Fear the wizards. Not those wizards, real wizards.
Announced today by developer Robin Linus of ZeroSync, an association founded to help scale Bitcoin by using zero-knowledge proofs, BitVM is a proposal that opens very interesting doors for Bitcoin application development going forward. It can enable pretty much any arbitrary computation, and use that computation to enforce what happens to bitcoin on-chain.
It requires no consensus changes to Bitcoin at all. The trick is lifting all of that logic off-chain and being able to challenge a few steps of the computation on-chain if the other party asserts a dishonest outcome. In short, BitVM will bring arbitrary Turing-complete computation, in an enforceable way, to bitcoin itself – today.
The Basics Of Logic Gates
To really grasp the mechanisms behind the proposal, we need to understand a little bit about the physical and logical basis of computation.
Everyone knows that under the hood your computer is just passing around individu
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