Bitcoin protocol development panel KW: We have some wonderful panelists today. Let's kick it off. Let's start with Eric. Who are you and what role do you play in bitcoin development? EL: I got into bitcoin in 2011. I had my own network stack. I almost had a full node implementation but I stopped s...

SM: We have a special announcement to make. Let me kick it over to Richard right now. RM: We completed a project that will integrate the GoTenna mesh radio system with Blockstream's blocksat satellite system. It's pretty exciting. It's called txtenna. It will allow anybody to send a signed bitcoin ...

slides: I am luke-jr. I am going to go over why block size shouldn't be too big. How does bitcoin work? Miners put transactrions into blocks. Users verify that the blocks are valid. If the users don't verify this, then miners can do basically anything. Because the users do this, 51% attacks are...

Fork dynamics Thank you, Samson, for that great introduction and thank you for organizing this awesome event. It's great seeing everyone. A few years ago, the situation was extremely different. When Samson originally asked me to give a talk, I kind of thought a little bit about what I should talk a...

I do not have any slides for you. This is my attempt to keep this non-technical, by depriving myself of any ability to write equations on screen. The topic of my talk is why everything is weird and hard in cryptocurrency. What is cryptography as a mathematics and field of science? And how does this ...

So I'm going to talk a little bit about kind of the state of mining and the set of protocols that are used for mining today, a tiny bit about the history. And then I'm going to talk very briefly about some of the solutions that are being proposed, whether it's [BetterHash]( whether it's [Braidpool](...

# Bitcoin in Spaaace! I am going to be talking about the bitcoin satellite service that Blockstream has been offering for a few years now. I am going to talk about what it does and why that's interesting to users. # Satellite infrastructure There are 4 satellites, 2 uplinks with base stations sen...

Introduction Hi, I work at Lightning Labs. I want to talk about the dawn of hyperloop. It's a new concept. Hyperloop To zoom out on what problem we're working on here, we had this cool lightning network. But it's, the way the lightning network works, is that it's complementary to the bitcoin net...

or: "Peter Todd's secret love letter to Zooko" Background See and later it was then redacted: Introduction Alright. Hopefully you guys are all awake ish or something. I am going to give a talk about the zcash trusted setup. As many of you know, I was involved in it. The way to start is to a...

AM: That's not good. Hi everyone. Thanks for coming to the future of privacy coins panel. I want to spend a minute talking ablout backgrounds and interest in this area. BG: I have a PhD in something. I got into monero a couple of years ago. I needed to pay rent, so I did some work in math in exchan...

HTC / Exodus # Introduction SM: This conversation started a couple months ago in Hong Kong with Phil Chen and Adam Back were sitting in a bar talking about the bitcoin industry and what would move it forward. Without further adue, please welcome Phil Chen. # Special announcement from HTC Exodus ...

Intro Whalepanda Hello? Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats and we're going to start now. Good afternoon everyone. I'm a self-proclaimed VP of operations and swag for this crypto conference. I'm also a friend of the Magical Crypto Friends. I'm very happy to see the turnout for this confer...

Lightning payments (and more) on the web CL: Thank you Elizabeth and Stacy for that great talk. Who runs a lightning node here? So a lot of you. Are you guys excited about lightning? Great, we have like four more talks on lightning. Next we have Will O'Beirne who will be talking about lightning pay...

Video MCF Short: WP: The short was not about Craig Wright. It was not about him being a fraud, because he is not a fraud. SM: We also have a store. I don't think we're ready to start shipping stuff yet, so inventory will remain zero. I'll post a tweet when we're ready to start selling stuff. We m...

# Introduction Hello. I work at Blockstream on c-lightning. I am here today to talk to you about a taxonomy of nodes about who's who on the lightning network. I wnat ot go through the tools that have been built, looking through the perspectives of what different nodes are trying to accomplish. # L...

LC: Can everyone hear me now? Alright, alright. WO: It's getting some good usage. A lot of those are businesses. Definitely it's in the early stage. Elizabeth talked about this. There's a lot of things that are mostly for fun, it's not really at ecommerce yet. LC: That's for lnd? WO: Sure, and I ...

Keiser Report's Stacy Herbert and Lightning Labs' Elizabeth Stark chat about the Lightning Network.