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Summary

A full breakdown of the process to verify the Bitcoin ECDSA signature of a pair of transactions. Sadly, there are 2 decisive errors in the picture: In step 7: "empty string" is "byte 0" and in step 8: the Subscript copied into TxIn script must be lead-in by its length coded as a var-int.

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