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Most crypto explainers are either videos you can't skim or articles without pictures. Each guide here is a timeline of annotated stills: read the step, see the concept, and deep-link to the exact second of the source video when you want the full narration. Every image is described in full so it stands on its own in image search.
Start anywhere — each guide stands alone, and they cross-link where the stories meet.
All twelve sections of Satoshi's 2008 paper — electronic coins, proof of work, Merkle trees and the attack math — with 24 illustrated steps.
From a card-trading website to 70% of all Bitcoin trades, 850,000 missing BTC, bankruptcy and the decade-long repayment saga — in 19 steps.
The full reward schedule from 50 BTC to 3.125 BTC, the monetary reasoning behind the halvings, and the difficulty clock that keeps them honest — in 11 steps.
The 2016 reentrancy heist that drained 3.6M ETH, forced Ethereum's hard fork and left Ethereum Classic behind — in 16 illustrated steps.
1% daily returns, celebrity hype and a $2.4B implosion — every act of crypto's biggest scam, illustrated.
A museum tour from phone-mining experiments to 200 TH/s ASIC giants — 16 machines that tell the whole arms race.
The day Ethereum stopped mining: validators, GHOST votes, BLS aggregation and Casper finality — proof of stake in 16 illustrated steps.
OneCoin's hand-typed price chart, BitConnect's 1% a day, FTX's vanished $8B — ten scams, one playbook, 16 illustrated steps.
The founder who died with the passwords, cold wallets emptied eight months earlier and 13 cents on the dollar — Canada's biggest exchange saga in 15 steps.
The exchange that was the crime: how a no-questions platform washed Mt. Gox coins, met FinCEN and the FBI, and ended in a spy-swap — 16 steps.
119,756 BTC gone in hours, every account haircut 36%, BFX tokens redeemed in full — and six years of on-chain sleuthing ending in the DOJ's biggest seizure (16 steps).
A fake job offer, five of nine validator keys and six silent days: how the Axie Infinity bridge lost $620M and changed bridge design forever (16 steps).
The year Bitcoin fell 84%: the GBTC premium at the top, the ICO unwind, the SEC squeeze, the hash war — and the builders who stayed through the bottom (15 steps).
A forged guardian signature, 120,000 wETH minted from a 0.1 ETH deposit and a $325M hole Jump Trading filled from its own pocket — rebuilt bug-for-bug in Foundry (15 steps).
The world's first bitcoin country: the Miami announcement, the 62-84 vote, Chivo's chaotic September 7 and the IMF-driven rewrite four years later — in 16 steps.
A case-by-case history of exchanges that closed, went bankrupt, or lost customer funds — with the difference between failure and a hack made explicit.
The day a bug printed 184 billion fake bitcoin and Satoshi patched it in five hours — Bitcoin's only chain rollback, told through the original forum posts (16 steps).
The 2012 dice game that ran half of Bitcoin's transactions, sparked the first spam war, sold for 126,315 BTC and met the SEC — in archived screens (14 steps).
A presidential launch in 2021, 98.5% of wallets unused a year later, and a cash crisis that couldn't save it — the full CBDC postmortem (16 steps).
How the SVB collapse knocked the dollar coin from $1 to $0.87: Circle's $3.3 billion, a weekend of panic and the Monday backstop (15 steps).
The illustrated story of block 0 is covered in this deep dive on Bitcoin's birth certificate.
The full arc from the 2008 whitepaper to institutional adoption.
Every major event from cypherpunk mailing lists to Web3, on one timeline.
Quantum, colored coins and the later ERC-721 standard, separated by date and definition.