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Rusty Russell

Author of 3 BIPs.

  • BIP 9: Version bits with timeout and delay: Deployed. Lets miners signal readiness for several soft forks (backward-compatible rule upgrades) at once by setting individual bits in each block's version number. An upgrade locks in once enough blocks…
  • BIP 440: Varops Budget For Script Runtime Constraint: Draft. Proposes a 'varops budget' that caps how much computational work a script may do, based on the size of the transaction, extending the existing limit on signature checks to all operations. It is…
  • BIP 441: Restoration of disabled script (Tapleaf 0xC2): Draft. Proposes a new Taproot script version that restores many of Bitcoin's original script instructions disabled in 2010 and greatly loosens limits on data size. To avoid the denial-of-service risks that…