
Article by Xiaohui Liu
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5 December, 2021
Zero-knowledge key-statement proof
In this article, Xiaohui Liu introduces nChain's white paper #0488 titled "Zero-knowledge key-statement proofs” a special ZKP where the secret...
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4 December, 2021
ECDSA-based oracles on Bitcoin: An alternative to Rabin signatures-based oracles
sCrypt has developed an algorithm to verify arbitrary data from a certain party in Bitcoin smart contracts; it is based...
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16 November, 2021
Access blockchain data from Bitcoin smart contracts without oracles
In this article, Xiaohui Liu shows how it is possible to access a specific type of external data without oracles...
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26 July, 2021
Floating point in sCrypt
sCrypt does not support floating point natively, mainly due to the high overhead of implementing it using integral arithmetic in...
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21 June, 2021
Turing-Complete Rule 110 on Bitcoin
The Rule 110 cellular automaton is a 1-dimensional elementary CA, where a linear pattern of 0s and 1s evolves according...
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17 June, 2021
Bitcoin vs Ethereum smart contracts: Part 2
sCrypt’s Xiaohui Liu analyzes why all claims of the supposed four limitations listed in the Ethereum whitepaper are false, which,...
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