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Tech 17 February 2022

Pay to Contract Hash

sCrypt proposes a novel approach called "Pay to Contract Hash (P2CH)" to address the two limitations of smart contracts on Bitcoin simultaneously.

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Tech 15 February 2022

DeFi on Bitcoin Part 3: Uniswap

In the third part of this series, sCrypt explains how to build a Uniswap-like exchange on Bitcoin, allowing users to pool tokens/bitcoins into smart contracts and provide liquidity to the exchange.

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Tech 13 February 2022

DeFi on Bitcoin Part 2: NFT and marketplace

In the second part of this series on why it's more advantageous to run DeFi on Bitcoin, Xiaohui Liu illustrated how to build non-fungible tokens (NFT) and sell them directly on Bitcoin.

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Tech 26 January 2022

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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Editorial 24 January 2022

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.

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Tech 15 January 2022

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.