bitcoin++ manufactures controversy

keynote

Kickoff

niftynei

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM

Location

Main Stage

Type

keynote

Duration

15m

Speakers

niftynei

bitcoin++

X Nostr GitHub Instagram Website

talk

what we're not doing:char if we were villainmaxxing

Jeremy Rubin

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

Char Network is the world’s first bitcoin-native decentralized sequencer design. What would Char be doing if they were villainmaxxing?

Speakers

Jeremy Rubin

Char

X GitHub Website

talk

Doing over 3000 non-standard OP_RETURNs in a day

Benjamin Carman

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

This talk will talk about OP_RETURN Bot's biggest day doing over 3k transactions in a day. The complications with broadcasting many non-standard transcations in a short time period and different learnings that we can take from this.

Speakers

Benjamin Carman

Spial

X Nostr GitHub Website

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Location

Talks Stage

Type

workshop

Duration

1h

Let’s take a tour of Hoover Dam’s Power plant

talk

You are all wrong about rollups and it is driving me insane

Janusz

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

15m

Rollups are a flavor of blockchain that rely on a parent blockchain for security and data availability. They do this so they do not have to bootstrap their own validator set. They do not need a sequencer, and they do not need a bridge. They can operate purely through bitcoin L1 transactions, or they can maintain an offchain mempool for better throughput. To provide different types of execution layers for bitcoin the asset, they can have a bridge (which can be a federation, a single custodian, or some version of BitVM). Bitcoiners were introduced to rollups through progress made in BitVM; specifically from teams in the BitVM alliance. But, these teams were building rollups before BitVM was discovered and announced. And, rollups have existed on bitcoin for over a decade! In this Lightning talk, Janusz will explain why everyone is wrong about rollups, why the rollup teams are tricking you into believing that the bridge defines the rollup, and why this semantics debate is just a rehashing of arguments from the past. Janusz will provide three examples of rollups, one with a bridge, one without, and one without a bridge & a sequencer. He will share how all three of these systems ultimately work the same from the lens of the rollup full nodes; the real users.

Speakers

Janusz

LX

X Nostr GitHub Website

talk

NostrMail - Learning from three decades of PGP

Asher Pembroke

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

15m

NostrMail is a cross-platform, end-to-end encrypted email client that bridges Nostr and traditional email protocols. It avoids the pitfalls of PGP by using Nostr for key discovery, it works with existing email providers like Gmail and uses wordlist encoding (e.g., BIP39) so ciphertext and signatures remain valid under forwarding. NostrMail is open source, cross-platform, and available now on the Zapstore.

Speakers

Asher Pembroke

Fathomx

X Nostr GitHub Website

talk

ARK in its essence

Matthew Vuk

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 12:15 PM – 12:30 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

15m

Matthew Vuk, researcher at Second, takes us on a journey to understand the essence of the Ark protocol, through the lens of Jan Sholten’s homeopathy.

Speakers

Matthew Vuk

Second

X Nostr Website

talk

BitVM3 and Binohash Don’t Improve Bridge Security. Some Soft Forks Do.

Ekrem BAL

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

BitVM3 and Binohash are exciting developments, but their impact on Bitcoin bridge security is often misunderstood. BitVM3 mainly improves collateral efficiency, making bridge constructions more capital efficient, while Binohash enables new forms of transaction introspection in Bitcoin Script with important limitations. In this talk, I explain why these advances do not fundamentally strengthen bridge security and explore which proposed Bitcoin soft forks actually move the needle.

Speakers

Ekrem BAL

Citrea

X GitHub Website

talk

Mempool policy is bitcoin's administrative state

Buck Perley, Buck Perley

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

This talk will compare how mempool policy is like the administrative state. When a self-governing people loses the ability for rigorous public debate and political compromise, the natural incentive is to outsource governing responsibility to processes outside of the regular political sphere. Once outsourced, normal checks and balances can be circumvented with changes expedited by experts. Here, the incentives are such that increasing complexity and knowing how to work the system above all is rewarded. Ossification doesn't freeze decisions in place. It shifts the realm of decision making elsewhere. [This was just thrown together for submission. Not sure how much I'll end up reworking the description once I've had time to think about it more]

Speakers

Buck Perley

FromA2B

X Nostr GitHub Website

Buck Perley

Unchained

X Nostr GitHub Website

talk

The Coming Era of Nation State Hash Wars and Implications for the Bitcoin Network

Kyle Olney

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

Kyle Olney from the Bitcoin Policy Institute digs into what it means for nation states to be big players on the bitcoin network.

Speakers

Kyle Olney

Bitcoin Policy Institute

GitHub Website

talk

Breaking Ossification

Brandon Black (reardencode)

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

talk

Duration

30m

A discussion of the cultural weight that is preventing bitcoin from making changes needed to survive for centuries to come, and an optimistic look at how to break free of that weight.

Speakers

Brandon Black (reardencode)

Ngu Services LLC

X Nostr GitHub

panel

Bitcoin Without Controversy

Peter Todd, Jeremy Rubin, Buck Perley, Brandon Black (reardencode)

Time

Thu, Apr 23 · 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Location

Main Stage

Type

panel

Duration

1h

It seems that changes proposed to bitcoin are never without controversy. For this panel, we pull together veterans of the space who have dealt with their own amount of controversy over the years.

Speakers

Peter Todd

OpenTimestamps

X Nostr GitHub Website

Jeremy Rubin

Char

X GitHub Website

Buck Perley

FromA2B

X Nostr GitHub Website

Brandon Black (reardencode)

Ngu Services LLC

X Nostr GitHub