Bitcoin Protocols and BIPs Articles

BIP 93 codex32 guide covering Draft BIP32 seed encoding, 13-character checksum, error correction, 2-to-9 thresholds, up to 31 shares and recovery tests.

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.

BIP 329 guide to JSON Lines wallet-label export, typed references, optional origin and spendable fields, privacy controls, validation and migration testing.

BIP 331 package relay explained for mining nodes: understand ancestor packages, orphan handling, fee bumps, combined hashes and draft protocol limits.

BIP 389 guide covering Draft path tuples, receive/change expansion, lockstep key derivation, duplicate rejection, checksums, exports and compatibility.

BIP 351 Private Payments made simple. See what the proposal changes, its current status and what it means for Bitcoin users and operators.

BIP 46 guide to Draft fidelity-bond derivation, 960 monthly locks, P2WSH CLTV scripts, cold certificates, recovery and time risks.

BIP 327 MuSig2 explained: understand aggregate keys, two-round Schnorr signing, nonce safety and Taproot multisignatures without script exposure.

BIP 372 guide to Draft PSBT pay-to-contract tweak fields, original keys, signer checks, supported scripts, compatibility and missing vectors.

BIP 386 guide covering deployed tr() descriptors, internal x-only keys, optional script trees, TapTweak construction, parser boundaries, recovery and vectors.

BIP 383 guide covering Deployed multi() and sortedmulti(), threshold and context rules, deterministic ordering, ranged keys, script limits, recovery and vectors.