Abstract: Supporting the most popular cryptocurrency, the Bitcoin platform allows its transactions to be programmable via its scripts. Defects in Bitcoin scripts will make users lose their bitcoins.

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 ...

Since Bitcoin Core developers began proposing a controversial increase to the data storage capacity of a Bitcoin script operation code, the number of node operators protesting that change has hit an ...

Last week, alarm bells rang over a proposal to relax data storage limitations via an operation code of Bitcoin script. It was a deceptively minor change to the policy of full node software that shed ...

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 stellar performance of the Bitcoin Pepe ICO has gone into overdrive after raising a massive $3.4m since opening its first presale round—and the smart money has taken notice. Centralized exchanges ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. Bitcoin developers are once again debating ossification ...

The full specification is available in the BOSD Specification document. BOSD uses a simple binary format consisting of a 1-byte type tag followed by a cryptographic payload. The format is designed to ...

Kyle Torpey has been writing about Bitcoin since 2013. His work has been featured in Fortune, Bitcoin Magazine, Wired UK, and many other media outlets. He has also attracted more than 50,000 followers ...