How it works
Six short pages that take you from "a world is a bounded story" to knowing exactly what a confirmed step means and why nobody can reorder it afterwards.
Read this section and you will be able to say, without hedging, what happens when someone takes a step in a and why nobody can rearrange it later. No code, no wallet, no maths. Six pages, half an hour.
The six pages#
The shortest way through#
Read them in order. Each one leans on the last, and the whole run is shorter than it looks.
If you only have ten minutes, read How a world grows and the page on the five actions. That pair is enough to design a world on paper and to follow somebody else's.
If you are about to take a step for real, add Confirmed and unconfirmed before you sign anything. It explains why waiting is not a delay but the thing you are paying for.
What you do not need yet#
You do not need to understand Bitcoin outputs, transaction structure, or how a is encoded to read this section. Those live in the technical reference, and nothing here depends on them.
You also do not need money. Everything in these six pages can be read, understood, and argued with before you ever open a wallet. When you do want to take part, take part picks up where this section stops.