The BitLayer Finality Bridge is Delivering On The Promises of BitVM - While still far from a fully trustless system, the progress made over the past year is remarkable
Jeremy Rubin recently released a proposal to allow specialized oracles to emulate covenants on Bitcoin with no softforks necessary, secured by a BitVM based slashable bond.
It has been fifteen years since the original Bitcoin white paper was published on the cryptography mailing list. Those fifteen years have been a wild ride of progress and new ideas.
Shinobi’s Strawman is a weekly series where our Technical Editor Shinobi challenges the Bitcoin community, aiming to stir up conversation around heated technical debates.
Any arbitrary computation can now be verified on Bitcoin, with no softfork necessary, in a challenge-response based protocol that can be enforced on-chain.