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My question is if something exists to do the job in the opposite direction of miniscript.

Miniscript's intention is to help:

    ...writing (a subset of) Bitcoin Scripts in a structured way, enabling analysis, composition, generic signing and more

 So, for example, given the below Bitcoin Script:

OP_SIZE 
32 
OP_EQUAL
OP_IF 
  OP_HASH160 
  'dea3...' 
  OP_EQUALVERIFY 
  '301...'
OP_ELSE 
  OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY 
  '19323434...' 
  OP_DROP 
  '303...'
OP_CHECKSIGVERIFY

  It would create something of this form (in JavaScript):

function canUnlock(preImageOrSig) {
    let pubKey1 = null;
    if (preImageOrSig.size() === 32) {
        if (hash(preImageOrSig) !== 'dea3...') {
            return false;
        }
        pubKey1 = '301...';
    } else {
        if (!checkLockTime('19323434...')) {
            return false;
        }
        pubKey1 = '303...';
    }
    if (!checkSignature(pubKey1, preImageOrSig)) {
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

  The resulting JS code is NOT to be executed or compiled back to Bitcoin Script, but only to help a developer reason about the logic of the original Bitcoin Script.

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  • Would anyone else find this feature useful?
    – Vlad Stan
    Nov 26, 2020 at 17:39
  • I would look at Bitcoin script debugging tools like those described at bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/42576/13866, I'm not sure I would be comfortable with a tool that translates a stack-based reverse-polish language to javascript.
    – RedGrittyBrick
    Nov 26, 2020 at 21:58
  • Your code is more complex than a miniscript expression. A miniscript expression is intended to succeed completely without failure - because that's how bitcoin scripts operate. It's basically your code without all the IF + return true/return false lines.
    – karimkorun
    Nov 28, 2020 at 0:33

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