Rusty Russell, lead Lightning developer for Blockstream, is spearheading an ambitious initiative known as the Bitcoin script restoration project. This effort aims to restore and expand the ...

Ryan Gentry highlighted the stark contrast between the comprehensive approach of the Great Script Restoration and other more incremental proposals. Many existing proposals, like Christian Decker‘s ...

Everything built on top of Bitcoin that you are aware of today is because of the primitives that Bitcoin Script supports. What do I mean by primitives? The basic components of a programming language ...

Bitcoin Core developer Pieter Wuille has introduced a new Bitcoin (BTC) smart contract programming language called Miniscript. Wuille, a creator of major Bitcoin network upgrade SegWit, announced the ...

Jeremy Rubin joins us to talk about his secretive Miami Bitcoin office building Polybeam bridge and a Bitcoin staking platform, his controversial ideas for redesigning Bitcoin script entirely using ...

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 ...