Wallets for Devs: Transactions, Scripts + SegWit

All about Bitcoin wallet protocols, such as descriptor wallets, PSBTs, HD wallets, mnemonics. (BIPs 32, 39, 174, 370), and Miniscript.

This course includes:
11-hours on-demand video
Access on mobile and TV
7 coding exercises
Full lifetime access
16 articles
Certificate of completion
15 downloadable resources
30-day money back guarantee

About this course:

Wallets today have high standards for keeping complexity at bay with simple interfaces. Bitcoin has some of the most advanced protocols for keeping secrets safe while also providing portable protocols which allow for users to securely move their funds between platforms. Exercises in this class will be in Python using Jupyter Notebooks. Nix strongly recommended for installing the dependencies.

What to know before class (pre-requisites):

It’s strongly recommended that you have a strong understanding of bitcoin transactions before taking this class, such as the topics taught in flagship our Transactions Deep Dive class.

Topics we'll cover:

BIP32 HD wallets

xpubs and xprivs aren’t complicated. We’ll build a tool that allows us to derive any path for HD wallets and learn about common wallet paths.

Seed mnemonics BIP39

We’ll build a parser that can take seed words and transform them into a seed for BIP32.

Descriptor wallets

This modern protocol is used for communicating information about how to unlock bitcoin. We’ll dive into how they work.

PSBT v0

Learn how wallets communicate data with the PSBT protocol.

PSBT v2

What’s updated in the newer version of the PSBT spec?

Proof of Reserves

Dive into BIP127 and BIP322 to understand how you can prove what you own.

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Sr. Software Engineer @ Swan Bitcoin

"I thought I knew how transactions worked in bitcoin up until I took the class. It is a deep, byte by byte dive into the different types of transactions, understandable for non-coding people. Just have an open mindset, let yourself be taught the most basic bitcoin-cli and python commands, and you are good to go. I was afraid it would be too technical, and don't get me wrong, it does get into the roots of how the transaction protocols work, but nifty managed to keep it simple and clear enough for someone with a basic bitcoin knowledge to follow."

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