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A Reading Guide to Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin
A curated way in: questions about Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin history, each pointing to where this archive answers it in full.
BIP 360
Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.
Defined in: BIP 360 — Pay to Merkle Root (P2MR)
5 entries reference this keyword in body prose.
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Bitcoin security model — attack surfaces, trust assumptions, and defense layers
Bitcoin's threat model mapped end-to-end: what the protocol trusts, what it defends against, how each attack is countered, and where open risks remain.
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Bitcoin cryptography design — keys, signatures, hashes, and address derivation
How Bitcoin uses elliptic-curve keys, digital signatures, hash functions, and deterministic derivation to secure ownership without trusted third parties.
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The day quantum computers break Bitcoin — will the world end?
Which Bitcoin assets are at risk from a cryptographically relevant quantum computer, and what the timeline and migration debate around post-quantum cryptography looks like.
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Adam Back: Bitcoin faces no quantum threat for 20–40 years
Blockstream CEO Adam Back stated Bitcoin faces no quantum computing threat for ~20–40 years, pointing to NIST post-quantum signatures like SLH-DSA that Bitcoin can adopt before threats materialize.