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Interactive stories that walk you through pivotal moments in Bitcoin's history, using inline-runnable RPC calls against our own bitcoind. Every "moment" in every story is a real, executable query you can run yourself.

13 additional stories are drafted but not yet published. Add ?preview=1 to the URL if you have a reason to be looking at unfinished work.

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Concepts and protocols, explained from the bytes up.

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The Genesis Block

January 3, 2009. Block zero. The first 50 BTC ever mined, with a newspaper headline embedded in the coinbase as a permanent timestamp.

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How these work

Each story has clickable RPC widgets embedded inline. Click Run next to any RPC name to fire it against our Bitcoin Core node and see the result render right there in the article. Or click Open in playground to jump to the full executor with the same arguments pre-filled, and explore from there.

The chain remembers everything. We're just pointing at some of the parts worth seeing.