We are very happy to welcome a range of international researchers and developers in Munich today! Let’s learn about the currently ongoing developments and the future of the BTC/LN stack!

P2P payments and microtransactions in the Lightning Network can fix that. An overview of the state and future potential of gaming in LN.

Konstantin Nick is a developer who is pioneering the usage of the Lightning Network for online games both from the technological as well as from the economics perspective.

It further discusses unresolved problems to enable a fully-fledged lightning-based DEX.

Kilian Rausch is the Product Director of Exchange Union, a decentralized network connecting digital asset exchanges, and has contributed major parts of the payment channel based architecture. He holds a M.Sc. in Information Systems and was previously the PO of Mobi at BTCC, the world’s first true global & mobile wallet for everyday people.

In particular end users should not bother about channel management when using the Lightning Network. Recommendation engines based on statistical methods like the autopilot are supposed to help with this issue.

We look at the current landscape of autopilots (which exist for lnd and c-lightning), and we will also discuss the difficulties one faces in order to create a solid autopilot. Finally we propose a research roadmap that might help to have better autopilots in the future.

Rene Pickhardt is an independent data science freelancer. He studied Mathematics, Physics and Chinese and gathered 20 years experience in programming and software engineering. As a former front runner for the Pirate Party during the 2017 federal election he is an activist for open source, open educational resources and open access. During the recent year he started to focus his research and educating efforts immensely on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, and is about to author one of the first books on the topic.

For the use-case of games and other non-trivial interactions, it is especially interesting to consider situations in which the current state of the channel cannot simply be settled any time at will (as is the typical assumption underpinning alternative state-channel implementations).  This creates challenges that are not touched by any other approach we are aware of. Using the concept of ephemeral timestamps, these issues can be resolved efficiently.

Daniel Kraft studied mathematics and physics at the University of Graz, Austria, where he obtained two Master’s degrees in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He then wrote his PhD thesis about shape optimisation with the level-set method, and obtained his degree with distinction in the IGDK 1754 doctoral program (collaboration between the University of Graz and the Technical University of Munich). Daniel has published eight scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals so far in various fields, from geometric measure theory to blockchain technology. He has been involved in cryptocurrency development since 2013, and has been the lead blockchain developer for the revolutionary Namecoin and Huntercoin projects since 2014. He has also contributed to free software from Firefox, GCC and GNU Octave to Bitcoin Core. After leaving his senior developer role at Google Zurich to work full time on the XAYA project, Daniel wishes to further develop and innovate in blockchain technology.

Implement custom behavior and transaction types — time-locked contracts, coin join, atomic swap! Use any communication channel you want — USB, SD card, sound, SMS, magnetic tape! Make any type of authentication — pin, password, tilt-and-shake pattern, NFC card, voice! Implement any security feature — erase the keys when the wallet is moved, check the environment and geo-location! Possibilities are endless. But with freedom comes responsibility.

In this talk we will discuss how to start making your own hardware wallet, what are the pros and cons of the DIY approach and what security can you achieve with such a wallet. We will look at different frameworks, libraries and programming languages available for hardware development, discuss the security trade-offs and what attacks are possible on the DIY hardware.

This talk will be followed by the workshop on the next day where we will build our own air-gapped hardware wallet with SD card support and Electrum integration.

Stepan Snigirev learned about Bitcoin back in 2013. Some time later he started worrying about his private keys and made his own hardware wallet as a hobby project. After several iterations of the project he finally decided to move from quantum physics to Bitcoin and started working full time in a Munich-based startup Crypto Advance GmbH to develop a new hardware wallet.

Introduction and overview of the BUIDL Bootcamp. Learn how Bitcoin works by building it. We start with a comically stupid digital cash implementation (PNGCoin) and iteratively improve it until all major Bitcoin features have been added.

Based on Justin’s “Digital Cash” YouTube series and the huge git repo that goes along with it.

Justin Moon is a developer and founder of the BUIDL Bootcamp, a course in which he educates, teaches and instructs developers who want to contribute to or build upon the BTC/LN stack. He organizes the Bitcoin Developers Meetup group in Austin, Texas, and runs the Bitcoin Reading Group, a book club for Bitcoiners.

We will provide a deep-dive into payment channel protocol design and illustrate the protocol design trade-offs not commonly discussed (eg single vs. dual-funded channels). Finally, we will serialize all necessary transactions for a payment channel as they are constructed on the Lightning Network (with Libbitcoin BX) and open/close/sweep a payment channel on testnet, live during this session.

James Chiang is a contributor to Libbitcoin, a Bitcoin developer toolkit focused on readability, performance and scalability. He is a technical writer who has documented much of the library and provides lectures and training on the developer API. James also operates an intensive Bitcoin protocol training using the Libbitcoin Explorer (BX) command line power tool to illustrate all consensus critical aspects of the Bitcoin protocol.

In this presentation, Adam will talk about the history, the current state and the future of privacy in Bitcoin. A primer to all existing Bitcoin privacy techniques and concepts. What problems do they solve? How are they interconnected with each other? What can be an ideal combination of all these these technologies? What can be the endgame of Bitcoin’s fungibility progress?

Adam Ficsor aka nopara73 is the founder and CTO of zkSNACKs and the lead developer of its flagship product, the free and open-source Wasabi Wallet, a privacy-oriented Bitcoin wallet that has integrated Tor, CoinJoin and coin control features. But this is only the culmination of his year-long efforts researching the privacy and fungibility aspects of Bitcoin, authoring more than 100 articles on the topic. He was founding and working on a number of frameworks and related/predecessor projects. For example, he designed ZeroLink for Chaumian CoinJoin mixing, created HiddenWallet, and maintains the anonymity protocol NTumbleBit. He also created the Tor library for .NET Core, contributes to the NBitcoin library, co-authors the Bitcoin C# book, and is one of the most active developers on github entirely.

A Vault is a mechanism first proposed by Eyal et al to encumber your cold storage with a timelock, so that an attacker who manages to penetrate your cold storage or exfiltrate keys must wait out a timelock. During the time frame of this timelock, the owner has the opportunity to notice that a theft attempt is in progress via online monitoring of the blockchain, and deploy an alternative “clawback” spending mechanism to recover the funds, entirely preventing the theft. Topics covered will include the mechanism by Eyal at al, OP_PUSHTXDATA (Lau), pre-signed transactions with deleted keys (McElrath), OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (O’Connor), as well as mechanisms useful to hide the fact that this alternative spending path exists (Taproot, MAST). Most of these mechanisms are dependent on future soft-fork changes to Bitcoin.

Bob McElrath is an experienced crypto-currency developer and team leader with experience in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Now a Blockchain Architect for Fidelity Investments, he previously worked on Bitcoin core and related software development for Vida Identity, bringing a new breed of infallible cryptographic financial services to Wall Street, and was a Senior Software Engineer for Bloomberg LP. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics and worked at CERN.

A lot of knowledge seems inevitably necessary in order to be able to meaningfully contribute. In this panel, we have the opportunity to discuss the best ways to provide education, the near-future direction of the BTC/LN stack, and the importance and priorities of selected properties and features.

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Special Offers when paid via Lightning:

• Short the bankers! – 264K Sats
• A Lightning Affair – 232K Sats
• The 51% Attack – 341K Sats
• Nakamoto Konsensus – 450K Sats
• Beer – 99K Sats

Other drinks and snacks are available for purchasing with LN, but priced in EUR.

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