Category Hub
Building on Bitcoin covers systems that use Bitcoin transactions, scripts, settlement, data, or software without becoming interchangeable with Bitcoin itself. This hub organizes sixteen guides across Layer 2, Digital Assets, Development, and Innovation so readers can identify what Bitcoin validates, what additional components do, and which trust, custody, data, and maturity assumptions remain outside Bitcoin consensus.
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MSC-GUIDE-033
Follow Lightning from channel funding and commitment states through HTLC routing, revocation, liquidity, fees, watch requirements, implementation differences, and Bitcoin-enforced channel closure.
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MSC-GUIDE-034
Examine Ark and current Arkade architecture through VTXOs, operator-coordinated rounds, liquidity, expiry, unilateral exits, data retention, preconfirmation, and the project's alpha maturity.
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MSC-GUIDE-035
Learn how RGB uses single-use seals, Bitcoin commitments, consignments, client-side validation, contract schemas, wallet integration, and versioned software without making RGB state part of Bitcoin consensus.
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MSC-GUIDE-036
Compare separate-chain security, two-way peg designs, federation and functionary control, merged-mining relationships, bridge exits, and proposal status across major sidechain models.
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MSC-GUIDE-037
Separate Bitcoin's transaction and satoshi data from ordinal numbering, rarity conventions, indexer state, wallet handling, transfers, reorganization behavior, and current ord implementation rules.
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MSC-GUIDE-038
Trace Runes through runestones, etching, minting, edicts, cenotaph handling, balances, burns, ordering, and indexer interpretation while keeping native bitcoin and application-defined assets distinct.
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MSC-GUIDE-039
Understand BRC-20 as an experimental inscription and indexer convention, including deploy, mint, transfer, balance reconstruction, historical rule differences, and implementation divergence.
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MSC-GUIDE-040
Follow inscription data through Taproot witness envelopes, commit and reveal transactions, content parsing, fees, pruning, indexers, wallet controls, provenance, and limits on permanence.
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MSC-GUIDE-041
Map a Bitcoin development stack across validating nodes, interfaces, test networks, libraries, descriptors, PSBTs, hardware signers, wallets, indexers, testing, and dependency review.
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MSC-GUIDE-042
Design wallet integrations across custody, descriptors, synchronization, UTXO tracking, transaction construction, external signing, broadcast, confirmation, rollback, recovery, authorization, and privacy.
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MSC-GUIDE-043
Compare Bitcoin Core RPC, REST, ZMQ, P2P, Electrum, Esplora, Lightning, and hosted interfaces through authentication, units, source evidence, retries, caching, privacy, and reorganization handling.
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MSC-GUIDE-044
Separate chainstate and optional Bitcoin Core indexes from external address, script, wallet, explorer, and application indexes, then examine rollbacks, rebuilds, pruning, consistency, and privacy.
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MSC-GUIDE-045
Examine BitVM as experimental off-chain computation and Bitcoin dispute verification, including provers, challengers, transaction graphs, bridges, proof systems, data availability, audits, and developer-preview maturity.
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MSC-GUIDE-046
Follow DLC negotiation through oracle announcements, event descriptors, funding, adaptor signatures, CETs, refunds, multi-oracle assumptions, fee planning, privacy, interoperability, and current implementation limits.
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MSC-GUIDE-047
Learn the proposed byte-concatenation rule, current legacy and Tapscript behavior, OP_SUCCESS126, BIP 347 status, soft-fork activation boundaries, cited applications, and resource limits.
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MSC-GUIDE-048
Apply a repeatable framework for classifying artifacts, enforcement, custody, state, data availability, exits, cryptography, economics, code maturity, interoperability, governance, and evidence quality.
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