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
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.
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.
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Sunday December 8, 2024 10:50am - 11:10am 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.
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
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.
Sunday December 8, 2024 2:05pm - 2:20pm EAT
Main Hall
