Bitcoin Covenants Part 5: MATT and OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY — How Bitcoin could carry state across transactions
COINTELEGRAPH — OP_CCV embeds contract state directly into Taproot output keys and enforces valid state transitions onchain. This makes it possible to achieve stateful contracts and compact fraud proofs.
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- RT-B20BF6
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- Cointelegraph
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- Crypto & Blockchain
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- 11 November 2026 · 13:26 UTC
- FIRST SEEN
- 11 November 2026 · 13:30 UTC
- ORIGINAL
- https://cointelegraph.com/research/bitcoin-covenants-part-5-matt-op-ccv?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
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