Bitcoin Developer Basics 01: Transactions, Scripts + SegWit

Start your bitcoin dev journey with bitcoin transactions, scripts, and SegWit

Created by: niftynei Base58⛓️?
Lightning Protocol Engineer at Blockstream

What Will I Learn?

• Basic intro to encodings, endianness, and bitcoin's specific base58 encoding
• Learn the components of a bitcoin transaction
• How to parse a bitcoin transaction from bytes
• Intro to bitcoin Script, including writing your own bitcoin locking scripts
• How to write standard bitcoin locking scripts (P2SH)
• How SegWit changed the basic bitcoin transaction
• The standard SegWit locking script: P2WSH
• How to make legacy compatible SegWit scripts: P2SH-P2WSH

Requirements

• This course is open to everyone, but it is in-depth bitcoin transaction protocol content.
• Developers that have experience with byte-formats, encodings, and bitcoin will likely find it more approachable

Target audience

• Developers who want to learn about blockchain protocols
• Bitcoiners that want to really understand how transactions work
• Beginning developers that are interested in protocol design
• Cryptocurrency curious devs!
• Protocol designers that want an in-depth course on bitcoin transaction design decisions
• Cryptographers that want an engineer-focused understanding of bitcoin transactions