Re: [bitcoin-dev] Predicate Tree in ZkVM: a variant of Taproot/G'root

2019-02-01 Thread Oleg Andreev via bitcoin-dev
A follow-up comment: I've have sent this email right before Pieter's talk on miniscript at Stanford yesterday. I want to express my appreciation to the thinking about scripts/contracts that Pieter, Andy, Greg have been promoting for long time. These ideas influenced a lot the design decisions in

[bitcoin-dev] Predicate Tree in ZkVM: a variant of Taproot/G'root

2019-02-01 Thread Oleg Andreev via bitcoin-dev
Hi, We've been working for a thing called ZkVM [1] for the last few weeks. It is a "blockchain virtual machine" in the spirit of Bitcoin, with multi-asset transfers and zero-knowledge programmable constraints. As a part of its design, there is a "Predicate Tree" — a variant of Taproot by Greg