Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Bips
· snapshot 2020-01-19
Pieter Wuille; Jonas Nick; Tim Ruffing. 2020-01-19. Full text. Licence: BSD-2-Clause.
Excerpt: <pre> BIP: 340 Title: Schnorr Signatures for secp256k1 Authors: Pieter Wuille <[email protected]> Jonas Nick <[email protected]> Tim Ruffing <[email protected]> Comments-Summary: No comments yet. Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0340 Status: Deployed Type: Specification Assigned: 2020-01-19 License: BSD-2-Clause License-Code: BSD-2-Clause OR MIT OR CC0-1.0 Discussion: 2018-07-06: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2018-July/016203.html [bitcoin-dev] Schnorr signatures BIP </pre> == Int…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Bips
· snapshot 2020-01-19
Pieter Wuille; Jonas Nick; Anthony Towns. 2020-01-19. Full text. Licence: BSD-3-Clause.
Excerpt: <pre> BIP: 341 Layer: Consensus (soft fork) Title: Taproot: SegWit version 1 spending rules Authors: Pieter Wuille <[email protected]> Jonas Nick <[email protected]> Anthony Towns <[email protected]> Comments-Summary: No comments yet. Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0341 Status: Deployed Type: Specification Assigned: 2020-01-19 License: BSD-3-Clause Discussion: 2019-05-06: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-May/016914.html [bitcoin-dev] Taproot proposal 2019-10-09: http…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Bips
· snapshot 2020-01-19
Pieter Wuille; Jonas Nick; Anthony Towns. 2020-01-19. Full text. Licence: BSD-3-Clause.
Excerpt: <pre> BIP: 342 Layer: Consensus (soft fork) Title: Validation of Taproot Scripts Authors: Pieter Wuille <[email protected]> Jonas Nick <[email protected]> Anthony Towns <[email protected]> Status: Deployed Type: Specification Assigned: 2020-01-19 License: BSD-3-Clause Discussion: 2019-05-06: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2019-May/016914.html [bitcoin-dev] Taproot proposal Requires: 340, 341 </pre> ==Introduction== ===Abstract=== This document specifies the semantics of the initial scripting system under [[bip-0341…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Bips
· snapshot 2021-04-25
Shinobius; Michael Folkson. 2021-04-25. Full text. Licence: BSD-3-Clause OR CC0-1.0.
Excerpt: <pre> BIP: 343 Layer: Consensus (soft fork) Title: Mandatory activation of taproot deployment Authors: Shinobius <[email protected]> Michael Folkson <[email protected]> Status: Closed Type: Specification Assigned: 2021-04-25 License: BSD-3-Clause OR CC0-1.0 </pre> ==Abstract== This document specifies a BIP8 (LOT=true) deployment to activate taproot. ==Motivation== The Taproot soft fork upgrade has been assessed to have overwhelming community consensus and hence should attempt to be activated. Lessons have been learned from the BIP148 and BIP91 deploym…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Bips
· snapshot 2023-12-11
Ethan Heilman; Armin Sabouri. 2023-12-11. Full text. Licence: BSD-3-Clause.
Excerpt: <pre> BIP: 347 Layer: Consensus (soft fork) Title: OP_CAT in Tapscript Authors: Ethan Heilman <[email protected]> Armin Sabouri <[email protected]> Status: Complete Type: Specification Assigned: 2023-12-11 License: BSD-3-Clause Discussion: 2023-10-21: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-October/022049.html [bitcoin-dev] Proposed BIP for OP_CAT Version: 1.0.0 Requires: 340, 341, 342 </pre> ==Abstract== This BIP introduces OP_CAT as a tapscript opcode which allows the concatenation of two values on the stack. OP_CAT would be a…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Bips
· snapshot 2020-12-16
Pieter Wuille. 2020-12-16. Full text. Licence: BSD-2-Clause.
