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 ...

Bitcoin may have laid the foundation for the crypto revolution, but new players are now stepping up to redefine what’s possible—and Lightchain AI is leading that charge. While BTC remains a store of ...

The stack-based scripting language embedded in Bitcoin transactions. When bitcoins are sent to a recipient, Script commands in an unlocking script (scriptSig) validate the available bitcoins (UTXOs), ...

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 ...

Ryan Gentry highlighted the stark contrast between the comprehensive approach of the Great Script Restoration and other more incremental proposals. Many existing proposals, like Christian Decker‘s ...

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 ...

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 ...