Technical Resources
Papers, guides, and tools for going deeper.
Whitepapers
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto
The original 2008 whitepaper that started it all. Nine pages that changed the world. Required reading for anyone serious about understanding Bitcoin from first principles.
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Using Bitcoin as Money
How to send and receive Bitcoin: addresses, the UTXO model, fees, confirmations, and the Lightning Network, and why circulating Bitcoin and supporting Value-for-Value matters.
Read the guide →The Bitcoin Network
How the network actually runs: nodes, the peer-to-peer gossip network, the mempool, proof-of-work mining, block validation, consensus, reorgs, and why running your own node matters.
Read the guide →Keys & Addresses
The cryptography behind owning Bitcoin: private keys, elliptic-curve public keys, hashing to an address, address types, signatures, and HD wallets (seed, derivation paths, and xpubs).
Read the guide →Private Keys
A closer look at the one number that is your Bitcoin: the 256-bit key, entropy and why never to make your own, key formats (hex and WIF), and how a single seed produces them all.
Read the guide →Public Keys
The half you can share: how your public key is derived from the private key on the secp256k1 curve, its formats (compressed, uncompressed, x-only), the one-way trapdoor, and how it verifies your signatures.
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