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Bitcoin’s 2019 in Tech: What This Year Brought Us (Part 1)

Bitcoin’s technical development is progressing full steam ahead. The leading cryptocurrency’s developer community, growing each year, is hard at work to improve the Bitcoin protocol and everything around it. Some of the bigger projects — Taproot, Stratum V2, OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFYand Drivechain, to name a few examples — have made much progress throughout the year and could (in some cases…

Pieter Wuille Unveils ‘Miniscript,’ A New Smart Contract Language for Bitcoin

Smart contracts could soon get a boost in bitcoin as prominent programmer Pieter Wuille has unveiled a new coding language designed specifically for their use.

Posted to the bitcoin developer mailing list Monday, the ‘Miniscript’ language aims to make it easier for programmers to write up “smart contracts” or conditions for spending bitcoins. Programmers Wuille, Andrew Poelstra and Sanket…