Learn Crypto
New to crypto, or filling in the gaps? Work through our guides from first principles — beginner to advanced — then explore live data and the glossary. Clear, honest and jargon-free — never financial advice.
Reading The Digital Take
How to interpret Bitcoin Digital's signature analysis module — what each panel means, how to use it, and why it is context rather than a buy or sell call.
Beginner
Brand new? Start here with the core ideas — what crypto is, how wallets work, and how to stay safe.
Avoiding Crypto Scams: A Beginner's Guide to Common Tricks and Red Flags
A practical guide to the most common cryptocurrency scams, from fake trading-bot apps to rug pulls, and the red flags that give them away.
Read → Beginner · 5 minHow Cryptocurrency Works: The Mental Model Every Beginner Needs
Before you look at any specific coin, it helps to understand the shared mechanics — ledgers, keys, transactions, and consensus — that make cryptocurrency work at all.
Read → Beginner · 6 minHow to Buy Your First Crypto Safely: A Beginner's Guide
A step-by-step walkthrough of buying your first cryptocurrency safely, from picking an exchange to moving your coins into a wallet you control.
Read → Beginner · 6 minHow to Read a Crypto Price Chart: A Beginner's Guide
Candlesticks, timeframes, volume, and support and resistance: the basic vocabulary for reading a price chart, and why a chart describes the past, not the future.
Read → Beginner · 5 minCrypto Wallets Explained: Custody, Security, and Seed Phrases
A wallet doesn't store your coins — it stores the keys that prove you own them. Here's how custodial, self-custody, hot, and cold wallets differ, and how to keep one safe.
Read → Beginner · 6 minWhat Is Bitcoin? A Beginner's Guide
Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency with a fixed, predictable supply. This guide explains what it is, how it works, and how to think about the risks before you dig deeper.
Read → Beginner · 5 minWhat Is Ethereum? A Beginner's Guide
Ethereum is a programmable blockchain that runs smart contracts. Here's how it works, what ETH and gas are for, and what the network makes possible.
Read →Intermediate
Comfortable with the basics? Go deeper on markets, DeFi, stablecoins and consensus.
Consensus Mechanisms Explained: Proof of Work, Proof of Stake and Beyond
A deeper look at how blockchains agree on a shared transaction history, comparing the security, energy and centralisation trade-offs of proof of work and proof of stake alongside a few other models.
Read → Intermediate · 6 minHow Market Cap and Supply Work in Crypto
A clear, worked explanation of how market capitalisation is calculated, why supply figures vary so much between coins, and why price alone rarely tells the full story.
Read → Intermediate · 6 minIntro to DeFi: How Decentralised Finance Works
A beginner-friendly walkthrough of decentralised finance: exchanges, lending, liquidity pools, and the wallet and smart contract risks worth understanding before you connect.
Read → Intermediate · 4 minReading The Digital Take
How to interpret Bitcoin Digital's signature analysis module — what each panel means, how to use it, and why it is context rather than a buy or sell call.
Read → Intermediate · 6 minUnderstanding Crypto Fees and Gas: Why Transactions Cost What They Cost
How network fees and Ethereum-style gas actually work, why costs swing so much from one moment to the next, and how network fees, exchange fees and withdrawal fees differ.
Read → Intermediate · 6 minUnderstanding Stablecoins: How They Work and Where the Risks Are
How fiat-backed, crypto-backed, and algorithmic stablecoins are designed to hold a steady value, and the reserve, transparency, and depeg risks worth understanding before you rely on one.
Read →Advanced
Ready to think like an analyst? On-chain data, market cycles and disciplined risk management.
Crypto Market Cycles Explained: A Framework, Not a Forecast
A look at the psychology behind recurring crypto market cycles, a common four-phase lens for understanding them, and why treating the halving as a countdown clock is a mistake.
Read → Advanced · 6 minReading On-Chain Data: A Framework for Advanced Analysis
What on-chain analytics are, how to interpret common metrics like active addresses and exchange flows responsibly, and where this kind of analysis reaches its limits.
Read → Advanced · 6 minRisk Management and Position Sizing in Crypto: A Practical Framework
How risk of ruin, position sizing, diversification limits and leverage fit together, and why only risking what you can afford to lose is the foundation of all of it. Not financial advice.
Read →Latest from the newsroom
Fresh explainers and analysis to put the fundamentals in context.