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Bitcoin Cryptocurrency mining on Circuit Board Blockchain
Tech 6 April 2022

Economic implications of big block Bitcoin

The current innovation of ASIC miners to make hashing as powerful as possible while efficient as possible is not accounting for a scenario of fee income rising.

Update
Editorial 29 April 2017

The Real Numbers Behind Segwit Activation

It’s important to get your maths right; tricky, even boring though it may be, recent claims from a CryptoNews article have some very flawed claims.

Codeseparator
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.

Bitcoin
Tech 15 April 2022

Graftroot on Bitcoin today: No fork needed

sCrypt demonstrated how to implement Taproot on the original Bitcoin using a contractless contract and shows that its follow-up proposal, Graftroot, can be implemented in a similar fashion.

Double spending, Dr. Craig Wright
Editorial 13 October 2022

Solving double-spending

Bitcoin solved the double-spending problem robustly and securely, and it did so by forming a peer-to-peer observer network that is economically incentivized.

Bitcoin and Ordinals logo with yellow arrows pointing on opposite directions
Tech 5 October 2023

Atomic swap between Bitcoin and Ordinals

Ordinals can be combined with Bitcoin smart contracts, and to demonstrate the power and flexibility of combining them, sCrypt locks up an ordinal into an HTLC and atomically swaps it with bitcoins.

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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.