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24 alternatives to Bithoven – A high-level, imperative language for Bitcoin Smart Contract

Hey HN! I’m a researcher working on Bitcoin smart contracts, and today I’m releasing Bithoven—a high-level imperative language that compiles to native Bitcoin Script (Legacy, SegWit, and Taproot). The Goal: Raw Bitcoin Script is notoriously difficult to reason about. Writing raw Bitcoin Script today feels like writing Assembly in the 1970s. You have to mentally juggle the stack (`OP_SWAP`, `OP_ROT`), manually manage distinct execution branches, and pray you didn't leave a stack item unconsumed (which crashes the script). My goal was to bridge the gap between complex contract logic and raw…

Bithoven is a high-level imperative programming language that compiles to native Bitcoin Script for Legacy, SegWit, and Taproot implementations. It allows developers to write smart contracts using familiar syntax like… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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