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Sep 3, 2022 12 tweets 12 min read Read on X
What is Ergo?

Ergo is a programmable PoW #blockchain like #Ethereum, without gas fees and builds upon #Bitcoin's UTXO model.

#Ergo serves as an efficient, decentralized and secure, smart contract platform, with optional privacy.

🧵👇 Let's Explore
Fair launch, no pre-mine no #VCs

"#Cryptocurrency should provide tools to enrich ordinary people. Small businesses that are struggling to make ends meet, not big depersonalized financial capital. This is what inspired me. This is my dream"
@chepurnoy

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#Ergo has taken a research-driven approach led by some of the smartest minds in the industry

This research has led to Ergo implementing numerous unique features

Let's touch on some key features
🔸eUTxO
🔸#ASIC resistant
🔸Sigma Protocols
🔸#Privacy
🔸NIPoPoWs
🔸Storage rent
The eUTXO model #Ergo utilizes has many advantages over the account-based model used by #Ethereum. It enables Turing complete SCs and provides superior

🔸Immutability
🔸Privacy
🔸Scalability
🔸Interoperability and
🔸Transaction cost predictability

More docs.ergoplatform.com/dev/protocol/e…
Autolykos is #Ergo's underlying Memory-hard ASIC-resistant PoW algorithm, oriented towards GPUs

Miners have to perform memory-hard computations (currently ~4 GB of vRAM) that makes Ergo friendly for #GPU mining

More docs.ergoplatform.com/dev/protocol/a…
Sigma protocols are a well-known class of zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) that allow #developers to implement very powerful #privacy processes

They enable dApps on #Ergo that would be either complex and messy or simply impossible on other platforms

More docs.ergoplatform.com/dev/scs/#sigma…
One #blockchain issue is an individual's right to #privacy

ZKPs not only allow for a high degree of privacy but also ensure that the ecosystem’s security is not compromised

ErgoMixer is the industry's first non-custodial, non-interactive #mixer

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#NIPoPoWs are short proofs that verify an event actually happened on a PoW blockchain, without connecting to the blockchain and downloading all block headers

E.g. these proofs can illustrate that a payment was made on a light wallet or cross chain

More docs.ergoplatform.com/dev/protocol/n…
Millions in $BTC have been lost to dust

Storage rent is a unique feature. It allows miners to take a small amount of ERG from boxes that have remained unspent for 4 or more years

This allows #Ergo to avoid long-term bloat from dust/lost wallets

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The #Ergo ecosystem is thriving on both development and community fronts, to explore further head over to sigmaverse.io

🔸#dApps
🔸#NFTs
🔸#Dev tooling
🔸#Mining pools
🔸+ more!
If you want to know more about the technical concepts of #ergo, head over to docs.ergoplatform.org

There is a ton of information and is constantly being updated!
There is a lot going on here at #Ergo. head to our socials to stay up to date!

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More from @ergo_platform

Aug 9
Exciting news! Bitcoin is now bridged to the Ergo ecosystem via the @RosenBridge_erg. This decentralized infrastructure enables trustless transfers between BTC and Ergo, opening up new DeFi possibilities.
The Rosen Bridge allows Bitcoin to be deployed within Ergo's growing DeFi ecosystem as rsnBTC. Ergo's eUTXO model and ErgoScript enable powerful dApps that can now use Bitcoin as collateral.
Key players in the Rosen Bridge:
🔸Watchers: Monitor blockchains for events
🔸Guards: Execute transactions based on Watcher info
Both earn fees for their roles in maintaining the bridge's security.
Read 7 tweets
May 3
Bitcoin is the king of peer-to-peer value storage & transfer, but it has limitations like slow speed, limited capacity & high fees. Attempts to add advanced features like smart contracts directly to Bitcoin's protocol have proven controversial & raised security concerns.
Enter Ergo - a blockchain platform that can act as a powerful smart scripting layer for Bitcoin, enabling complex DeFi applications without compromising Bitcoin's core purpose as a secure store of value.
Key advantages of using Ergo as Bitcoin's smart layer: 🔸Advanced cryptography & efficient smart contracts
🔸Operates as a Bitcoin sidechain using double merged-mining
🔸Rosen Bridge enables trustless, fast cross-chain BTC/ERG transfers
Read 8 tweets
Apr 13, 2022
🔔What are NIPoPoWs?

This thread is intended to describe and simplify one particular innovation on the #Ergo #blockchain: NIPoPoWs.

#NiPoPoW stands for Non-Interactive Proof of Proof of Work. Let’s break this down one piece at a time.

1/15
PoW sitting at the end of #NIPoPoW signifies that this concept is grounded in a proof of work consensus mechanism

Ergo relies on #miners to solve cryptographic puzzles that give them the right to verify transactions and add blocks to the #blockchain

2/15
Po in the center of NIPoPoW stands for Proof of.

Having proof of proof of work means using cryptography to abstract away from the blockchain in a mathematically verifiable way.

In other words, PoPoW is a lightweight, yet provably accurate, representation of the blockchain

3/15
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