TABConf 2022
as the organisers put it
TABConf is The Atlanta Bitcoin Conference -- an event for building communities, providing education, and supporting developers.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Lightning is Broken AF (But We Can Fix It) | Matt Corallo | 01h 03m |
Lightning currently breaks on real-world constraints: devices must be online to receive and to avoid locking HTLC liquidity, single-use invoices block offline… | ||
| Onchain Panel | Daniel Ameli, Murch Gloria Zhao, Pieter Wuille, Andrew Chow | 41m |
Sustained maintenance consumes most development time—about 80 percent—with daily bug fixes, tests and GUI/network work keeping nodes running. New concrete… | ||
| ROAST: Robust Asynchronous Schnorr Threshold Signatures | Tim Ruffing | 45m |
ROAST claims to turn FROST into a robust asynchronous Schnorr threshold signing protocol by wrapping FROST and starting at most n−t+1 FROST sessions so n−t… | ||
| Sovereign Computing For a Free Future | Matt Hill | 44m |
Start9 builds a user-facing server OS called Embassy OS that currently auto-hosts services as Tor v3 hidden services and local .local HTTPS endpoints, trading… | ||
| Build The Future Now | Andre Neves | 30m |
Announces NBD: open source money software that ships an open Bitcoin wallet (OBW) with HWI, coin control, RBF/CPFP and Tor, a hosted-channels flow that lets… | ||
| Silent Payments and Alternatives to Bitcoin Privacy | Ruben Somsen | 40m |
Compares concrete designs for non‑interactive private payments: silent payments derive a shared secret from sender input key + recipient pubkey so transactions… | ||
| Using Surge to Understand your Node | Graham Krizek | 09m |
A new product called Surge provides a single-pane-of-glass observability system for Lightning nodes, shipped as a read-only agent that runs beside any node… | ||
| How to become Signet Rich - Learn about Bitcoin Signet and Zebnet | Richard Safier | 26m |
Custom Signet networks power a shared, permissioned Bitcoin testnet used to run long-term Lightning experiments: plebnet playground evolves into zebnet with… | ||
| Weighing Transactions, The Witness Discount | Murch | 35m |
Walks through raw Bitcoin transaction serialization, shows the first spent Taproot input and the serialized difference between legacy and SegWit: marker/flag… | ||
| Human Rights Foundation | Alex Li | 06m |
Human Rights Foundation explains why money equals power in closed societies and claims over half the world lives under regimes where bank freezes and payment… | ||
| Stable Coins & Taro on Lightning Network Panel | Graham Krizek, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, Ryan Gentry | 46m |
Taro creates Bitcoin-native assets by committing asset trees into Taproot outputs so tokens behave as UTXO-within-UTXO and can be used natively over Lightning… | ||
| Offchain Panel | Paul Itoi, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, Valentine Wallace, Bastien Teinturier, Gregory Sanders, Tadge Dryja | 46m |
Discussion centers on concrete proposals and implementation status: async payments via LSPs using onion messages and long CLTVs is prototyped and promising but… | ||
| Bitcoin UX Design Panel | Stephen DeLorme, Sahil Chaturvedi | 40m |
Panelists explain concrete UX wins and tools: a shared design guide and icon kits speed open-source Bitcoin work, a Figma file plus Next.js prototype turns a… | ||
| Mining Panel | Bob McElrath, Rachel Rybarczyk, Matt Corallo | 37m |
Mining history shows a few concrete failures and fixes: the old P2Pool model collapses around 2015 due to latency sensitivity and Bitmain S7 coinbase size… | ||
| Non-Lightning Layer 2 Panel | Paul Sztorc, Justin Moon | 47m |
Panel argues Lightning is not perfectly trustless—miners can censor or reorg and users must be vigilant—so other Layer 2s matter. bip300 compresses sidechain… | ||
| Legal Panel | Justine Harper, Hussein Badakhchani, Zack Shapiro, Desiree Dickerson | 42m |
Founders describe being debanked after a raise, applied to 60 banks and spending two months offline while investors get funds returned; one game company… | ||
| Education Panel | Elly Pembroke, Dulce Villarreal, Lucas de C. Ferreira, Santos Hernandez, Carla Kirk-Cohen, Robert Malka | 47m |
Local programs report concrete results: a small grant turns a Brazilian contributor into a full‑time Bitcoin Core contributor, a South African residency places… | ||
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