But bitcoin devs haven't done an amazing job at explaining what covenants actually are.
Here’s a simple breakdown of each new covenant proposal:
OP_CTV:
Originally proposed by none other than @JeremyRubin in January 2020.
CTV is a proposal which will allow script writers to specify longer chains of transactions that *must* be followed explicitly.
Mar 30, 2024 • 36 tweets • 13 min read
for those of you extremely outside the software build ecosystem : a malicious open source dev tried to push an updated library that would allow for a backdoor on almost any linux machine
a guy caught it because it slowed his system down unexpectedly and he investigated
