Introduction to Bitcoin smart contracts
Bitcoin entrepreneur and developer Xiaohui Liu has spent some time explaining Bitcoin smart contracts in a two-part video lesson on his YouTube channel.
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The holy grail of blockchain tech—now on Bitcoin SV
Zk-proofs (or zk-SNARKs) are basically a way in which a party (or prover) can prove their knowledge of something secret to a second party (a verifier) without revealing the actual thing in public.
Bitcoin nodes don’t ‘vote’ on rule changes—but developers shouldn’t propose them
The question over what decisions miners can/can't make arose again this week with the latest release candidate to BTC's protocol software, version 24.0.
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.
New York governor signs bill banning carbon-based fuel proof-of-work mining
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the moratorium which was approved by the state senate in June after putting it off for months, even as the industry calls the bill anti-tech.
Bitcoin with billions of secure transactions per second, with IPv6 multicasting
Dr. Craig Wright, Latif Ladid, Brendan Lee, and Owen Vaughan were panelists for the Digital Around the World webinar, where they tackled new concepts on leveraging the BSV blockchain's capabilities.
Russia seeks to legalize block reward mining with new bill
The bill, expected to sail through State Duma, makes it legal to sell mined digital assets on foreign platforms as well as locally starting January 2023.
Scammers turn to KYC actors for hire to target Web3 investors: CertiK
CertiK unearthed a fast-rising underground market with over 500,000 members where Know Your Customer verification is sold for as low as $8, concentrated in Southeast Asia.
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.
ASIC firm Canaan’s Q3 income plummets 90%
Canaan’s Q3 revenue dropped by 41% while gross profit dipped by 75%, but the company says it will continue to scale its R&D projects and mining operations.
Sentinel Node enters pilot phase
Sentinel Node is an agent software for organizations that monitors for unauthorized changes and delivers auditable, real-time alerts if one is detected.
JungleBus, a highly efficient crawler which indexes Bitcoin
JungleBus is now in public beta, providing an improved user experience by allowing applications running the software to consume and utilize other public data without the need to run on a full node.