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New Framework Evaluates Bitcoin On-Chain Poker Designs

A new preprint introduces a typed-critique framework for evaluating Bitcoin on-chain poker proposals, clarifying BitVM’s role as an optimistic verifier and highlighting limitations around shuffling, Script, ZKPs, and MPC.

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🔗 Before and After: A Typed-Critique Framework for Bitcoin On-Chain Poker Preprints

A 2026 preprint treating a social-media screenshot as the terminus of a linear 'Satoshi-to-Script-poker' story is examined under a typed evidence framework. Claims are classified by evidence grade. Twelve explicit weaknesses, eleven implicit, two inferred, and two extrapolated repairs are enumerated.