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…Oct 3, 2020Oct 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…Apr 3, 20201Apr 3, 20201
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…Jun 4, 20193Jun 4, 20193
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…Jan 7, 2019Jan 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…Jun 19, 2018Jun 19, 2018
