Learn crypto from the people who use it.
Not a course. Nobody here is selling anything, and nothing on this page tells you to buy or do a thing. These are people on their own streets explaining what they know, in their own words, and you can search every word of it.
Read it in any order. If one word stops you, the glossary has sixteen of them in plain language. If one piece is not enough, the question What is Ethereum? was put to people in several cities and their answers sit side by side.
These are the speakers’ own words, as they said them. We have not checked their claims, and nothing here is financial advice.
Start with the question.
What is it, in plain words, from people who were asked cold.
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Kafani asks UNILAG students what Ethereum is and then actually teaches it: create a wallet, never share your seed phrase, you can start with a dollar, and she onboards one student live and sends him ETH.
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John walks through the specs of a tiny Android phone he uses to make browsing less addictive, then explains the peer-to-peer browser plugin he wrote and the difference between a relay server and a cloud server.
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One question on the streets of Mumbai, asked of person after person, and almost nobody has heard the word.
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A Kenyan dancer who came into crypto through content rather than trading explains how he ended up as a brand mascot, and makes the case for other creators to follow.
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A Kenyan founder explains how blockchain financing reaches coffee farmers, and how somebody who drinks coffee becomes somebody who invests in growing it.
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The organiser of a Nairobi creator event explains the gap she built it to close: Africa has plenty of influencers in fintech and fashion and almost none in crypto.
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Eight minutes in New York with a songwriter who records under the name Hashdrown, mostly about what happens to music platforms when the money runs out.
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Denver, March 2026, in front of a graffiti wall, two brothers from Texas, engineers, one of whom lives here now.
What it is for.
Inflation, remittances, savings, and a bank account that is not a bank.
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A builder walks through currency debasement versus inflation, uses the 2022 rate-hike period as counter-evidence, and explains decentralized oracles and supply-demand effects of L2s, so a listener could repeat the...
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A hackathon pitch for Hakiba explains how staking last month's crypto salary could cover this month's rent, cites sub-Saharan underbanked figures, and lays out the build plan including a smart contract and an AI...
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Daniel works the arithmetic of $200,000 in cash being worth $160,000 after inflation, explains hedging by saving and staking stablecoins, and describes the prize money and scholarships he wants to fund for students...
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A near-hour live preview class where Maceo teaches beginners (including his own mother) dedollarization, how Federal Reserve printing erodes wages, why Bitcoin's 21 million cap matters, what a DAO and a wallet are,...
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Elon McCullough of Credentials explains zero knowledge proofs as verifying data without seeing it, what open banking means and why Ghana and Kenya lack it, and how gig and creator income is invisible to lenders,...
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Forty minutes in Gwagwalada, Abuja, at the end of Maceo's first trip to West Africa, with the person he calls his most active community member.
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A couple on East Colfax explain the split between Denver and the rest of Colorado, argue the internet is the best thing that ever happened to the planet and possibly bad for each person on it, and ask
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Two men outside an arcade on Colfax are asked whether the internet makes the truth easier or harder to reach, and end up answering something harder: whether they are the gentrifiers, and what it feels
How it gets built.
Developers, hackathons, DAOs and the people who write the contracts.
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The lead author of ERC-721 explains NFTs as the link between crypto and commercial things, why Argentines prefer Bitcoin to a peso that only falls, what a public good is, and his 'moon dust' idea of bringing crypto's...
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Maggie of Unlink gives a beginner-level explainer on what crypto is, what ETH is, what composability means for Ethereum builders, and how cross-border remittances avoid a thousand-dollar fee on five thousand dollars,...
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A Kenyan developer at a Nairobi hackathon explains the digital-ID app he is building for refugees and undocumented people who cannot access loans, alongside long if sometimes garbled explanations of blockchain,...
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Tomás, 27, from Argentina explains his shared liquidity pool design and just-in-time liquidity injection, and ties his interest in stablecoins to years of Argentine currency collapse; a single "hell yeah" is the only...
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An Estonian builder explains her country's early government-run private blockchain, e-voting, e-residency and zero corporate tax, then defines Ethereum and Bitcoin against each other and pitches the Logos stack and...
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An Ethiopian founder gives a clear structured pitch, naming the five roles in his proposed community, what the AI agents would do and how the per-idea token would give investors equity, which is a real walk-through...
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Two Temple music students clown around as first-time reporters at a Philly pizza event while someone explains DAO treasuries, whitelisted governance voting and multisigs, and a guest gives real portfolio-risk advice;...
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Lorah of AthenaDAO explains why reproductive longevity research goes unfunded, gives concrete IVF cycle costs and declining efficacy by age, and lays out how she runs DAO working groups like separate startups with...
What people make with it.
Art, music, community tokens and a pizza party that went around the world.
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Kafani walks around Lagos asking students about Bitcoin Pizza Day, community and what they would do with 10,000 BTC, patiently re-explaining the 2010 pizza purchase and that you do not need money to join the crypto...
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Three minutes from Ibadan, Nigeria, a painter filming himself between two subjects he likes: the work on the board in front of him, and pizza.
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How a global pizza party that reached a hundred countries started: two people on Clubhouse during lockdown, an art rabbit hole, and one five-hour conversation that somebody missed because they had to go back to work.
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Thirteen minutes at ETH Denver 2024, filmed at the Proof of Vibes event as part of the We Them Media run documenting people of color in Web3.
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The part of the night everyone remembers is the group photo.
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Scarlett came to the United States from China in 2010, lives in Philadelphia, and gives two answers here that most people would not put in the same interview: why decentralisation is the real free tra
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Bitcoin Pizza Day from Abuja, Nigeria, where most of the room has never been to a crypto event before and the questions are about pizza rather than blockchains.
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Seven minutes with a Denver DJ, taped at his setup at a First Friday, and for most of it the questions run both ways.
What can go wrong.
Scams, hacks, lost keys and the regulators. On the page for the same reason the ledger is.
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce explains the agency's crypto agenda: where the security/non-security line sits, what the SEC has said it does not regulate, her safe-harbor proposal for token launches, tokenized...
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Everything she knew about blockchain came from her parents and relatives calling it a pyramid scheme.
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Daniel, in Nigeria, on the cohort he runs over WhatsApp, and why.
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Germantown, May 2026, the question of the week: what do you think about social anxiety?
Crypto Clarity.
Maceo’s own sessions, one lesson at a time, in order.
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A lesson from the series, recorded live.
The words.
Every term the conversations lean on, defined in plain language, with the moment somebody on tape explains it: the glossary →