StarkWare’s plans add momentum to Bitcoin upgrade

When it comes to upgrading Bitcoin, no one fully knows how it works. Unlike other chains, the original cryptocurrency doesn’t have a clear process to upgrade.

Progress happens along a slow-moving social consensus, a delicate dance between researchers, coders, project maintainers, full node operators and miners.

Sometimes you can spot an inflection point, though.

Last week offered up solid evidence of the growing momentum for proponents of OP_CAT — or just CAT for short — now also known by the memey moniker BIP-420.

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Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, originally introduced OP_CAT. He then removed it…

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