merkle-tree

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Event April 11, 2025 Added September 8, 2026 Updated September 29, 2026 BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal)

BIP 54 — Consensus Cleanup

Antoine Poinsot ↔ Matt Corallo

Bundles four consensus soft-fork fixes: a timewarp-attack timestamp constraint, a transaction signature-operation limit, invalidating 64-byte transactions, and mandatory coinbase nLockTime.

Event January 3, 2009 Added May 27, 2026 Updated October 10, 2026 Design Document

Bitcoin block and chain design — headers, Merkle trees, and chain selection

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

How Bitcoin blocks are structured, how Merkle trees commit transactions to block headers, and how the most-work chain selection rule resolves forks.

Event October 31, 2008 Added May 1, 2026 Updated October 14, 2026 Analysis

Bitcoin did not appear from nowhere — inheritance and invention

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Adam Back, Wei Dai

Bitcoin v0.1 reuses one cypherpunk primitive (PoW from Hashcash), borrows general CS components (Merkle trees, linked timestamping, ECDSA), and synthesizes the rest (UTXO, mining, 21M cap, P2P).

Event September 15, 2016 Added March 21, 2026 Updated September 13, 2026 Article

Peter Todd announces OpenTimestamps

Peter Todd

Peter Todd announced OpenTimestamps, an open-source infrastructure using the Bitcoin blockchain to timestamp unlimited documents per transaction via Merkle tree aggregation.