Bitcoin’s capacity is limited. Meanwhile, smart contracts can be resource intensive. So even though Bitcoin has always supported basic smart contract functionality, the two have never been a natural ...
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 ...
CheckTemplateVerify (CTV) is a soft fork proposal for Bitcoin specified in the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 119. It aims to enable new use cases for the network by adding a basic type of ...
Bitcoin, the pioneering cryptocurrency, has undergone significant evolution since its inception in 2009. With its decentralized nature and peer-to-peer transaction system, Bitcoin has gained ...
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 ...