Bitcoin Protocol Development Curriculum

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10
1. Paper
  Bitcoin White Paper
2. Article
  If I'd Known What We Were Starting (2017)
3. Article
  Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree (2017)
4. Video
  Intro to Blockchain
5. Paper
  The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain
6. Article
  The Anatomy of Proof-of-Work
7. Paper
  Bitcoin Developer Reference
8. Website
  Difficulty adjustment
9. Paper
  The Byzantine Generals Problem
10. Forum
  Running a full node
2
1. Article
  The Incomplete History of Bitcoin Development
2. Video
  What is Consensus?
15
1. Article
  On Unstoppability of Softforks
2. Note
  Upgrading the protocol
  TODO
3. Article
  Example soft forks
4. Article
  Forks, Signaling, and Activation
5. Article
  Better Fork Terminology
6. Article
  Forced Soft Forks
7. Article
  Flag day upgrades
8. Spec
  IsSuperMajority signaling - BIP 65 Spec
9. 2
  1. Article
    BIP9: versionbits In a Nutshell
  2. Spec
    BIP9 Spec
10. 4
  1. Spec
    BIP 148 Spec
  2. Spec
    BIP 149 Spec
  3. Article
    UASF BIP148 Scenarios and Game Theory
  4. Article
    User Activated Soft Forks: the BIP 148 alternative
11. Spec
  BIP91
21
1. 5
  1. Article
    Overview of Security Concerns
  2. Video
    Danger! Bitcoin Threat Models
  3. Article
    Bitcoin’s Security Model: A Deep Dive
  4. Article
    Bitcoin Weaknesses
  5. Paper
    Speed-Security Tradeoffs in Blockchain Protocols
2. 2
  1. Article
    Bitcoin's Diversity of Use-Cases and Security Models
  2. Post
    Dave Harding Tweet on assumed valid blocks and minimum chainwork
3. Spec
  Defining SPV and lightclients
4. 2
  1. Spec
    BIP 39 Spec
  2. Paper
    On the Privacy Provisions of Bloom Filters in Lightweight Bitcoin Clients
5. 4
  1. Spec
    BIP 157 Spec
  2. Article
    Neutrino: The Lighter Side of Lightning
  3. Forum
    Index for BIP 157 block filters
  4. Video
    Exploring Neutrino
6. Spec
  Committed bloom filters
7. 4
8. Forum
  Committed UTXO hashes
9. Spec
  Assume UTXO FAQ
24
1. Article
  Poisson distribution/Progress-free-ness
2. Paper
  Block arrivals in the Bitcoin blockchain
3. Forum
  Fee Sniping
4. 6
5. Article
  51% attacks
6. Article
  BetterHash
7. Paper
  No Reward Mining Overview
8. Paper
  Pool Overview
9. Forum
  Pool Hopping
10. Website
  PPS As a Real-World Business Solution
  Specifically the section on the Pay per Share Share_approach
11. Article
  Trustless Pools
12. Forum
  Payment Channel Payouts
13. 3
14. 3
  1. Article
    Bringing Stability to Bitcoin Cash Difficulty Adjustments
  2. Article
    Bitcoin Cash Difficulty Adjustments
  3. Article
    Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm Update
15. Paper
  TumbleBit
1
1. Article
  Dust Attacks
12
1. Article
  Overview
2. 3
  1. Article
    The GHOSTDAG protocol
  2. Paper
    Secure High-Rate Transaction Processing in Bitcoin
  3. Spec
    Modified GHOST Implementation in Ethereum
3. Article
  Braiding
4. Article
  Byzantine Fault Tolerance
5. Article
  Bitcoin-NG
6. 2
  1. Article
    Proof of Work & Proof of Stake
  2. Article
    Proof-of-Stake & the Wrong Engineering Mindset
7. 3
  1. Paper
    Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains
  2. Article
    Paul Storzc on Sidechains
  3. Paper
    Proof-of-Work Sidechains
10
1. Article
  A complete history of Bitcoin’s consensus forks
2. 2
  1. Forum
    Auxiliary block: Increasing max block size with softfork
  2. Article
    How Bitcoin Extension Blocks Are Backward Compatible — and How They’re Not
3. Article
  Hard forks: Potential dangers
4. 3
  1. Article
    Replay Attacks Explained
  2. Article
    How to Protect Against Replay Attacks
  3. Code
    2017_optin_replay code on btc1
5. Note
  Wipeout Protection
  TODO
6. Website
  Light Nodes
7. Spec
  Spoonnet: another experimental hardfork
22
1. Article
  The 3 Seminal Events In Cryptography
2. Paper
  An Overview of Public Key Cryptography
3. 2
  1. Video
    Dev++ 02-01-EN | Finite fields, Elliptic Curves, ECDSA, Schnorr - John Newbery | Cryptography
  2. Article
    Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
4. Article
  Bitcoin, Chance and Randomness
5. Article
  libsecp
6. Article
  State of cryptography for blockchains beyond ECDSA and sha256
7. Paper
  On Bitcoin Security in the Presence of Broken Crypto Primitives
8. 1
  1. Video
    Introduction to Snarks
9. 5
  1. Article
    How Bulletproofs Could Make Bitcoin Privacy Less Costly
  2. Article
    Bulletproofs: Faster Rangeproofs and Much More
  3. Article
    Bulletpoints on bulletproofs
  4. Paper
    From Zero Knowledge Proofs to Bulletproofs Paper
  5. Article
    Building on Bulletproofs
10. 2
  1. Article
    Commitment schemes
  2. Paper
    Non-Interactive and Information-Theoretic Secure Verifiable Secret Sharing
11. 3
12. Article
  Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange: A Non-mathematician’s explanation
13. Article
  Ring Signatures
14. Article
  How RSA Works With Examples
22
1. Article
  Understanding a Raw Bitcoin Transaction
2. Tutorial
  Bitcoins the hard way: Using the raw Bitcoin protocol
3. Article
  Working with transactions
4. Code
  Transaction format – IsMine function in Bitcoin Core
5. 2
  1. Book
    Bitcoin Developer Reference
    Section 4.2
  2. Video
    Advanced Bitcoin Scripting: Transactions & Multisig
6. 1
  1. Forum
    Why the signature is always 65 (1+32+32) bytes long?
