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Title: Can Bitcoin Script be extended to be Turing Complete? Post by: ptrk on August 23, 2017, 05:52:23 PM I deal with Bitcoin Script and its opportunities.
Can stack-based language Bitcoin Script be transformed in a turing complete language by doing a hard fork in principle? Title: Re: Can Bitcoin Script be extended to be Turing Complete? Post by: knircky on August 23, 2017, 07:04:32 PM I deal with Bitcoin Script and its opportunities. Can stack-based language Bitcoin Script be transformed in a turing complete language by doing a hard fork in principle? Does segwit now allow to add a different script language? So i think the answer should be yes. Title: Re: Can Bitcoin Script be extended to be Turing Complete? Post by: nicosey on August 28, 2017, 06:33:18 AM Doesn't this link up with upcoming MAST support?
Title: Re: Can Bitcoin Script be extended to be Turing Complete? Post by: QueenOf on August 28, 2017, 12:14:16 PM I deal with Bitcoin Script and its opportunities. i think Bitcoin script has no facilities for looping or recursion,different with Ethereum script,are Turing-complete, at least in principle, supporting looping constructs.Can stack-based language Bitcoin Script be transformed in a turing complete language by doing a hard fork in principle? Title: Re: Can Bitcoin Script be extended to be Turing Complete? Post by: coinmachina on August 28, 2017, 02:47:20 PM I deal with Bitcoin Script and its opportunities. Can stack-based language Bitcoin Script be transformed in a turing complete language by doing a hard fork in principle? You can change any aspect of Bitcoin by doing a hard fork. So you could also introduce a scripting language that is more powerful than the current Bitcoin script. Title: Re: Can Bitcoin Script be extended to be Turing Complete? Post by: amaclin1 on August 28, 2017, 03:47:47 PM I deal with Bitcoin Script and its opportunities. No. (Without hardfork)Can stack-based language Bitcoin Script be transformed in a turing complete language by doing a hard fork in principle? But everything can be implemented by next segwit script versions (today we use segwit_v0) if community votes for it The right question is: why do you need turing complete language and scripts in bitcoin? Does segwit now allow to add a different script language? So i think the answer should be yes. The current segwit (v0) does not allow anything except old bitcoin opcodes Title: Re: Can Bitcoin Script be extended to be Turing Complete? Post by: luv2drnkbr on August 28, 2017, 11:02:38 PM If Brainfuck is Turing complete, then unused Bitcoin op codes can become Turing complete.
Title: Re: Can Bitcoin Script be extended to be Turing Complete? Post by: gmaxwell on August 30, 2017, 01:18:48 AM Yes, via segwit script versioning.
But it is provably useless to have turing complete script: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/666ihb/posts_theorem_and_blockchain_languages_why_turing/ |