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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6 April, 2022
Pay to decrypt
sCrypt designed a smart contract called “Pay to Decrypt” that makes the exchange atomic and trustless, ensuring only a correct...
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5 April, 2022
Elliptic curve arithmetic in Script
sCrypt has implemented elliptic curve arithmetic in Script, where they compute it directly compared to the previous implementation where they...
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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...
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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...
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28 March, 2022
Smart contract-based pyramid scheme on bitcoin
A pyramid scheme is a business model that recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others...
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23 March, 2022
Private key puzzles
sCrypt introduces a new type of Bitcoin smart contract called private key puzzles, which can only be solved by providing...
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22 March, 2022
Crowdfunding on Bitcoin
Compared to Kickstarter, sCrypt’s approach is automatically enforced by Bitcoin, does not entrust funds to a trusted third party, and...
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16 March, 2022
A deep dive into Lopp’s ‘On BSV scalability’
In this piece, sCrypt’s Xiaohui Liu investigates the claims made by BTC evangelist Jameson Lopp in his recent article, focusing...
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8 March, 2022
The partial preimage technique
sCrypt’s Xiaohui Liu shows a novel technique to compute the hash with only part of the preimage for a wide...
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5 March, 2022
Split contracts using P2CH
In this article, sCrypt presents an optimization technique to split a large contract into multiple smaller ones, demonstrating how it...
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27 February, 2022
Pay to contract hash: An approach to address Bitcoin Smart Contract limitations
Smart Contracts on Bitcoin are more powerful and versatile than previously thought. However, it can't support new features once deployed,...
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17 February, 2022
Pay to Contract Hash
sCrypt proposes a novel approach called "Pay to Contract Hash (P2CH)" to address the two limitations of smart contracts on...
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