Sergio Lerner of RootstockLabs discusses Bitcoin bridging hurdles, BitVM innovations and implications for DeFi.
Bitcoin bridging has long been a technical and philosophical challenge, while other blockchain networks have embraced interoperability with relative ease.
This difficulty arises from Bitcoin’s intentionally strict consensus rules and limited scripting language, which makes crosschain transactions cumbersome despite the demand for decentralized bridges.
Over the years, Bitcoin Virtual Machine (BitVM) protocols have been developed to address these limitations. Still, they come with trade-offs, including increased complexity and reduced decentralization.
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