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Bitcoin covenants

Proposed script constraints that restrict how coins may be spent in later transactions, enabling vaults and new protocols but adding complexity.

Proposed script constraints that restrict how coins may be spent in later transactions, enabling vaults and new protocols but adding complexity.

Proposed script constraints that restrict how coins may be spent in later transactions, enabling vaults and new protocols but adding complexity. This coordinate is placed in the wider system through its protocol, economic and historical relationships.

Understanding Bitcoin covenants helps distinguish a verifiable Bitcoin mechanism or historical record from slogans, products and market narratives.

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Linked to related atlas coordinates

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Grounded in a source record

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Explains function and trade-offs

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Part of the open Bitcoin knowledge graph

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Reviewed 25 July 2026Source-first · No investment advice