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.
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.
BSV Zero Knowledge Hackathon is underway, don’t forget to sign up!
sCrypt Inc. founder and CEO Xiaohui Liu said over 300 people have already signed on to the event, and there will be a live event streamed on YouTube on November 2 to kick things off.
How PLONK works: Part 2
In the first part of "How PLONK works," sCrypt explained how to transform a computation to prove using PLONK into an intermediate constraint system; now, they covered the other type: copy constraints.
Interested in Zero-Knowledge Proofs on BSV? Join the BSV sCrypt Zero-Knowledge Proof Hackathon!
The hackathon is open to all developers interested in ZKPs and cryptography, whether they're active in the BSV or blockchain world or not—round one will run from October 26 to November 25, 2022.
Registrations now own open for BSV Zero-Knowledge Hackathon
Round 1 of the hackathon will run from October 26 to November 25, and is aimed at encouraging developers to build new applications based on zero-knowledge proofs while growing the BSV community.
Efficient zk-SNARKs on Bitcoin: Technical explainer
After all the optimizations, sCrypt was able to cut the Script size of pairing by 100X to 5MB, and they are exploring more optimizations to reduce it.
Introducing zkBattleship: The world’s first interactive Zero-Knowledge Proof tutorial
sCrypt is excited to introduce zkBattleship, the world’s first and only interactive ZKP tutorial, aimed at developers who want to learn how to use it without diving into math-heavy theory.
Running deep neural networks on Bitcoin
sCrypt implemented a deep neural network for the classification of handwritten digits trained offline using the MNIST dataset of handwritten digits.
nChain solves the ‘Back to Genesis’ problem for token verification on any blockchain
All token protocols have suffered from the "traceback problem" or "Back to Genesis"—how do you prove a token is valid through a string of transactions? nChain finally got a solution for that.