Advancing Bitcoin
Developer
Conference 2024

Advancing Bitcoin
Developer
Conference 2024

Advancing Bitcoin
Developer
Conference 2024

6 Alie St, London, E1 8QT

13 - 15 March 2024

6 Alie St, London, E1 8QT

13 - 15 March 2024

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The Format

The Format

The Format


Talks
Experienced Bitcoin developers will share their knowledge through 25 minute talks and panel discussions. This is an opportunity to hear their thoughts, live, and ask them questions.


Workshops
Select which workshops you want to attend and spend a day learning from Bitcoin experts. Bring your laptop as these sessions are designed to get you building.


Networking
Meet the people that make Bitcoin happen! Share ideas and make new friends/business connections. After the conference, dinners, drinks, and social events will take place close to the venue.


Networking
Meet the people that make Bitcoin happen! Share ideas and make new friends/business connections. After the conference, dinners, drinks, and social events will take place close to the venue.
Let’s take Bitcoin development to the next level.
Let’s take Bitcoin development to the next level.
Let’s take Bitcoin development to the next level.
Speakers will share with you what they've been working on and some of their lessons learnt. These talks will both inform and inspire you.
Speakers will share with you what they've been working on and some of their lessons learnt. These talks will both inform and inspire you.
Speakers will share with you what they've been working on and some of their lessons learnt. These talks will both inform and inspire you.
Talks
Workshops
Hangout zones
After party
Lightning gaming competitions
Meetups (in the flesh!)
Our Speakers.
Our Speakers.
Our Speakers.

Supertestnet

BitVM
Super Testnet is a freelance software developer focused on bitcoin, the lightning network, and, most recently, bitvm. He is also the chairman of free and open source software at Pleblab in Austin, Texas.

Angie Jones

TBD - Part of Block
Angie Jones is the Global Vice President of Developer Relations for TBD, Block’s new business unit focused on decentralized technologies. She is an award-winning teacher and international keynote speaker who shares her wealth of knowledge at software companies and conferences all over the world.

Jimmy Song

Author
Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin Core Contributor, educator and entrepreneur. He is the author of Programming Bitcoin and his mission is to bring sound money to the world.

Sjors Provoost

Bitcoin Core contributor
Sjors is a software developer based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He has been working in the Bitcoin industry since 2014 and became a Bitcoin Core contributor in 2017. He is the author of Bitcoin: A Work in Progress and co-host the Bitcoin, Explained podcast.

Kody Low

Fedi
Joe is a Bitcoin journalist, filmmaker, and presenter. By day, he writes, reports and makes Bitcoin content for Cointelegraph. By night, he finds ways to demonstrate Bitcoin to noobies. Joe will be our MC at the conference.

Joe Nakamoto

Cointelegraph
Joe is a Bitcoin journalist, filmmaker, and presenter. By day, he writes, reports and makes Bitcoin content for Cointelegraph. By night, he finds ways to demonstrate Bitcoin to noobies. Joe will be our MC at the conference.

Steven Roose

Ark
Bitcoin developer for over 10 years, currently working on Ark and formerly in the Liquid team at Blockstream. Covenant proponent and author of TXHASH proposal.

Salvatore Ingala

Engineer at Ledger
Became passionate about bitcoin while finishing his PhD in Algorithms in 2017. Working at Ledger to pave the way for next-generation bitcoin wallets, by bringing native support for miniscript and other advanced signing policies in hardware signers. Researching how to do smart contracts the bitcoin way.

Tom Trevethan

CTO at Commerceblock
Tom Trevethan has been CTO at Commerceblock since 2018, developing second layer bitcoin technologies, including the mainstay proof system and mercury layer statechain

Andrew Poelstra

Director of Research at Blockstream
Andrew Poelstra is the director of research at Blockstream, and has helped in the development of Confidential Transactions and scriptless scripts. He is currently working on the development of Simplicity.

Erik De Smedt

Blockstream
Erik De Smedt is a Bitcoin enthusiast and data science expert, currently making strides as a developer for Greenlight.

Oscar Lafarga

Fedi
Oscar is a mobile lead engineer at Fedi and a founder of setlife.network. Oscar enjoys operating on a #bitcoin standard. Beyond FOSS development other interests include information theory, thermoeconomics, and construction.

Robin Linus

BitVM
Robin is the creator of BitVM - a proposal to bring more expressive off-chain smart contracts to Bitcoin without needing a soft fork. Robin will give a workshop on BitVM!

Conor Okus

Software Engineer
The first LDK hackathon is happening on March 13–15
at Advancing Bitcoin
The first LDK hackathon is happening on March 13–15
at Advancing Bitcoin
The first LDK hackathon is happening on March 13–15
at Advancing Bitcoin
Availability is limited
Availability is limited
Availability is limited

◆ Build Lightning applications with LDK Node

◆ Attend talks and network with developers

◆ Attend talks and network with developers

◆ Hack solo or form a team

◆ Win prize money Tickets and information:
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The Agenda

