Btrust Developer Day: Full Schedule

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9:00am EAT

Opening Plenary: Developer Day by Btrust

Sunday December 8, 2024 9:00am - 9:10am EAT

Main Hall

Welcome, overview of the event and its purpose.

Speakers

Stephanie Titcombe

Program Lead, Btrust

Stephanie is a project manager with over six years of experience in Africa's development and innovation space. As Program Lead for Btrust Builders, she manages Btrust’s Bitcoin developer training programs, acts as facilitator manager for Mastering Bitcoin & Bitcoin Protocol Development... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2024 9:00am - 9:10am EAT
Main Hall

9:10am EAT

Welcome Address

Sunday December 8, 2024 9:10am - 9:15am EAT

Main Hall

Welcoming participants and setting the tone

Speakers

Abubakar Nur Khalil

Interim CEO and Board Member, Btrust

Abubakar Nur Khalil is a Nigerian Bitcoin core contributor and CEO of the Bitcoin VC fund Recursive Capital.He is a board member and CEO of Btrust, a non-profit focused on training African Bitcoin developers via Btrust builders and growing the African Bitcoin ecosystem.He is also... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2024 9:10am - 9:15am EAT
Main Hall

9:15am EAT

Introductions and Icebreakers

Sunday December 8, 2024 9:15am - 9:45am EAT

Main Hall

A short activity to engage, loosen up the crowd, build energy, and encourage networking

Speakers

Paul Eke

Brand Designer

A Creative Designer & Magician, an avid Bitcoiner who firmly believes in the power of bitcoin to create a more equitable and inclusive system for all.He is a lover of bitcoin Games, Has served as a Brand Designer and a Growth consultant in Africa for a leading peer-to-peer Bitcoin... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2024 9:15am - 9:45am EAT
Main Hall

9:45am EAT

Partner Address

Sunday December 8, 2024 9:45am - 9:50am EAT

Main Hall

Welcome by the Africa Bitcoin Conference team, highlighting ABC’s role and vision for the event

Speakers

Farida Nabourema

Director, Africa Bitcoin Conference

Farida Nabourema is a writer and political activist who has been an advocate for democracy and human rights in Togo. She is the Director of the Africa Bitcoin Community and the co-convener of the Africa Bitcoin Conference

Sunday December 8, 2024 9:45am - 9:50am EAT
Main Hall

9:50am EAT

Keynote Address by Jack Dorsey

Sunday December 8, 2024 9:50am - 10:10am EAT

Main Hall

Speakers

Jack Dorsey

Block Head, Chairman and Co-Founder, Block

Jack Dorsey is the Block Head, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Block. He is also a strong advocate for Bitcoin and open-source protocols.

Sunday December 8, 2024 9:50am - 10:10am EAT
Main Hall

Keynote Speech

10:10am EAT

Anything Can Be Built

Sunday December 8, 2024 10:10am - 10:30am EAT

Main Hall

A talk about how the permissionless nature of Bitcoin allows one to build almost anything

Speakers

Kgothatso Ngako

Catalyst, Machankura

Kgothatso Ngako is a catalyst aiming to accelerate the adoption of Bitcoin across the African continent. He is currently building out 8333.mobi, which is a service giving people without an internet connected device the ability to send and receive Bitcoin.

Sunday December 8, 2024 10:10am - 10:30am EAT
Main Hall

Lightning Talk

10:50am EAT

Atomic Locks in Lightning: The present, the future, and an alternate reality

Sunday December 8, 2024 10:50am - 11:10am EAT

Main Hall

Payments along routes in the Lightning Network are required to be atomic in order to preserve their trustless property. We’ll recap how the HTLC construct achieves this currently and its shortcomings. This will be contrasted with the likely future of atomic payments via PTLCs with an overview of their progress to specification. We’ll review signature adaptors and compare the MuSig vs. single signature adaptor variants for the implementation of PTLCs. As an interesting, but related aside, we’ll explore non-Schnorr-based constructs for Lightning Network payments that still provide atomicity and similar anonymity and privacy to PTLCs.

