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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