Article by Xiaohui Liu
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28 March, 2022
Smart contract-based pyramid scheme on bitcoin
A pyramid scheme is a business model that recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others...
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23 March, 2022
Private key puzzles
sCrypt introduces a new type of Bitcoin smart contract called private key puzzles, which can only be solved by providing...
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22 March, 2022
Crowdfunding on Bitcoin
Compared to Kickstarter, sCrypt’s approach is automatically enforced by Bitcoin, does not entrust funds to a trusted third party, and...
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16 March, 2022
A deep dive into Lopp’s ‘On BSV scalability’
In this piece, sCrypt’s Xiaohui Liu investigates the claims made by BTC evangelist Jameson Lopp in his recent article, focusing...
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8 March, 2022
The partial preimage technique
sCrypt’s Xiaohui Liu shows a novel technique to compute the hash with only part of the preimage for a wide...
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5 March, 2022
Split contracts using P2CH
In this article, sCrypt presents an optimization technique to split a large contract into multiple smaller ones, demonstrating how it...


