Various notes and ideas for development work on Bitcoin Core
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How to compile Bitcoin Core from source and run the tests. A simple step-by-step summary for Linux Debian and macOS.
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Bitcoin Core Dev IRC meetings. Practical info about the General, Wallet, and PR Review Club meetings.
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IRC channels. Join these IRC channels for Bitcoin and Lightning development.
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Notes. Various miscellaneous technical notes.
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Gitian Building. How to build and commit Gitian signatures to help with deterministically verifying Bitcoin Core releases.
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PSBTs - Partially-Signed Bitcoin Transactions. PSBT information, including new May 2019 IRC discussion of ideas for descriptor slicing/subsetting, e.g. "subscriptors".
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Flame Graphs. How to generate flame graph profiles.
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Scripted Diffs. How to use scripted diffs in commits, with examples from Bitcoin Core PRs.
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2019-12-21 John Newbery's Bitcoin end-of-decade Twitter thread
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2019-11-28 CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY Bitcoin Wizards IRC discussion: Gregory Maxwell / Jeremy Rubin. Cleaned up a bit from the original log for personal study.
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2019-06-07 Bryan Bishop transcript of Jonas Schnelli's June 2019 core.dev talk: "P2P Encryption."
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2018-07-09 Bryan Bishop transcript of Pieter Wuille's July 2018 SF Bitcoin talk: "Taproot, Schnorr signatures, and SIGHASH_NOINPUT, oh my!" Edited and cleaned up a bit from the original transcript for personal study.