Introducing the sCrypt Verifier Plugin for WhatsOnChain
Viewing and verifying smart contracts by just about anyone is not as easy as what is commonly believed to be, but WhatsOnChain makes it possible by simply running the source code in its plugin.
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Ordinals on Bitcoin without SegWit and Taproot
Unlike BTC, BSV does not need to change its protocol to integrate Ordinals, and above else, it is 100,000x cheaper and 12.5x bigger than other blockchains supporting it.
Account abstraction on Bitcoin since day 1
Bitcoin has shipped with account abstraction/unification since its genesis; thus, all the salient features promised by AA can be developed on Bitcoin, without any protocol changes.
The Monty Hall Problem on Bitcoin: Put your money where your mouth is
The Monty Hall problem is a famous counter-intuitive statistics puzzle that has a solution that is so absurd, most people refuse to believe even being shown it’s true.
Turn every smartphone into a Bitcoin hardware wallet using Secure Enclaves
The Secure Enclave is a special chip in Android, iPhone, iPad, and Macs to secure your biometrical data like FaceID and TouchID; its key feature is a private key generated that cannot leave the chip, providing maximum security.
Introducing scryptTS: Write Bitcoin smart contracts in Typescript
scryptTS allows developers to directly code smart contracts in Typescript, using existing programming languages and tools that many are already familiar with.
Pay for storage using Proof of Retrievability on Bitcoin
The cryptographic protocol Proof of Retrievability allow users to pay for cloud storage without having to trust the server.
Bitcoin ZK Bounty Series: Part 1 — Pay for Decryption Key
Zero-Knowledge Bounties provide a solution to a Sudoku problem and the classic fair exchange problem, providing assurance that payment will result in disclosing the right decryption key.
Verifiable Delay Functions on Bitcoin
The Verifiable Delay Function acts as another layer of security in blockchain, preventing bad faith actors from influencing an output by predicting future values.
Zero-Knowledge proof of solvency for crypto exchanges: How to detect the next FTX and Mt. Gox
Many users prefer to store their digital assets with centralized exchanges for ease of use, but doing so exposes them to the risk of losing their assets due to external or internal theft.
The first successful Zero-Knowledge Pay-to-Sudoku Bounty on Bitcoin
By using Zero-Knowledge Contingent Payment (ZKCP), a seller does not have to interact with the buyer, as they only need to post a single bounty transaction.
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 from leaking.