Misha Komarov @ bitcoin++

§01 · EVENT BADGES

5 editions attended.

🍎 ’26

Seoul privacy edition

🏴‍☠️ ’26

Berlin payments edition

🏛️ ’26

Vienna economics edition

🦫 ’26

Vegas villain edition

🌉 ’25

Istanbul scaling edition

§02 · TALKS & PANELS

On stage.

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talk · Berlin 2026

Zcash-Style Private Payments on Bitcoin L1

In this talk, Misha Komarov introduces Shielded Bitcoin, a new metaprotocol for Zcash-style private payments on Bitcoin L1 without a soft fork, trusted operators, separate consensus network, or reliance on client-side state for recovery. Shielded Bitcoin uses encrypted notes, nullifiers, and zero-knowledge proofs to preserve the privacy of transaction participants, amounts, and transfer relationships, while using Bitcoin for canonical publication, ordering, and settlement. Misha will explain how Bitcoin PIPEs enable this architecture through covenants, non-interactive ZK-proof verification, and cryptographically controlled L1 vaults — and explore the broader design space this opens for payment metaprotocols on Bitcoin.

45m agenda

talk · Vegas 2026

BItcoin PIPEs v2: Covenants and ZKPs on Bitcoin L1 via Witness Encryption

We'll talk about an extension of Bitcoin Script which includes non-consensus opcodes induced via PIPEs. We'll talk which kinds of Bitcoin L1-based protocols such a Script extension allows to create and under which assumptions they can utilize BTC as an asset.

30m agenda ▶ watch