Technical Documentation

Here you find a list of technical documentation & stuff.

Merkle Trees

• Wikipedia article
• Bitcoin wiki
• Article #1
• Article #2
• Article #3
• Video - Merkle roots and merkle trees

Structures

• TX
• BlockHeader

Difficulty

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
• Understanding nbits from stratum

Coinbase Transaction

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transactions#Generation
• What is coinbase?
• Format of coinbase transaction
• How to decode coinbase transaction
• Format of coinbase input scripts
• Decision behind that the coinbase field can have arbitrary data

Script

• https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script