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Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2025

Filed:

Nov. 23, 2021
Applicant:

Nchain Licensing Ag, Zug, CH;

Inventors:

Katharine Molloy, London, GB;

Craig Steven Wright, London, GB;

Owen Vaughan, London, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/00 (2022.01); H04L 9/30 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/3213 (2013.01); H04L 9/30 (2013.01); H04L 9/50 (2022.05); H04L 2209/463 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer program for generating an input and an output for a voting transaction for a blockchain for casting a vote, the computer program causes one or more processors to be configured to: receive voting instructions from a vote coordinator comprising one or more public keys and a set of voting options; render a user interface displaying the voting options; receive a user selection of one of the voting options; and generate an input-output pair for inclusion in a voting transaction; wherein a non-signature portion of the input comprises an outpoint identifying an unspent transaction output, and a signature portion of the input comprises a signature single flag and an associated signature signing at least the non-signature portion of the input-output pair and the output of the input-output pair but not any other output of the voting transaction, and the output of the input-output pair comprises one of public keys.


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