Bitcoin sidechain creators tout new ‘permissionless’ version BitVM2

Robin Linus has unveiled a new whitepaper for BitVM2 and BitVM Bridge, two new developments that offer significant improvements to the original version of BitVM.

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The creators of the Bitcoin scaling solution Bitcoin Virtual Machine (BitVM) have floated the second iteration of their sidechain, dubbed “BitVM2,” and the BitVM Bridge, which they say now offers “major improvements” to the original system. 

In an Aug. 15 post to X, BitVM co-founder Alexei Zamyatin shared an overview of a new whitepaper that introduces a new framework for how BitVM2 and the BitVM Bridge would function.

ZeroSync project lead and BitVM creator Robin Linus first unveiled BitVM in October last year in a bid to bring off-chain smart contracts to the Bitcoin network without requiring a soft fork.

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