208Course · Practitioner
Bitcoin Scaling
The debate that has not ended.
On-chain versus off-chain: the debate that has not ended and probably will not. The course covers SegWit, Taproot, Schnorr, and the covenants debate on its own technical merits.
- 01
Distinguish on-chain from off-chain scaling.
- 02
Understand Segwit, Taproot, and beyond.
- 03
Judge scaling proposals by their tradeoffs.
Prerequisites
- — Lightning Network; UTXO Model.
Pacing
~3 hours.
- IModule
On-chain vs. off-chain
The two paths.
A Note from the Faculty
Scaling debates are debates about what Bitcoin is for.