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Cooperative smart contracts: How off-chain honesty saves on-chain computation
Xiaohui Liu introduces a generic approach to skip on-chain computation in Bitcoin smart contracts, while ensuring security in the presence...
Bitcoin smart contract 2.0: Part 2
In this article, Xiaohui Liu explains how to implement an alternative contract for achieving fair coin toss as developed in...
Craig Wright ‘Offline Addressing’ blog post dives into wallet addresses
Are our Bitcoin transactions really pseudo-anonymous? Is our privacy really protected when we make transactions? In some cases, yes, but...
Bitcoin smart contract 2.0: Trustless contracting by combining on-chain and off-chain transactions
In a new approach to designing smart contracts on Bitcoin, sCrypt’s Xioahui Liu explains how to combine contracting with transactions/contracts...
Is Bitcoin environmentally friendly?
The amount of energy that Bitcoin, especially Bitcoin mining operations, consume has been a hot-button issue since the inception of...
Riot Blockchain buys Texas data center for $650M from rival Northern Data
Riot Blockchain has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Whinstone U.S Inc. from its rival Northern Data AG.
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