Cardano Cracks Bitcoin Code: Smart Contracts Without A Single Change

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In an announcement that rekindles the perennial debate over how far Bitcoin can—or should—stretch beyond its original remit, Input Output (IO), the research and engineering company behind Cardano, has unveiled a compilation pipeline that executes Cardano smart contracts on Bitcoin without touching a line of Bitcoin’s consensus code. “A novel compilation pipeline being developed at Input | Output takes a Cardano smart contract, written using a modern language like Python, TypeScript, or Scala, an...