Mastering Bitcoin, 2nd Edition

Appendix B. Transaction Script Language Operators, Constants, and Symbols

Note

Tables and descriptions sourced from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script.

Table B-1 shows operators for pushing values onto the stack.

Table B-1. Push value onto stack

Symbol	Value (hex)	Description
OP_0 or OP_FALSE	0x00	An empty array is pushed onto the stack
1-75	0x01-0x4b	Push the next N bytes onto the stack, where N is 1 to 75 bytes
OP_PUSHDATA1	0x4c	The next script byte contains N, push the following N bytes onto the stack
OP_PUSHDATA2	0x4d	The next two script bytes contain N, push the following N bytes onto the stack
OP_PUSHDATA4	0x4e	The next four script bytes contain N, push the following N bytes onto the stack
OP_1NEGATE	0x4f	Push the value “–1” onto the stack
OP_RESERVED	0x50	Halt - Invalid transaction unless found in an unexecuted OP_IF clause
OP_1 or OP_TRUE	0x51	Push the value “1” onto the stack
OP_2 to OP_16	0x52 to 0x60	For OP_N, push the value “N” onto the stack, e.g., OP_2 pushes “2”

Table B-2 shows conditional flow control operators.

Table B-2. Conditional flow control

Symbol	Value (hex)	Description
OP_NOP	0x61	Do nothing
OP_VER	0x62	Halt—Invalid transaction unless found in an unexecuted OP_IF clause
OP_IF	0x63	Execute the statements following if top of stack is not 0
OP_NOTIF	0x64	Execute the statements following if top of stack is 0
OP_VERIF	0x65	Halt—Invalid transaction
OP_VERNOTIF	0x66	Halt—Invalid transaction
OP_ELSE	0x67	Execute only ...