Speakers

Duncan Dean

Open Source LN Developer (Grantee), Btrust

I am an open-source Bitcoin developer from South Africa 🇿🇦, focused on advancing the Lightning Development Kit (LDK), with recent work on dual-funded channels and splicing to make Lightning Network more efficient and accessible. My current open-source work is funded by Btrust. I... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2024 10:50am - 11:10am EAT
Main Hall

Lightning Talk

11:10am EAT

Unlocking Privacy with Silent Payments in Bitcoin

Sunday December 8, 2024 11:10am - 11:25am EAT

Main Hall

This presentation will dive into the concept of Silent Payments, a promising new approach to enhancing privacy within the Bitcoin network. Silent Payments are designed to simplify anonymous transactions by allowing users to generate unique payment addresses without revealing their identity or transaction history to third parties. This makes it possible to conduct payments in a more private, efficient, and user-friendly manner.

We’ll explore how Silent Payments differ from traditional Bitcoin addresses and current privacy solutions like PayJoins or CoinJoins, focusing on the cryptographic underpinnings and how they make tracing transactions extremely difficult. By examining real-world use cases, we'll show how this innovation could be a game-changer for privacy-conscious users and the wider cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Key Takeaways:
- Understanding Silent Payments: Attendees will learn what Silent Payments are and how they can significantly enhance privacy on the Bitcoin network.
- Privacy Without Sacrifice: Gain insights into how Silent Payments improve transaction privacy without compromising scalability or user experience.
- Practical Use Cases: Learn about practical applications for Silent Payments in various scenarios, from everyday transactions to privacy-critical situations.

By the end of this session, participants will appreciate how Silent Payments can contribute to a more private and secure financial future, expanding the potential of Bitcoin for a broader audience.

Speakers

Oghenovo Usiwoma

Open-Source Bitcoin Developer, Btrust

Sunday December 8, 2024 11:10am - 11:25am EAT
Main Hall

Lightning Talk

11:25am EAT

BTC Pay - The Best Way to Accept Bitcoin

Sunday December 8, 2024 11:25am - 11:45am EAT

Main Hall

Speakers

Tobechi Chukwuleta

Software Developer, BTCPay Server

Tobechi Chukwuleta is a software developer with BTCPay Server, a self-hosted, open-source cryptocurrency payment processor designed to be secure, private, and censorship-resistant. He focuses on creating plugins and integrations that extend Bitcoin payment capabilities, making them... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2024 11:25am - 11:45am EAT
Main Hall

Product Showcase

11:45am EAT

Effective Bitcoin PR reviews

Sunday December 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:00pm EAT

Main Hall

This talk will focus on what makes an effective review of Bitcoin Core pull requests (PRs).

Abubakar will outline the key elements that differentiate a good review from a bad one and share strategies for making meaningful contributions, even with limited project context.

Key Topics:
How to Make an Impactful Review Without Much Context using:
- Testing
- Code review
- Security considerations
- Performance benchmarking
- Documentation

How to make impactful Reviews with More Context:
- Deeper understanding of the project’s goals and past contributions is necessary for
- Conceptual reviews and Approach reviews

Additional review considerations:
- Handing minor suggestions (nits) and non-blocking comments
- How to appropriately ""NACK"" a PR.

Overall attendees will learn how to distinguish between different types of reviews, identify key areas to focus on during review, and learn some strategies that improve their reviews on bitcoin PR's

Speakers

Abubakar Sadiq Ismail

Software Engineer, Chaincode Labs

Abubakar is a software engineer from Nigeria. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and was introduced to Bitcoin open source development during the 2023 Btrust Builders Fellowship. Since then, he has actively contributed to Bitcoin Core through pull requests and code reviews. Abubakar is particularly interested in Empirical Data Analysis, Fee Estimation, Mempool Policy, and Performance Optimization... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:00pm EAT
Main Hall

Lightning Talk

12:00pm EAT

Engaging and Building with Bitcoin

Sunday December 8, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EAT

Main Hall

Moderators

Stephanie Titcombe

Program Lead, Btrust

Speakers

Conor Okus

Open-Source Product Manager, Spiral

I'm an open-source product manager and community builder. I work at Spiral, where I help manage the FOSS Bitcoin grant program and advocate for open-source Bitcoin software and tools such as BDK, LDK & Bitcoin Design Guide.

