Oakland, CA · The hoods of America

The mission is to educate all the
hoods of America on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin For The Hood™ is an organization founded by Oakland native Kevin Lane.

Learn Bitcoin What we do Listen to the music

What we do

Practical Bitcoin education — and music that carries the lesson.

  • Bitcoin basics

    What Bitcoin is, how it works, and why it matters — taught in plain language.

  • Financial literacy

    Tools and knowledge for building a financial future, starting where we live.

  • Self-custody

    How to hold your own keys, so your Bitcoin stays yours.

  • Music that teaches

    Through BFTH Records, our label arm, we make hip hop, R&B, country, and pop with Bitcoin themes — so the music itself teaches financial literacy. The artists are AI personas, including Satosha out of West Oakland.

Learn Bitcoin

Three plain-language lessons — what Bitcoin is, why people save in it, and how to hold it yourself.

A narrow alley between brick and concrete buildings
The hood

Lesson 1

What is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is money that no bank or government controls. It runs on an open network anyone can use.

There will only ever be 21 million bitcoin. That cap is written into the code, and it cannot be raised.

A downtown Oakland street festival with vendor tents and the Fox Oakland sign in the distance
Oakland

Lesson 2

Save in Bitcoin

Because the supply is fixed, no one can print more bitcoin the way new dollars can be created. That is why some people save in it — a fixed supply cannot be inflated away by issuing more.

You do not have to start big. You can stack sats, a little at a time.

A neighborhood block event in Oakland, with a crowd, tents, and food trucks in the street
Oakland

Lesson 3

Own your keys

If you hold your own keys, you hold your own bitcoin. The saying is “not your keys, not your coins.”

Bitcoin lets you send value peer to peer, with no bank in the middle. For small, fast payments, the Lightning Network can settle in seconds.

Buy your first Bitcoin

You can buy Bitcoin in Cash App with as little as a few dollars. You don’t have to buy a whole bitcoin — small amounts count.

A purchase confirmation that reads You bought 0.00011403 BTC
You don’t have to buy a whole bitcoin. Small amounts count.

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After you buy, you can withdraw to your own wallet. That’s the Own your keys lesson: if you hold your own keys, you hold your own bitcoin.

Listen

Stream the music on the BFTH Records site and tip in Lightning sats. The catalog also lives on Audius, and as value-for-value music on Wavlake and Nostr.

Listen at BFTH Records →

Or stream on Audius @bfthrecords