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Tech 4 April 2022

Delegation in Bitcoin: Part 2

In the second part of this two-part piece, sCrypt introduces a universal yet straightforward delegation mechanism, an alternative to the script-level delegation they have developed.

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Tech 2 April 2022

Delegation in Bitcoin

In this two-part piece, sCrypt demonstrates a novel way to allow users to spend their UTXO/coins without giving another party their private key.

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Tech 14 December 2021

Streaming services via the Bitcoin protocol

A recent sCrypt article discusses how to facilitate streaming services using the Bitcoin protocol. This is not streaming large movie data on-chain but leverages the incentive and accountability aspects of the protocol and ledger itself.

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Tech 13 December 2021

Netflix over Bitcoin payment channels

In this post, sCrypt’s Xiaohui Liu demonstrates a cost-efficient way to provide movie streaming and other types of services on demand, based on payment channels.

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Editorial 6 December 2021

Bitcoin, for the Neo-Medici age of global commerce

The Medici era marked the expansion of commerce and the merchant class as the ruling class of power—it was a time of expansive trade and the period where the invention of banking took place.

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Editorial 21 July 2020

BitCoin: Zen Yotta Mond Data

In his latest post, John Pitts discusses how the Bitcoin network provides a commodity marketplace for computation.

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Editorial 24 December 2019

Is someone going to steal Greg Maxwell’s BSV?

The P2SH deprecation in the Genesis is not going to introduce a replay confiscation of coins allowing “anyone-can-spend” attacks to be used against unclaimed BSV sitting in old BTC or BCH wallets.