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Kalle Alm

Author of 3 BIPs.

  • BIP 98: Fast Merkle Trees: Draft. Specifies a faster and safer version of the Merkle tree, the data structure Bitcoin uses to summarize many items in one fingerprint so that any single item can be proven to be included. The design…
  • BIP 116: MERKLEBRANCHVERIFY: Draft. Proposed MERKLEBRANCHVERIFY, a script instruction that checks whether a piece of data belongs to a committed set using a Merkle proof. It would let complex contracts reveal only the spending…
  • BIP 117: Tail Call Execution Semantics: Draft. Proposed letting a script hand off execution to another script supplied at spending time, a 'tail call'. Combined with BIP 116, this would allow contracts with many possible spending conditions…