I had to reset my password for an app yesterday.
It didn’t ask me who I was.
It didn’t ask for my history.
It just asked for one thing:
proof that I had the right to access the account.
That stayed with me while reading about Babylon’s Trustless Bitcoin Vaults.
I used to think the hard part was making Bitcoin do more.
But now I think the harder part is different:
How do you prove something happened… without exposing everything about it?
That’s what made BitVM3 interesting to me.
Instead of showing every step of a computation,
the system only needs to verify a proof that the rules were followed.
Bitcoin doesn’t need to understand everything — it just needs proof that the rules were followed.
That feels like a small detail…
but it changes how I think about building on Bitcoin.
Maybe the goal isn’t to make Bitcoin more expressive.
Maybe it’s to design systems that can work with Bitcoin’s limits
instead of trying to remove them.
But it also raises a question I’m still thinking about:
If Bitcoin only verifies proofs,
and the actual computation happens somewhere else…
where does the real complexity live?
And more importantly—
what happens if that part fails?
I don’t have a clear answer yet.
But it feels like TBV isn’t just extending Bitcoin’s use cases…
it’s shifting where we place trust inside the system.
Curious how others see this.
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