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BitDevs LAWhat is Nostr? w/ André Neves from ZEBEDEE - BitDevsLAThis month we are excited to kick of the New Year with a Socratic Seminar led by André Neves, CTO and Co-Founder of ZEBEDEE. Sponsor  Voltage empowers engineers with the tools to integrate Bitcoin and Lightning Network payments into their business stack with an enterprise-grade experience. Get complete control with insanely fast onboarding, advanced client-side encryption, and zero management infrastructure making backups, networking, and upgrades simple. Get a free 7 day trial today at https://voltage.cloud
2023-02-1026 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LAJestopher from Amboss - BitDevsLAThis month we are excited to host Jestopher from Amboss Technologies, a Bitcoin company that provides Lightning Tools for professionals.
2023-02-1043 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LAPeerswap with Richard Myers - BitDevsLAThis month we are excited to host Richard Myers who will be presenting on PeerSwap! Richard is a long-time software developer who made the transition to Bitcoin and Lightning development thanks to Chaincode Labs summer residency program where he worked on tests for BIP-118 and the eltoo upgrade of Lightning. Richard is currently implementing the PeerSwap protocol for ACINQ's Eclair Lightning node software. PeerSwap enables Lightning Network nodes to balance their channels by facilitating atomic swaps with direct peers. PeerSwap enhances decentralization of the Lightning Network by enabling all nodes to be their own swap...
2023-02-1031 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LABitcoin and Art with Brekkie - BitDevsLAThis month we are excited to host Brekkie von Bitcoin for a fireside chat on the intersection between Bitcoin and Art! Brekkie is a prolific Bitcoin artist, creator, and the Creative Director of Swan Bitcoin. His most recent piece was auctioned and sold during Bitcoin2022 titled "The Awakening" which was a white marble sculpture weighing over 37 lbs.
2023-02-1030 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LABitcoin's Potential Value: A 10 Yr View w/ Andy Edstrom | BitDevsLAWe are excited to host Andy Edstrom to speak at our next Bitcoin meetup! He'll be presenting on the topic of why Bitcoin is the most important asset of our generation and provide an outlook on its potential value in the coming decade.Andy Edstrom, CFA, CFP is Managing Director of Swan Advisor Services and a financial advisor at Wescap Group. He is the author of Why Buy Bitcoin, the first and only book on Bitcoin published by a financial advisor. Andy’s opinions have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, CoinDesk, Business Insider, an...
2022-05-0937 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LABitcoin Dev Kit w/ Steve Myers| BitDevsLAThis month we have the pleasure of hosting Steve Myers. Steve is a local bitcoiner and former, long-time enterprise Java developer. Two years ago, with a grant from Square Crypto (now Spiral) he became a full time bitcoin open source contributor, working primarily on the Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) project. Steve will give an update on what's new for BDK and what he's focusing on this year for his BDK work.The talk will then be followed by a Socratic Seminar and then we will get drinks at a local restaurant after.Guest Speakers
2022-05-0941 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LAFunding Bitcoin and Open Source Development with Steve Lee from Spiral | BitDevsLAThis month we have the pleasure of hosting Steve Lee, Lead at Spiral, who will be sharing what they're building at Spiral and also briefly touching on the Bitcoin Design Community. Spiral (formerly known as Square Crypto) is an offshoot of Square whose focus is to make bitcoin more than an investment. Some of the projects they are developing include Bitcoin Dev Ket, Lightning Dev Kit, and the Bitcoin Design Community.**Speakers**Steve Lee - Lead at Spiral (https://twitter.com/spiralbtc)**Speaker Info**https://twitter.com/moneyball**Sponsors**
2022-02-2438 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LAMultisig Wallets with Andrew Yang from Casa | BitDevsLAThis month we have the pleasure of hosting Andrew Yang, Client Services Manager at Casa, who will be breaking down how to use multisig wallets. Casa is a multisig provider that offers the most secure Bitcoin wallet you can use while being non-custodial at the same time.**Speakers**Andrew Yang - Client Services Manager at Casa**Speaker Info**https://twitter.com/ecurrencyhodlerhttps://twitter.com/CasaHODL**Sponsors**River Financial - The best place to buy, sell, and use Bitcoin...
