Plebum Dominium
Beyond the kit
Finished the kit? These are the seven topics worth your time next. Each one a rabbit hole the guide deliberately left out so the sheets stay focused. Independent educators, not sponsors.
Stamping seeds into metal
When you need this: your paper backup feels too fragile for fire and flood.
Lopp’s resource index collects the serious work on metal seed storage: materials, methods, and what survives.
Rehearsing on testnet
When you need this: you want the whole build with free coins before the real thing.
BTC Sessions’ step-by-step video tutorials walk the same software this guide uses, mistake-proofed on camera.
Inheritance planning
When you need this: someone you trust may one day need to run this kit without you.
The deep end of Lopp’s index: how Bitcoiners think about passing keys on without creating a single point of failure.
Privacy basics
When you need this: you don’t want the whole world watching your coins move.
Start with how Bitcoin actually works under the hood. Privacy only makes sense once the base layer clicks.
Reading fees
When you need this: your transaction has to confirm on time without overpaying.
Mempool.space shows the live queue of waiting transactions. The honest way to pick a fee.
Running your own node
When you need this: you want to verify everything yourself instead of trusting someone’s server.
Bitcoin.org’s starting point covers what a full node does and why it’s the ultimate “don’t trust, verify.”
Choosing hardware wallets
When you need this: you’d rather generate keys on a dedicated device than dice.
Sparrow’s official docs cover pairing hardware wallets. Useful if you ever take the device route instead.
These are independent educators and tools, not sponsors. Nothing here sells you an account or a token.