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How Bitcoin Core persists blocks, maintains the UTXO set, indexes chain state, manages the mempool, prunes historical data, and bootstraps via assumeUTXO.
How Bitcoin Core manages keys, constructs transactions, selects coins, estimates fees, and exposes functionality through RPC, REST, and ZMQ interfaces.
How Bitcoin blocks are structured, how Merkle trees commit transactions to block headers, and how the most-work chain selection rule resolves forks.
How Bitcoin nodes agree on a single chain: SHA-256d proof of work, the difficulty adjustment algorithm, block validation rules, fork resolution, and probabilistic finality.
Bitcoin's genesis block, read from the v0.1 source: how hardcoded constants build it, the five-day gap as a timestamp artifact, who counts as its author, proof-of-work headroom, and who holds the key.
Bitcoin's first block carries a Times headline about a bank bailout — the one personal touch Satoshi left anywhere in the design. A reading of why he chose it.