7. 3
  1. Book
    Bitcoin Developer Reference
    Section 3.3
  2. Article
    The Bitcoin Non-standard
  3. Code
    Definition of Standardness
8. 2
  1. Article
    Support for zero-confirmation transactions at Bitcoin ATM
  2. Spec
    Solving the 0-conf problem using forfeits
9. 5
  1. Video
    Andrew Chow: Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions
  2. Spec
    BIP 174
  3. Article
    PSBT (BIP 174) - Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions
  4. Tutorial
    PSBT Howto for Bitcoin Core
  5. Forum
    Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction (PSBT) format
10. Forum
  SIGHASH_NOINPUT
11. Spec
  Compacted Transactions
12. 3
  1. Article
    How the Mempool Works
  2. Article
    Transaction Pools
    This is a snippet from the `bitcoinbook` project
  3. Video
    Bitcoin p2p network
    Starts at 31:58
6
1. 2
  1. Book
    Bitcoin Developer Reference
    Section 2.2
  2. Paper
    Weaknesses in Bitcoin’s Merkle Root Construction
2. Article
  Data structures in validation
3. Video
  Handling Re-orgs & Forks
  Starts at 13:59
4. 2
  1. Spec
    Block file pruning
  2. Code
    Add autoprune functionality PR #5863
16
1. 7
  1. Article
    Understanding Segregated Witness
  2. Article
    Segregated Witness
  3. Video
    Bitcoin Protocol Design: Segregated Witness Revisited
  4. Video
    SegWit
  5. Article
    Segregated Witness Benefits
  6. Article
    Segregated Witness Costs and Risks
  7. Article
    The Long Road To SegWit: How Bitcoin’s Biggest Protocol Upgrade Became Reality
2. Article
  SegWit and scalabilty
3. 5
4. Article
  Understanding Segwit Block Size
5. Article
  New address type for segwit addresses
6. Article
  Segregated Witness Wallet Development Guide
18
1. 3
2. Forum
  Wallet BerkeleyDB key value store, data file, environment, logs, flushing
3. Article
  Wallets and Accounts and Keys, Oh My!
4. 2
  1. Forum
    Understanding keypool in Bitcoin Core
  2. Article
    Understanding the Gap Limit
5. Article
  How to rescan / reindex wallet?
6. Article
  Segregated Witness Wallet Development Guide
7. 2
  1. Article
    The Fee Market Explained
  2. Article
    How wallets can handle transaction fees
8. 2
  1. Article
    BIP 125 - Opt-in Full Replace-by-Fee Signaling
  2. Article
    Support for zero-confirmation transactions at Bitcoin ATM
9. 4
  1. Video
    Unspent Management and Coin Selection
  2. Video
    Coin Selection - Karl Johan Alm
  3. Article
    Coin Selection (Scaling 2016)
  4. Paper
    An Evaluation of Coin Selection Strategies
10. Video
  Using your hardware wallet with Bitcoin Core
30
1. Video
  Scripts - general & simple
2. Video
  P2PKH, P2WPKH, P2SH, P2WSH
3. Video
  Bitcoin Multisig and P2SH Transactions with Andreas Antonopoulos
4. 2
  1. Article
    Script descriptors
  2. Spec
    Support for Output Descriptors in Bitcoin Core
5. Article
  Improving Privacy Using Pay-to-EndPoint (P2EP)
6. 4
  1. Article
    MimbleWimble
  2. 3
    Code
    ElementsProject/scriptless-Scripts
    Article
    Scriptless Scripts - A different kind of smart contract
    Video
    Scriptless scripts, adaptor signatures and their applications
7. 3
  1. Article
    Understanding Payment Channels
  2. Video
    Bitcoin Protocol Design: Payment Channels Revisited
  3. Article
    Bitcoin script v2.0
8. 3
  1. Article
    What is a Bitcoin Merklized Abstract Syntax Tree (MAST)?
  2. Article
    Merkleized abstract syntax trees (MAST)
  3. Article
    MAST Discussion
9. 3
  1. Article
    Scaling Bitcoin – Snarks Panel
  2. Article
    Introduction to SNARKs
  3. Article
    STARKs, Part I: Proofs with Polynomials
10. 4
11. 4
12. 2
  1. Article
    Stanford Blockchain Conference 2019 - Miniscript
  2. Spec
    Policy to Miniscript compiler
13. Spec
  The State of Script
3
1. Video
  The current state of Bitcoin fungibility (2019)
2. 2
  1. Website
    The Fundamental Tradeoff
  2. Paper
    On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains (A Position Paper)