A deep dive into the Bitcoin Script language, its purpose, functionality, and limitations. Understand how it empowers Bitcoin transactions and its connection to smart contracts, the Lightning Network, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. Bitcoin developers are once again debating ossification ...

What if the same Bitcoin signature could authorize spending from multiple different UTXOs? BIP 118's ANYPREVOUT does exactly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...