Bitcoin Protocols and BIPs Articles

BIP 373 guide to MuSig2 participant, public-nonce and partial-signature PSBT fields, signer roles, Taproot context, nonce safety and finalisation.

BIP 328 guide to synthetic xpubs for MuSig2 aggregate keys, fixed chaincode, unhardened derivation, signing tweaks, privacy and verification.

BIP 94 Testnet 4 guide covering its consensus exceptions, block-storm fix, time-warp protection, network parameters, compatibility and safe testing.

BIP 387 guide to multi_a and sortedmulti_a tapscript descriptors, thresholds, x-only keys, derivation, sorting, limits, checksums and wallet testing.

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 388 Wallet Policies for Descriptor Wallets 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.

BitVM explained from the original paper: see how off-chain computation, Taproot commitments and challenge-response fraud proofs avoid new consensus rules.

Taproot Assets explained: separate Bitcoin commitments, client-side proofs, Universe discovery and Lightning transfer from native BTC consensus rules.

BIP 352 silent payments explained: learn reusable payment codes, unique Taproot outputs, sender input keys, wallet scanning and privacy limits.