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 ...

The first Bitcoin block signaling for BIP-110 has been mined, marking a flashpoint in a heated debate over restricting non-financial data onchain.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...