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Commitment Schemes

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Commitment schemes let someone bind to a value now and reveal it later. Bitcoin and adjacent cryptographic systems use commitments to anchor later verification without exposing all underlying data upfront.

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Curated resources (3)

• Commitment Scheme (article) Compact overview of the hiding and binding properties.
• BIP 141: Segregated Witness (article) Concrete Bitcoin example of a witness commitment embedded in consensus rules.
• STARK paper (article) Shows how hash-based commitments appear inside modern proof systems.

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Direct dependents (2)

• zk-SNARKs
• zk-STARKs

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