How the Taproot Wizards made CatVM

April 24, 2024

The Taproot Wizards tell the tale of the CatVM storybook.

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Rijndael & Tyler Whittle tell us the tale of how they wrote the CatVM storybook and how OP_CAT could fulfill the promises a lot of other Bitcoin ideas have failed to deliver.

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