March Plan ₿ Academy Newsletter

Hello Plan ₿ Academy!

Welcome to our newsletter, where we keep you in the loop as we continue together learning about Bitcoin. This newsletter is designed especially for you, students. Each month, you’ll receive a clear snapshot of what we’ve been working on, to support you on your Bitcoin journey.

Let’s dive in!

📘 New Learning Content

Course Spotlight: Bitcoin's Pioneering Era (HIS203)

The intermediate course of Bitcoin's Pioneering Era by Ludovic Lars is now available in all languages! This one will take you back in time to the history of Bitcoin between 2011 and 2012. This era marked Bitcoin's first economic battles and successes. While you may have heard of this period through Silk Road and Mt. Gox, in this course we explore the full pioneering, community-based era that shaped Bitcoin into what it became nowadays. Join the challenge with the free 15 hours journey. Start it now!

Educator Content!

Plan ₿ Academy now offers a dedicated space for Bitcoin educators to share and access educational resources created by the community, for the community. We know educators put tremendous effort into creating presentations, flyers, and workshops, often recreating resources that already exist elsewhere. This section helps educators support each other and reduce duplicated work. Be stronger together.

Share materials in nine categories (Art, Booklet, Curriculum, Flyer, Game, Presentation, Sticker, Workshop, Other). Your work gains global visibility and you can track your impact through download statistics. Your work deserves more than staying in a folder. It deserves to orange-pill the world. Check it out!

Tutorial Highlight!

Once again, we've selected a few for you to explore something new:

Encourage Bitcoin Payments – Ready to accept Bitcoin? In this tutorial by Paolo, we explore how to attract Bitcoin spenders with smart incentives, offer perks instead of cutting prices, and make your BTC acceptance visible online and in-store. Turn "we accept Bitcoin" into real usage.

Debifi – Borrowing against BTC can help us avoid selling, but it comes with one big rule: managing your LTV. This Debifi guide walks through offers, multisig escrow, stablecoin payout, margin calls, and best practices to stay safe.

Dojo – Your wallet shouldn't leak your addresses to random servers. Dojo lets us self-host the backend for privacy-focused wallets, connected to our own Bitcoin node. No intermediaries, less metadata leakage, more sovereignty. Step-by-step tutorial by Loïc Morel.

🌍 Plan ₿ Community

Community Calls

We continue with our bi-monthly community meetings to discuss Bitcoin-related topics! Our Community Calls are open and free to join. Whether you're here to learn, ask questions, or just listen in, you're always welcome. And if you enjoy contributing, join the Plan ₿ Community. Join the community!

Next Community Calls Planned:

On March 12th, 5PM (GMT+1) — "Vibe Coded Community Tools"
Join Rogzy, our co-founder, for a session on leveraging AI to vibe code tools into existence. He'll showcase a new Content-to-PDF tool that converts all Plan ₿ Network courses into PDFs ready to be taught anywhere! Join here!
March 26th, 5PM (GMT+1) — "Cashu Mint & Sovereign Communities"
Join Rogzy and Profedustream for a discussion on sovereignty through anonymity tools, and the story behind the first French community Cashu mint in Lille! Join here!

Replay Available:

This past February Rogzy and Marco from Specterled some interesting sessions on "Inside the Academy" and "Building your own Hardware Wallet". Curious on how how it went? –Watch Replays

🔥 Spotlight: Plan ₿ Program Program Update

We’re now at Week 5 of the Plan ₿ Program, and the energy is incredible! After completing the Bitcoin Fundamentals together, our Developer and Business tracks have split into their specialized Masterclasses.

Developer Track students have been diving deep into the Bitcoin Protocol and learning how to contribute to the Bitcoin open-source ecosystem, and about to get technical with the Lightning Protocol and Swaps!

Business track have explored Market Research, startup planning strategies, and the intricacies of Banking Business Models in Bitcoin. This week they are stepping into Legal Frameworks and hiring processes and building a team in the Bitcoin industry!

Thanks to Nicolas Burtey, Keto Miner, Jon Atack, and Alexandre Bussutil for joining us with their Masterclasses! And to everyone coming up next this March.
Follow up on our updates!

⚡ Learning Tool of the Month: Bitchat

This month we highlight Bitchat, a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app that operates over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet required, no servers, no phone numbers.

Traditional messaging apps depend on centralized infrastructure that can be monitored, censored, or disabled. Bitchat creates ad-hoc networks using devices in physical proximity, providing censorship resistance, surveillance resistance, and infrastructure independence. With all the geopolitical troubles lately, it's been gaining popularity, surging download numbers in Uganda and Iran some weeks ago, and this week in Iraq.
Check it out!

💡 Is Bitcoin Truly Unique?

In his latest blog post, Damien Theillier tackles a heated debate: Is Bitcoin a tool of the libertarian far right or an instrument of liberation for the left?

His key argument: despite superficial quarrels, left and right share a common belief in the power of the state. Bitcoin's DNA, however, is not ideological but cryptographic, rooted in the Cypherpunk philosophy of privacy, self-ownership, and voluntary interactions. The real political divide is not between left and right, but between freedom and coercion.
Read the full post!

Thanks for learning with us. If you’d ever prefer not to receive these updates, you can opt out at any time, no hard feelings. That said, we truly hope you’ll stay with us, as we’re excited to keep sharing what we’re building and learning together.

Keep studying, keep exploring, and keep pushing your Bitcoin education forward.
See you next month! We’re glad you’re here.

The Plan ₿ Academy Team