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...
Let's dig deeper into El Salvador's decision to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender. Through the conversation with Monica Taher, we will explore the significance of this decision and the Salvadorean Government's long-term vision for the country. Born...
LN micropayments are the key to unlocking more democratized monetization streams for artists, writers, and other creatives who have traditionally relied on centralized services to monetize their work. Panelists: Roy Sheinfeld - Co-founder & CEO o...
Stefan Richter presents a new approach to multi-path finding in the Lightning Network, as originally detailed in the paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.05322, and talks about new developments on the way to implementing these new methods. Stefan'...
Together with his colleague Caralie, Jonas co-manages Chaincode’s educational initiatives, including the residency and online seminars. Last summer, he helped organize the Summer of Bitcoin for Indian students learning how to contribute to open-so...
Because transaction throughput is limited, true mass adoption of Bitcoin can only be achieved today by giving up control to centralized institutions such as banks which is the exact outcome that Bitcoin was designed to avoid! This talk will discus...
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...
Closing Remarks DEV Track / Day 1 of Adopting Bitcoin - A Lightning Summit by Jeff Gallas from Fulmo and Co-Organizer of Adopting Bitcoin.
Closing Remarks ECON Track / Day 1 of Adopting Bitcoin - A Lightning Summit by Moritz Wietersheim, Co-Organizer of Adopting Bitcoin. Moritz is CEO and cofounder at Specter Solutions. Launched in 2018 Specter is focused on providing wallet software...
Large companies, institutional investors and governments are increasingly adopting Bitcoin. This fireside chat will explore the details of how big entities are embracing what many call “digital gold” -- and how Lightning can accelerate the use of ...
Local commerce is literally going off-the-chain (layer 2), and figuratively (it's going to be amazing). Michael lays out his thesis on how lightning network ushers in a true e-commerce revolution for small businesses and consumers all over the wor...
Deep dive into your node and the metrics you may be missing Bob is a backend engineer at Voltage which offers enterprise-grade infrastructure services for Bitcoin. As a self identified pleb, Bob is a Bitcoin evangelist helping to spread adoption ...
Designing for Bitcoin is seemingly more complex. Is it possible to create products all while upholding the core values of self-sovereignty? Panelists: Anthony Potdevin - Co-Founder Amboss Technologies Johns Beharry - Bitcoin designer at Peak Shif...
Ryan Gentry, Director of Business Development at Lightning Labs talks about the Lightning Network and scaling financial services on Bitcoin. Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanTheGentry
Policy and transaction relay guarantees are a nebulous and important security subject for L2, especially because it’s very poorly documented and there are a ton of very subtle mempool attacks. Gloria is a Bitcoin Core developer and fellow at Brin...