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 ...

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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 ...

A Bitcoin node is a computer that runs Bitcoin software to validate and relay transactions across the network. Like servers in a traditional financial system, nodes store a complete copy of the ...

A newly disclosed software vulnerability in the Babylon Bitcoin staking protocol has raised significant security concerns ...

The head of global investment research at Coinbase says that quantum computing poses significant risks to Bitcoin's security.

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 ...

Bitcoin faces growing risks as quantum computing could threaten wallet security, mining, and network balance, warns ...