The Challenges of Scaling Bitcoin
Walton is joined by leading technical minds to discuss the challenges of scaling bitcoin, new protocols like Ark, and the hurdles developers face to enable practical self-custody for the masses.
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Walton is joined by leading technical minds to discuss the challenges of scaling bitcoin, new protocols like Ark, and the hurdles developers face to enable practical self-custody for the masses.
What does it take to make Bitcoin programmable money? Do we need to abandon Script, or can we make Script great instead? Developers don't want opcodes, they want capabilities. And different sets of opcodes enable different capabilities. But not all ways of enabling these capabilities are equally good. What does it mean to enable something badly? Can we avoid that? An opinionated journey into Bitcoin Script, the new primitives and the opcodes that enable them.
How to go from idea to Bitcoin smart contracts using OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY