Base58: software eng on a bitcoin standard
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Base58 is a software engineering school built on the bitcoin standard. We offer online + in-person classes. HQ’d at @pleblab ; @niftynei is mainly responsible
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get off first base, get onto the shroomified rabbit-warren of bitcoin with
@base58btc
's bitcoin tech tree
lol yall
@BitcoinShrooms
made a "more readable" version of the
@base58btc
bitcoin tech tree 🍄
it's soo good!!
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Base58⛓️🔓 is excited to announce that we're taking the next step in scaling the World Famous Bitcoin LARP!
We're raising money to build 50 LARP sets that we can distribute to communities and meetups and educators around the world at no cost to them!
🚀
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Bitcoin Transactions: Scripts + SegWit is up on Udemy
👇👇👇
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JUST SHIPPED: Base58's Crypto + Sigs online course!
Catch the 2nd installment of Base58's Bitcoin Dev Basics class, all about the cryptography that makes bitcoin secure and the signatures that use it!
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Want to start the summer off right? Join
@base58btc
for our summer series "Base58 'n Coding", 6 weeks of open source deep dives into the hottest projects of bitcoin
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Just Announced: Base58 got an
@opensats
grant for scaling the World Famous Bitcoin LARP
Here's what this means for the project and where we're going!
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Base58 is a bitcoin protocol school, run by
@niftynei
and
@stakamoto
. We teach curious people about how bitcoin transactions work, all with the bitcoin-cli
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FLASH SALE: Base58's Bitcoin Developer Basics class on Udemy is now half off (good til Dec 9th)
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fun fact: the bech32 address encoding was inspired by a suggestion from
@rusty_twit
in 2016, which occurred to him while implementing the lightning protocol
Read more on his original blogpost:
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You’ve heard about taproot, do you know what it is?
A short presentation in a thread 🧵
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Third ever
@base58btc
Lightning class in the books 📚 ✨
Here’s einherjar figuring out how to use a gossip map to plot a route between two nodes
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Big thanks to all our FROST explainooors!
Congrats to
@robin_linus
of
@ZeroSync_
for his first place finish 🏆
Base58⛓️🔓
@tabconf
village announcement:
FROST Explain-a-thon with
@kodylow
,
@robin_linus
,
@jesseposner
and more to come...
Sat, Sept 9 @ 1.15p
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Texas feels like
#Bitcoin
country because it is. And best believe we’re gonna keep doing our damndest to keep it that way 🤠
Bitcoin developers, aficionados and newbies descended on Austin prior to
@Consensus2022
for
@btcplusplus
for a few reasons – maybe because ‘
#Bitcoin
is Southern.’
@gckaloudis
writes in this week’s Crypto Long & Short newsletter.
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hey hackers, are you ready for the next Base58 n' Coding feature?
join us Friday at 8pm UTC/3pm Texas time for a deep dive of lnsocket w/
@jb55
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The answer, as most of you deduced, is bech32m!
What is bech32m, how is it different than bech32?
Let's discuss 👇
It’s Austin Bitdevs tonight, here’s some Taproot trivia in honor of the launch of Base58’s upcoming inaugural taproot class
V1 is the witness script version used by tapscripts. What encoding is used for addresses of this version?
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It's Friday! This week's Base58 n' Coding special guest is
@_rrybarczyk
doing a deep dive on StratumV2
Join us at 3p texas/ 4p eastern / 8p UTC today👇
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NEW: Base58⛓️🔓's FIRST EVER in person bitcoin transactions class is coming to Austin TX this September 12-15th
Read more about how we're moving in-person and how to register!
👇👇
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explaining bitcoin transactions (“txs” for short) are Base58’s bread and butter; let’s take a look inside how bitcoin txs work 🧵
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New online class drop coming 🔜
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UPDATE: Can't make it to Austin in person for our first ever Bitcoin Txs class?
Now you can get the first 3-weeks of class online with our Udemy self-study class!
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One of the students from our Taproot class this week wrote up his learnings into a blog post, check out his write up here 👇
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Base58's second ever taproot class just wrapped.
