Articles of Bitcoin script

Translator's Foreword: Due to the existence of Bitcoin scripts, today, Bitcoin can implement simple trading functions and various multi-signatures, atomic swaps, and lightning network transactions. However, the functions of scripts are not only these, but the complexity. However, it limits the possibilities of more applications, and Miniscript is proposed to make Bitcoin scripts more accessible […]

Although the function of Bitcoin script is limited, its importance is self-evident, and it has ushered in a major upgrade today. Bitcoin core maintainer Pieter Wuille officially announced the Miniscript technology project. Pieter Wuille introduced: "In short, it's a way to write (some) bitcoin scripts in a structured, combinable way that allows for various static […]

Blockchain technology startups are working hard to make it easier to write smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain. The San Francisco-based company has released an open source compiler that converts between Ivy (blockchain's own advanced smart contract language) and Bitcoin scripts, the world's first and largest A low-level programming language in a blockchain. Bitcoin script […]