Bitcoin Protocols and BIPs Articles

BIP 180 guide covering its closed light-client fraud proof, transaction-size components, Merkle links, SegWit weight, threat model and limits.

Understand miner signalling vs economic consensus in Bitcoin: what version bits communicate, what full nodes enforce and how pools should manage activation risk.

BIP 171 guide covering its closed HTTP exchange-rate API, XBT pairs, authentication, TLS, signatures, freshness, provider trust and decimal safety.

BIP 118 guide covering its Draft Taproot design, evolving history, omitted prevout commitments, new key type, eltoo use, replay boundaries and testing.

BIP 104 guide covering its closed hard-fork block-size adjustment, 75% target, retarget periods, miner incentives, oscillation risks and deployment.

BIP 90 Buried Deployments made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

BIP 115 guide covering its closed CHECKBLOCKATHEIGHT proposal, chain commitment, depth rule, script semantics, fork deployment and operational risks.

BIP 147 NULLDUMMY explained: see why CHECKMULTISIG consumes an extra stack item and how requiring it empty closes a malleability vector.

BIP 146 Signature Malleability made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

BIP 134 guide covering its closed hard-fork transaction format, tagged fields, malleability goal, parsing risks, deployment limits and SegWit comparison.

HTLCs Explained made simple. See the main facts, costs, risks and practical checks before you make a decision.

BIP 49 guide covering purpose 49 derivation, nested SegWit scripts, extended-key versions, account discovery, migration and recovery testing.