bitcoin++ dives deep

keynote

Conference Kickoff

Walton, niftynei

Time

Wed, May 7 · 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Location

Main Stage

Type

keynote

Duration

15m

Speakers

Walton

bitcoin++

X Website

niftynei

bitcoin++

X Nostr GitHub Instagram Website

keynote

A Word On Mempools

glozow

Time

Wed, May 7 · 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Location

Main Stage

Type

keynote

Duration

30m

Why we have a mempool, why it’s important, what kinds of problems exist, some intuition on why mempool problems are particularly challenging.

Speakers

glozow

Chaincode Labs

X GitHub

talk

Rebooting P2Pool For Bitcoin

Kulpreet Singh (jungly)

Time

Wed, May 7 · 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Location

Talks Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

I'll cover the the need to build P2Pool as a free and open platform for decentralised mining. Then I'll talk about the engineering challenges to build the pool using the latest bitcoin rust ecosystem. Finally I'll address the scalbility concerns for P2Pool's share chain.

Speakers

Kulpreet Singh (jungly)

independent

X Nostr GitHub Website

workshop

Stratum V2 hands-on workshop: CPU mining sovereign templates

plebhash

Time

Wed, May 7 · 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Location

Workshops Stage

Type

workshop

Duration

1h 30m

This is a hands-on workshop where the participants will be acting as different Sv2 Pools and Miners. Miners will run their own bitcoin nodes and do CPU mining on their own templates. Everyone will be mining on the same network, so whichever Pool gets the most hashrate wins!

Speakers

plebhash

Vinteum Grantee

X Nostr GitHub Website

talk

Getting Your Transaction Mined

Gregory Sanders

Time

Wed, May 7 · 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

A talk on the wallet application side of mempool considerations. Instagibbs talks through common tropes needed for wallets and smart contracts to get your tx to miner using peer to peer protocols

Speakers

Gregory Sanders

Spiral

X GitHub Website

talk

Mining Pool Insights: Technical Analysis of Stratum V1 Templates in Aggregate

boerst

Time

Wed, May 7 · 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Location

Talks Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

A deep-dive into Stratum V1 mining templates and what their aggregated analysis reveals about mining pool operations. From these templates, we can extract meaningful insights about pool behaviors, coordination patterns, network characteristics, and bugs. I'll give a quick break-down of the Stratum V1 protocol's "mining.notify" message structure and how visualizing this data across multiple pools can show us interesting mining pool behaviors. I'll step through ~2 different recent cases using historical Stratum V1 data to understand pool behavior and cooperation: 1. Caching bug in Antpool's coinbase transaction builder: https://b10c.me/observations/14-antpool-and-friends-invalid-mining-jobs/ 2. Solana token marketing stunt: https://x.com/boerst/status/1882429452229198021 This presentation will appeal to those interested in mining pool centralization markers and the communication protocols that underpin the network today.

Speakers

boerst

X Nostr GitHub

talk

Cluster mempool

Pieter Wuille

Time

Wed, May 7 · 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

45m

I will talk about the ongoing Cluster Mempool project, which aims to rework how reasoning about dependent unconfirmed transactions in the Bitcoin Core mempool implementation work, for eviction, mining, RBF evaluation, fee estimation, and more. To motivate, I will discuss how this reasoning is done today, why that's broken, and how the cluster mempool project seeks to fix the problems with it, as well as additional benefits it may provide. Depending on interest, I can go further into implementation status, impact it will have on transaction relay policy, or future improvements that are possible.

Speakers

Pieter Wuille

Chaincode Labs

GitHub Website

talk

DAMP Protocol & OpenAutoPay SDK - Autonomous LN payments for AI agents

Sagun Garg

Time

Wed, May 7 · 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Location

Talks Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

OpenAutoPay: Mesh of L402, MCP, and Nostr will revolutionize Agentic AI payments. It will empower developers to build autonomous, AI-driven payment systems that are secure, scalable, and interoperable across decentralized networks The Decentralised Agentic Mesh Payments Protocol (DAMPP) is a novel protocol that unifies the strengths of L402, MCP, and Nostr into a cohesive standard for Agentic AI payments and interactions in a decentralized environment.

Speakers

Sagun Garg

X Nostr GitHub Website

talk

How to change mempool policies when people don't like you

Peter Todd

Time

Wed, May 7 · 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

How can you change mempool policies? You don't necessarily need a pull-req merged by Bitcoin Core. Here we'll go over real world examples of my attempts, successful, and not yet successful, at changing mempool policies by just writing code and convincing other people to run it. We'll talk about what kinds of changes are feasible, the role of peering, and what it actually takes to release a fork of Core (if you're lazy like me)

Speakers

Peter Todd

OpenTimestamps

X Nostr GitHub Website

talk

Non-standard transactions and mempool policies for BitVM Bridges

Ekrem BAL, Ekrem BAL

Time

Wed, May 7 · 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Location

Talks Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

I will explain the usage of Ephemeral Dust and TRUC Transactions in BitVM bridges and how non-standart transactions makes BitVM bridges feasible.

