I've been around Bitcoin long enough to know the talking points. Decentralized. 21 million cap. Digital gold. But knowing the talking points and understanding the system are two very different things and I didn't fully appreciate that gap until I started the Btrust Builders Mastering Bitcoin pathway. Six weeks later, I think differently about Bitcoin. Not just what it is, but how it works, why it was designed that way, and what it actually takes to build on it. What I thought I knew Going in, I had developer experience and enough Bitcoin familiarity to feel comfortable in most conversations. I knew about Taproot. I'd heard of Lightning. I understood HD wallets at a surface level. What I didn't have was the connective tissue the why behind the design decisions, the tradeoffs that shaped the protocol, the mental models that make everything else make sense. That's what this pathway built.…