09-20-2024
Xiaohui Liu
Author
Xiaohui Liu is the founder and CEO of sCrypt Inc., a company dedicated to providing integrated on-chain smart contracting solutions on BSV. Previously, he was a co-founder and the Chief Scientist at blockchain startup ContentBox. Before that, he was a Research Scientist at Facebook in the Connectivity Lab, conducting fundamental research to make internet access available throughout the world. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, specialized in peer-to-peer distributed networking. He has published multiple papers in premier conferences and journals. He also has one international patent.
Article by Xiaohui Liu
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18 December, 2021
Access blockchain data from Bitcoin Smart contracts: Part 3
sCrypt has devised a technique to fetch block height trustlessly, which is included in Coinbase transactions in this edition of...
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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...
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12 December, 2021
Access blockchain data from Bitcoin smart contracts: Part 2
In this article, Xiaohui Liu further explained how to access blockchain data from Bitcoin smart contracts and how it could...
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11 December, 2021
Access blockchain data from Bitcoin smart contracts without oracles
In this article, Xiaohui Liu shows how to access blockchain data in Bitcoin smart contracts with minimal trust and provides...
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5 December, 2021
Zero-knowledge key-statement proof
In this article, Xiaohui Liu introduces nChain's white paper #0488 titled "Zero-knowledge key-statement proofs” a special ZKP where the secret...
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4 December, 2021
ECDSA-based oracles on Bitcoin: An alternative to Rabin signatures-based oracles
sCrypt has developed an algorithm to verify arbitrary data from a certain party in Bitcoin smart contracts; it is based...
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16 November, 2021
Access blockchain data from Bitcoin smart contracts without oracles
In this article, Xiaohui Liu shows how it is possible to access a specific type of external data without oracles...
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26 July, 2021
Floating point in sCrypt
sCrypt does not support floating point natively, mainly due to the high overhead of implementing it using integral arithmetic in...
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21 June, 2021
Turing-Complete Rule 110 on Bitcoin
The Rule 110 cellular automaton is a 1-dimensional elementary CA, where a linear pattern of 0s and 1s evolves according...
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17 June, 2021
Bitcoin vs Ethereum smart contracts: Part 2
sCrypt’s Xiaohui Liu analyzes why all claims of the supposed four limitations listed in the Ethereum whitepaper are false, which,...
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16 June, 2021
Bitcoin vs Ethereum smart contracts
In this side by side comparison between Bitcoin and Ethereum smart contracts, sCrypt’s Xiaohui Liu finds Bitcoin offers superior performance,...
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29 April, 2021
Cooperative smart contracts: How off-chain honesty saves on-chain computation
Xiaohui Liu introduces a generic approach to skip on-chain computation in Bitcoin smart contracts, while ensuring security in the presence...
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