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Technical Proposal MATT and OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY Would Let Bitcoin Carry State Across Transactions

(4 hours ago) · 1 source · Summarized by CryptoBipto

A technical explainer covers MATT (Merklize All The Things) and the proposed OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY opcode, which would allow Bitcoin to maintain state information across multiple transactions. This is part of an ongoing series examining Bitcoin covenant proposals that could expand Bitcoin's scripting capabilities.

WHY IT MATTERS

Right now, each Bitcoin transaction is like a single, self-contained instruction — it does not remember what happened before it.

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SOURCES

  • cointelegraph.com

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