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 ...

Bitcoin’s capacity is limited. Meanwhile, smart contracts can be resource intensive. So even though Bitcoin has always supported basic smart contract functionality, the two have never been a natural ...

Bitcoin, the pioneering cryptocurrency, has undergone significant evolution since its inception in 2009. With its decentralized nature and peer-to-peer transaction system, Bitcoin has gained ...

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 ...