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 ...

Discover how Bitcoin Cash (BCH) functions, its creation from a 2017 Bitcoin hard fork, and its role in decentralizing ...

Bitcoin Script can verify who spends your coins. OP_CTV wants to control exactly where they go next — and that changes ...

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 ...

Recently, the concept of so-called covenants has received renewed attention as Bitcoin development and protocol discussions underwent a renaissance. Covenants could enable and facilitate a wide range ...

An increasing number of online merchants now offer the ability to pay using the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. One of the great promises of this technology is anonymity: the transactions are recorded and ...