Schnorr signatures

Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.

Defined in: Bitcoin transaction design — UTXO model, Script, and signature schemes

3 entries reference this keyword in body prose.

Event March 17, 2011 GitHub

Pieter Wuille (dates unknown) — Bitcoin Core developer behind BIP-32, libsecp256k1, SegWit, and Taproot

Belgian software engineer (sipa), Bitcoin Core committer since 2011. Author/co-author of BIP-32, BIP-141 (SegWit), BIP-340/341 (Schnorr/Taproot). Initiator of libsecp256k1; Blockstream co-founder.

Event January 3, 2009 Bitcoin Whitepaper

Bitcoin consensus design — proof of work, difficulty adjustment, and fork handling

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

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.

Event January 3, 2009 Bitcoin Whitepaper

Bitcoin security model — attack surfaces, trust assumptions, and defense layers

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

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.