The Jupyter notebooks we used in class our now up on our github 🔥
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enormous congrats to our first 21 LARP facilitators who just finished an intensive weekend training on how to run LARPs for their own communities and orgs!!
we’re extremely indebted to
@OpenSats
and our
@geyserfund
donors for their support 🚀
Ha sido un fin de sea fenomenal😍, he obtenido este hermoso presente. Un trabajo extraordinario de toda la linda gente que estuvo involucrada para que llegue el conocimiento sobre
#Bitcoin
.
Gracias
@niftynei
, gracias
@base58btc
, gracias
@libdesatoshi
, gracias a todos🤍
✨🌚🌝✨
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Applications and courses for Base58⛓️🔓's fall schedule now open!
Sign up here
👉
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team
@base58btc
is handing off the baton to
@PlebLab
for the hackathon thurs/fri — can’t wait to see what gets built 💪
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Our Udemy class (the first half of our in-person deep dive) is at 174 students, from all parts of the globe
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First
@base58btc
Taproot class in the books 📚; say hello to the next generation of taproot experts
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new base58 stickers just dropped, come find
@niftynei
or
@stakamoto21
at austin’s bit devs next thurs to get yourself one
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Base58⛓️🔓
@tabconf
village announcement:
FROST Explain-a-thon with
@kodylow
,
@robin_linus
,
@jesseposner
and more to come...
Sat, Sept 9 @ 1.15p
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If you're a software dev who wants to level up your bitcoin know-how, we've now got a few sponsored seats for the next base58 tx class.
Apply to get sponsored here:
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.
@base58btc
is proud to be a long time supporter of
@btcplusplus
; catch our Head of Curriculum
@niftynei
this May talking about sigops!
@super_testnet
@stevenroose3
@salvatoshi
@reardencode
@ludovic
@brqgoo
@tierotiero
@johanth
@plebhash
@benthecarman
@uncomputab1e
@robin_linus
@Rob1Ham
@sanket1729
@jesseposner
@ksedgwic
@niftynei
presents sigops more like sigoops, a critical look at Bitcoin's script execution limits and how they impact transaction processing and smart contract execution.
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ZeroSync’s
@robin_linus
just dropped a clever proposal for how to build a Virtual Machine on bitcoin script; here our resident bitcoin expert
@niftynei
tries to explain it at a high level 👇
@gersonmartinez
you know how when you buy a physical computer at the store it’s expensive and then you set it down at home and run it and it’s almost free to run programs on?
imagine if you could buy a computer that’s actually using bitcoin scripts under the hood; and is a virtual computer
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if you want some help meeting great bitcoin dev talent, we’re here for you
👇👇👇
hire
@base58
.info
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Base58⛓️🔓
@tabconf
village announcement:
BIP370 (PSBTv2) + WalletOps Chat with
@craigraw
of
@SparrowWallet
,
@achow101
of
@Blockstream
, and Jack Degenstein of
@unchainedcom
Fri, Sept 8 @ 1.30p
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We cover a lot of the basics of bitcoin in our classes, but we dont cover what the “UTXO set” is
Here’s a quick explainer 🧵
The size of Bitcoin's serialized UTXO set (a compact representation of every "spendable coin") is now over 10 GB after doubling in the past year.
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Base58⛓🔓 is bringing the bitcoin protocol to
@replit
! Check out our first basic tutorial on "protocol basics" where we build a byte-level protocol from scratch
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Want to know how taproot/tapscript works? We'll be doing a gated Taproot Intensive in August (must be proficient at bitcoin transaction basics)
The topic is "multisig 3-ways" --> we'll go thru three different ways of building threshold multisigs in Taproot
As a build off of the
@BitDevsLA
Taproot hackathon, we're going to be running the first ever Base58 taproot workshop in August
Sign up for our waitlist here
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Bitcoin is complicated. We make it easy to understand.
Join us this coming November for a Lightning or Taproot class, in person in Austin, Texas
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As a build off of the
@BitDevsLA
Taproot hackathon, we're going to be running the first ever Base58 taproot workshop in August
Sign up for our waitlist here
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Ready for the Base58 course on Basic Crypto + Digital Signatures??
