Schnorr

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

Defined in: Bitcoin cryptography design — keys, signatures, hashes, and address derivation

6 entries reference this keyword in body prose.

Added May 27, 2026 Design Document

Bitcoin architecture evolution — Satoshi era v0.1 vs modern v27+ baseline

Cross-cutting architecture comparison across every subsystem: Satoshi's v0.1 (January 2009) side by side with modern Bitcoin Core v27+, with split diagrams and domain tables.

Added May 27, 2026 Design Document

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.

Added May 27, 2026 Design Document

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.

Added May 27, 2026 Design Document

Bitcoin transaction design — UTXO model, Script, and signature schemes

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

Deep-dive into Bitcoin's transaction layer: UTXO lifecycle, transaction structure, Script evaluation, ECDSA and Schnorr signatures, SegWit, and Taproot.

Added May 27, 2026 Design Document

Bitcoin system design overview — architecture, data flow, and design-document index

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

High-level system overview of Bitcoin's architecture, layer model, and data flow. Entry point to a 12-page design-document series covering every major subsystem.

Added April 17, 2026 Biography Biography

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

Pieter Wuille

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.