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For people who want to understand Bitcoin. Not flip it.
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A wallet containing only public keys or addresses, letting users monitor balances without the ability to spend.
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Rabbit Hole · 40 min
Rat Poison, Tulips and a Pet Rock: Everything Bitcoin's Been Called (so far)
Bitcoin is dead, they said, and a Ponzi scheme, a tulip bubble, rat poison and money for drug dealers and terrorists. Every label, who said it and when, which ones can actually be scored, and what happened next, including the calls that held up and the ones our own side got wrong.
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Rabbit Hole · 14 min
The 2013 Chain Fork
On 11 March 2013 a software upgrade split Bitcoin into two chains. Developers, pool operators and exchanges argued it out in a public chat room and put it back together in under eight hours. This is the log, with the timestamps.
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Rabbit Hole · 15 min
How Taproot Actually Works
One key, two doors. How a Taproot output is built, why every one looks the same until it is spent, what Schnorr signatures changed, what Tapscript left open for the future, and what has actually been done with it since 2021, inscriptions included.
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A Taproot address encodes a tweaked 32-byte public key directly, not a hash. BIP 341 defines the output; the bc1p address encoding is Bech32m from BIP 350.
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BIP 44 defines two chains only: 0, the external chain for receiving addresses, and 1, the internal chain for change. The second level is the registered coin type, 0 for Bitcoin and 1 for testnet.
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Neither came from an altcoin: Schnorr signatures go back to Claus Schnorr's 1990 patent filing, and Taproot's script trees descend from Bitcoin's own MAST proposals, which BIP 341 lists among the earlier Bitcoin ideas it combines.
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