Script

In a recent interview with Bitcoin Magazine, Ryan Gentry from Lightning Labs He shared his views on various proposals aimed at enhancing Bitcoin’s scripting capabilities, with a particular focus on the approach taken by Rusty Russell’s new…

Rusty Russell, lead Lightning developer for Blockstream, is leading an ambitious initiative known as the Bitcoin Text Recovery Project. This effort aims to restore and expand the functionality of Bitcoin's script language, which was…

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 himself put it before he disappeared: “The…

The last six months or so have seen several proposals for improvements to Bitcoin Script: CAT, 64-bit arithmetic, as well as some older ideas (CTV) and far-future ideas (Chialisp and Simplicity). This activity has largely overshadowed some…

This narrative this year was supposed to be the demise of the US dollar. The disinflation push and rate cuts by the Fed was supposed to pave the way for that. And yet here we are, with the dollar rising to its best levels in two months…

It wasn't long ago (earlier this month) that the United States seemed to be pursuing a path of open hostility toward the cryptocurrency industry, seeming eager to kick out the original cryptocurrency institutions even as many other regions…