Test your existing knowledge with this great YouTube intro from
@tdryja
from a
@ChaincodeLabs
seminar (up to 23m is covered in our course; after that is for future classes :)
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registration is now open for our apr/may bitcoin tx protocol class, we’ve got a little something special for the europeans this time 🎁
👇👇👇
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but you don’t have to be! join our inaugural base58⛓🔓 bitcoin tx protocol class, starting feb 14th at an internet terminal near you
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new Base58 class dropping this spring: Wallets for Devs
Ever wanted to know how HD wallets work, or where xpubs come from? We'll also dig into descriptors, PSBTs and miniscript! (briefly)
online + in-person, first session starts online in March
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check out what
@niftynei
@darosior
and
@JeremyRubin
had to say about the latest mempool-space’s product announcement
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fun fact of the day: bitcoin mining asics don’t output sha256 results, rather the inputs that produced the hash (nonce and in newer machines, version + timestamp)
Did you know that despite being able to run hundreds of billions of SHA256 hash calculations a second, Bitcoin mining ASICs (the chips) cannot output the results of a single one?
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we’re only 25% thru with our our apr/may cohort and our current class is already on 🔥 🚀
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our second cohort of classes just started yesterday! we’re thrilled to have a whole new batch of base58ers 😎
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Ready for the next
@base58btc
n'Coding Summer Special? Join us this Friday, Aug 19 at 3p Texas time (4p eastern) for a bitcoin-core deep dive with
@murchandamus
🙌
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Wow we hit our 1k cap on free signups in just 36hrs!! To celebrate, we're doing a second promotion:
Use code NGUTECHNOLOGY to get 50%, til Feb 2nd.
To kickstart coding your way through the bitcoin protocol, we're giving away 1000 free seats in class, but you have to sign up before Feb 1st! Use code: BASEDANDORANGEPILLED
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want to get a taste of bitcoin but haven't taken the dive into our Udemy class?
Check out the
@base58btc
curriculum on
@replit
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Base58⛓️🔓
@tabconf
village announcement:
OpenSats: Supporting the Open Source infra of tomorrow with
@niftynei
,
@PoleVaultDream
,
@dusty_daemon
,
@robin_linus
,
@bitgould
, and Tony Giorgio
Friday, Sept 8 @ 12:45p
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really amazing day doing our first ever menpool masterclass; stay tuned for our next time!
[SIDE EVENT]
It is real! 💥
The first side event of
#BTCPrague
just started!
@niftynei
is giving an intense in-depth
@base58btc
lesson on mempools. 🏊♀️
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first ever lightning transaction class opening channels on signet 😎
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Our Lightning network class is great, but this 25m presentation on Lightning by
@actuallyCarlaKC
is incredible
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Our website is live, thanks in no small part to the Houston bitcoin hackathon last weeek !! go check it out for our current bitcoin class offerings 📝
@niftynei
(that's me!) had an incredibly hacky version of the
@base58btc
website up to show; you can go see it live now here 👉
(registration for our inaugural bitcoin txs + script class is now open!!)
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We’re excited to be sponsoring this amazing documentary about bitcoin protocol devs 🛠️
Ladies and Gentlemen we have a 3rd sponsor
@base58btc
⛓️🔓!
Thank you so much!
What better sponsor for a movie that explores how the
#Bitcoin
protocol works?
Might want to check out their Bitcoin Developer Basics before you also start searching for satoshis.🧐
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Base58 is doing a residency at
@PlebLab
in ATX and we’re throwing a happy hour to celebrate tmw!
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Base58’s November class-athon kicked off today, with a full Taproot cohort at the new
@PlebLab
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"it's just the bitcoin tech tree, it can't hurt you"
the bitcoin tech tree*:
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Base58⛓️🔓
@tabconf
village announcement:
Splice Up Your Life! a panel discussion with
@dusty_daemon
@realtbast
+
@sototallysweet
about Lightning's newest protocol update
Fri, Sept 8 @ 2.15p
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And it’s gone! Big welcome to the next 100 honeybadgers learning about bitcoin tx!! 🧡🙌
ok yall, running a special
#BH2022
promo for
@base58btc
’s new Udemy class
Use the code HONEYBADGER to get free access to our first 3wks online class! 🙌
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Did you miss our open seminar on encodings + endianness? You can catch up here 👇
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Ready for the next Base58 class drop? Get yourself set up with bitcoind + bitcoin-cli on a Mac (binary verification steps to come ;))
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Welcome to 2024, where 3.125 is the new 6.25
Here’s to more stackin’ based knowledge this year 🫡
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Just a few more hours til our 1/2 off promo for Bitcoin Developer Basics 02: Cryptography + Signatures ends!
