Smart contract-based oracle slashing
sCrypt's Xiaohui Liu showed how to use smart contracts to slash cheating Sensible oracles, which is applicable to any oracle where evidence of fraud can be verified in a smart contract.
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Bear with me, Bitcoin
Despite memes to the contrary, Bitcoin is not a hedge against inflation. In fact, the more that it is treated primarily as a store of value by the economy, the more correlated to inflation that it will become.
Blockchain jobs surged by 400% in 2021, 4x higher than other tech jobs: LinkedIn
Job postings related to Bitcoin, blockchain, and other related roles saw the highest surge in 2021 as over $30 billion flowed into the sector, according to LinkedIn.
Jack Dorsey vs Satoshi Nakamoto: Who will lock BTC ‘Bitcoin’ history and protocol?
Block head Jack Dorsey’s new legal fund for BTC developers who refuse to honor their fiduciary obligations will push the corrupted Bitcoin protocol even further down the road to anarchic illegality.
OP_CODESEPARATOR
sCrypt demonstrates the usage of OP_CODESEPARATOR, such as optimizing preimage size in OP_PUSH_TX and other uses like in-script functions and signing different execution paths.
Jack Dorsey announces Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund to fight Satoshi Nakamoto
The proposal was submitted to the Bitcoin developer mailing list by Dorsey, Alex Morcos of Chaincode Labs and blockchain academic Professor Martin White, apparently the Fund’s three board members.
13 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto sent Hal Finney 10 bitcoins in Bitcoin’s first transaction ever
Since that first transaction, Bitcoin has grown from strength to strength, overcoming every challenge along the way, and they have been many.
Happy 13th birthday, Bitcoin! Things will only get better
The peer-to-peer electronic cash system envisioned by Satoshi Nakamoto has been fully restored, and what a year it has been for the original Bitcoin.
Trustless outsourced vanity address generation
To overcome the drawback of the previous Zero-knowledge key-statement proof, sCrypt conducted the exchange entirely on chain using a smart contract which only pays out if a private key is provided.
Ira Kleiman attorneys beg court for new trial
Ira Kleiman and his attorneys have filed a motion for a new trial in their case against Dr. Craig Wright following their multi-billion dollar defeat back in December.
Musk you? Elon’s Bitcoin and Satoshi theories fail to launch
In addition to recalling over half a million defective vehicles, Tesla boss Elon Musk may also want to rescind his theories on Bitcoin’s origin story.
Bitcoin Genesis Block Day: 13 years old today, but it’s all the other blocks that count
Block Zero appeared 13 years ago today—and, though barely noticed at the time, is now an essential part of Bitcoin's mythology and mystique.