Bitcoin Transaction and Script BIPs Articles

BIP 441 guide to the Draft tapleaf 0xC2 script-restoration proposal, varops, stack limits, unsigned arithmetic, restored opcodes and safety testing.

BIP 440 guide to the Draft transaction-wide variable-operation budget, weight scaling, opcode cost classes, benchmarks, validation and soft-fork status.

BIP 361 guide to the Draft informational post-quantum migration and legacy-signature sunset proposal, phases, prerequisites, risks and readiness planning.

BIP 443 guide to Draft OP_CCV state-carrying UTXOs, Taproot data commitments, output constraints, amounts, fee handling, use cases and activation.

BIP 53 guide to the Draft soft-fork proposal, witness-stripped 64-byte transactions, Merkle ambiguity, SPV risk, compatibility and activation testing.

BIP 360 P2MR guide covering Draft soft-fork status, script-tree commitments, no key path, long-exposure quantum scope, witnesses, fees and activation.

BIP 353 guide to DNS payment instructions, DNSSEC validation, BIP21 records, aliases, international domains, wallet preference and privacy risks.

BIP 337 guide to compressed Bitcoin transactions, packed metadata, variable integers, signature recovery, lossy outpoints, RPCs and safe interoperability.

BIP 431 TRUC Transactions made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

BIP 347 guide covering Complete specification status, OP_SUCCESS126 redefinition, stack order, 520-byte limit, soft-fork boundary, use cases and testing.

BIP 345 guide covering its Closed status, two proposed tapscript opcodes, trigger-delay-withdrawal and recovery paths, CTV dependency and BIP 443 replacement.

Ordinals and inscriptions explained without hype: separate Bitcoin consensus and Taproot witness validity from sat numbering and indexer interpretation.