Series · 5 posters · 2008 to 2020

Bitcoin, piece by piece

The standard that specifies SHA-256, the hash function of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper of 31 October 2008 and the first block, mined on 3 January 2009, followed by two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals: BIP 39 (2013) for recovery words and BIP 340 (2020) for Schnorr signatures.

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The posters

Each poster in its first theme; its page has the others, and a wallpaper.

  1. 1 · Cryptography & Bitcoin

    Secure Hash Standard (SHS): SHA-256

    National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2015

    Print from A3

  2. 2 · Cryptography & Bitcoin

    Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

    Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008

    Print from A2

  3. 3 · Cryptography & Bitcoin

    The Genesis Block

    Satoshi Nakamoto, 2009

    Print from A2

  4. 4 · Cryptography & Bitcoin

    BIP 39: Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys

    Marek Palatinus and 3 others, 2013

    Print from A2

  5. 5 · Cryptography & Bitcoin

    BIP 340: Schnorr Signatures for secp256k1

    Pieter Wuille, Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, 2020

    Print from A1

US formats

Letter, Tabloid, 18 × 24 and 24 × 36 in are not in the repository but in the latest release, in one zip per category, with every theme:

  • Cryptography & Bitcoin, US formats crypto-us.zip · Secure Hash Standard (SHS): SHA-256, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, The Genesis Block, BIP 39: Mnemonic code for generating deterministic keys, BIP 340: Schnorr Signatures for secp256k1

The A, 50 × 70 and 60 × 80 cm PDFs of these posters, in every theme, are also in the latest release, in one zip per category: Cryptography & Bitcoin.

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