Various notes and ideas for development work on Bitcoin Core

• How to Review Bitcoin Core PRs.

• How to Make Bitcoin Core PRs.

• How to compile Bitcoin Core from source and run the tests. A simple step-by-step summary for Linux Debian and macOS.

• Bitcoin Core Dev IRC meetings. Practical info about the General, Wallet, and PR Review Club meetings.

• IRC channels. Join these IRC channels for Bitcoin and Lightning development.

• Logging. How to read and set bitcoind debug logging, with descriptions of each log category.

• Notes. Various miscellaneous technical notes.

• Gitian Building. How to build and commit Gitian signatures to help with deterministically verifying Bitcoin Core releases.

• PSBTs - Partially-Signed Bitcoin Transactions. PSBT information, including new May 2019 IRC discussion of ideas for descriptor slicing/subsetting, e.g. "subscriptors".

• Flame Graphs. How to generate flame graph profiles.

• Scripted Diffs. How to use scripted diffs in commits, with examples from Bitcoin Core PRs.

• 2019-12-21 John Newbery's Bitcoin end-of-decade Twitter thread

• 2019-11-28 CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY Bitcoin Wizards IRC discussion: Gregory Maxwell / Jeremy Rubin. Cleaned up a bit from the original log for personal study.

• 2019-06-08 Bryan Bishop transcript of Jonas Schnelli's June 2019 Breaking Bitcoin talk: "BIP324 V2 Message Transport Protocol."

• 2019-06-07 Bryan Bishop transcript of Jonas Schnelli's June 2019 core.dev talk: "P2P Encryption."

• 2018-07-09 Bryan Bishop transcript of Pieter Wuille's July 2018 SF Bitcoin talk: "Taproot, Schnorr signatures, and SIGHASH_NOINPUT, oh my!" Edited and cleaned up a bit from the original transcript for personal study.