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Explore Bitcoin hands-on

Simple tools to find your setup, test the numbers, and pick your favorites. Real data, nothing saved about you.

01Build your stack

Find your Bitcoin setup in 5 questions

Answer five quick questions and get a personal lineup (a wallet, gear, an app, a book, a podcast, and a website) so you know exactly where to start.

1.How much bitcoin experience do you have?
2.Where will you mostly use bitcoin?
3.How important is privacy to you?
4.Budget for gear?
5.Right now you'd rather…
We save nothing. Your answers live only in the link.
02What-if calculator

What if you'd bought bitcoin?

Plug in a date and an amount to see what a one-time or monthly bitcoin buy would be worth today versus the S&P 500, so you can understand bitcoin's real track record.

Starting · Jan 2018

If you'd put $100 a month into bitcoin since January 2018, you'd have

$52,760
Total invested
$10,600
Multiple
5.0×
Same in S&P 500
$21,870
Same in cash (real)
$9,087
BitcoinS&P 500 (SPY)Cash, inflation-adjustedInvestedLog scale
$100$300$1,000$3,000$10,000$30,000Jan 2018Dec 2020Nov 2023Oct 2026

Buys on the first trading week of each month at Yahoo Finance weekly closes (BTC-USD; SPY adjusted close, dividends reinvested). Cash is each deposit's purchasing power using FRED CPI (through 2026-09). Data as of 2026-10-16. No fees or taxes. Past performance doesn't guarantee future results. Not financial advice.

03Head to head

Pick your favorite. Shape the rankings.

Two Bitcoin picks, side by side: thought leaders, books, wallets, podcasts, and more. Tap your favorite to discover something new; every pick counts as a community upvote.

Pick a battle:

Who would you rather learn from?

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Picks count as upvotes in our community rankings, with the same one-vote-per-item and anti-abuse rules as everywhere else. Your battle count is stored only in this browser.

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