Research
Go to the primary sources.
Do not take our word for it. Here is where Bitcoin's rules get argued over, the data behind our chapters, and a live node to check the numbers against.
Bitcoin Dev Archive
The bitcoin-dev mailing list since 2011, threaded and readable: 24,715 messages, refreshed every day. This is where the block size, SegWit, Taproot and every change since were proposed and fought over, in the words of the people who were there.
- 3,303 Threads Every conversation, one page each
- 37 Topics Curated timelines: SegWit, Taproot, covenants
- 173 BIPs Each proposal with the threads that argued it
- 137 Bitcoin Core releases Each version and the BIPs it shipped
- 1,413 People Everyone who posted, with what they wrote
- 16 Years 2011 to now, with the numbers
Data and downloads
The files behind our chapters, and the documents they rest on. When a chapter makes a claim from data, the data is here to download and check. Our own files are free to reuse under the same licence as the text.
Original documents
Data sets
Printable sheets
- PDF Bitcoin privacy best practices From Privacy on Bitcoin: What Works and What Doesn't
- PDF Bitcoin Units Cheat Sheet From Bitcoin Units
- PDF Privacy checklist From Sovereignty
- PDF Seed backup 12 word From Be Your Own Bank
- PDF Seed backup 24 word From Be Your Own Bank
A live Bitcoin node, in public.
Every live on-chain number on this site comes from a full Bitcoin node, by way of ChainQuery, not from an exchange or a data vendor. See the block height, supply, difficulty and mempool it reports right now.