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Bitcoin has changed a few times in its history, and we're now at a point of several proposals for new changes. In this 45m panel we invite a host of experienced developers to talk about their successes and plans for changing bitcoin.
In this panel, Isabel Foxen Duke is joined by a few cryptographers and protocol engineers from the bitcoin dev community. They'll be covering the pros and cons of different quantum-related proposals for Bitcoin - including but not limited to "what to do with Satashi's Coins" // "best PQ signature schemes for Bitcoin -- e.g. hash-based or lattice-based schemes" // P2MR vs P2TRv2 etc.
What if elliptic curves broke and we needed to switch to something else? Most coins are protected by "key hash" style outputs that can can be safely moved because their EC pubkeys aren't publicly known. But what about coins where people have re-used addresses and the pubkeys are known? Most of those coins can also be safely migrated with techniques I'll describe in this talk.
There's lots of amazing new technologies, developments and discoveries in Bitcoin and higher layers, but most users are not fully verifying; many don't even have keys. Why is this, and what should we think about when developing Bitcoin software and protocols to solve this problem?
