Four Bitcoin developers have released a paper outlining how Schnorr multi-signatures (‘multisig’) can help scale the Bitcoin Blockchain. In the paper, published Jan. 15, Greg Maxwell, Andrew Poelstra, ...

Following the launch of working code last month, blockchain technology firm Blockstream hopes to successfully develop a new multisignature standard for Bitcoin transactions in the future. Alongside ...

Taproot and Schnorr signatures are going live on Bitcoin at block 709,632. This is going to be a massive foundational achievement to continue building on into the future. It’s been four years since ...

Bitcoin's capacity is limited. Meanwhile, smart contracts can be resource intensive. So even though Bitcoin has always supported basic smart contract functionality, the two have never been a natural ...

Meet DahLIAS, a full aggregation signature scheme that works with secp256k1, Bitcoin's cryptographic curve. Aggregate signatures aren’t new. They’ve been around since the early 2000s. But building one ...

Schnorr signatures, a code change likely to be one of the biggest coming upgrades to bitcoin, have now gone from a theoretical idea to real code courtesy of technology startup Blockstream.

Bitcoin cash's next hard fork is almost here, a development that could enact a much-anticipated code change. Slated for May 15, the blockchain update is particularly interesting because it includes ...