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

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

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

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 ...

Bitcoin developer Martin Habovštiak stored a 66KB image on the Bitcoin blockchain to challenge the proposed BIP-110 anti-spam ...

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 ...

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 ...