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1 | PROLOGUE | THE NETWORK | THE NODE | THE BLOCKCHAIN | THE BLOCK | THE TRANSACTION | THE SIGNATURE | THE VALIDATION | EPILOGUE |
2 | Section | Section | Section | Section | Section | Section | Section | Section | Section |
3 | Opening Credits | Network Origin | Connection to Other Nodes | Time Keeping | Genesis block | Transaction Header | Creating address | Public Key | Electricity Consumption |
4 | Search for Money | Connected Node | Block and message propagation | Mining (growing the chain) | Genesis message | ↳ Transaction ID | xpriv | ECDSA | Regenerative Energy Conversion |
5 | Reliance on Gold | Role of Nodes | Different Implementations | Blocks Validation | Full Block | Inputs | xpub ypub | SHA256 | Energy Conservation |
6 | Decentralization | Peer-2-Peer Network | Mining Node | Proof-of-Work | The Block Data | ↳ UTXO index | Script Stack Based | Hash Function | Voluntary Collectivism |
7 | Stranded and Wasted Energy | Pricing | Mempool | Energy | blk#####.dat files | Outputs | Reverse Polish Notation | Mod | Efficiency Gains |
8 | Multi-layered networks | VS central banks | Difficulty adjustment | Block Header | ↳ Address | Script types | Finite Fields | Lower Time Preference | |
9 | Responsibility | Unit of account and bias | Subsidy | Merkle root | ↳ Amount | P2PK | Primes | Long Term Planning | |
10 | White paper | Transfer social value | Syncing with the network | Previous hash reference | ↳ Fee | P2PKH | Optimistic Potential | ||
11 | Scaling | Verifying supply | Nonce | ↳ Change | P2MS | Absolute Truth | |||
12 | Second Layer | New Block | Transactions | P2SH | The End | ||||
13 | Mining Nodes | Orphan Blocks | Mining Reward | NULL DATA | |||||
14 | Listening Nodes | Forks | New Block Mining | Schnorr Signatures | |||||
15 | Data Propagation | Soft Forks | Fees | Traproot | |||||
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