The Bitcoin Script language is the core component that drives Bitcoin transactions. It's a specialized language that sets the rules for how Bitcoin can be spent, ensuring secure and verifiable ...

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 ...

Bitcoin was initially designed with a fully fleshed out scripting language, intended to encompass and support any potential safe use case that users could come up with in the future. As Satoshi ...

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 ...

StarkWare and Weizmann Institute researchers have introduced ColliderVM, a system that overcomes Bitcoin script limitations to enable complex smart contracts. Update (April 17 at 2:30 am UTC): This ...

Bitcoin's P2MR upgrade merged into the BIP repository. Protection from quantum computers is now a reality. Your funds just got a quantum-resistant security layer.

While the last year or two have seen a number of proposals for covenant-proposing extensions to Bitcoin, there has always been a suspicion among experts that covenants may be possible without any ...

BitcoinOS and Starknet aren’t waiting around for the controversial OP_CAT hard fork to add new functionality to Bitcoin, with both projects devising innovative ways to scale Bitcoin using ...