Bitcoin smart contracts are a tricky beast to tame, but a new language is making them easier to write, democratizing them in a sense. Smart contracts can (among other things) allow users to set extra ...

Bitcoin Script is the programming language that controls every transaction on the Bitcoin network. It is a simple, stack-based language that defines the exact conditions under which bitcoin can be ...

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 ...

Grassroots support is emerging for two Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs), BIP 119 and BIP 348, which could be implemented in Bitcoin's next soft fork. These BIPs, which propose new ways of writing ...