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The βook
of βitcoin

Terms

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  • The prose — the chain's own speech, in every languageCC0 1.0
  • The sigla — the alphabet that prose is written inCC0 1.0
  • Annotations, names, curation, the prefaceCC BY 4.0
  • Commentary by othersTheirs
  • The software that renders itMIT / Apache-2.0

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Preface

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Sigla

The reference

A citation names a place in the chain, one level at a time. Each level carries the sign of what it is:

III
Volume
an era of supply, opened by a halving
β2
Book
a difficulty window, β its mark
■5
Chapter
a block, ■ its mark
§1
Section
a transaction within the block

Read aloud: the fifth block of the second difficulty window of the third halving era, first transaction. The volume is set in Roman numerals, as a book's volumes are. A citation may stop early — III β2 names the whole book, and III β2 ■5 the whole chapter.

In use

The marks at work: the locks a passage can be, read as scripts, as terms, as addresses, and as a channel.