More details about the Bitcoin side of Eidoo

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Eidoo

3 min readOct 10, 2017

Eidoo is a blockchain-to-human interface that aims at simplifying the interaction between the Bitcoin blockchain and its users.

Eidoo wants to propose a new blockchain asset experience providing an easy and secure way to buy, transfer, spend, and exchange cryptocurrencies without relying on any central authority.

Eidoo will have two different sides of the same project — Bitcoin and Ethereum — on which two different teams are working on.

Bitcoin Wallet

One of the main product developed through the Eidoo project is a Bitcoin wallet able to manage generic assets on Bitcoin’s blockchain, in a secure, and user friendly way.

Also, we will introduce into the wallet only solutions which neither relays on any centralized authorities nor compromise the user confidentiality.

We have chosen to build the wallet according to the best practices currently available in Bitcoin’s ecosystem in order to exploit not only a higher level of security, but also a greater level of interoperability and compatibility with the existing solutions and services.

The key aspects we want to address with our solution are the following: interoperability, auditability, smart contract, scalability and, in particular, confidentiality. All of this with a conservative, adversarial thinking, and security-oriented approach which is typical of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Also, Eidoo will include a decentralized exchange to convert bitcoin.

One of the biggest and underrated problem of existing exchanges is the fact that users need to trust the counterparty, giving them full control of your own goods.

Counterparty risks, even when dealing with generally reliable and trusted ones, have always to be taken in consideration since casualties are always behind the door.

Bitcoin Exchange: the Eidoo solution

Levegering Lightning Network, we are able to get rid of any counterparty risk, as transactions are happening between users which are not able to cheat in any way.

To be absolutely mentioned, is the fact that Lightning will bring a huge improvement in regards to fee costs and waiting time, two of the biggest weakness of Bitcoin during 2017, thanks to a technology called off-chain transaction.

Taking advantage of the aforementioned mechanism, we are able to create a market almost free of transactions fee with a confirmation time reduced of more than 10 times.

Also, the Bitcoin decentralized exchange will offer a feature known as atomic swap transactions.

Bitcoin Decentralized Marketplace

Another feature, which can created by leveraging Lightning Network, is a Decentralized Marketplace, where Eidoo users could, instead of transferring only asset, exchange also generic goods and services in a decentralized and provably honest way using either trusted computing techniques or an escrow system.

The wallet will take care of abstracting the raw unfriendly function of Lightning Network, giving to the end user a more pleasant environment to manage their assets.

Please read the Technology Whitepaper from page 22 to read more about the Bitcoin project.

We can’t wait to develop the Bitcoin side of the project. Stay tuned!