
UTXO
Asset tokenization needs a global public blockchain as a universal registration system
An asset will only gain effective physicality if the underlying blockchain has unbounded scalability, is compatible with IPv6, is universal,...
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...
Speedup Bitcoin stateful contract updates using pre-authorizing signatures
Signatures act as public keys/addresses that are used to pre-authorize state updates and carry out token transactions.
Sharding as a blockchain scaling solution doesn’t work
Imagine if Chase Bank and Citibank required that their ledgers were in sync before committing a new transaction to their...
More proof that UTXO is superior to account-based systems
UTXO is like cash in that every bill or coin is independent from each other, and if the dollar bill...
Purchasing Pat’s Coffee privately peer-to-peer
As an online merchant, Pat’s Coffee has a strong incentive to accept irreversible, low fee transactions online instead of credit...