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by bogomipz 1492 days ago
>"When I first learned about it, I thought it was so cool how it all came together, the combination of cryptographic security, distributed trust, even a Forth-like mini language built in."

Interesting, could you elaborate on the Forth bit? Where does this fit in? This is the first I've heard of it but admittedly I don't know that much about Bitcoin.
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version_five 1492 days ago
See the link below. It includes a stack based scripting language (essentially a subset of Forth) for processing transactions so you can do some customization in how transactions unfold. As I understand it (and I don't know much about Ethereum) a big difference is that Eth has a Turing complete scripting language that can run code as part of transaction, while bitcoin only has a subset that doesn't include e.g. looping.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script

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bogomipz 1492 days ago
Ah this is neat. I was definitely not aware of this. Thanks for the link.
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