GitHub
BIP 341 — Taproot: SegWit Version 1 Spending Rules
Taproot — Bitcoin's most significant protocol upgrade since SegWit. Combines Schnorr (BIP 340) with MAST so complex spending conditions look like simple payments on-chain.
privacy
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GitHub
BIP 340 — Schnorr Signatures for secp256k1
Schnorr signatures replacing ECDSA for Taproot. Provably secure, non-malleable, with efficient multi-signature aggregation — complex scripts become on-chain indistinguishable from simple payments.
Peter Todd Blog
Peter Todd's participation in the Zcash trusted setup ceremony
Peter Todd participated in the Zcash trusted setup ceremony in October 2016 — driving across BC, shielding his laptop in a Faraday cage, and torching the hardware — then criticized the process.
Malmi Email Archive 260 messages
Satoshi ↔ Martti Malmi Correspondence
Satoshi warns Malmi to de-emphasize Bitcoin's anonymity claims, distinguishing between anonymity and pseudonymity - a prescient warning about privacy expectations.
P2P Research List 4 messages
Satoshi introduces Bitcoin on the P2P Research mailing list — "[p2p-research] Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency" (February 2009)
Satoshi explains Bitcoin's fixed supply of 21,000,000 coins and how it differs from David Chaum's system, in response to Martien van Steenbergen's questions on the P2P Research mailing list.
Bitcoin Wiki 20 messages
Satoshi ↔ Dustin Trammell Correspondence
Satoshi explains the 'Satoshi' label came from Trammell's own address book, that transactions show the receiving address (not the sender), and recommends per-payer addresses to identify payers.