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Articles for women who want to understand Bitcoin before doing anything. Written from Switzerland, with sources, and without price predictions. Where something is specific to Swiss rules, it says so.
Bitcoin genuinely uses a lot of electricity, I will not dispute that. It gets interesting with the three questions underneath: where the power comes from, what it does along the way, and how we decide what energy “deserves”.
Read the articleAfter more than a hundred sessions and courses I know fairly precisely which questions come first. Here they are, with the short version of each answer.
Read the articleCompanies must grow, prices must not fall, and someone must be able to step in during a crisis. Three sentences that sound self-evident. Let us take them one at a time.
Read the articleOne of the most common questions at my sessions, and a good one. The answer has two halves, and the more surprising half is not about Bitcoin at all.
Read the articleBitcoin swings, nobody disputes that. The real question is a different one: how long does it take for something new to become money, and what should you expect along the way?
Read the articleOn Bitcoin, the distance between men and women is wider than on almost any other money question. The obvious explanations do not hold up.
Read the articleIf you moved to Switzerland, the rules you carry in your head are almost certainly the wrong ones. Here the gain is not the tax event. The holding is.
Read the articleLegally your Bitcoin passes to your heirs like any other asset. In practice they receive nothing at all unless you prepared the access while you were alive.
Read the articleA Swiss study asked people why they had never invested in Bitcoin. The most common answer was not fear of losing money, and it was not doubt about the technology.
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Ten pages that take you from your first question to your first amount in self-custody. No prior knowledge needed, reading time about fifteen minutes. Straight to your inbox as a PDF.