Don't miss out on Base58's top rated Bitcoin Developer course
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Are you ready for Friday? Us too.
Join us at 3p Texas/ 8pm UTC tomorrow for a Base58 n' Coding deep dive with the prolific
@fiatjaf
⚗️💻
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Details about how to join the class can be found here:
Reminder that we're holding an open class this Thurs at 7p central on some computer basics: encodings + endianness
Email with deets going out tmw morning, get on our mailing list to not miss out
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Base58 partnered up with
@areabitcoin
to make an accessible tutorial for building and using multisig wallets with friends + business partners
🔥NEW RELEASE!
Our goal is to accelerate and expand the development of Bitcoin's educational layer. That's why it's very exciting to announce our first workshop in collaboration with
@niftynei
from
@base58btc
the Social Multisigs Workshop.
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As
@niftynei
has been explaining at confs lately, there's the bitcoin protocol (which we teach!) and then there's the project that is Bitcoin Core.
@provoost
is launching a new online class to show you how to contribute to core, check it out!
I'm trying something new. If you happen to be in The Netherlands on June 28th, you can alpha test my course!
I'm looking for up to ten participants, but as long as at least two people sign up it will happen (i.e. I break even on the venue).
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alpha leak: base58 class schedule for this spring just dropped
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we’re putting on a technical conference+hackathon in Austin, june 7+8+9+10 — come join us!!
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@cashpandajesus
@ankurnagpal
adding this made the books balance for the trump tax cuts (on paper), delaying the start 5y meant that someone else might be in office when it starts (or time to figure out a different way to paper over the hole the cuts left in the budget)
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Thanks to everyone who came to hang out at our pre-reqs class, looking forward to seeing some of you over the next few weeks as we learn *everything bitcoin txsss*
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Austin is a
@base58btc
alum, we're super stoked to have him presenting at
@btcplusplus
a year later!
at bitcoin++ this year, we're trying something new with our round-robin cohorts on Friday.
We're pleased to announce that Austin Kelsay
@bitcoinplebdev
of
@fold_app
will be running one of the sessions, on building Lightning Apps
#btcpp
#atx
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Announcement: applications are now open for our upcoming Taproot class sessions!
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today is finite fields and elliptic curves day at base58 academy ✨📈📉
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We’re going live ✨ with the
@fedimint
team in 10min for out second Base58 n’ Coding Fun Friday Open Source Deep Dive
👇 💻
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.
@niftynei
sat down with
@murchandamus
at the last Base58 n' Coding Friday session to talk about coin selection in bitcoin-core 🪙
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Base58⛓️🔓
@tabconf
village announcement:
Taproot LN Spec Reverse Engineering Workshop with
@niftynei
+
@arikaleph
Friday, Sept 8 @ 10am
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come hang out, watch some live coding, and get some great advice from
@PlebLab
co-founder
@the_bitcoin_bum
They rejected my first tweet, so they're getting a monster truck tweet just like BitDevs did.
@base58btc
!
@PlebLab
! Under one roof! Come see JACKED bitcoin developers CODING stuff LIVE in ATLANTA. Talk about startups! CRUSH the competition! It's PLEBDEV! 💥
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To kickstart coding your way through the bitcoin protocol, we're giving away 1000 free seats in class, but you have to sign up before Feb 1st! Use code: BASEDANDORANGEPILLED
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Get yourself a holiday present and level up your backend skills with tje new PlebDevs
#backend
course ⚡️
The PlebDevs Backend Course is here!
Learn Backend from scratch and build a simple Lightning Wallet backend with a server, API, Database, and Lightning node using NodeJS
Let’s level up together 🤝
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Base58⛓️🔓
@tabconf
village announcement:
@realtbast
presents Dual funding, liquidity ads and splicing: a game changer for lightning node operators
Sat, Sept 9 @ 12p
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It's been a little over a month since we launched the Base58 LARP Geyser fund; here's an update on what's happened with the project since then
(tldr: we're still raising funds to build our first 50 kits, check out our Geyser here:
)
Base58⛓️🔓wants to build 50 LARP kits for 50 bitcoin educators, meetups, and classrooms
Launched just under a week ago, we’re already at 22% of our fundraising goal!
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👀
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