Pieter Wuille

The Human Rights Foundation, in collaboration with the Finney family, has awarded Pieter Wuille and Gregory Maxwell the prestigious Finney Freedom Prize for their groundbreaking contributions to Bitcoin usability, scalability,...

By stripping down the Script programming language to its bare essentials, Miniscript should make programming on Bitcoin easier and safer.

A forthcoming Bitcoin Improvement Proposal could greatly reduce the bandwidth required to run a full node.

Bitcoin Core 0.18.0 includes the typical range of performance improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features. Here’s an overview of some of the most significant changes.

The minisketch open-source initiative is designed to achieve set reconciliation between the mempools of each full node.

Today marks the release of Bitcoin Coreversion 0.13.1. This is the official introduction of Segregated Witness, the long-awaited centerpiece of Bitcoin Core’s scalability road map. Starting...

On Wednesday, the Bitcoin community went into a tizzy over BIP 75 (BIP stands for Bitcoin Improvement Proposal) which is, in short, a layer-2 protocol...

Bitcoin Core developers Dr. Pieter Wuille, Eric Lombrozo and Johnson Lau launched a fourth – and probably final – iteration of the Segregated Witness...

In part six of this series, Bitcoin Wallet developer and bitcoinj maintainer Andreas Schildbach talks about SegWit's future

Segregated Witness has become the most talked-about breakthrough in Bitcoin development since the concept was presented in early December to the Scaling Bitcoin Workshop...