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Introduction to Cryptocurrency
What crypto is, why people use it, and where Bitcoin began.
A warm welcome from CryptoGranma™
Dear Friend,
I’m so glad you’re here. If crypto feels confusing, or you’re wondering where to begin, pull up a chair. You don’t have to understand everything today, and you don’t have to buy anything to start learning.
I put this checklist together to help you find your footing, one small step at a time. We’ll explore the basics, learn how to stay safe, practice with pretend money, and get to know everything available in CryptoGranma Free™. Each lesson gives you something simple to try. With a Free account, you can save your checkoffs and come back to continue.
Take your time. Look up an unfamiliar word. Revisit a lesson whenever you need to. Asking questions and moving carefully are good habits here.
When you reach the end, I’ll show you how CryptoGranma Pro™ can help you keep learning. You’re welcome to stay with Free for as long as you like. For now, let’s begin together.
Your classroom overview
New to crypto? Begin here. Open a numbered step below, choose a short lesson, try its activity, and check it off. Take one step at a time. No purchase, exchange account, or real money is needed.
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Understand crypto
Start with what crypto is and one important risk.
Learn the basics
Learn how blockchains, wallets, and exchanges fit together.
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Understand Blockchain Technology
Follow a transaction through blocks, validation, and a shared record.
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Crypto Wallets: Hot vs. Cold
Compare connected wallets, offline storage, and who controls the keys.
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Explore Crypto Exchanges
Learn how centralized and decentralized exchanges differ before any trade.
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Use Your Free Crypto Glossary
Find unfamiliar words without trying to memorize everything.
Learn to stay safe
Recognize scams and protect account and wallet information.
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Build Your Crypto Safety Habits
Pause, verify, and protect before taking any action.
Practice with pretend money
Work through one guided paper exercise. No money or wallet needed.
Your first practice trade
You do not need to know every trading term to begin. Let’s learn the process with pretend money. Nothing here buys or sells real crypto.
Choose a coin
Choose Asset and enter Quantity. A fraction such as 0.01 means part of one coin.
Check the cost
Review the current market quote, order value, simulated fee, and virtual cash needed. Wait for a quote before saving.
Save your practice buy
Add an optional learning note, then select Save practice buy. Your holding and activity record will appear on the right.
Complete the matching sell
When you are ready, sell the full quantity of that same coin. The Free form fills it in for you. Review the new quote and select Save practice sell.
Review what you learned
Check your realized result after both fees here or on Dashboard. Free includes this one buy-and-sell cycle; Pro adds full Lab access.
Granma’s reminder: Free practice uses market quotes and a simulated 0.1% fee on each side. Prices may change before saving. Your practice result is not real money.
What do these words mean?
- Quantity
- The number of coin units in your practice trade. It can be a fraction of a coin; it is not the dollar amount.
- Virtual cash
- Pretend money used for practice. It cannot be deposited, spent, or withdrawn.
- Fee
- A simulated cost added to a buy or deducted from a sell. Include both fees when reviewing your result.
- Holdings / position
- The coin units you bought in practice and have not yet sold.
- Allocation
- The share of your virtual portfolio represented by each holding or by cash.
- Unrealized gain/loss
- The estimated change in a holding’s value before you sell it.
- Realized gain/loss / P/L
- The saved profit or loss after a practice sell, including recorded fees. P/L means profit or loss.
- Market quote
- A recent price from the market-data provider. The server checks a fresh quote when you save your Free practice trade.
Need another definition? Open the CryptoGranma glossary.
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Try One Guided Paper Exercise
Use fictional prices and pretend money to learn a decision process.
Explore all your Free tools
Tour the dashboard, Market View, Watchlist, free Resources, planner, and newsletter.
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Find Your Way Around the Dashboard
Learn where to find your Free tools and how to read Market View.
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Build a Learning Watchlist
Organize assets you want to study, without making a purchase.
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Use Free Resources and Your Printable Planner
Keep a reference and a simple place to organize your learning.
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Read the Newsletter and Keep Learning
Build a small routine you can return to without feeling overwhelmed.
Your classroom tools
Optional: make a learning plan
Use this whenever you want to give your learning a little direction.
OPTIONAL • YOUR LEARNING GOAL
Set Goals and Make a Vision Board
Decide what you want to learn before considering any financial action.
Educational information only. Crypto carries risk, including loss. The paper exercise uses fictional prices and pretend money. These lessons are not financial, investment, tax, or legal advice.
Continue with CryptoGranma Pro™
You can keep using Free for as long as you like. When you want more practice and deeper research, Pro adds to what you have learned here.
What can I do with Pro?
- CryptoGranma Paper Trading Lab™: continue simulated practice beyond your one Free trade, plan entries and exits, and review your learning history. Prices in the Lab are fixed samples.
- Notes & Calendar: save and edit private learning notes online instead of relying only on the printable planner.
- 10-Bot Research Lab: explore research questions, connected evidence, source times, and missing data. The bots organize research; they do not promise forecasts.
- Alerts & Exports: set supported coin price thresholds and export available research. Prices are checked on arrival or when you press Check prices now; there is no automatic background monitoring. Optional browser notifications depend on permission. This is not an email or text alert service.
- News & Insights and Backtesting & Reports: connect news to market context and examine historical source coverage. A coverage report is not a tested trading return.
- Pro resource guides and the CryptoGranma Index™ research workspace: study tax recordkeeping, technical analysis, and paper-trading exit planning. The Index remains in research; no validated live coin score is published.
How do I continue after upgrading?
- Review the membership page. Pro is $9.99 per month; cancel anytime.
- Use the same email as your Free account when subscribing. Keep using that account so your saved learning progress stays with you.
- Follow the purchase-verification instructions on the membership page. If access is not ready, use Request Pro access there or Contact Us.
- Start in Notes & Calendar with a learning goal, then try the Paper Trading Lab. Explore research and alerts when you understand the Free foundations.
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