[Resource Topic] 2025/912: Enforcing arbitrary constraints on Bitcoin transactions

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Title:
Enforcing arbitrary constraints on Bitcoin transactions

Authors: Federico Barbacovi, Enrique Larraia

Abstract:

The challenge of enforcing constraints on Bitcoin transac-
tions has recently gained a lot of attention. The current approach to
solve this problem falls short in certain aspects, such as privacy and
programmability. We design a new solution that leverages zkSNARKs
and allows enforcing arbitrary constraints on Bitcoin transactions while
maintaining some information private. Our approach also bypasses the
non-Turing completeness of Bitcoin Script, allowing the enforcement of
unbounded constraints, namely constraints that repeat a certain opera-
tion an unbounded number of times.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/912

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