Teaches topics such as bitcoin scripts, keys, transactions, and wallets.
It focuses on learning about bitcoin through application and experience.
Bitcoindevs launched its first interactive learning section on bitcoin technology. According to the project, it is a “simple, interactive and fun” pedagogical module focused on learning through application and experience.
He Bitcoindevs interactive course It consists of four modules, of which only the first one on Bitcoin Scripts is available at the time of writing. A look at this educational material, which offers insider knowledge on bitcoin development and programming, is different from more accessible and informal materials on the web.
The section on bitcoin scripts has a general introduction divided into seven submodules: stacksoperation codes, blocking and unlocking, success and failure of the script, standard and non-standard, data and a final one that integrates each of them into a test.
Bitcoin scripts are programs that define how bitcoins can be spent on the Bitcoin network. They work similar to smart contracts on Ethereum, where each transaction includes code that defines the conditions under which bitcoins can be spent.
After the overview, the section allows you to learn about advanced scripts built on bitcoin, such as P2PK, P2PKH, P2SH and P2MS, which contain easy, medium and difficult exercises.
The three remaining modules, not yet available, They will be about keys and addresses, wallets and transactions on the Bitcoin network.
What are the Bitcoin Scripts teaching modules like?
The module currently available, Bitcoin Scripts, uses a series of GIFs or animated image files that explain the fundamental concepts before giving way to practice.
Next, and after explaining the basic concepts of the scripts, the Bitcoindevs module contains a visual and interactive component of how stacks worka “last in, first out” (LIFO) data structure.
Alphanumeric values can be added and stacked and removed in this interactive simulator, which emulates the Stacks component used by bitcoin to process data in its system. Another exercise allows you to visualize and interact with basic stack operations: OP_ADD and OP_EQUAL.
The following, for example, allows you to interact and understand the opcodesportions of a computer language instruction that specify the operation to be performed by the virtual machine. According to Bitcoindevs, know the opcodes or “operation code” in this helps you understand most standard transactions of Bitcoin.
Others opcodes bitcoin helps check signatures and multisignatures; others help avoid double spending, essential to ensure the accounting of a virtual crypto asset like bitcoin.
Another introductory simulator allows you to run the combined script of lock and unlock of scripts, which help differentiate valid transactions from those that are not. Another module teaches how to differentiate successful and failed executions of scripts, and another teaches you to know the most standard scripts in bitcoin, those that “are well tested, secure, and nodes can verify and retransmit them quickly.”
Although the learning experience introduces the deep working mechanism of bitcoin, and uses unconventional and programming concepts, The modules start with the simple and end with the most complex.
Each contains simple introductory definitions, which, together with proper concentration, helps advance the knowledge of bitcoin scripts.
