Covenants

The fifth article in the Covenant series, examining the OP_CAT reactivation proposal from Ethan Heilman and Armin Sabouri.

The third article in the Covenant series, examining the TXHASH/CHECKTXHASHVERIFY proposal from Steven Roose and Brandon Black.

Stu is an opensource developer who has gone from working at ZBD, to building prototypes for CTV tools, to now contributing to the Char Network.

What are covenants? What do they enable? What are the positives and negatives? This article series will explain.

How covenants can be built on Bitcoin today with no softforks (for an outrageously expensive set up price) using hash collisions. By Andrew Poelstra from Blockstream.

A written interview with Polyd, a Control Systems Specialist and creator of the Enigma Network proposal, on the concept of covenants.

The debate around the next change to Bitcoin is focused almost entirely on covenants. Having already implemented numerous covenants, Liquid presents a great learning opportunity in that discussion.

Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates.

Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates.

Certain characteristics of Bitcoin create a loss in fungibility. These must be addressed and solved in order for Bitcoin to gain widespread adoption.