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Week 2

Mastering Bitcoin refresher

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This week, we'll be refreshing your knowledge on those aspects of the Bitcoin protocol that are most essential to becoming efficient and effective Bitcoin/LN builders. These materials (some more than others) will also be extremely helpful in better understanding the Mastering Lightning book in the next weeks.

Schedule

The book is available for free on the , and the discussion questions are available on . An overview of the questions for which you will be the discussion leader will be shared over the usual channels.

Note: by Friday evening, we expect you to have finished the . It's quite a lot of work, so make sure to start early enough. As the new generation of Bitcoin builders, Taproot is a very powerful new tool that you're in a unique position to learn about and have at your disposal.

Day
Chapter

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Start working on

Thursday

Friday

Finalize the

If you finish your chapter(s) for the day early, feel free to move on to the next day's chapter(s), as repetition is key when it comes to absorbing so much knowledge.

Deliverables

  • Be prepared for the daily discussion groups:

    • Finish reading the chapter(s) for the day

    • Prepare and research your assigned question(s), make sure you can host the discussion and think about follow-up questions etc

    • Prepare and research the questions hosted by other people in your group

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Taproot workshop by Bitcoin Optech Group
Chapter 2: How Bitcoin Works
Chapter 4: Keys, Addresses
Chapter 5: Wallets
Chapter 6: Transactions
Chapter 7: Advanced Transactions and Scripting
Taproot workshop by Bitcoin Optech Group
Chapter 9: The Blockchain
Chapter 11: Bitcoin Security
Taproot workshop by Bitcoin Optech Group