Socratic Seminar #2

Agenda

11:10am Welcome to BitDevsNBO

Announcements

We are excited to introduce our second Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsor Btrust for food and refreshments.

• What is BitDevs
• House Rules - the Chatham House Rule

11:20am Address Encoding: Base58, Bech32, Bech32m

• Mastering Bitcoin Ch04
• Pwuille, bech32 address format lecture
• Transcripts on Segwit Addresses
• Bip 350, Applications of Bech32m

11:50am Bitcoin digital signature schemes:

• ECDSA - a gentle introduction
• Bip 340, Schnorr Signatures
• Adam Gibson, How to design Schnorr Signatures
• Rene Pickhardt, Schnorr Signatures for Bitcoin

12:40pm Refreshment Break, Chill and Chat

12:55pm Introduction to Fedimint Custody Protocol

• Fedimint primer
• Fedimint open source software
• Fedi! And other companies building on Fedimint

1:35pm Designing a Bitcoin/Lightning wallet/Introduction to Bitcoin design philosophy

• Bitcoin design

2:10pm Setting up a bitcoin/lightning node on Raspberry Pi 4

• Welcome to Lightning!
• Example lightning node. Can we make a real payment?
• Do it yourself. Checkout Raspiblitz
• Book resource: Mastering the Lightning Network

News

• NFTs on Bitcoin!
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter Updates

Events

• Bitcoin Miami May. 18-20
• BTC Prague Jun. 8-10

Location

The event is hosted at IHub:

6th floor Senteu Plaza, Galana / Lenana Road

Map

Reminders

• No photos, videos, audio recording
• Chatham House Rule
• Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! Where to find topics?