
Article by Xiaohui Liu
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14 November, 2022
The first successful Zero-Knowledge Pay-to-Sudoku Bounty on Bitcoin
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Private non-interactive bounties for general computation on Bitcoin
Outsourcing arbitrary computation securely and privately on a blockchain needs Zero Knowledge Proof to validate encrypted solution and prevent data...
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Speedup Bitcoin stateful contract updates using pre-authorizing signatures
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PLONK on Bitcoin
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How PLONK works: Part 2
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16 October, 2022
How PLONK Works: Part 1
PLONK is a zk-SNARK proof system utilizing a trusted setup that is both universal and updatable, which can be initiated...
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