Excerpt: <pre> BIP: 350 Layer: Applications Title: Bech32m format for v1+ witness addresses Authors: Pieter Wuille <[email protected]> Status: Deployed Type: Specification Assigned: 2020-12-16 License: BSD-2-Clause Discussion: 2021-01-05: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-January/018338.html [bitcoin-dev] Bech32m BIP: new checksum, and usage for segwit address Replaces: 173 </pre> ==Introduction== ===Abstract=== This document defines an improved variant of Bech32 called '''Bech32m''', and amends BIP173 to use Bech32m for native segregated witness output…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Bips
· snapshot 2024-12-18
Hunter Beast; Ethan Heilman; Isabel Foxen Duke. 2024-12-18. Full text. Licence: BSD-3-Clause.
Excerpt: <pre> BIP: 360 Layer: Consensus (soft fork) Title: Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR) Authors: Hunter Beast <[email protected]> Ethan Heilman <[email protected]> Isabel Foxen Duke <[email protected]> Status: Draft Type: Specification Assigned: 2024-12-18 License: BSD-3-Clause Version: 0.12.1 Requires: 340, 341, 342 </pre> ==Introduction== ===Abstract=== This document proposes a new output type: Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR), via a soft fork. P2MR outputs operate with nearly the same functionality as P2TR (Pay-to-Taproot) outputs, but with the k…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Bips
· snapshot 2026-02-11
Jameson Lopp; Christian Papathanasiou; Ian Smith; Joe Ross; Steve Vaile; Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers. 2026-02-11. Full text. Licence: BSD-3-Clause.
Excerpt: <pre> BIP: 361 Layer: Consensus (soft fork) Title: Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset Authors: Jameson Lopp <[email protected]> Christian Papathanasiou <[email protected]> Ian Smith <[email protected]> Joe Ross <[email protected]> Steve Vaile <[email protected]> Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers <[email protected]> Status: Draft Type: Informational Assigned: 2026-02-11 License: BSD-3-Clause Requires: TBD Post Quantum Signature BIP </pre> == Introduction == === Abstract === This proposal follows the impl…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2013-10-25
DOJ, USAO SDNY. 2013-10-25. Full text. Licence: US government or court record / US patent (public domain).
Excerpt: # Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Seizure Of Additional $28 Million Worth Of Bitcoins Belonging To Ross William Ulbricht, Alleged Owner And Operator Of “Silk Road” Website Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice — USAO - New York, Southern Published: 2013-10-25 URL: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-seizure-additional-28-million-worth-bitcoins-belonging Retrieved: 2026-10-09 via the DOJ press-release API (https://www.justice.gov/api/v1/press_releases.json) Copy type: full text of a U.S. Department of Justice press release (a U.S. government work, public dom…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2014-01-16
DOJ, USAO SDNY. 2014-01-16. Full text. Licence: US government or court record / US patent (public domain).
Excerpt: # Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Forfeiture Of $28 Million Worth Of Bitcoins Belonging To Silk Road Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice — USAO - New York, Southern Published: 2014-01-16 URL: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-forfeiture-28-million-worth-bitcoins-belonging-silk Retrieved: 2026-10-09 via the DOJ press-release API (https://www.justice.gov/api/v1/press_releases.json) Copy type: full text of a U.S. Department of Justice press release (a U.S. government work, public domain), converted from the release's HTML body to plain text. Links in the o…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2014-11-06
DOJ, USAO SDNY. 2014-11-06. Full text. Licence: US government or court record / US patent (public domain).
Excerpt: # Operator Of “Silk Road 2.0” Website Charged In Manhattan Federal Court Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice — USAO - New York, Southern Published: 2014-11-06 URL: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/operator-silk-road-20-website-charged-manhattan-federal-court Retrieved: 2026-10-09 via the DOJ press-release API (https://www.justice.gov/api/v1/press_releases.json) Copy type: full text of a U.S. Department of Justice press release (a U.S. government work, public domain), converted from the release's HTML body to plain text. Links in the original are kept in parentheses. Read 2026-10-09. -…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2014-11-07
Europol. 2014-11-07. Citation only: the text is not republished here (Europol: © Europol, private use only). Original: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-action-against-dark-markets-tor-network
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2015-02-05
DOJ, USAO SDNY. 2015-02-05. Full text. Licence: US government or court record / US patent (public domain).
