Bitcoin Book of BIPs
Deployed and complete Bitcoin Improvement Proposals, grouped by theme and bound as a book. The BIP text is unchanged from the community repository; the reading order and chapter introductions are new.
Start with process and addresses if you are new. Consensus, Taproot, wallets, and the peer-to-peer network follow.
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 How to Read This Book
- 3 Process & History
- 4 Addresses and Encodings
- 5 Consensus Changes That Shipped
- 6 Schnorr, Taproot, Tapscript
- 7 Keys, Seeds, and Derivation
- 8 Output Script Descriptors
- 9 Partially Signed Transactions
- 10 Peer-to-Peer Network
- 11 Mining and Block Templates
- 12 Paying People
- 13 Scripts, Miniscript, and Policy
- 14 Conclusion