Max Hillebrand on Nostr: Enabling zkVerifiers in Bitcoin Script requires native support for cryptographic ...
Enabling zkVerifiers in Bitcoin Script requires native support for cryptographic operations like finite-field multiplication, which could be achieved by re-enabling the disabled `OP_MUL` opcod. Additionally, Bitcoin Script’s current 32-bit integer system could be expanded to 256-bit precision to handle the arithmetic demands of zero-knowledge proofs.
This should be a priority for the next consensus upgrade IMO.
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2025-02-06 17:37:40Event JSON
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