Bitcoin consensus Articles

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

Bitcoin Core 28 createwalletdescriptor guide covering address types, internal and external descriptors, HD-key selection, encryption, backups and verification.

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

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

See how Bitcoin halving affects ASIC miners through lower subsidy, fees, difficulty, efficiency and power cost, with a practical operator checklist.

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.

Bitcoin Core descriptorprocesspsbt RPC made simple. See what the feature does, where its limits sit and which checks node or wallet operators should make.