$1 million OP_CAT research fund established
A $1 million research fund is announced to support serious technical work both for and against possible OP_CAT activation.
On August 29, 2024, $1 million OP_CAT research fund established. A $1 million research fund is announced to support serious technical work both for and against possible OP_CAT activation.
The fund explicitly invited serious research both for and against OP_CAT. Financing analysis of a disputed soft-fork idea was historically different from announcing that the proposal had consensus or was approaching activation.
The event is historically useful because Bitcoin's development history is built not only from activated consensus changes but also from standards, implementation milestones, security maintenance and proposals that shape later engineering choices.