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Cryptocurrency 101: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners
Understand crypto and Bitcoin with tokens, DeFi, tokenomics, wallets, and security.
Created byAnalytics Academy
Last updated 2/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Understand how blockchain works (transactions, blocks, hashing, confirmations, and finality).
- Explain the difference between major crypto asset types: Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, altcoins, memecoins, and tokens vs coins.
- Set up and use crypto wallets safely (custodial vs self-custody, hot vs cold storage, seed phrase protection, avoiding scams).
- Describe how crypto exchanges work (CEX vs DEX), including liquidity, spreads, slippage, order types, fees, and leverage risks.
- Understand mining and staking at a practical level (how they secure networks, how rewards work, and key risks).
- Use a structured framework to research any crypto project (utility, team, tokenomics, security, red flags).
- Understand DeFi basics (lending/borrowing, AMMs, liquidity pools, impermanent loss, smart-contract risk).
- Recognize market cycles and what moves crypto (liquidity, narratives, sentiment, macro influence, leverage/liquidations).
- Apply beginner-friendly strategies and risk management (DCA vs lump sum, portfolio sizing, rules-based plan, avoiding FOMO/overtrading).
- Know global regulatory and tax concepts at a high level and how to track transactions for reporting in your jurisdiction.
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Course content
15 sections • 15 lectures • 1h 47m total length
Requirements
- No Prerequisites Required
Description
This course contains the use of Artificial Intelligence. Welcome to Cryptocurrency 101, a complete beginner guide to crypto and Bitcoin designed to make everything simple, structured, and practical.
You will start by understanding what cryptocurrency is, how Bitcoin works, and why blockchain matters. You will clearly learn how a crypto transaction actually happens, what networks are, how fees work, and why these concepts control speed, cost, and safety in real life.
Next, you will master the most important real world foundations: how wallets work, the difference between hot wallets and cold wallets, and why private keys and seed phrases are the most critical part of crypto ownership. You will learn how to use exchanges the right way so you can buy, sell, store, and transfer crypto safely, while also learning how to spot and avoid scams, phishing, fake apps, rug pulls, and common beginner traps.
As you build confidence, the course moves into the modern ecosystem where most people get confused. You will understand tokens and how they differ from coins like Bitcoin, then learn tokenomics in a clear way, including supply, circulating supply, max supply, inflation, burns, and why these directly shape price behavior over time. You will also learn DeFi fundamentals including how decentralized exchanges work, what liquidity pools are, and why concepts like staking, lending, and yield exist, along with the major risks such as smart contract risk and impermanent loss.
Finally, you will build a strong decision framework so you can think like a smart participant, not a gambler. You will understand market cycles, volatility, and risk management, learn beginner friendly rules for investing, and gain the confidence to follow crypto news and narratives without confusion.
By the end of this course, you will have a solid foundation in crypto and Bitcoin, know how to use wallets and exchanges safely, understand tokens, DeFi, and tokenomics, and make decisions with a security first mindset.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone Who Wants to Dive into the World of Cryptocurrency