Bitcoin Wallets Articles

Bitcoin Core wallet backups made simple. See what the feature does, where its limits sit and which checks node or wallet operators should make.

Bitcoin Core 0.12 pruning guide covering wallet support, retained blocks, rescans, indexes, backups, mining nodes and reversible deployment tests.

BIP 126 mixed-input privacy explained: review standard and alternate transaction forms, equal outputs, UTXO controls and the Draft status.

BIP 142 SegWit addresses explained: review the closed Base58 design for native P2WPKH and P2WSH and why Bech32 became the deployed format.

BIP 75 encrypted address exchange explained: understand sender authentication, ECDH privacy, store-and-forward servers and legacy BIP 70 risk.

BIP 83 dynamic HD key trees explained: understand reserved child zero, nested path notation, application mappings and safe wallet recovery.

BIP 47 Reusable Payment Codes made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

BIP 67 Sorted Multisig Keys made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

BIP 81 coloured voting-pool hierarchy explained as a closed design using five hash-derived colour levels plus series and address indexes.

BIP 80 voting-pool wallet hierarchy explained as a closed design for coin, series and address branches in deterministic multisig cold storage.

A Bitcoin wallet manages keys, addresses and payments rather than storing coins. Learn wallet types, recovery, fees, privacy and safe setup in simple English.

BIP 45 deterministic multisig wallets explained: review cosigner branches, receive and change derivation, address discovery and recovery limits.