Early October, Arcane Research, in collaboration with Lightning Labs, released "The State of Lightning" report, a helicopter view of The Lightning Network through mapping the landscape, evaluating growth, and analyzing usage. This presentation wil...
Fireside Chat with Alex Gladstein and Gerson Martinez: Bitcoin is Hope! Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 20...
Bitcoin circular economy is an opportunity for the unbanked to have easy and instant access to a financial system while staying protected from corruption and unnecessary bureaucracy. This presentation will look into El Salvador's experiment and it...
Closing Remarks of Day 2 of the Adopting Bitcoin conference by Chris Hunter Chris Hunter is Co-Founder and President of Galoy, and co-organizer of the Adopting Bitcoin Lightning Summit. Galoy builds open source Bitcoin banking infrastructure and ...
In this talk Justin Carter gives a brief overview of the technical stack that powers the Bitcoin Beach wallet including a deep dive into the details of some of the most common use-cases. Justin is a former artist and high stakes poker player who ...
Most Bitcoin companies seem to face difficulty finding the right talent. What barriers are stopping people from joining a bitcoin company? And what can companies do to solve this problem? What are some of the resources available to help both talen...
UTXO and payment privacy in the Lightning Network broken down to on-chain to off-chain vs off-chain to off-chain txs and the benefits of Trampoline Routing in combination with Route Blinding. The talk was rescheduled from Day 1 to Day 2 on short ...
What should a good, modern LN wallet have? Taproot compatibility, UX abstraction from L2 vs L1 distinction, easy pairing with full nodes, advanced LN features vs. a benchmark of current options. Giacomo is a Bitcoin protocol and Lightning Network...
A brief story of how IBEX launched a Lightning payment service in record time using a combination of cloud services and open source tools. Rafa Cordon is CTO at IBEX, leading development of IBEX’s Lightning-powered solutions. A lifelong learner a...
LNbits is a very simple Python application that sits on top of any funding source, and can be used as an accounts system to mitigate the risk of exposing applications to your full balance, and an extendable platform for exploring lightning-network...
What businesses need to accept payments in Bitcoin and Lightning, what experiences they’ve had, and lessons learned. Panelists: João Almeida - CTO of OpenNode Mario Aguiluz - CSO of Ibex Mercado Host: Rodrigo Gomez - Bitrefill João is on a missi...
Is mass adoption significant or selective adoption more critical? If the masses will be forced to join, then why not focus on the remnants? Aleks is the founder of Amber, the worlds first Bitcoin DCA app. He is a writer at Bitcoin Magazine & The ...
Lightning, while being a huge improvement, still has a scaling, privacy and accessibility problem. Channel management is expensive and tedious, leading to many users choosing custodial services, sacrificing privacy and censorship resistance. Fede...
Fodé's observations on the ground with the Bitcoin legal tender roll out in El Salvador and how the lessons learned will help with Bitcoin and Lightning adoption in Sénégal and in the African continent. Fodé Diop is an entrepreneur, educator and ...
Many people worldwide live in environments of inflation, instability of the local currency, stringent capital controls on outflows, high transaction costs on financial services, and other financial obstacles. This financial apartheid is the greate...
Privacy is a fundamental human right, essential to autonomy and the protection of human dignity, serving as the foundation upon which many other human rights are built. If intrusive surveillance companies are allowed to continue their malpractices...
LN Markets founders Victor and Romain reveal all the intricacies they encountered in running a major LN node Romain Rouphael is the Co-Founder of LN Markets and ITŌ - the latter is the FinTech company that build LN Markets. The trading platform L...
CEO of OKcoin Hong Fang talks about the steps to hyperbitcoinization and shares impressive data. Hong Fang is the CEO of Okcoin, a global, US-licensed cryptocurrency platform serving 184 countries — the largest reach of any US-based exchange. She...
What are Discreet Log Contracts, where they fit into the defi landscape, and how we can bring them to Lightning. Chris is the founder of Suredbits, a service that provides data feeds that you can purchase with Lightning Network transactions. Pro...
Fulmo's Jeff Gallas hosts Max Webster of Hivemind and James Andrew of Global Liquidity to talk about how in the coming decade all sorts of companies will plug into Bitcoin and the Lightning Network and how this development can fix the shortcomings...
Blockstream VP of Solutions Warren Togami, Researcher Jonas Nick and Engineers Steven Roose & Pablo Greco took to stage to explain the Liquid Sidechain, how the federation works, the role of functionaries and the Liquid roadmap. Warren is a Linux...
Superstar DJ Lai Power hails from the motor city of Birmingham, UK. Uploading echoes of Chicago/Detroit into your cyberbrain. Future sounds from the ninth dimension. HI-NRG anti-capitalist dance music for the working class. https://laipower.xyz/
SOMA was a potentially scary game that I liked quite a bit, even if it's not the sort of game I want to stream. 😍 The closed captions on this are a wee bit rough, because they include the voices from the game. This was part of my game studio's ...
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