Crypto For Business

This course, beginning with this lesson, focuses on immediate solutions. We'll begin by explaining the material we'll cover and the two examples we'll use throughout: Alice’s Garden Supply e-commerce Shop and Bob’s Food and Liquor, a corner store.

Cryptocurrencies really are different than the money we grew up using, and so we'll explain the things you can do with it in this lesson. Cryptos allow you to do things that government money cannot.

In this lesson we go through the nuts and bolts of using cryptocurrencies in your business. We'll explain how both Alice and Bob will use cryptocurrencies for their businesses, and get you started yourself.

Test what you have learned about Bitcoin and how businesses can use it and other cryptocurrencies.

There are many ways of obtaining cryptocurrencies, and every user will find different preferences. The lesson will help you find which is best for you, and to teach you about the others, as your needs may change over time.

Online crypto exchanges are a significant part of the overall crypto infrastructure, and in this lesson we'll teach you how to deal with them... safely.

Local and Online markets for obtaining and selling cryptocurrencies have existed almost since the beginning and have some advantages over large, online exchanges. They are easy, cheap and safe... once you understand them.

Where you store your cryptocurrency is a crucial decision. As we noted in earlier lessons, crypto can be handled with extreme safety, but you must know what to do. In this lesson, you'll learn how to handle crypto storage.

Backing up your keys and seeds properly is fast and easy. You just need to know how to do it. This lesson gives you all the details you need.

Crypto has some pretty amazing functionality that you can't get with other forms of money. Here we'll give you an overview of two of those features.

Test your knowledge on obtaining and best practices for storing cryptocurrencies.

The methods of accepting cryptocurrencies range from the trivially simple to the sophisticated. This lesson makes you familiar with them.

The nuts and bolts of accepting crypto with a mobile wallet or crypto Point-of-Sale system.

An overview of crypto payment processors.

The Lightning Network is a sales dream, allowing immediate all sorts of transactions at extremely low costs, including micro-transactions down to a fraction of a cent.

The BTCPay system gives small businesses tremendous abilities, and fast. This lesson shows you how to get up and running quickly.

Setting up a BTCPay server will certainly not be the first thing you'll do for your business, but it may end up as one of the best things you've done.

Open Bazaar is a crypto marketplace: Decentralized, fast, peer-to-peer and effective. More than that, it's surprisingly simple and easy to use.

Test your knowledge on the various methods for accepting crypto payments.

Running a full node gives you financial sovereignty. Learn about full nodes in this lesson.

Transaction fees are very important to the functioning of cryptocurrency networks. Learn what you need to know about them in this lesson.

How long do you need to wait for a transaction to be confirmed and secure? How can you check on the status of a transaction? We'll explain in this lesson.

Test your new knowledge on nodes, fees and confirmations.