PIPEs, Witness Encryption, and New Possibilities for Bitcoin
A new interview explores PIPEs, a witness-encryption framework for enabling covenant-like functionality on Bitcoin without a soft fork, comparing its approach with BitVM and potential privacy applications.
PIPEs, Witness Encryption & the Future of Privacy on Bitcoin | MISHA KOMAROV & CLARA SHIKHELMAN
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Isabel Foxen Duke sits down with [[alloc] init] co-founder Misha Komarov and Head of Protocol Research Clara Shikhelman to examine PIPEs, a cryptographic framework that utilizes witness encryption—a primitive long dismissed as purely theoretical—to unlock advanced Bitcoin programming without a soft fork.