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BitVM: Enabling Expressive Smart Contracts on Bitcoin

by BlockNews Team
October 10, 2023
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  • Bitcoin developer Robin Linus has proposed BitVM, a system that enables expressive off-chain smart contracts on the Bitcoin network without requiring a soft fork.
  • BitVM allows for Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts, expanding the capabilities of the Bitcoin blockchain beyond basic operations like signatures and timelocks.
  • While there are challenges and skepticism surrounding BitVM, its implementation has the potential to revolutionize smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain.

A Bitcoin developer named Robin Linus has proposed a groundbreaking solution to bring more expressive off-chain smart contracts to the Bitcoin network without the need for a soft fork. In a white paper titled “BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin,” Linus introduces BitVM, a system that allows Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts while maintaining the integrity of Bitcoin’s consensus rules. This article explores the potential of BitVM and its implications for the future of smart contracts on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Introducing BitVM: Turing-Complete Bitcoin Contracts

BitVM, as outlined in Linus’ white paper, enables the execution of intricate Bitcoin contracts off-chain while ensuring verification takes place on the Bitcoin network. This off-chain execution, similar to Ethereum’s optimistic rollups, opens up immense possibilities for the implementation of complex applications on the Bitcoin blockchain. By leveraging fraud proofs and a challenge-response model, BitVM can verify any computable function on Bitcoin.

🚨 BREAKING: Bitcoin developer unveils BitVM, enabling off-chain smart contracts on Bitcoin.

This proposal would operate similarly to Ethereum’s optimistic rollups, allowing for complex applications.

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Bitcoin, in its current form, is limited to basic operations like signatures, timelocks, and hashlocks. However, with the introduction of BitVM, the possibilities for Bitcoin’s functionality expand significantly. BitVM can support various applications, including games like Chess, Go, or Poker, as well as the verification of validity proofs within Bitcoin contracts. Additionally, BitVM may enable bridging Bitcoin to other chains, building prediction markets, and emulating novel opcodes.

Challenges and Future Milestones

While BitVM presents exciting opportunities, it comes with certain limitations. The current model is limited to a two-party setting with a prover and a verifier, and the execution of programs requires significant off-chain computation and communication. Linus acknowledges this and states that the next milestone is the full implementation of BitVM, along with Tree++, a high-level programming language for writing and debugging Bitcoin contracts.

Prominent Bitcoiners have expressed their interest in BitVM. Eric Wall has cautiously expressed excitement about potential real-world experiments resulting from BitVM. Bitcoin analyst Dylan LeClair has also shown admiration for the white paper. However, some, like Bitcoin Core contributor Adam Back, urge caution and temper expectations, emphasizing that BitVM is a generalization of a two-party game.

Conclusion

Robin Linus’ white paper on BitVM introduces a revolutionary approach to bring expressive smart contracts to the Bitcoin network. By enabling Turing-complete Bitcoin contracts without compromising the integrity of Bitcoin’s consensus rules, BitVM opens up a whole new realm of possibilities for the Bitcoin ecosystem. While challenges and skepticism remain, the future implementation of BitVM has the potential to transform how smart contracts operate on the Bitcoin blockchain.

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