BitDevs LA: Recent Episodes
BitDevsLA
BitDevs LA is a community in the Los Angeles area for those interested in discussing and participating in the research and development of Bitcoin and related protocols. RSS - anchor.fm/s/34b325fc/podcast/rss
This month we are excited to kick of the New Year with a Socratic Seminar led by André Neves, CTO and Co-Founder of ZEBEDEE.
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This month we are excited to host Jestopher from Amboss Technologies, a Bitcoin company that provides Lightning Tools for professionals.
This month we are excited to host Richard Myers who will be presenting on PeerSwap!
Richard is a long-time software developer who made the transition to Bitcoin and Lightning development thanks to Chaincode Labs summer residency program where he worked on tests for BIP-118 and the eltoo upgrade of Lightning. Richard is currently implementing the PeerSwap protocol for ACINQ's Eclair Lightning node software.
PeerSwap enables Lightning Network nodes to balance their channels by facilitating atomic swaps with direct peers. PeerSwap enhances decentralization of the Lightning Network by enabling all nodes to be their own swap provider. No centralized coordinator, no 3rd party rent collector, and lowest cost channel balancing means small nodes can better compete with large nodes.
This month we are excited to host Brekkie von Bitcoin for a fireside chat on the intersection between Bitcoin and Art! Brekkie is a prolific Bitcoin artist, creator, and the Creative Director of Swan Bitcoin. His most recent piece was auctioned and sold during Bitcoin2022 titled "The Awakening" which was a white marble sculpture weighing over 37 lbs.
We are excited to host Andy Edstrom to speak at our next Bitcoin meetup! He'll be presenting on the topic of why Bitcoin is the most important asset of our generation and provide an outlook on its potential value in the coming decade.
Andy Edstrom, CFA, CFP is Managing Director of Swan Advisor Services and a financial advisor at Wescap Group. He is the author of Why Buy Bitcoin, the first and only book on Bitcoin published by a financial advisor. Andy’s opinions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, CoinDesk, Business Insider, and Bitcoin Magazine.
Earlier in his career, Andy was an investor at a private equity fund and a hedge fund. Prior to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 he caught a glimpse into the making of “financial sausage” while working at Goldman Sachs.
Andy holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) and Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) credentials.
Side note: We won't be having pizza and beers this time around. Sorry!
Guest Speakers Andy Edstrom, also check out his podcast interviews
This month we have the pleasure of hosting Steve Myers. Steve is a local bitcoiner and former, long-time enterprise Java developer. Two years ago, with a grant from Square Crypto (now Spiral) he became a full time bitcoin open source contributor, working primarily on the Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) project. Steve will give an update on what's new for BDK and what he's focusing on this year for his BDK work.
The talk will then be followed by a Socratic Seminar and then we will get drinks at a local restaurant after.
Guest Speakers Steve Myers - Open source Contributor on BDK
This month we have the pleasure of hosting Steve Lee, Lead at Spiral, who will be sharing what they're building at Spiral and also briefly touching on the Bitcoin Design Community. Spiral (formerly known as Square Crypto) is an offshoot of Square whose focus is to make bitcoin more than an investment. Some of the projects they are developing include Bitcoin Dev Ket, Lightning Dev Kit, and the Bitcoin Design Community.
Speakers
Steve Lee - Lead at Spiral (https://twitter.com/spiralbtc)
Speaker Info
https://twitter.com/moneyball
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This month we have the pleasure of hosting Andrew Yang, Client Services Manager at Casa, who will be breaking down how to use multisig wallets. Casa is a multisig provider that offers the most secure Bitcoin wallet you can use while being non-custodial at the same time.
Speakers
Andrew Yang - Client Services Manager at Casa
Speaker Info
https://twitter.com/ecurrencyhodler
https://twitter.com/CasaHODL
Sponsors
River Financial - The best place to buy, sell, and use Bitcoin for the long-term investor. Use this link for 2 months of 0 fees: https://river.com/?a=BGQP7DXO
Casa - The safest way to store your bitcoin. Get $21 off a gold plan using the promo code: bitdevsla (https://app.keys.casa/subscribe/gold)
This month we are excited to host André Neves from Zebedee, a Bitcoin Lightning company building out the infrastructure for Lightning games.
Guest Speakers
André Neves from Zebedee
Come join us as we host a workshop on how to run a full Bitcoin Node led by our very own Steve Myers and Gaston Silva. These two amazing Bitcoiners will demo two approaches to setting it up on your own.
The workshop will then be followed by a Socratic Seminar and then we will get dinner after at a local restaurant.
Speakers
Steve Myers
Gaston Silva
Speaker Info
https://twitter.com/notmandatory
https://twitter.com/givanse
This month we have the honor of hosting Nadav Kohen of SuredBits. Nadav will explore potential use cases and applications that can be built with Schnorr.
