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A programmable spending condition language attached to transaction outputs. Bitcoin Script is intentionally limited and not Turing-complete.

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$ETH Ethereum
Scripting
Bitcoin Script, the language used to define spending conditions for Bitcoin transactions, is i...
$DOGE Dogecoin
Technical Specifications
... standard transaction types including pay-to-public-key-hash (P2PKH) and pay-to-script-hash (P2SH). Addresses in Dogecoin begin with the letter "D" and are derived f...
$BCH Bitcoin Cash
Technical Specifications
... patterns. The OP_REVERSEBYTES opcode, native introspection opcodes, and larger script and stack limits have further enhanced Bitcoin Cash's programmability. Bitcoin...
Smart Contract Capabilities
...018 was a particularly important advancement. These opcodes allow a transaction script to verify an ECDSA signature against arbitrary data, not just the transaction i...

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