A Review of the Stacks Blockchain from a RSK perspective

Verifiable Delay Functions

A brief and gentle introduction

Introduction

Bitcoin Sidechains

The history and attributes of Bitcoin Sidechains

Aggregate, Threshold, Multisig and Multisignatures

A brief survey and comparison

Commitment Schemes

Basic concepts and ideas

Motivation: a day at Christie’s

Modern Merge-mining

The Bitcoin community welcomes Bitcoin sidechains because they are increasing Bitcoin’s utility now and probably they will…

Building the Most Secure, Permissionless and Uncensorable Bitcoin Peg

Similarities and Differences between RSK and Ethereum

The RSK project started as a fork of an Ethereum codebase in 2016 and it was developed for 2 years until it was finally launched in 2018. During those years, crucial data structures were upgraded, and precompiled contracts and new…

Flaws in Ethereum’s EIP-1559

EIP-1559 added a mechanism for the Ethereum network to establish a base transaction gas price that…

Private Smart Contract Execution

A survey of existing proposals

Introduction