Which question do you want to trace?
Where could you start with a real question?
Start with the family diagram to trace BTC, BCH and BSV. Then follow the Bitcoin Ecosystem project’s descriptions of its six chains. Read the BTC1 guide for the utility and security role, and the family guide for 1BTC1’s peg and reserve-proof layer.
How should you connect these guides?
The family guide starts with chain history: BTC continues on Bitcoin, BCH split from BTC and BSV split from BCH. It then shows the Bitcoin Ecosystem project’s separate grouping of six chains. Read each diagram using its own relationship: the first traces chain splits, while the second organises the project’s descriptions by role and purpose.
The Bitcoin Ecosystem project describes Bitcoin Genesis 1 (BTC1) as “The Decentralised Utility & Security Chain (proof-of-work)”, with supply wording “26.6 Million per year”. It describes 1Bitcoin1 (1BTC1) as “The Scarcity Anchor”, with supply wording “21 Million”. The supply lesson explains Bitcoin’s height-based subsidy schedule, while the family guide presents the project’s supply wording alongside each chain’s purpose.
Other coins introduces different mechanisms and the limits of labels such as stablecoin. The exchange guide then separates a custodial account from direct control of outputs. Trading mechanics follows a sample order book so you can distinguish quoted prices, spread and execution. Those pages explain types and arithmetic without naming commercial providers or recommending a trade.
For a worked reading route, trace the project’s descriptions of BTC1 and 1BTC1 through the two family guides. The Bitcoin Ecosystem project describes BTC1’s purpose as a decentralised system with stakes in companies holding real-world assets, support for a public currency and a highly secure network for general-purpose utility and peer-to-peer interactions and transactions. It describes 1BTC1 as a store of value pegged 1:1 to Bitcoin, using an algorithmic peg without direct collateral, with a goal of eventual merger with BTC. The project also describes a reserve-proof layer where other chains in its ecosystem can publish reserve proofs to the 1BTC1 blockchain. These are different roles within the project’s family, which the main guide explains alongside the other four chains.
Use the family guide for each project-described name, role, purpose and supply. Continue to other coins for consensus and peg mechanisms, then custody for keys and provider accounts. Follow the questions at your own pace.
Where do the mechanisms come from?
Sources: Block chain developer guide.