Ruben SomsenSNARKs and the future of blockchainsSNARKs are often seen as a magical panacea to “solve” scaling. While SNARKs provide many benefits, the limitations need to be acknowledged…5 min read·Oct 3, 2020----
Ruben Somsen21 Million Bitcoins to Rule all Sidechains: The Perpetual One-way Peg…a viable way to allow for new experimental chains to be linked to Bitcoin in such a way that speculation is taken out of the equation…5 min read·Apr 3, 2020--1--1
Ruben SomsenStatechains: Non-custodial Off-chain Bitcoin TransferThis article introduces Statechains, a novel layer two scaling protocol for Bitcoin with some unique features. We’ll go through its…9 min read·Jun 4, 2019--3--3
Ruben SomsenLimichat — Lightning Chat AppIn preparation of the Seoul Bitcoin Lightning Hackathon, I built a Lightning Network chat app that limits the number of messages by…1 min read·Jan 7, 2019----
Ruben SomsenBitcoin’s Hidden Proof-of-Work AssetTLDR: Miners buy bitcoins by creating blocks, and they pay for it in electricity. Interestingly, this data gets recorded on the blockchain…4 min read·Jun 19, 2018----