Overview of how Ethereum Blockcerts Differs

[jake666]

Hi guys,

Can anyone help me understand at a high level how writing to Ethereum differs from Bitcoin?

I understand that bitcoin writes data using the OP_RETURN function. Does Ethereum’s data get written to a smart contract or is it stored in the Ethereum log?

Thanks.

J

[d.hussain]

Below apparently explains what you are looking

Issue Blockcerts on Ethereum [under development]

Hello everyone, Multiple times the forum has discussed whether it would be possible to issue blockcerts on Ethereum. Blockcerts have always said that this would be possible, and that they are pretty blockchain agnostic. However, it hasn’t been a priority. I just want to give a little heads-up that time is changing as I’m currently in the development of adding onto the cert-issue repo to make it usable in issuing towards Ethereum. On a file level I’m looking into the following updates: conf…

[GuillaumeDuveau]

Hi, there’s no smart contract involved in BlockCerts on Ethereum, too. Basically the signature is just a burn to 0xdead.