Hello everyone, I’m James Odom, and I’m excited to officially kick off Blockchain University. Our first course is now live: BHS 101 – The Birth of Bitcoin. This is a primary-source based course focused on Bitcoin’s origin story as a historical and technical event. We cover the problem Bitcoin was solving, early digital cash experiments, Satoshi’s design priorities, the whitepaper’s key decisions, the genesis block, early mining, and what Bitcoin’s early years teach us about security, decentralization, and scalability. If you’re new here, start at the Introduction and work your way down the lesson list at your own pace. If you’re experienced, you’ll still get value from revisiting the original context and seeing how the early design tradeoffs shaped everything that came after. Quick intro questions: Comment below with (1) your background level (new, intermediate, advanced) and (2) what you want to learn most in crypto right now. Glad you’re here. Let’s build more amazing content moving forward!