
Article by Xiaohui Liu
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11 April, 2022
Taproot on Bitcoin: Contractless Contract + MAST
In this article, sCrypt showed how to implement Taproot using the original Bitcoin protocol without any changes, by combining contractless...
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10 April, 2022
Zero-overhead private timestamping in Bitcoin
Bitcoin has a lot of potential uses far beyond payments, and each block has a cryptographically secured timestamp which can...
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6 April, 2022
Pay to decrypt
sCrypt designed a smart contract called “Pay to Decrypt” that makes the exchange atomic and trustless, ensuring only a correct...
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5 April, 2022
Elliptic curve arithmetic in Script
sCrypt has implemented elliptic curve arithmetic in Script, where they compute it directly compared to the previous implementation where they...
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4 April, 2022
Delegation in Bitcoin: Part 2
In the second part of this two-part piece, sCrypt introduces a universal yet straightforward delegation mechanism, an alternative to the...
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2 April, 2022
Delegation in Bitcoin
In this two-part piece, sCrypt demonstrates a novel way to allow users to spend their UTXO/coins without giving another party...
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