soon

    How the 20/70/10 split works, why all-in destroys people, and how position sizing protects you.

  5. The ResearchComing soon

    The Liquidity / Demand / Team checklist — how a coin earns its place in the portfolio.

  6. Market DirectionComing soon

    Cycles, first movers, and how to read where the whole market is in its rhythm.

  7. Life EconomicsRead lesson

    The economics of your one life — time, money, energy: why the loop leaks no matter how hard you work, and what actually compounds.