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Super Testnet | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It's a virtual computer that can run programs created as boolean logic circuits

What's cool about it is, these programs can be embedded into bitcoin addresses, so that anyone who sends money to a bitvm address can only spend it if they correctly run the program embedded into the address

And the program can theoretically be anything -- it could be Photoshop, or Doom, or a copy of the ethereum virtual machine, or anything. If a computer can run it, you can in theory convert it to work in bitvm, and then basically pay someone to run that program, or get them to put up some money as a pledge that they *will* run the program correctly, then take their money if they don't
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jimbocoin | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Interesting, is there a BIP I can read about it?
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Super Testnet | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 no, but there is this: https://t.me/bitVM_chat/58
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SpencerSmithSite | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 One of the best explanations of a highly complex topic ive seen so far:
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