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Todo List for v3.0 of Learning Bitcoin

The following TODO items are intended for a 3.0 version of Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line

Medium-Scale Updates

The following updates involve updates or the creation of new chapters, but their additions are generally bounded and known.

  1. General Update: Consider replacing testnet with signet
  2. New Interlude: Creating QR Codes (after 3.3)
    • New Subsection: Creating a QR
    • New Subsection: Creating a Quick Connect QR
  3. Revise Section: Understanding the Descriptor (3.5)
    • New Content: Descriptor Wallets
    • New Content: Complex Descriptors
    • Consider: Breaking into Two Sections
  4. New Interlude: Creating Animated QR Codes (after 7.1)
    • New Subsection: Understanding Uniform Resources
    • New Subsection: Creating an Animated QR
    • New Subsection: Creating an Animated QR of a PSBT
  5. New Chapter: Using Other Command-Line Tools (between 8+9)
    • 9.1: Using seedtool
    • 9.2: Using keytool
    • 9.3: Using bytewords-cli
  6. Revise Section: Understanding Timelock Options (11.1)
  7. New Chapter: Using Miniscript Command-Line Tools (between 13+14)
    • 15.1: Using miniscript
    • 15.2: Using Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK)
    • 15.3: Planning for the Future
  8. New Content: Expand the PSBT Libwally Content (17.4) into Two Sections
    • 17.4: Signing PSBTs in Libwally
      • Explanation: Contains the current info on importing a PSBT, and shows how to sign it
    • 17.5: Creating PSBTs in Libwally
      • Explanation: Contains the current info on creating a PSBT, and shows how to export it
  9. New Chapter: Talking to Bitcoind with Swift (between 17+18)
    • 19.1: Accessing Bitcoind with Swift (existing section)
    • 19.2: Using Swift with Bitcoin Lib [Wolf's library]
    • 19.3: Using Swift with Libwally [Wolf's shim]

Large-Scale Updates

The following updates involve the large-scale work done on Schnorr and Taproot in Bitcoin Core 0.21 and 22. This represents a first cut at how to layout the work, but revision and expansion will likely be needed as everyone's understanding of these new technologies matures.

Chapter X: Expanding Bitcoin Transactions with Schnorr (probably between chapters 6+7)

  • New Section X.1: Understanding Schnorr Signatures
    • New Subsection: Understanding the Math of Schnorr
      • Explanation: Add + subtract for one signature
    • New Subsection: Supporting MuSig
    • New Subsection: Understanding the Use of Adapter Signatures
    • New Subsection: Knowing the Advantages of Schnorr
      • Explanation: size, 64 bytes vs 72, better for multisigs
      • Explanation: speed, linear, validate a million-sig multisig in 2 minutes
      • Explanation: privacy, no difference between MuSig and sig, no detection of Lightning
      • Explanation: also better security, non-malleability
      • Reference: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0340.mediawiki
  • New Section X.2: Using Schnorr Signatures
    • New Subsection: Signing with Schnorr
    • New Subsection: Adding a Schnorr Signature
    • New Subsection: Reading a Schnorr Signature
    • New Subsection: Using Schnorr with Taproot
  • Update Chapter 6 (Multisigs) to Integrate with Schnorr

Chapter Y: Improving Bitcoin Scripts with Taproot (probably between chapters 13+14, possibly expanding to two chapters)

  • New Section Y.1: Understanding MAST
  • New Section Y.2: Understanding Taproot
  • New Subsection Y.3: Creating a Taproot Script
    • New Subsection: Defining a Taproot Script
      • Explanation: Segwit v1, 32-byte program, not P2SH wrapped, leaf version is 0xc0
    • New Codes: OP_CHECKSIGADD and OP_SUCCESS
    • Cut Codes: OP_CHECKMULTISIG and OP_CHECKMULTISIGVERIFY
    • Reference: https://twitter.com/pwuille/status/1459778730369368067
  • New Subsection Y.4: Importing a tr Desciptor
  • New Subsection Y.5: Using Taproot in Practice
    • New Subsection: Making a Taproot Payment
    • New Subsection: Validating a Taproot Script
  • Update Chapter 9 to Integrate with Taproot
    • Mention Taproot in 9.1 or 9.2
    • Add New Section 9.6: Scripting a P2TR (mostly a pointer to Chapter Y)

Further Updates

The following updates could be part of v3.0 or could be further future, depending on interest and funding.

  1. New Graphics: Animated GIFs for key demos.
  2. New Chapter: Talking to Lightningd with C (after chapter 20)