Talks
Experienced Bitcoin developers from Blockstream, Chaincode Labs, and many more will be sharing their knowledge through 25 minute talks and panel discussions. This is an opportunity to hear their thoughts, live, and ask them questions.
Workshops
This is where you'll learn the most. Select which workshops you want to attend and spend a day learning from Bitcoin experts. Bring your laptop as these sessions are designed to get you building. At the last conference participants installed and configured Lightning nodes, built hardware wallets and Bitcoin node crawlers. For this conference expect even more workshops.
Networking
Meet the people that make Bitcoin happen! Share ideas, swap contact details, and make new friends/business connections. After the conference dinners, drinks, and social events will take place close to the venue.
Let’s take Bitcoin development to the next level.
Speakers will share with you what they've been working on and some of their lessons learnt. These talks will both inform and inspire you.
Speakers
Andrew Poelstra
Blockstream
Andrew Poelstra is a Mathematician and Director of Research at Blockstream. He became involved in Bitcoin in late 2011, and joined Blockstream cofounders Greg Maxwell and Pieter Wuille in developing the high-performance cryptography library libsecp256k1.
Andrew Chow
Blockstream
Andrew is a Bitcoin Core contributor who has recently been working on Hardware Wallet Interface(HWI) and Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT).
Jimmy Song
Author of Programming Bitcoin
Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin Core Contributor and former VP of Engineering for Armory. He caught the Bitcoin bug back in 2011 and started contributing to Bitcoin open source projects since 2013. He’s a contributor to CoinDesk and has a popular Bitcoin blog. He is the author of Programming Bitcoin.
Stepan Snigirev
CryptoAdvance
Quantum physicist, hacker, paranoic. CTO of CryptoAdvance, startup focusing on secure key storage. Working on a new lightning-compatible hardware wallet and dreaming about different kinds of Bitcoin-powered embedded devices.
Gleb Naumenko
Chaincode Labs
Gleb works on improvements to the peer-to-peer layer of Bitcoin at Chaincode Labs. He primarily focuses on high-level challenges such as security and efficiency of the protocols used in the Bitcoin network. While working on Masters degree at UBC, he designed Erlay and mitigated couple vulnerabilities in the peer-to-peer layer.
Fabian Jahr
Chaincode Residency Alumni
Fabian was part of the Chaincode Residency in the Summer of 2019. Fabian's interests lay in both Lightning and Bitcoin.
Selene Jin
Blockstream
Selene is the founding designer of Blockstream. She believes design is the bridge between technology and humanity, and strives to inspire people with design thinking to push boundaries and to empower Bitcoin.
Sergi Delgado
PISA Research
Sergi Delgado is co-founder & Bitcoin lead at PISA Research. He has a PhD in Bitcoin and Distributed Systems from Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He has worked in the blockchain laboratories at both UCL and UIUC. His recent research has focused on measuring (and inferring) the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network which was presented at Financial Cryptography (18 & 19) and Scaling Bitcoin (18 & 19).
Adam Ficsor
Founder of Wasabi
Creator of Wasabi Wallet, co-Author of the Bitcoin C# Book, and one of the most active GitHub contributors in the world! Adam has spent recent months researching privacy improvements to Bitcoin, he will share some of this work at the conference
Stephan Livera
Stephan Livera Podcast
Stephan will be the MC for the conference, he hosts the Stephan Livera podcast which focuses on bitcoin and austrian economics.
Valentine Wallace
Square Crypto
Valentine is a bitcoin and lightning developer at Square crypto. Valentine was previously at Lightning Labs where she worked on LND, lndmon, the Lightning wallet and much more.
Nicolas Dorier
BTCPay Server
Developer who fell in the rabbit hole in 2014, main contributor behind the .NET library "NBitcoin". Co-author of free e-book "Programming the Blockchain in C#". Main maintainer of the open source payment processor for Bitcoin "BTCPay Server". He is based in Tokyo and works as a developer at Metaco and DG Lab.
Joost Jager
Lightning Labs
Protocol engineer working on core parts of lnd. Notable contributions are the introduction of hodl invoices and probability-based payment routing. Recently started to explore instant messaging over Lightning. Totally convinced of Lightning as the world's next step in the evolution of money.
Kalle Alm
DG Labs
Bitcoin Core Contributor, Manager at DG Lab. Swedish developer who graduated from Keio University in 2016 with a MCS in the field of AI. Joined the blockchain team at Digital Garage as a manager. Bitcoin Core Contributor since 2016. Author of BIPs 325, 154, 178 and 322. Kalle will speak about Signet - a proposed new test network for the Bitcon.
Antoine Riard
Chaincode Labs
Bitcoin Core & Rust-Lightning contributor at Chaincode Labs. He is interested by contract protocol research, architecture of the bitcoin open source stack and advanced testing for critical software.
James Chiang
Independent researcher
James is an open-source contributor to both Bitcoin Core and Libbitcoin implementations and was a Chaincode resident last summer (2019). His current research interests include formal verification of protocols. He has recently developed a novel method to automate contract verification at signing time and will introduce this research and its implications for 2nd layer protocol development at Advancing Bitcoin.
The call for speakers is closed.
The call for speakers for the 2021 conference opens here in February.
2019 Conference
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Agenda
Registration
Opening Remarks
The weakest points of hardware wallets
Stepan Snigrev
Rethinking Wallet Architecture: Native Descriptor Wallets
Andrew Chow
Getting started with miniscript
Andrew Poelstra
BREAK
Generalised Contract Verification at Signing Time
James Chiang
You don't need a designer - tricks to improve your UX
Selene Jin
Signet in practice: Integrating Signet into your software
Kalle Alm
LUNCH
(Provided)
Panel discussion
Topics TBC
Coinjoins - past, present, and future
Adam Ficsor
EasyPaySy
Jimmy Song
A Beginner's Guide to running a Bitcoin node (p2p)
Gleb Naumenko
BREAK
LDK for Existing Bitcoin Wallets
Valentine Wallace
How to level up your application using Lightning in-protocol data transfer
Joost Jager
A Schnorr-Taproot'ed Lightning
Antoine Riard
BREAK
BOLT #13: Standardising WatchTowers
Sergi Delgado
Bridging the knowledge boundaries within Bitcoin
Nicolas Dorier
Closing Remarks
After-party drinks/snacks in the roof-top terrace
Workshop 1A
You don't need a designer, practicing tips and tricks - Selene Jin
Workshop 1B
How to use Miniscript - Andrew Poelstra
Workshop 1C
Create your own Signet with Taproot and Schnorr signatures - Kalle Alm
Workshop 1D
RaspiBlitz - Rootzoll and Openoms
BREAK
Workshop 2A
Build a hardware wallet from scratch with MicroPython - Stepan Snigrev
Workshop 2B
How to prototype your bitcoin app - James Prestwich
LUNCH
(Provided)
Workshop 3A
Debugging Bitcoin Core - Fabian Jahr
Workshop 3B
Building a Lightning-powered in-protocol dead man's button - Joost Jager
Workshop 3C
Hack the Specter - tune a DIY hardware wallet to fit YOUR security model - Stepan Snigrev
Venue
Events @ No6
6 Alie St, London
United Kingdom E1 8QT
Tickets
Student and lecturers
£149
SOLD OUTEarly bird
£299
SOLD OUTGeneral admission
£399
SOLD OUTLast minute
£499
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