Day 0

Wednesday 13th March 09:30 - 17:00

Day 1

Thursday 14th March 10:00 - 17:00

10:00-10:10

Welcome remarks

Leon Johnson

10:10-10:35

Steven Roose

State of the Ark

10:35-11:00

Tom Trevethan

Blinded statechains, ecash, and lightning

11:00-11:15

Break

11:15-11:45

Andrew Poelstra

OP_CAT and script expressivity

11:45-11:50

Break

11:50 - 12:30

Jimmy Song

Potential of FROST

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:40

Justin Carter

Bria: An opensource solution for scaling On-chain for the enterprise

14:40-15:10

Angie Jones

tbDEX: An Open Messaging Protocol for Money Movement

15:10-15:15

Break

15:15-15:35

Salvatore Ingala

How to not trust your hardware wallet

15:35-16:05

Robin Linus

BitVM: Smarter Bitcoin Contracts

16:05-16:10

Break

16:10-16:50

Erik De Smedt

Building a Lightning Service Provider on Core Lightning

16:50-17:10

Conor Okus

How Spiral Advances Bitcoin: Our Impact on FOSS Development,
Funding, and Education

17:10-17:30

Alex Waltz

Short Film Screening: Satoshis Don't Exist

17:30-18:30

Drinks

Day 2

Friday 15th March 10:00 - 15:00

10:00-12:00

Sjors Provoost

1a. Be Your Own Mining Pool with Stratum v2

Supertestnet

1b. Learn Bitvm by Building Tic Tac Toe

Steven Roost

1c. Using Ark

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Stefano Paluello

2a. Why Rust? An introduction to Rust and why we should use it

Supertestnet

2b. Learn Bitvm by Building Tic Tac Toe

Angie Jones & Kirah Saprong

2c. Do you speak tbDEX? Learn the Language of Global Payments

Oscar LaFarga

2d. Setting up a Fedimint Federation

15:30-16:00

Hackathon prize announcements.

The Agenda

Day 0

Wednesday 13th March 09:30 - 17:00

Day 1

Thursday 14th March 10:00 - 17:00

10:00-10:10

Welcome remarks

Leon Johnson

10:10-10:35

Steven Roose

State of the Ark

10:35-11:00

Tom Trevethan

Blinded statechains, ecash, and lightning

11:00-11:15

Break

11:15-11:45

Andrew Poelstra

OP_CAT and script expressivity

11:45-11:50

Break

11:50 - 12:30

Jimmy Song

Potential of FROST

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:40

Justin Carter

Bria: An opensource solution for scaling On-chain for the enterprise

14:40-15:10

Angie Jones

tbDEX: An Open Messaging Protocol for Money Movement

15:10-15:15

Break

15:15-15:35

Salvatore Ingala

How to not trust your hardware wallet

15:35-16:05

Robin Linus

BitVM: Smarter Bitcoin Contracts

16:05-16:10

Break

16:10-16:50

Erik De Smedt

Building a Lightning Service Provider on Core Lightning

16:50-17:10

Conor Okus

How Spiral Advances Bitcoin: Our Impact on FOSS Development,
Funding, and Education

17:10-17:30

Alex Waltz

Short Film Screening: Satoshis Don't Exist

17:30-18:30

Drinks

Day 2

Friday 15th March 10:00 - 15:00

10:00-12:00

Sjors Provoost

1a. Be Your Own Mining Pool with Stratum v2

Supertestnet

1b. Learn Bitvm by Building Tic Tac Toe

Steven Roost

1c. Using Ark

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Stefano Paluello

2a. Why Rust? An introduction to Rust and why we should use it

Supertestnet

2b. Learn Bitvm by Building Tic Tac Toe

Angie Jones & Kirah Saprong

2c. Do you speak tbDEX? Learn the Language of Global Payments

Oscar LaFarga

2d. Setting up a Fedimint Federation

15:30-16:00

Hackathon prize announcements.

The Agenda

Day 0

Wednesday 13th March
09:30 - 17:00

Day 1

Thursday 14th March

10:00 - 17:00

10:00-10:10

Welcome remarks

Leon Johnson

10:10-10:35

Steven Roose

State of the Ark

10:35-11:00

Tom Trevethan

Blinded statechains, ecash, and lightning

11:00-11:15

Break

11:15-11:45

Andrew Poelstra

OP_CAT and script expressivity

11:45-11:50

Break

11:50 - 12:30

Jimmy Song

Potential of FROST

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:40

Justin Carter

Bria: An opensource solution for scaling On-chain for the enterprise

14:40-15:10

Angie Jones

tbDEX: An Open Messaging Protocol for Money Movement

15:10-15:15

Break

15:15-15:35

Salvatore Ingala

How to not trust your hardware wallet

15:35-16:05

Robin Linus

BitVM: Smarter Bitcoin Contracts

16:05-16:10

Break

16:10-16:50

Erik De Smedt

Building a Lightning Service Provider on Core Lightning

16:50-17:10

Conor Okus

How Spiral Advances Bitcoin: Our Impact on FOSS Development,
Funding, and Education

17:10-17:30

Alex Waltz

Short Film Screening: Satoshis Don't Exist

17:30-18:30

Drinks

Day 2

Friday 15th March

10:00 - 15:00

10:00-12:00

Sjors Provoost

1a. Be Your Own Mining Pool with Stratum v2

Supertestnet

1b. Learn Bitvm by Building Tic Tac Toe

Steven Roost

1c. Using Ark

12:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:30

Stefano Paluello

2a. Why Rust? An introduction to Rust and why we should use it

Supertestnet

2b. Learn Bitvm by Building Tic Tac Toe

Angie Jones & Kirah Saprong

2c. Do you speak tbDEX? Learn the Language of Global Payments

Oscar LaFarga

2d. Setting up a Fedimint Federation

15:30-16:00

Hackathon prize announcements.

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