Understanding Bitcoin 2019
2019-04-05..2019-04-07
Malta, Malta
who it's for
wallet developers, self-hosted node operators, bitcoin miners and pool operators, lightning developers, hardware wallet engineers, privacy researchers, bitcoin product founders
topics
Chaumian CoinJoin implementation; Wasabi headless daemon; MuSig key aggregation; Taproot and Graftroot commitments; secp256k1 and secp256k1-zkp work; Braiins OS with AsicBoost overclocking; self-hosted nodl with Bitcoin Core and BTCPay; cyphernode REST API and xpub watcher; Green Development Kit and multisig recovery; batch signature verification at block scale; Bitcoin satellite block reception; SLIP-49 Shamir seed splitting and air-gapped PSBT
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Latest in Wasabi Wallet | Nopara73 | 27m |
Wasabi Wallet updates add concrete privacy and usability features: implements Chaumian CoinJoin mixing with a configurable anonymity set 50 default, shows more… | ||
| Run Your Own nodl, Make Your Own Rules | Ketominer, Askuwheteau | 31m |
Hardware ships empty and boots to download and verify the blockchain, running Bitcoin Core, both LND and c-lightning, BTC Pay Server, Tor and wallets like… | ||
| EVERYTHING about Schnorr Signatures | Jonas Nick | 01h 11m |
Schnorr replaces ECDSA to enable MuSig key aggregation (many keys become one on‑chain), interactive signature aggregation for coinjoin fee sharing… | ||
| De-Eveling BitMain with BraiinsOS | Jan Čapek, Pavel Moravec | 46m |
Braiins OS is an open-source Linux distribution that replaces stock miner firmware, adding per-chain frequency/voltage overclocking, an API for advanced… | ||
| Run Your Cyphernodl | Francis Pouliot | 01h 22m |
cyphernode v2 ships as a self‑hosted modular API that ties Bitcoin Core, c-lightning and utilities into dockerized microservices; it exposes a REST API for… | ||
| What's Blockstream up to? | Larry Nahum | 36m |
Blockstream reworks Green into rebuilt iOS and Android apps around an open source Green Development Kit (GDK) that shares wallet logic across platforms, adds… | ||
| Proof of Work - An interview with – Aaron van Wirdum | Aaron van Wirdum | 20m |
Conversation traces career from a history-and-journalism background into early Bitcoin involvement: buys about €100 during the 2013 run to ~$260, briefly falls… | ||
| Proof of Work - An interview with – Michel | Michel | 14m |
Builds a purpose‑built hardware Bitcoin full node after many Raspberry Pi iterations, discovers one Pi node dies after a year and a fresh sync would take 40… | ||
| Proof of Work - An interview with – Max Hillebrand | Max Hillebrand | 33m |
Argues Bitcoin equals individual freedom and decreases time preference, based on personal shift after watching Andreas Antonopoulos and buying first satoshis… | ||
| Proof of Work - An interview with – Adam Back | Adam Back | 49m |
History of Hashcash as a proof‑of‑work postage stamp is explained with exact parameters: stamps took minutes then with ~20 leading zero bits and modern Bitcoin… | ||
| Proof of Work - An interview with – Pavol Rusnák | Pavol Rusnák | 37m |
A hardware wallet company launches in 2012 after about a year of prototyping, ships an initial run of roughly a few thousand units, and grows to hundreds of… | ||
| Proof of Work - An interview with – Slush | Slush | 29m |
Describes building Slush Pool from a January–February 2011 experiment into a production service that briefly controls 40% of the network by solo maintenance… | ||
| Proof of Work - An interview with – Mir | Mir | 13m |
Starts on MSX floppy games and teaching low-level hacks by editing memory, earns degrees in linguistics and musicology and works as a vocalist before… | ||
| Proof of Work - An interview with – Kevin Loaec | Kevin Loaec | 35m |
Organizes the Breaking Bitcoin conference and explains building a niche around cold storage hardware that prototypes but fails commercially, plus running… | ||
| Proof of Work - An interview with – Oskar Giese | Oskar Giese | 11m |
Two-day Bitcoin event in Berlin on June 14–15 centers on the Lightning Network with a first day of core community sessions on privacy and scaling and a second… | ||
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