What you’ll learn

• Basic intro to encodings, endianness, and bitcoin’s specific base58 encoding
• Learn the components of a bitcoin transaction
• How to parse a bitcoin transaction from bytes
• Intro to bitcoin Script, including writing your own bitcoin locking scripts
• How to write standard bitcoin locking scripts (P2SH)
• How SegWit changed the basic bitcoin transaction
• The standard SegWit locking script: P2WSH
• How to make legacy compatible SegWit scripts: P2SH-P2WSH