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A Bitcoin Inquisition node that validates and relays covenant proposals on the default signet.
Connect
https://inqsignet.mineracks.com/v1/txWhat it is
Bitcoin Inquisition is a fork of Bitcoin Core that activates proposed soft forks on the default signet before they exist on mainnet: CTV (BIP-119), ANYPREVOUT (BIP-118), OP_CAT (BIP-347), CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (BIP-348) and whatever comes next. Signet's miners run it, so a transaction using one of these opcodes actually confirms there.
These proposals are collectively called covenants: ways to restrict how a coin can be spent in the future, which enables vaults, congestion control, better Lightning channels and Ark-style constructions. Testing them normally means running Inquisition yourself; this gate lets you broadcast through ours.
What people use it for
- Trying a vault or covenant design against a real chain rather than a unit test.
- Verifying that a transaction is accepted by Inquisition's policy before publishing research or a demo.
- Reading which deployments are active right now, from /v1/info.
How we run it
POST the raw hex of a CTV / APO / OP_CAT / CSFS spend to /v1/tx: it runs testmempoolaccept on the Inquisition node first and relays it only if that passes, so a refused transaction comes back with the node's reason (HTTP 422), not silence.
GET /v1/info lists the active deployments; POST /v1/rpc takes a small fixed set of read-only methods (see /info).
Trust, stated plainly
Vanilla signet nodes (ours at signet.mineracks.com included) see these transactions as non-standard or invalid; only Inquisition peers relay them. Confirmation depends on the signet miners running Inquisition, which they do.
Notes
5 requests per second per IP, 256 KB body cap, no account. Signet coin from a public signet faucet.
Learn more
- Bitcoin Inquisition on GitHub github.com
- BIP-119: CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY github.com
- BIP-118: SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT github.com
- BIP-347: OP_CAT github.com
- Covenants overview (covenants.info) covenants.info