My name is Arik. I work at Spiral. And most recently I've been working on adding support for taproot channels. At least I try to work on that, but I'm getting pulled back into Swift bindings. And this presentation is supposed to be about why the taproot spec is laid out the way it is. What are some ...

So hey guys, my name is Borat. Today I'll be talking about something that I've been working on for the past, let's say, six months or so. To give a bit of a background, I started first in a big block sort of camp and then got introduced later to Liquid. And I did some covenant R&D on Liquid for abou...

Many mechanisms have been created that enable users to lock BTC on the mainchain, transfer a claim on the BTC in some offchain system, and then later redeem the claim and take ownership of the underlying BTC. Colloquially known as "bridges", these mechanisms offer a diverse range of security and usability properties for users to choose from depending on their risk tolerance and cost preferences. This talk will give an overview of the different types of BTC bridges that exist, how they work, and how they can be improved.

Introduction Hi everybody, I'm Nico. I'm one of the co-founders at Rigly, and we are a peer-to-peer hashrate market. The way this talk is kind of broken up is the first part we're going to go through what is hash rate, how the protocol for mining works across the network, and then a little bit on h...

Introduction This is called Translational Bitcoin Development or Why Johnny Can't Verify. So quick intro, I'm Tadge Dryja. Stuff I've worked on in Bitcoin over the last decade is the Bitcoin Lightning Network paper, the Discreet Log Contracts paper, Utreexo, and building out a lot of that software....