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Merge pull request #95 from bitcoin-dev-project/new-explainers
Add DKG, FROST, Shamir Secret Sharing, and Tor explainers
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{
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"id": "dkg",
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"title": "Distributed Key Generation (DKG)",
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"description": "How a group of participants jointly generate a shared public key and secret shares — without any single party ever knowing the full private key.",
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"category": "Cryptography",
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"difficulty": "Advanced",
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"slideCount": 8,
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"tags": [
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"dkg",
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"threshold",
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"key-generation",
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"multisig",
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"cryptography"
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],
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"lastUpdated": "2026-07-01",
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"slides": [
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{
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"id": "slide-1",
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"title": "Distributed Key Generation — Slide 1",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/dkg/slide-1.png",
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"altText": "Distributed Key Generation, slide 1"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-2",
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"title": "Distributed Key Generation — Slide 2",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/dkg/slide-2.png",
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"altText": "Distributed Key Generation, slide 2"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-3",
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"title": "Distributed Key Generation — Slide 3",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/dkg/slide-3.png",
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"altText": "Distributed Key Generation, slide 3"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-4",
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"title": "Distributed Key Generation — Slide 4",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/dkg/slide-4.png",
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"altText": "Distributed Key Generation, slide 4"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-5",
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"title": "Distributed Key Generation — Slide 5",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/dkg/slide-5.png",
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"altText": "Distributed Key Generation, slide 5"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-6",
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"title": "Distributed Key Generation — Slide 6",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/dkg/slide-6.png",
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"altText": "Distributed Key Generation, slide 6"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-7",
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"title": "Distributed Key Generation — Slide 7",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/dkg/slide-7.png",
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"altText": "Distributed Key Generation, slide 7"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-8",
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"title": "Distributed Key Generation — Slide 8",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/dkg/slide-8.png",
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"altText": "Distributed Key Generation, slide 8"
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "frost",
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"title": "FROST: Threshold Schnorr Signatures",
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"description": "How FROST produces efficient threshold Schnorr signatures, letting t-of-n signers create what looks like a single signature on-chain.",
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"category": "Cryptography",
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"difficulty": "Advanced",
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"slideCount": 4,
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"tags": [
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"frost",
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"schnorr",
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"threshold-signatures",
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"multisig",
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"taproot"
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],
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"lastUpdated": "2026-07-01",
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"slides": [
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{
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"id": "slide-1",
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"title": "FROST — Slide 1",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/frost/slide-1.png",
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"altText": "FROST, slide 1"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-2",
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"title": "FROST — Slide 2",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/frost/slide-2.png",
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"altText": "FROST, slide 2"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-3",
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"title": "FROST — Slide 3",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/frost/slide-3.png",
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"altText": "FROST, slide 3"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-4",
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"title": "FROST — Slide 4",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/frost/slide-4.png",
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"altText": "FROST, slide 4"
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "shamir-secret-sharing",
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"title": "Shamir Secret Sharing",
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"description": "How a secret can be split into shares so that any threshold of them reconstructs it, while fewer reveal nothing at all.",
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"category": "Cryptography",
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"difficulty": "Intermediate",
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"slideCount": 9,
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"tags": [
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"shamir",
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"secret-sharing",
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"backup",
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"key-management",
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"cryptography"
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],
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"lastUpdated": "2026-07-01",
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"slides": [
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{
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"id": "slide-1",
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"title": "Shamir Secret Sharing — Slide 1",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/shamir-secret-sharing/slide-1.png",
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"altText": "Shamir Secret Sharing, slide 1"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-2",
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"title": "Shamir Secret Sharing — Slide 2",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/shamir-secret-sharing/slide-2.png",
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"altText": "Shamir Secret Sharing, slide 2"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-3",
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"title": "Shamir Secret Sharing — Slide 3",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/shamir-secret-sharing/slide-3.png",
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"altText": "Shamir Secret Sharing, slide 3"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-4",
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"title": "Shamir Secret Sharing — Slide 4",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/shamir-secret-sharing/slide-4.png",
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"altText": "Shamir Secret Sharing, slide 4"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-5",
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"title": "Shamir Secret Sharing — Slide 5",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/shamir-secret-sharing/slide-5.png",
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"altText": "Shamir Secret Sharing, slide 5"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-6",
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"title": "Shamir Secret Sharing — Slide 6",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/shamir-secret-sharing/slide-6.png",
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"altText": "Shamir Secret Sharing, slide 6"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-7",
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"title": "Shamir Secret Sharing — Slide 7",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/shamir-secret-sharing/slide-7.png",
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"altText": "Shamir Secret Sharing, slide 7"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-8",
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"title": "Shamir Secret Sharing — Slide 8",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/shamir-secret-sharing/slide-8.png",
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"altText": "Shamir Secret Sharing, slide 8"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-9",
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"title": "Shamir Secret Sharing — Slide 9",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/shamir-secret-sharing/slide-9.png",
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"altText": "Shamir Secret Sharing, slide 9"
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}
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]
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},
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{
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"id": "tor",
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"title": "Tor: Onion Routing",
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"description": "How Tor wraps traffic in layers of encryption and routes it through relays to preserve network-level privacy.",
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"category": "Privacy",
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"difficulty": "Intermediate",
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"slideCount": 6,
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"tags": [
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"tor",
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"privacy",
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"networking",
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"anonymity",
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"onion-routing"
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],
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"lastUpdated": "2026-07-01",
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"slides": [
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{
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"id": "slide-1",
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"title": "Tor — Slide 1",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/tor/slide-1.png",
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"altText": "Tor, slide 1"
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},
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"id": "slide-2",
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"title": "Tor — Slide 2",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/tor/slide-2.png",
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"altText": "Tor, slide 2"
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},
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"id": "slide-3",
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"title": "Tor — Slide 3",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/tor/slide-3.png",
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"altText": "Tor, slide 3"
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},
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"id": "slide-4",
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"title": "Tor — Slide 4",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/tor/slide-4.png",
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"altText": "Tor, slide 4"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-5",
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"title": "Tor — Slide 5",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/tor/slide-5.png",
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"altText": "Tor, slide 5"
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},
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{
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"id": "slide-6",
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"title": "Tor — Slide 6",
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"imageUrl": "/decoding-bitcoin/static/explainers/images/tor/slide-6.png",
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"altText": "Tor, slide 6"
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}
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]
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},
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