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The following TODO items are intended for a 3.0 version of Learning Bitcoin from the Command Line
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## Medium-Scale Updates
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The following updates involve updates or the creation of new chapters, but their additions are generally bounded and known.
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1. General Update: Consider replacing testnet with signet
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1. New Interlude: Creating QR Codes (after 3.3)
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* New Subsection: Creating a QR
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* New Subsection: Creating a Quick Connect QR
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* 19.2: Using Swift with Bitcoin Lib [Wolf's library]
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* 19.3: Using Swift with Libwally [Wolf's shim]
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## Large-Scale Updates
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The following updates involve the large-scale work done on Schnorr and Taproot in Bitcoin Core 0.21 and 22. This represents a first cut at how to layout the work, but revision and expansion will likely be needed as everyone's understanding of these new technologies matures.
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**Chapter X: Expanding Bitcoin Transactions with Schnorr** (probably between chapters 6+7)
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* New Section X.1: Understanding Schnorr Signatures
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* New Subsection: Understanding the Math of Schnorr
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* Explanation: Add + subtract for one signature
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* New Subsection: Supporting MuSig
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* New Subsection: Understanding the Use of Adapter Signatures
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* New Subsection: Knowing the Advantages of Schnorr
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* Explanation: size, 64 bytes vs 72, better for multisigs
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* Explanation: speed, linear, validate a million-sig multisig in 2 minutes
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* Explanation: privacy, no difference between MuSig and sig, no detection of Lightning
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* Explanation: also better security, non-malleability
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* Reference: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0340.mediawiki
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* New Section X.2: Using Schnorr Signatures
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* New Subsection: Signing with Schnorr
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* New Subsection: Adding a Schnorr Signature
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* New Subsection: Reading a Schnorr Signature
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* Update Chapter 6 (Multisigs) to Integrate with Schnorr
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**Chapter Y: Improving Bitcoin Scripts with Taproot** (probably between chapters 13+14)
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* New Section Y.1: Understanding MAST
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* New Subsection: Improving Privacy with MAST
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* New Subsection: Laying out a Script in MAST
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* New Subsection: Knowing the Advantages of MAST
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* Explanation: larger scripts
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* Explanation: hidden branches of scripts
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* Explanation: fungibility
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* https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0114.mediawiki
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* New Section Y.2: Understanding Taproot
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* New Subsection: Integrating MAST with Taproot
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* Explanation: Expanding Segwit
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* Explanation: Integrating Schnorr Signatures
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* New Subsection: KNowing the Advantages of Taproot
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* Explanation: even more privacy; scripts and other addresses are indistinbuishable
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* Reference: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki
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* Reference: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0342.mediawiki
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* New Subsection Y.3: Creating a Taproot Script
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* New Subsection Y.4: Importing a tr Desciptor
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* New Subsection Y.5: Making a P2TR Payment
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* Update Chapter 9 to Integrate with Taproot
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* Mention Taproot in 9.1 or 9.2
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* Add New Section 9.6: Scripting a P2TR (mostly a pointer to Chapter Y)
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## Further Updates
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The following updates could be part of v3.0 or could be further future, depending on interest and funding.
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* Reference: https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/blockstream-webinars/2019-07-31-rusty-russell-getting-started-with-c-lightning/
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* Reference: https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/1389649064753471488_
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9. Schnorr (2021)
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14. Taproot (August/November)
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* First Successful Taproot Transactions (Peter W., Twitter)

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