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BitVM’s goal is to scale Bitcoin, not be a pseudo-Ethereum, says dev

Building a decentralized exchange on Bitcoin would be a “step backward,” for example, said Bitcoin developer Super Testnet. One of the developers working on “BitVM” — a Bitcoin-based virtual machine — reiterates the tech is intended to scale Bitcoin rather than launching Ethereum-like decentralized finance applications on the network. BitVM’s whitepaper was released by ZeroSync’s…
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Bitcoiner drops BitVM paper — bringing Ethereum-like contracts to Bitcoin

The author of the white paper, Robin Linus, based BitVM’s architecture on Ethereum’s optimistic rollups with fraud proofs and recent Merkle tree developments. A Bitcoin developer has proposed a new way to bring more expressive off-chain smart contracts to Bitcoin (BTC) without needing a soft fork. Announced in an Oct.9 white paper titled “BitVM: Compute Anything…
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