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Bitcoin Core Concepts

Foundational concepts behind the Bitcoin protocol.

Topic Description
Bitcoin Overview of the Bitcoin network
UTXO Unspent Transaction Output model
Taproot Privacy and smart contract upgrade
Script Bitcoin's scripting language
Transactions How Bitcoin transactions work
Nakamoto Consensus Bitcoin's consensus mechanism
HTLC Hash Time-Locked Contracts
Segregated Witness SegWit transaction format
Satoshi Nakamoto The anonymous creator of Bitcoin