Base58 is a software engineering school built on the bitcoin standard. We offer online in-person classes. @niftynei is mainly responsible

Joined June 2021
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get off first base, get onto the shroomified rabbit-warren of bitcoin with @base58btc's bitcoin tech tree base58.school/

lol yall @BitcoinShrooms made a "more readable" version of the @base58btc bitcoin tech tree 🍄 it's soo good!!
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NOW IN BETA: Base58's Intro to (Wire) Protocols course is now live on our newly launched course platform. Implement a wire parsing protocol for TLVs in Python, from the comfort of your browser. base58.school/courses/intro-…
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Learning doesn’t always have to happen behind a screen, in a classroom, or through endless slides. Sometimes, the best way to understand Bitcoin is to become the network itself. Last Saturday at the DadaHub, our Dadas stepped into the Bitcoin protocol through a Live Action Role Play (LARP) session led by our founder, @marcelorraine, in collaboration with @base58school and @niftynei. And what started as a learning exercise quickly became something much bigger. There were moments of intense concentration as teams raced to verify transactions, protect the network, and outsmart each other. There were moments of fierce competition too. At one point, the room felt less like a workshop and more like a championship final. Nobody wanted to lose. (Although rumours suggest the real motivation may have been avoiding a certain karaoke performance after the session. 😭) But that’s the magic of experiences like these. People arrived to learn Bitcoin. They left understanding it. Not because they memorised definitions, but because they experienced the protocol in action. The laughter was constant. The debates were loud. The strategy sessions were serious. And somewhere between acting as nodes, miners, and wallets, abstract concepts suddenly became real. And because Bitcoin is ultimately about people, not just technology, we ended the day sharing something equally important: our stories. From our tribal showcase, where Dadas introduced each other to the beauty and uniqueness of their cultures, to a karaoke session that proved enthusiasm is far more important than vocal talent, the day reminded us that community is built in moments like these. Moments where strangers become friends. Where learning becomes memorable. Where women interested in Bitcoin realise they are part of something bigger than themselves. This is what Bitcoin Dada has always been about. Not just education. Belonging. Here’s a short recap of how the day went down. 💛 And if you missed this one... let's just say you’ll want to be at the next LARP session. Photos coming soon, so stick around. #BitcoinDada #WomenInBitcoin #BitcoinEducation #AfricaBitcoin #BitcoinCommunity #LARP #BASE58
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Enormous vote of confidence from the Texas Bitcoin Foundation in Base58 and our team; super excited to move the needle on Bitcoin understanding this year 🫡
The Texas Bitcoin Foundation is thrilled to announce that we have donated all past and future royalties from The Satoshi Papers to @base58school, the leading #Bitcoin protocol school right here in Austin, #Texas. Link to announcement in the reply. ⬇️
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this is how bitcoin private keys work
i just invented a new number 23985696793824769873298
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No theory. Just hands on Bitcoin Transactions with @base58school and @btcplusplus Founder @niftynei on the @HRF Stage at @thebitcoinconf.
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JUST IN: Base58 (@base58school) to sponsor bitcoin Vienna, economics edition 🏛️ Join us this May 27 28, 2026 👉 btcpp.dev/conf/vienna#ticket…
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Last week @avihu28's paper titled "Quantum Safe Bitcoin" dropped. He describes a novel technique for using 'transaction pinning' and hashing to create post-quantum bitcoin locking scripts. The term 'transaction pinning' has previously been used in bitcoin for which attack?
44% unmineable tx in mempools
11% txs in block reorgs
11% mempoolrbf=0
33% MEV sniping by miners
9 votes • Final results
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Coming to @TheBitcoinConf in Vegas in two weeks? Join the Base58 Work(shop) (formerly known as LARP) team for a happy hour on Wed, April 28th from 5-7p We'll be chatting about past and upcoming facilitator trainings and what's new for 2026! luma.com/rny028qq
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honestly it's kind of insane the level of Big Brains that building the @base58school transactions course gave me best way to learn things is to do them 🫡
Replying to @Stromens
fun fact about not being able to relay them: this is because, by default, bitcoin-core nodes only relay scripts that are considered "standard". this script is too big to fit in a P2SH script (520bytes) therefore you'd have to publish the script 'bare' in the transaction (P2SH has a commit/reveal step) thus rendering it ineligble to relay (it's not a standard 'script type')
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trivia: this transaction requires two preimages and a signature to unlock. in the witness stack, what is the last item? poll in next post
this is a cool locking script. it proves three things: knowledge of two preimages (text blobs) and that you hold the private key for a pubkey (a signature)
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12% a preimage
50% the locking script
12% a signature
25% a pubkey
8 votes • Final results
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not a dev but want to hear what we’re up to?? i’ll be in vegas this April talking about all things bitcoin dev ecosystem cc @btcplusplus @base58school
WE'RE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE NIFTYNEI AS A BITCOIN 2026 SPEAKER ⚡️ She is the founder of Base58 and a core-lightning contributor. 🙌
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it's that time of the month (trivia for bitdevs in Austin) MuSig2 maybe be music to some developers ears. What's the most importance difference between MuSig2 and FROST?
18% MuSig2 has two rounds
62% FROST has thresholds
10% MuSig2 is multisig
10% FROST requires ROAST
40 votes • Final results
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Great talk from @achow101 about writing bitcoin BIPS
People always want to change Bitcoin...🤔 What does that mean? Make it more private? More secure? If anyone knows what ACTUAL changes to Bitcoin mean; it's @achow101 with her @FrameworkPuter 👀 Watch & Learn what creating Bitcoin Improvement Protocols aka BIPs means & takes🔥
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If you’re in Austin, come celebrate bitcoin’s birthday with Base58 at Saturn 🪐 bar on Congress Not in Austin? Today’s the last day to grab a free seat in our self-paced online class about bitcoin transactions. See next post for link 🔗
Tonight! In Austin, Texas 🇺🇸 Bitcoin’s 17th birthday party held at Saturn bar. 🪐🍸 Open community event. All are welcome to stop by and have a drink (paid with ⚡️) to celebrate 🎉 Gather for 6:00pm luma.com/t58bwlvm
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Getting started in bitcoin open source? Want to ace @ChaincodeLabs’s BOSS program? Today you can join Matthew, a Base58 alum, in completing our online Udemy course completely for free! Use code “2026NYE” at checkout for a free signup. But hurry, offer expires Jan 3rd!
Start your career in Bitcoin open source. I'm here at UT Austin hunting down new developer talent in the Lone Star state. 🔍🇺🇸🐂 @Bitcoin_Devs @LonghornBitcoin @BTCStudents @bitcoincommons @PlebLab @base58school
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The winning hackathon project at @btcplusplus sovereignty edition in Taipei this week used Birkhoff interpolation to give weights to FROST polynomials. Normally, FROST points use this type of interpolation:
4% Dark Skippy
22% Poelstra
4% Nakamoto
70% Lagrange
27 votes • Final results
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i'm so excited about this!!
BREAKING: bitcoin announces first ever Open Source edition coming to Nairobi, Kenya next June 17-20 2026 at the @btrustteam Dev Days in Mauritius
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