The paperback: a hand pressing an orange button on a cream cover, titled Using Bitcoin

The paperback

Using Bitcoin

$40

A short, illustrated book that walks you to your first bitcoin transaction and stops there, on purpose. For the kitchen table, the friend, the shelf.

What you get

  • The book. 53 pages, 5.5 by 8.5 inches, black line art with orange. Ten short chapters: what bitcoin is, a wallet, the seed phrase, a first transaction, and what to do after.
  • A code worth $10 of BSV. Enter it at using-bitcoin.com/redeem with an address from your wallet, and $10 of BSV at that moment's market rate is sent to it. Your first receive, and enough to do everything in the book.
  • The next room. Every chapter ends with a pointer to a LiveWallet notebook where you do the same thing with working code.

Read it free first

The whole book is online, chapter by chapter, starting at Start Here . There is also a PDF of the current draft (53 pages, 8.4 MB). Buying the paperback keeps the drafts coming.

The coins are for the exercises in the book and for sharing a little with someone else. For more than that, at better rates, use an exchange. The book is a draft edition, updated 2026-10-12; the printed copy you receive is the current build when your order ships.