Wallets for Devs
All about Bitcoin wallet protocols, such as descriptor wallets, PSBTs, HD wallets, mnemonics. (BIPs 32, 39, 174, 370), and Miniscript.
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 our flagship Bitcoin Developer Basics 01 and 02 courses.
Topics we'll cover:
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.
We’ll build a parser that can take seed words and transform them into a seed for BIP32.
This modern protocol is used for communicating information about how to unlock bitcoin. We’ll dive into how they work.
Learn how wallets communicate data with the PSBT protocol.
What’s updated in the newer version of the PSBT spec?
Dive into BIP127 and BIP322 to understand how you can prove what you own.
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