Crox Road on Nostr: Bitcoin’s smart contracts are designed to be dumb. Deliberately limited, the script ...
Bitcoin’s smart contracts are designed to be dumb. Deliberately limited, the script only supports basic logic like IF/ELSE, allowing for 2-of-3 multisig or Hashed Timelock Contracts for atomic swaps, but banning loops or external data. This restriction ensures the ledger remains immutable and verifiable by any node, preventing complex buggy code from freezing funds. Do you prefer this safe minimalism or the flexibility of Ethereum’s Turing-complete machines?
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