Add the cat: why Bitcoin’s potential OP_CAT upgrade matters
Upgrades to the bitcoin network are infrequent—the last soft fork, Taproot, was activated in November 2021. By comparison, since then Ethereum has shipped Shapella, Dencun and The Merge, with the Pectra upgrade already slated for the first quarter of 2025. Meanwhile, the community is only debating the possible implementation of an improvement proposal dubbed OP_CAT […]