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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have introduced a novel optimization framework for Bitcoin transaction validation, successfully resolving the long-standing "redundant validation" bottleneck in the Bitcoin network.

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 ...

Slovak Bitcoin developer Martin Habovštiak has embedded a 66-kilobyte TIFF image directly into the Bitcoin blockchain as a ...

Bitcoin Metaprotocols are secondary protocols embedded "inside" the Bitcoin protocol itself. They function independently, using Bitcoin as a host. Bitcoin is a database. This is an inescapable ...

A look at different relay policy filters, and why they have always been a standard part of a node's mempool. In my prior article on the mempool, I laid out a simple conceptual framework to reason ...