Name: Bitcoin: Role Playing Bitcoin Based Protocols Including the Lightning Network
Start: 2024-09-19T12:30:00-0600
End: 2024-09-19T13:30:00-0600

Thursday September 19, 2024 12:30 - 13:30 MDT

Cottonwood 2/3

With an intuitive understanding of Bitcoin’s programmability we can study programming primitives such as “time” and “hash-time” lock contracts (HTLCs), which are the crucial building blocks for higher abstraction protocols such as the Lightning Network.

We will describe “Lightning” by role playing the actions of its nodes. We’ll see how they exchange value globally and nearly instantaneously. We’ll appreciate that this is a practical solution to the problem of micropayments, financial inclusion, and the starting point for even higher abstraction level protocols such as the Sphinx protocol. This protocol enables payments for streaming services without subscriptions or doxxing yourself.

Depending on audience interest, we’ll explore topics such as pay joins, coin joins, and/or how to incorporate into smart contracts real world data, using the primitive of Discrete Log Contracts (DLCs) to make so-called “Oracles.”

As we summarize these technical solutions, we’ll see that they create an ecosystem that leads to Bitcoin becoming the world’s reserve currency.

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Join us on Friday for a panel in which Eduardo, Jon, and Kris will answer Bitcoin questions.

Speakers

Eduardo Madrid

Consultor

Eduardo has been working for many years on financial technologies, automated trading in particular, and other areas where performance challenges can be solved in C++. He contributes to open source projects and teaches advanced courses on Software Engineering with emphasis in Generic... Read More →

Thursday September 19, 2024 12:30 - 13:30 MDT
Cottonwood 2/3

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Eduardo Madrid

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CppCon 2024

Eduardo Madrid

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