Guest Speaker
https://twitter.com/nadav_kohen
BitDevsLA
https://bitdevsla.org/
https://twitter.com/BitDevsLA
Socratic Seminar
Inspired by Bitdevs NY, this is an event for those interested in discussing and participating in the research and development of Bitcoin and related protocols. The Socratic Seminar events are formatted to foster debate, information sharing, and lively discussion.
Discussion topics from a variety of sources are collated by meetup members in the weeks preceding the events. We investigate pull requests in the Bitcoin Core, lnd, and other relevant repositories; we study network statistics, research papers, technical blog posts and other interesting content. To complete the meeting, members present open source projects, companies, research and other relevant materials. A feedback and Q&A section follow.
Please contact the organizers if you'd like to present at the Socratic event or have a recommended topic for discussion: contact at bitdevsla.org
Sponsors
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Join us for another Socratic Seminar via Google Hangouts! This month we have the honor of hosting Alexis Sellier to discuss Nakamoto: A new Bitcoin light-client written in Rust.
Alexis develops software that enhances individual user freedom. Most of his time is dedicated to Radicle, a peer-to-peer code collaboration stack, and Bitcoin, a decentralized payment network and new kind of money.
He's been writing software for the last 17 years and have worked on almost all areas of the software stack, though his interest lies with distributed systems and peer-to-peer technology.
Alexis on github
https://github.com/cloudhead
This month we have the honor of hosting Dario Sneidermanis the founder of the Muun wallet project, an open source non-custodial on-chain/off-chain mobile Bitcoin wallet.
Guest Speaker Dario Sneidermanis, github
Muun twitter
Daniela Brozzoni who is a talented young Bitcoin developer who works at Slush Pool on the Braains OS team. Before joining Slush Pool Daniela was an intern at Blockstream and has also contributed to the Bitcoin Dev Kit project with implementations of branch and bound coin selection and hardware wallet interface (HWI) support. Daniela will be telling us about the Stratum v2 protocol, a next generation protocol for pooled mining.
https://twitter.com/danielabrozzoni
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This month we have the pleasure of hosting Clark Moody. He develops and maintain a popular web-based Bitcoin dashboard that many use to gather the latest information on the Bitcoin network including mining difficulty, fees, and even the Lightning network.
https://bitdevsla.org/socratic-seminar-16/
https://twitter.com/clarkmoody
https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/
https://cryptowat.ch/
This month we have the pleasure of hosting Ben Carmen and Nadav Kohen from SuredBits. SuredBits is a Bitcoin company and one of the driving forces behind developing Discreet Log Contracts (DLC's) for Bitcoin. Ben and Nadav will break down how they work and how this new technology can usher in a new era of multi-sig applications.
Speaker Links
https://twitter.com/benthecarman
https://twitter.com/nadav_kohen
https://twitter.com/Suredbits
https://suredbits.com/
Satotious is a Lightning company that provides a new way of monetizing online content by giving users the choice between ads or micropayments. They hope to create a circular economy of online payments running on the Lightning Network which will generate more mainstream and widespread use of Bitcoin whilst ensuring maximum user and creator privacy. CEO Ruby studied Journalism and Drama and is interested in decentralization and preserving the free web. CTO Christophe studied Computer Science and has experience working in blockchain tech.
https://twitter.com/satotious
https://satotious.com/
Join us for another Socratic Seminar via Google Hangouts! This month we have the pleasure of hosting Pandora Core, one of the main teams developing the RGB protocol. RGB is a second/third layer smart contract system, that can work on Lightning Network and allows the use of digitalized assets over it.
This month we have Tankred Hase present on Photon SDK, a high level library for building bitcoin wallets with react-native.
his month we have Luke Jr who is a Bitcoin Core developer and the person who proposed a solution to implementing Segregated Witness(SegWit) as a soft-fork. He will be covering the recently discovered SegWit vulnerability that Trezor disclosed in this blog: https://blog.trezor.io/latest-firmware-updates-correct-possible-segwit-transaction-vulnerability-266df0d2860
https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr
This month we have Alekos Filini who is the main developer behind the Magical Bitcoin project and also a contributor to other notable bitcoin projects such as Elements and the LNP/BP standard library. The Magical Bitcoin project aims to build a collection of tools and libraries that are designed to be a solid foundation for Bitcoin wallets, along with a fully working reference implementation wallet.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/afilini
https://bitdevsla.org/
Join us as we host Amiti Uttarwar who is a Bitcoin Core Contributor at Xapo. Amiti discusses various attack vectors for the Bitcoin network and how they are addressed.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amizi
https://bitdevsla.org/
Join us as we host Mark "Murch" Erhardt who is a Software Engineer at BitGo! He wrote his Master's Thesis on Coin Selection which has been merged into Bitcoin Core. He is also an avid contributor and moderator of http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ where people can ask technical Bitcoin questions and the answers are crowdsourced by experts.
Will Reeves talks about Fold App, Lightning Pizza, and incentivizing Bitcoin mass adoption through stas back rewards.
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