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# Introduction Good afternoon everyone. My name is Carla. I'm one of the Chaincode residents from the summer residency that they ran in New York this year and this afternoon I'm going to be talking about Lightning. In this talk, I'm gonna be walking you through the protocol layer by layer and havin...
10 Sept 2019
Slides: Introduction I am pretty sure you can tell but I am not James (Chiang). I am taking over the functional testing framework talk from James. He has already given several great talks. I took over this talk at very short notice from James. I’d like to give a hands on talk. Content This ...
Introduction Alright. Are we ready to get going? Thumbs up? Alright. Cool. I am Andrew and this is David. We're here to talk about blockchain design patterns: layers and scaling approaches. This will be a tour of a bunch of different scaling approaches in bitcoin in particular but it's probably app...
notes from slides: # Introduction Good morning everyone. My task is to talk about the challenges we faced while we were implementing a replacement for the cgminer software. We're doing it in rust. Essentially, I would like to cover a little bit of the history and to give some credit to ck for his...
10 Sept 2019
Slides: Debugging Bitcoin Core: # Introduction I am going to talk about debugging Bitcoin. Of course if you want to contribute to Bitcoin there are a lot of conceptual things that you have to understand in order to do that. Most of the talks here today and tomorrow are about that. But actuall...
10 Sept 2019
Introduction We have 30 minutes. This was a talk by me and Jimmy but Jimmy talked for like 5 hours yesterday so I'll be talking today. Imagine you want to start working in bitcoin development. There's a chance you will end up using a hardware wallet. In principle, it's not any different from other...
10 Sept 2019
or: libbitcoin's bx tool: Constructing a raw transaction # Introduction I am going to talk about libbitcoin. It's an alternative implementation of Bitcoin Core. There's a few alternatives out there, like btcd and then bcoin. Libbitcoin is written in C++ and it's the oldest alternative implemen...
10 Sept 2019
Introduction Hi everyone. I am a developer of rust-lightning, it started in 2018 by BlueMatt. I started contributing about a year ago now. It's a full featured, flexible, spec-compliant lightning library. It targets exchanges, wallet vendors, hardware, meshnet devices, and you can join us on Freeno...
# Introduction Alright. Give me a second to test this. Alright. Antoine has taken you through the routing layer. I'm going to take you through what the lightning network looks like today. This is the current topology of the network and how this came about, and some approaches for maintaining the ne...
10 Sept 2019
Schnorr signatures, adaptor signatures and statechains # Introduction If you want to know the details of statechains, I recommend checking out my talk from Breaking Bitcoin 2019 Amsterdam. I'll give a quick recap of Schnorr signatures and adaptor signatures and then statechains. I think it's imp...
9 Sept 2019
Note: the present presentation had more in depth information about RSA which might be interesting to the audience. slides:
9 Sept 2019
# Introduction Alright guys. Come on in. There's plenty of seats, guys. If you're sitting out on the edge, be nice to the other folks and get in the middle. Sitting at the edge is kind of being a dick. You're not letting anyone through. Come on guys, you don't have USB-C yet? You all have powerbank...
Introduction Good afternoon everyone. My name is Carla. I am one of the chaincode residents this summer. This talk is going to walk through the protocol layer by layer and look at the different components that make up the network. Lightning is an off-chain scaling solution which consists of a p2p n...
10 Sept 2019
# Introduction I was going to talk about signet yesterday but people had some delay downloading docker images. How many of you have signet right now? How many think you have signet right now? How many downloaded something yesterday? How many docker users? And how many people have compiled it themse...
Introduction You're not going to walk out of here as a privacy protocol developer. I am going to mention and talk about some ideas in some protocols that exist. What I find myself is that of really smart people working on a lot of pretty cool stuff that can make privacy easier and better to use. A ...
9 Sept 2019
Introduction Hi, my name is Amiti. Thank you for having me here today. I wanted to talk with you about rebroadcasting logic in Bitcoin Core. For some context, I've been working on improving it this summer. I wanted to tell you all about it. What is rebroadcasting? We all know what a broadcast is...
9 Sept 2019
Introduction I'm going to be talking about routing in the Lightning Network now. So I'm going to touch on how it's currently operating, some issues that you run into when you are routing, and then some potential expansions to the spec which are going to address some of these issues. We ran throug...
9 Sept 2019
Introduction Thanks Bryan for talking about HD wallets. I am going to be talking about wallet architecture in Bitcoin Core. Alright. Who am I? I work on Bitcoin Core. I've been writing code on Bitcoin Core for about 3 years. Lately I have been working on the wallet. I work for Chaincode Labs which ...
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