I did do that when it first was switched from frontiers to steam <| sep |> Did you sharpen it ? I hate unsharpened pencils admittedly my own prejudice . <| sep |> Oh hell yeah ! That ' s why I got into it back in 2011 it took understanding about half a dozen different complex parts privpubkey , proof of work via hashing , blockchain , distributed networks , keynesian economics , supplydemand , but once I had that , it was pretty visible that Bitcoin allowed you to do things that had never been possible before . I still need to read up on the details of ZCash actually . I haven ' t paid enough attention to that yet . MofN basically for security , yeah . This way our team can run their own multisig wallet , with every cofounder holding an xpriv and a few of us being required to move the coins out of the wallet . Bip 32 to go with that so that the server can happily churn out new payment addresses without manual involvement .