Dave Lawler

Dave has spent three decades in technology—building enterprise software systems, leading teams, and eventually founding an AI company. He’s the kind of person who takes complex things apart to understand how they work, then explains them in plain English over coffee.

He wrote this book because he watched his parents’ generation—people who built careers, raised families, and navigated more financial upheaval than most Bitcoin experts have been alive for—get talked down to about technology. Every Bitcoin explanation he found was written by young tech people, for young tech people. Full of jargon. Full of assumptions. Full of that particular condescension that happens when someone assumes you can’t understand something just because you didn’t grow up with it.

So he wrote the book he wished existed: a plain-English explanation of Bitcoin for people whose experience with money is their greatest asset, not their biggest obstacle. No talking down. No assumed knowledge. Just an honest conversation between adults who respect each other.

I believe in Bitcoin. I think it’s one of the most important financial innovations of the last century. That makes me biased—and I want you to know that upfront.

This book is education, not advice. I’m not going to tell you what to do with your money. I’m going to give you the information you need to make your own decisions—because you’ve been making your own decisions for a long time, and you don’t need anyone’s permission to keep doing that.