Raj Maitra

Lead (CEO), Bitshala

Graduated M.Tech in Structural Engineering in 2016, from IIT Madras. Worked as a professional Structural Engineer for offshore oil rigs, water treatment plants, bridges, and metro viaducts. 2016-2021. Found Bitcoin in 2017 at the dusk of the block size War. Fell in love with the whole... Read More →

Dulce Villarreal

Product Manager, Libreria de Satoshi

Dulce Villarreal is the CEO of Librería de Satoshi, the first educational institution focused exclusively on Bitcoin in Latin America, with a presence in more than 26 countries. With extensive experience as a product manager in Silicon Valley in crypto, she decided to specialize... Read More →

Simon Njeru

Co-founder, BitDevs Nairobi

Heritage Falodun

CEO, DigiOats

Heritage Falodun is DigiOats CEO and NeonaSynergy Co-Founder. Heritage and his team built Neona Synergy basically to address cross-border remittance problems for corporate businesses, while DigiOats on the other hand is offering and enabling seem-less integration of decentralized... Read More →

Sunday December 8, 2024 12:00pm - 12:30pm EAT
Main Hall

Panel

1:30pm EAT

Musical Break

Sunday December 8, 2024 1:30pm - 1:45pm EAT

Main Hall

Sunday December 8, 2024 1:30pm - 1:45pm EAT
Main Hall

Break

1:50pm EAT

Build Bitcoin Trojan Horses (BITSACCO)

Sunday December 8, 2024 1:50pm - 2:05pm EAT

Main Hall

Bitsacco is Africa's first Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO), built on Bitcoin.
We will showcase how exactly how we build on Bitcoin, Fedimint and Lightning protocols. Beyond our product showcase, we ask a big question: Can Bitsacco Open Source template be a true Trojan horse for mass adoption of Bitcoin in Africa and beyond?! Join our session

Speakers

Jodom Konuko

CTO, BITSACCO

Sunday December 8, 2024 1:50pm - 2:05pm EAT
Main Hall

Product Showcase

2:05pm EAT

LDK Node

Sunday December 8, 2024 2:05pm - 2:20pm EAT

Main Hall

Speakers

Conor Okus

Open-Source Product Manager, Spiral

Sunday December 8, 2024 2:05pm - 2:20pm EAT
Main Hall

Lightning Talk

2:20pm EAT

Bitcoin Dev Project

Sunday December 8, 2024 2:20pm - 2:35pm EAT

Main Hall

The Bitcoin Dev Project is the go-to resource for developers to get inspired by and learn about Bitcoin and related technologies to kickstart and grow their career in Free and Open Source Software.

Focus area
•⁠ ⁠Hook people into bitcoin development
•⁠ ⁠Make bitcoin development more engaging and stickier to learn
•⁠ ⁠Support developers with resources & infrastructure tooling
•⁠ ⁠Enable practitioners to apply bitcoin development skills
•⁠ ⁠Find and nurture promising contributors

Projects to demo: (Decoding Bitcoin, Saving Satoshi, ChatBTC, Bitcoin Transcripts, Good first Issues, Bitcoin Search, Bitcoin TLDR)

Links:
•⁠ ⁠Website: https://bitcoindevs.xyz/
•⁠ ⁠Gitub: https://github.com/bitcoin-dev-project
•⁠ ⁠Twitter: https://x.com/Bitcoin_Devs

Speakers

Jamal ERRAKIBI

BTC Illustrated

Tuedon Samuel Tuoyo

Software Developer, Bitcoin Dev Project

Sunday December 8, 2024 2:20pm - 2:35pm EAT
Main Hall

Product Showcase

3:40pm EAT

Closing Plenary: Developer Day Recap, Final Remarks and Feedback

Sunday December 8, 2024 3:40pm - 4:00pm EAT

Main Hall

Speakers

Stephanie Titcombe

Program Lead, Btrust

Sunday December 8, 2024 3:40pm - 4:00pm EAT
Main Hall