Excerpt: # Ross Ulbricht, The Creator And Owner Of The “Silk Road” Website, Found Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court On All Counts Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice — USAO - New York, Southern Published: 2015-02-05 URL: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ross-ulbricht-creator-and-owner-silk-road-website-found-guilty-manhattan-federal-court Retrieved: 2026-10-09 via the DOJ press-release API (https://www.justice.gov/api/v1/press_releases.json) Copy type: full text of a U.S. Department of Justice press release (a U.S. government work, public domain), converted from the release's HTML body to plain…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2015-05-29
DOJ, USAO SDNY. 2015-05-29. Full text. Licence: US government or court record / US patent (public domain).
Excerpt: # Ross Ulbricht, A/K/A “Dread Pirate Roberts,” Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Life In Prison Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice — USAO - New York, Southern Published: 2015-05-29 URL: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread-pirate-roberts-sentenced-manhattan-federal-court-life-prison Retrieved: 2026-10-09 via the DOJ press-release API (https://www.justice.gov/api/v1/press_releases.json) Copy type: full text of a U.S. Department of Justice press release (a U.S. government work, public domain), converted from the release's HTML body to plain text. Links in the o…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2017-06-01
U.S. District Court, E.D. Cal. (filed by USAO EDCA and DOJ CCIPS). 2017-06-01. Full text. Licence: US government or court record / US patent (public domain).
Excerpt: 1 PHILLIP A. TALBERT United States Attorney 2 GRANT B. RABENN PAUL A. HEMESATH 3 Assistant United States Attorneys 2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4401 4 Fresno, CA 93721 Telephone: (559) 497-4000 5 Facsimile: (559) 497-4099 6 KENNETH A. BLANCO Acting Assistant Attorney General 7 Criminal Division, United States Justice Department · LOUISA K. MARION 8 Trial Attorney Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section 9 Washington, DC 20530 Telephone: (202) 514-1026 10 Attorneys for Plaintiff 11 United States ofAmerica 12 IN THE UNITED STA…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2017-07-20
DOJ / FBI / DEA. 2017-07-20. Citation only: the text is not republished here (no extractable text (scanned image or empty)). Original: https://www.justice.gov/media/905411/dl?inline
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2017-07-20
DOJ, Office of Public Affairs. 2017-07-20. Full text. Licence: US government or court record / US patent (public domain).
Excerpt: # AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice — Criminal Division, Office of the Attorney General, USAO - California, Eastern Published: 2017-07-20 URL: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/alphabay-largest-online-dark-market-shut-down Retrieved: 2026-10-09 via the DOJ press-release API (https://www.justice.gov/api/v1/press_releases.json) Copy type: full text of a U.S. Department of Justice press release (a U.S. government work, public domain), converted from the release's HTML body to plain text. Links in the original are kept in parenthese…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2017-07-20
Europol. 2017-07-20. Citation only: the text is not republished here (Europol: © Europol, private use only). Original: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/massive-blow-to-criminal-dark-web-activities-after-globally-coordinated-operation
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2019-05-03
DOJ, Office of Public Affairs. 2019-05-03. Full text. Licence: US government or court record / US patent (public domain).
Excerpt: # Three Germans Who Allegedly Operated Dark Web Marketplace with Over 1 Million Users Face U.S. Narcotics and Money Laundering Charges Publisher: U.S. Department of Justice — Criminal Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), USAO - California, Central, USAO - California, Eastern Published: 2019-05-03 URL: https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/three-germans-who-allegedly-operated-dark-web-marketplace-over-1-million-users-face-us Retrieved: 2026-10-09 via the DOJ press-release API (https://www.justice.gov/api/v1/press_releases.json) Copy type: full text of a U.S. Department of Justic…
Bitcoin Research — Law, Regulation, Markets & Origins (2026)
· Darkweb Public Record
· snapshot 2019-05-03
Europol. 2019-05-03. Citation only: the text is not republished here (Europol: © Europol, private use only). Original: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/double-blow-to-dark-web-marketplaces