#qtum Atomic Swaps — Zero Value UTXOs
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Qtum Atomic Swaps — Understanding Zero Value UTXOsMoney Bunny — Gratisography.comTLDR; Today’s article is dedicated to Atomic swap technology, a smart contract that allows to directly exchange one type of #crypto asset with another without the assistance of a mutually trusted intermediary party.Use Case; Imagine Alice wants to exchange her QTUM into BTC. Lucky for her, Bob is looking to buy QTUM. However, as the QTUM and Bitcoin #blockchain are not related to each other, either party can cheat and just disappear with the funds.Before the introduction of Atomic Swap technology, you could find many escrow offers on the famous BitcoinTalk forum from third parties who acted as a mean of trust between Alice and Bob. Again, trust issues could arise with the escrow agent, so the best solution was to (...)