The Bitcoin Script language is a simple, stack-based scripting language used to define the spending conditions of Bitcoin transactions. It prioritizes security and minimizes complexity, playing a ...

The Bitcoin Script language is a simple, stack-based scripting language used to define the spending conditions of Bitcoin transactions. It prioritizes security and minimizes complexity, playing a ...

The last six months or so have seen several proposals for improvements to Bitcoin Script: CAT, 64-bit arithmetic, as well as some older ideas (CTV) and far-future ideas (Chialisp and Simplicity). This ...

Is OP_CAT happening? The covenants proposal was just assigned BIP number #347. But before we delve deeper, let’s explore what covenants are and why Bitcoiners may want them. To understand covenant ...

Last month I attended the maiden voyage of Programming Taproot, a new workshop that Bitcoin developer Jimmy Song just launched. He held the one-day workshop in Bitcoin Commons in downtown Austin. It ...

In my prior article on the mempool, I laid out a simple conceptual framework to reason about the basic functionality of the mempool, and how it was used by different kinds of users of the Bitcoin ...

Slipstream will help expedite the processing of "non-standard" Bitcoin transactions. Marathon will be the first publicly traded miner to offer such a service by utilizing its own mining pool. Bitcoin ...