Bitcoin Series
How Bitcoin actually works, from the blockchain up to the Lightning Network, in plain terms.
6 parts
- 1
How PGP secures your digital communication
PGP signs, encrypts and decrypts text, email, files and whole partitions. What it is, how it works, and how to actually use it.
- 2
Pioneers of privacy in the digital age
In the early '90s the Cypherpunks set out to defend digital privacy. Their encryption and their ideals shaped the world we live in.
- 3
The power of Bitcoin's Script
Bitcoin is called programmable money because Script lets you embed conditions into a transaction. How that scripting language works.
- 4
Where your money goes and how to rethink the system
Your paycheck, your coffee, the house you just bought: taxes are everywhere. Where your money actually goes after payday.
- 5
A beginner's guide to sound money
21 million cap, no central authority, permissionless and censorship-resistant. Bitcoin is digital money you truly own. No bank required.
- 6
Blockchain, cryptography, and consensus
Transactions, blocks, mining, the UTXO model, and Lightning Network: how Bitcoin actually works under the hood, explained in plain terms.
