Reading list: Introduction Michael Folkson (MF): This is a Socratic Seminar, we are going to be discussing MuSig2 and we’ll move onto adjacent topics such as FROST and libsecp256k1 later. We have a few people on the call including Tim (Ruffing). If you want to do short intros, you don’t have to,...

Introductions Ali Taylor-Cipolla (ATC): Ali coming in from Coinbase Recruiting. I’d like to introduce to my friend Tiago who is on the Europe side. Tiago Schmidt (TS): Hello everyone. Quick introduction, sitting in the recruiting team here in London and leading the expansion for engineering hiring...

Reading list: Intros Michael Folkson (MF): This is a discussion on AssumeUTXO. We are lucky to have James O’Beirne on the call. There is a reading list that I will share in a second with a bunch of links going right from concept, some of the podcasts James has done, a couple of presentations Jam...

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Slides: Transcript of the previous day’s Socratic Seminar on BIP-Schnorr: Intro (Michael Folkson) We are now live. This is London Bitcoin Devs with Tim Ruffing. We had the [Socratic Seminar]( yesterday, I think we have some people on the call that were at the Socratic Seminar. That was brillia...

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Kevin slides: Antoine slides: # Intro (Michael Folkson) This is London Bitcoin Devs. This is on Zoom and live-streaming on YouTube. Last week we had a Socratic Seminar on vaults, covenants and CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY. There is a [video]( up for that. There is also a [transcript]( \@btctranscripts o...

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Adam Gibson Pastebin on Payjoin resources: 6102bitcoin resources on Payjoin/P2EP: Transaction fingerprinting discussion: BitDevs resources on Coinjoin: The conversation has been anonymized to protect the identities of the participants. Intro (Michael Folkson) We are live, London BitDevs S...

Slides: Book: # Intro (Michael Folkson) Welcome to this London Bitcoin Devs online. We will be joined by Kalle Rosenbaum, the author of Grokking Bitcoin. In terms of London Bitcoin Devs you can follow us on Twitter at ldnbitcoindevs. We have a YouTube channel where we have a bunch of presentati...

The conversation has been anonymized to protect the identity of the participants. # Discussion of Hopin video conferencing software We tested this a few weeks back for a German meetup and it was pretty nice. It was reliable and it worked. Of course it is not open source and Jitsi could be much bet...

Slides: BIP174 (PSBT): PSBT Howto for Bitcoin Core: Introduction Hey everyone. As you may have guessed I’m Andrew Chow. I’m Engineer at Blockstream and I also work on Bitcoin Core a lot, mostly in the wallet. I am going to be talking about hardware wallets and a bit history with them in Core...

Slides: # Introduction As Michael mentioned I’ve got like two hours. Hopefully I won’t get close to that but you guys are welcome to interrupt and ask questions. I’ve given a couple of talks about Miniscript usually in like 20 or 30 minute time slots where I try to give a high level overview of w...

Slides: Intro Good evening. My name is James and it is a real privilege to give this talk right after Andrew (Poelstra) has primed the entire audience on Miniscript. That’s pretty awesome. I learned a lot of things even though I coded the stuff that they have on Pieter’s website the actual justi...

# Introduction My name is Gleb. I’ve worked on Bitcoin stuff since 2015, building wallets and exchanges in Ukraine. Then I realized that I can do more fun stuff. I want to do more protocol research, improving Bitcoin itself, not just using it. I decided I will go to Canada to do a Masters. I starte...

Slides: # Intro Thanks for inviting me. I’m going to talk about submarine swaps and Lightning Loop which is something that I work on at Lightning Labs. # Bitcoin - One Currency, Multiple Settlement Networks Something that is pretty important to understand about Lightning is that it is a flow ...

Slides: Pieter Wuille on anti covert channel signing techniques: Introduction This talk is the second in the series after my previous [talk]( in London a few months ago at the Advancing Bitcoin conference. There I was talking mostly about general attacks on hardware, more from the theoretical ...

Announcement of BetterHash on the mailing list: Draft BIP: Intro I am going to talk about BetterHash this evening. If you are coming to Advancing Bitcoin don’t worry I am talking about something completely different. You are not going to get duplicated content. That talk should be interesting ...

Slides: Core, HWI docs: # Introduction I am Sjors, I am going to show you how to use, you probably shouldn’t try this at home, the Bitcoin Core wallet directly with a hardware wallet. Most of that work is done by Andrew Chow. I’m just showing how it works. I will have some thoughts of my own on...

John Light blog post on soft forks and hard forks: # Intro My presentation today is going to be about Bitcoin full nodes. Everything you wanted to know and more. There should perhaps be an asterisk because I’m not going to say literally everything but if anyone in the audience has any questions t...

Slides: Intro This is supposed to be a developer meetup but this talk is going to be a little more on the theoretical side. The title is “Unfairly Linear Signatures” that is just a joke. It is talking about Schnorr signatures. They are something that could in the near future have a big practical...