The world’s first virtual Lightning Network conference and Hackaton is being organized on April 5-7 1019, anywhere in the world.
Winners of the hackathon will win the following prizes: 1st place = 0.3 BTC, 2nd = 0.2 BTC, 3rd = 0.1 BTC.
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Chaincode Labs announced its fourth residency program that will take place in Midtown Manhattan over summer 2019.
Read the full announcement here
Supporting the developer community and helping new contributors get their start in Bitcoin protocol development is a key part of our mission. Over the past three years, our residency programs have helped many developers start contributing to Bitcoin projects. Alex Bosworth and Johan Halseth (Lightning Labs), Neha Narula (MIT DCI), James O’Beirne and John Newbery (Chaincode Labs), Chris Stewart (SuredBits), Pierre Rochard (Lightning Node Launcher), Rene Pickhardt (LN developer and educator) and Will O’Beirne (Lightning Joule and WebLN) are all Chaincode Residency alumni.
Pierre Rochard from BitcoinAdvisory.com wrote a great series of articles where he covers in details his participation at the ChainCode Labs Lightning residency event.
He was also a speaker at the event where he presented his lightning project: a plugin for M$ excel ! (Link to the talk and the Transcript)
Content originally published by BitcoinOptech on newsletter #16.
Introduction
The fifth Scaling Bitcoin conference was held Saturday and Sunday in Tokyo, Japan. In the sections below, we provide brief overviews to some of the talks we think might be most interesting to this newsletter’s readers, but we also recommend watching the complete set of videos provided by the workshop organizers or reading the transcripts provided by Bryan Bishop.
The Baltic Honeybadger conference is the first major event in Latvia dedicated to Bitcoin and the technologies built around it. This year’s second edition panelists included major Bitcoin developers like Brian bishop, Matt Corallo and Eric Voskuil, Cryptography specialists like Adam Back and Peter Todd, CEOs like Elizabeth Stark and Eric Lombrozo and many others. Here’s a summary of the two-day panels …
Pieter Wuille, Bitcoin Core developer and Blockstream co-founder, spoke about
Taproot, Schnorr, and SIGHASH_NOINPUT at the SF Bitcoin
Developers.
Jonas Schnelli, one of bitcoin Core contributors, made recently a talk about the current state and future of wallet technologies during the Building On Bitcoin conference that happened in Lisboa on the 3-4 July 2018.
You can find the transcript from the talk here
I have been visiting Berlin to attend the second lightninghackday and want to give a brief wrap up about the event. This article will basically cover two topics. 1st as promised within my bar camp session on “Building an automated topology for autopilot features of the lightning network nodes” I will give an extensive protocol / summary of the session itself. 2nd I will talk about an already well known technique called splicing which I realized during the event might be one of the more important yet unimplemented features of lightning nodes.