Bitcoin consensus Articles

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

Bitcoin Core 25 migratewallet guide covering its experimental boundary, automatic legacy backup, encrypted wallets, split outputs, verification and rollback.

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

Bitcoin Core 23 getdeploymentinfo guide covering buried and BIP9 deployments, queried blocks, active versus status, signalling statistics and monitoring.

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

Bitcoin Core 22 listdescriptors guide to public descriptors, timestamps, flags, ranges, next indexes, backups, privacy controls and restoration tests.

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.

BIP 382 guide covering Deployed wpkh() and wsh() descriptors, compressed-key rules, witnessScript recovery, nesting constraints, checksums and test vectors.

BIP 381 guide covering Deployed pk(), pkh() and sh() descriptors, allowed contexts, redeemScript construction, key origins, checksums, compatibility and vectors.