Bitcoin Protocols and BIPs Articles

BIP 89 guide to deployed Chain Code Delegation, per-spend BIP32 tweaks, multisig privacy, non-blinded and blinded signing, nonce safety and verification.

What is BIP-110? Learn what Bitcoin’s reduced-data soft-fork proposal restricted, why it was controversial and why it later closed.

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

What is a satoshi? Learn the exact Bitcoin unit relationship, how wallets display sats, where rounding causes mistakes and what Draft BIP 172 proposes.

BIP 177 guide to the Draft proposal for integer base-unit bitcoin displays, unchanged BTC meaning and supply, conversion rules, migration risks and testing.

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

BIP 375 guide to Draft Silent Payment PSBTv2 fields, input finality, ECDH shares, DLEQ proofs, role responsibilities, change detection and validation.

BIP 374 guide to Draft 64-byte discrete-log equality proofs, generation, verification, auxiliary randomness, message binding, Silent Payments and 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 321 guide to modern bitcoin URIs, address and query parsing, required parameters, payment methods, decimal amounts, proof of payment and user approval.

Can quantum computers break Bitcoin? Learn which signatures could be exposed, why hashes differ, what today’s machines can do and how upgrades may reduce risk.

BIP 390 guide to the Draft musig() descriptor key expression, allowed Taproot contexts, derivation, KeySort, aggregate child keys and compatibility.