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 ...

What if the same Bitcoin signature could authorize spending from multiple different UTXOs? BIP 118's ANYPREVOUT does exactly that, and it rewrites what pre-signed transactions can do for self-custody ...

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 ...

A proposal to restrict non-financial data on Bitcoin has split prominent developers, miners, and industry leaders ahead of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

OP_CAT is a Bitcoin opcode that joins two pieces of data on the stack into one, and it is currently the subject of one of the longest-running debates in Bitcoin development. It was part of Bitcoin's ...