Speakers

Ekrem BAL

Chainway Labs - Citrea

X GitHub Website

Ekrem BAL

Chainway Labs - Citrea

X GitHub

talk

Frostr - A Practical Application of FROST for individuals

Austin Kelsay

Time

Wed, May 7 · 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Location

Workshops Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

Me and Topher (aka; cmdruid, aka; btctechsupport) would like to do a technical talk about on our application of FROST for our project Frostr (https://frostr.org) FROSTR is a simple k-of-n threshold signature protocol that enables distributed signers to securely communicate, verify requests, and create partial signatures over nostr relays, requiring only a single round of communication. Me and Topher will walk through our approach in applying FROST in a simple yet effective manner optimized for individuals. We will talk about different tradeoffs and assumptions that we made in our implementation as well as showcasing some cryptography/application tricks that we leveraged to make it all possible! Frostr is live and working today! We have two applications both with signed releases (Igloo & Frost2x) that allow you to create a 2/3 keyset and move individual shares to each application to create distributed signatures (and encryption/decryption methods) in real time on all your favorite nostr clients! Everything mention can be found on https://frostr.org and our github https://github.com/frostr-org

Speakers

Austin Kelsay

FROSTR

X Nostr GitHub Website

talk

DATUM Deep Dive

Jason Hughes

Time

Wed, May 7 · 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

1h

Why DATUM? In this 45m deep dive, Jason Hughes from OCEAN will walk us through the protocol they launched to build a more decentralized block template ecosystem.

Speakers

Jason Hughes

OCEAN

X GitHub Website

talk

The User is the Enemy

Jameson Lopp

Time

Wed, May 7 · 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Location

Talks Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

A talk about footguns

Speakers

Jameson Lopp

Casa

X Nostr GitHub Website

workshop

Analytical Data Modeling with On-Chain Data

sha2fiddy

Time

Wed, May 7 · 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Location

Workshops Stage

Type

workshop

Duration

1h

- What is analytics engineering? - What is dbt (or similar tools), and how does it help data analysts & engineers apply software engineering principals? - Fundamental data modeling concepts, goals, and non-goals - How we use on-chain data at Foundry, including a brief pipeline & architecture overview - Build some analytical data models using Postgres and the provided on-chain datasets

Speakers

sha2fiddy

Foundry Digital

X Nostr GitHub Website

talk

Mining as a Service

Kent Halliburton

Time

Wed, May 7 · 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Location

Talks Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

Join Kent Halliburton from Sazmining as he talks through how they’re pioneering Mining as a Service

Speakers

Kent Halliburton

Sazmining

X Nostr GitHub Website

talk

Consensus Cleanup

Antoine Poinsot

Time

Wed, May 7 · 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

Fix a number of long standing vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the Bitcoin protocol: timewarp, worst case block validation time, merkle tree malleability, BIP34 supplement transaction duplication.

Speakers

Antoine Poinsot

Chaincode Labs

X GitHub Website

talk

Stratum V2 incentives: let's find them into some benchmarks data

gitgab19

Time

Wed, May 7 · 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Location

Talks Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

A presentation about data got during some benchmarking sessions of Stratum V2, and comparisons with the current protocol, Stratum. The talk focuses on the main incentives to switch to Stratum V2, for both miners and pool operators.

Speakers

gitgab19

Stratum V2

X GitHub Website

workshop

Policy in Practice

Luke Dashjr

Time

Wed, May 7 · 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Location

Workshops Stage

Type

workshop

Duration

30m

How do new policies get added to the mempool? Join bitcoin core veteran and policy writer Luke Dashjr as he walks us through the mechanics of new policies in bitcoin.

Speakers

Luke Dashjr

OCEAN

X GitHub Website

talk

BIP360: Making Bitcoin Quantum Resistant

Hunter Beast

Time

Wed, May 7 · 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

45m

In this talk, I'll lay out the potential threat posed to Bitcoin by advancing quantum computers; current industry and government time frames for preparing for a quantum threat; as well as a review of BIP360—which proposes the induction of quantum resistant address types into Bitcoin

Speakers

Hunter Beast

Anduro

X GitHub Website

talk

Splicing: An Update

Dusty Daemon

Time

Wed, May 7 · 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM

Location

Talks Stage

Type

talk

Duration

45m

Description to come

Speakers

Dusty Daemon

core-lightning

X Nostr GitHub Website

workshop

Launch Your Own Testnet

Super Testnet

Time

Wed, May 7 · 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM

Location

Workshops Stage

Type

workshop

Duration

45m

Create a bitcoin testnet where you control everything, including how fast the blocks are mined and what soft forks are enabled. Make it sharable on social media and even give yourself unlimited testnet coins so you never run out while testing your software!

Speakers

Super Testnet

Independent

X Nostr GitHub

talk

Can we filter the noise?

Bitcoin Mechanic, Matt Corallo, Jameson Lopp, Shinobi, Walton, Luke Dashjr, Peter Todd

Time

Wed, May 7 · 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

45m

Our MC Walton sits down with developers and other technical thinkers to discuss the use and effectiveness of filters that currently exist within the Bitcoin protocol - and proposed changes from the community.

Speakers

Bitcoin Mechanic

OCEAN

X Website

Matt Corallo

Spiral

X Nostr GitHub Website

Jameson Lopp

Casa

X Nostr GitHub Website

Shinobi

Bitcoin Magazine

X Website

Walton

bitcoin++

X Website

Luke Dashjr

OCEAN

X GitHub Website

Peter Todd

OpenTimestamps

X Nostr GitHub Website

talk

Getting Transactions Mined with Sponsorship

Rusty Russell

Time

Wed, May 7 · 4:15 PM – 4:45 PM

Location

Talks Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

A re-evaluation of how to sponsor transactions and get transactions into blocks. NOTE THIS IS A REMOTE TALK

Speakers

Rusty Russell

Blockstream

X Nostr GitHub Website