Wiki Index
Bitcoin knowledge base built from 21ideas.org — a Russian-language Bitcoin education site (~308 source files). All source material is in Russian; wiki synthesis is in English.
Concepts
- Bitcoin — What Bitcoin is, why it matters, core properties
- Money — What money is, monetary history, sound money
- Proof of Work — The consensus mechanism that secures Bitcoin
- The Lightning Network — Layer 2 payment channels
- UTXOs — Bitcoin’s accounting model
- Privacy — Bitcoin privacy: threats, tools, techniques
- Security — Self-custody, seed phrases, multisig, hardware wallets
- Multisig (Multisignature) — M-of-N schemes, PSBT workflow, collaborative custody, MuSig2
- Scarcity — 21 million cap, halving, digital scarcity
- Bitcoin Governance — Who controls Bitcoin, how changes happen
- Mining — SHA-256, proof of work, difficulty adjustment, ASICs, block rewards
- SegWit — 2017 soft fork: malleability fix, block weight, witness data
- Taproot — 2021 soft fork: Schnorr signatures, MAST, P2TR, MuSig2
- Address Types — P2PK, P2PKH, P2SH, P2WPKH, P2WSH, P2TR explained
- Bitcoin Protocol Stack — Layered architecture: P2P, base chain, Script, Lightning, apps
- Hashcash — Adam Back’s 1997 PoW anti-spam system; direct precursor to Bitcoin mining
- Cantillon Effect — Non-neutral distributional effect of money creation; why Bitcoin is Cantillon-resistant
- Blockchain — Chain of blocks, PoW linkage, tamper-evident ledger (Bitcoin-specific framing)
- BIP — Bitcoin Improvement Proposals; upgrade design docs and activation context
- Byzantine Generals Problem — Trust-minimized agreement; how sources map it to Bitcoin consensus
- Decentralization — No central control; validation, nodes, and blocksize-war nuance
- Deflation — Purchasing-power framing vs fiat; disinflation vs popular “deflation” language
- Difficulty Adjustment — 2016-block retargeting; ~10-minute block schedule
- Double Spend — The digital-cash problem Bitcoin solves; confirmations and 51% nuance
- Forks — Accidental splits, soft vs hard forks, Bitcoin Cash example
- Mempool — Unconfirmed transactions; miners, fees, reorgs
- Bitcoin Whitepaper — 2008 technical paper; foundational but incomplete spec framing
- AML (Anti-Money Laundering) in Bitcoin — 21ideas framing of AML as surveillance + custodial censorship risk
- b-money — Wei Dai’s 1998 proposal; “first draft” precursor in Genesis Files
- Bit Gold — Nick Szabo’s digital gold proposal; near-miss predecessor
- RPOW — Hal Finney’s reusable proof-of-work prototype (2004)
Entities
- Satoshi Nakamoto — Anonymous creator of Bitcoin
- Hal Finney — First Bitcoin recipient, cypherpunk legend
- Nick Szabo — Bit Gold, Shelling Out, social scalability
- Cypherpunks — The movement that made Bitcoin possible
- Adam Back — Hashcash creator; cited precursor to Bitcoin PoW
- Tim May — Crypto Anarchist Manifesto; cypherpunk co-founder framing
- Eric Hughes — Author of A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (“cypherpunks write code”)
- David Chaum — eCash / DigiCash; privacy-forward but centralized predecessor
- Phil Zimmermann — Creator of PGP; signatures and software authenticity mindset
- Gigi (dergigi) — Bitcoin philosopher, author of 21 Ways
- Parker Lewis — Author of “Gradually, Then Suddenly”; Head of BD at Unchained Capital
- Saifedean Ammous — Author of The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard
Books
- Inventing Bitcoin — Yan Pritzker — technical primer
- Sovereignty Through Mathematics — Knut Svanholm
- The Bullish Case for Bitcoin — Vijay Boyapati
- The Fiat Standard — Saifedean Ammous
- The Price of Tomorrow — Jeff Booth
- The Sovereign Individual — Davidson & Rees-Mogg (1997)
- The Blocksize War — Jonathan Bier
- 21 Ways — Gigi (dergigi)
Article Series
- Gradually, Then Suddenly — Parker Lewis (17 parts)
- Discovering Bitcoin — Giacomo Zucco (7 parts)
- Genesis Files — Aaron van Wirdum — Bitcoin’s intellectual prehistory
- Bitcoin Astronomy — Dhruv Bansal — post-hyperbitcoinization
- Silk Road — Bitcoin’s first great marketplace
- OXT Research — Samourai Wallet: blockchain analysis and Bitcoin privacy (4 parts)
- What I Learned From Bitcoin — Gigi: philosophical, economic, technological lessons
History
- Timeline — Key events from 2008 to present
- Pre-Bitcoin: The Cypherpunks — eCash, Hashcash, Bit Gold
- The Blocksize War — 2015–2017 scaling conflict
Philosophy
- Philosophy Overview — 17 core philosophical themes
Practice
- Buying Bitcoin — P2P, no-KYC options
- Storage & Self-Custody — Hardware wallets, multisig, cold storage
- Lightning Tools — Wallets, apps, services
- Privacy in Practice — CoinJoin, Dojo, GrapheneOS
- Running a Bitcoin Node — Why it matters, hardware, Bitcoin Core, Umbrel, connecting wallets
Topics
- Bitcoin for Dissidents — Belarus, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Russia: Bitcoin under authoritarianism
- Bitcoin’s Seven Network Effects — Trace Mayer’s framework for Bitcoin’s compounding adoption
Glossary
- Glossary — All key Bitcoin terms: A–Z (Cyrillic) and Latin abbreviations (ASIC, BIP, HTLC, UTXO, etc.)
Overview
- Synthesis — Big-picture synthesis: what this knowledge base is about
Sources
Synthesized from multiple sources in the 21ideas.org raw/ library. No single canonical source article.
This wiki contains 54 pages synthesized from 308 source files in the 21ideas.org raw/ library. It is fully interlinked and ready for public hosting via Quartz or Obsidian Publish. Last updated: 2026-04-07.