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Pay to Contract (P2C)

protocol.pay-to-contract

Pay to Contract commits to offchain contract data by tweaking a public key with a hash-derived value, producing a payment destination that proves the commitment without placing the contract data onchain.

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Curated resources (3)

• Mastering Bitcoin: Applications (article) Explains how key tweaking publicly commits to an external contract without revealing it onchain.
• Mastering Bitcoin: Authorization and Authentication (article) Provides the public-key and signature context for key-based commitments.
• Mastering Bitcoin (book) Long-form treatment of Bitcoin keys, commitments, and application constructions.

Direct prerequisites (2)

• Hash Functions
• Public/Private Keys

Direct dependents (1)

• Client-Side Validation

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