2022-02-0342 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LALightning Games with Zebedee | BitDevsLAThis month we are excited to host André Neves from Zebedee, a Bitcoin Lightning company building out the infrastructure for Lightning games.Guest SpeakersAndré Neves from Zebedee
2022-02-0146 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LABitcoin Full Node Workshop | BitDevsLACome join us as we host a workshop on how to run a full Bitcoin Node led by our very own Steve Myers and Gaston Silva. These two amazing Bitcoiners will demo two approaches to setting it up on your own.The workshop will then be followed by a Socratic Seminar and then we will get dinner after at a local restaurant.**Speakers**Steve MyersGaston Silva**Speaker Info**https://twitter.com/notmandatoryhttps://twitter.com/givanse
2021-10-271h 02BitDevs LA
BitDevs LABitswarm: A Market Place for Torrent Seeds Built on the Lightning Network! | BitDevsLABitSwarm uses Bitcoin, Lightning, and BitTorrent to create a decentralized marketplace for anyone to buy or sell hard drive space and bandwidth to share files online. Rather than relying on a centralized and censorable service like Google or Amazon for hosting, BitSwarm is sufficiently decentralized that censorship is not possible. The project is open source, pre-beta, and only working on testnet so far. We are continuing development and hope to have a big update towards the end of the year.   **Speaker Info** https://twitter.com/Asher68W https://twitter.com/coolshoeshine2
2021-09-2933 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LADiscreet Log Contracts w/ Nadav Kohen | BitDevsLAThis month we have the honor of hosting Nadav Kohen of SuredBits. Nadav will explore potential use cases and applications that can be built with Schnorr.Guest Speakerhttps://twitter.com/nadav_kohenBitDevsLAhttps://bitdevsla.org/https://twitter.com/BitDevsLA**Socratic Seminar**Inspired by Bitdevs NY, this is an event for those interested in discussing and participating in the research and development of Bitcoin and related protocols. The Socratic Seminar events are formatted to foster...
2021-07-061h 04BitDevs LA
BitDevs LANakamoto: A new light-client written in Rust | BitDevsLAJoin us for another Socratic Seminar via Google Hangouts! This month we have the honor of hosting Alexis Sellier to discuss Nakamoto: A new Bitcoin light-client written in Rust.Alexis develops software that enhances individual user freedom. Most of his time is dedicated to Radicle, a peer-to-peer code collaboration stack, and Bitcoin, a decentralized payment network and new kind of money.He's been writing software for the last 17 years and have worked on almost all areas of the software stack, though his interest lies with distributed systems and peer-to-peer technology.Alexis on github
2021-03-2754 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LAMuun Wallet w/ Dario Sneidermanis | BitDevsLAThis month we have the honor of hosting Dario Sneidermanis the founder of the Muun wallet project, an open source non-custodial on-chain/off-chain mobile Bitcoin wallet.Guest SpeakerDario Sneidermanis, githubMuun twitter
2021-03-271h 19BitDevs LA
BitDevs LAStratumV2 and Next Gen Pooled Mining with Daniela Brozzoni of Slush PoolDaniela Brozzoni who is a talented young Bitcoin developer who works at Slush Pool on the Braains OS team. Before joining Slush Pool Daniela was an intern at Blockstream and has also contributed to the Bitcoin Dev Kit project with implementations of branch and bound coin selection and hardware wallet interface (HWI) support. Daniela will be telling us about the Stratum v2 protocol, a next generation protocol for pooled mining. https://twitter.com/danielabrozzoni**Sponsor** River Financial - The best place to buy, sell, and use Bitcoin for the long-term investor. Use this link for 2 m...
2021-01-2740 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LABitcoin Dashboards with Clark Moody of Cryptowatch | BitDevsLAThis month we have the pleasure of hosting Clark Moody. He develops and maintain a popular web-based Bitcoin dashboard that many use to gather the latest information on the Bitcoin network including mining difficulty, fees, and even the Lightning network.https://bitdevsla.org/socratic-seminar-16/https://twitter.com/clarkmoodyhttps://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/https://cryptowat.ch/
2020-11-2039 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LADiscreet Log Contracts DLC from Suredbits | BitDevsLAThis month we have the pleasure of hosting Ben Carmen and Nadav Kohen from SuredBits. SuredBits is a Bitcoin company and one of the driving forces behind developing Discreet Log Contracts (DLC's) for Bitcoin. Ben and Nadav will break down how they work and how this new technology can usher in a new era of multi-sig applications.**Speaker Links**https://twitter.com/benthecarmanhttps://twitter.com/nadav_kohenhttps://twitter.com/Suredbitshttps://suredbits.com/
2020-10-231h 05BitDevs LA
BitDevs LASatotious- Funding the Web with the Lightning Network | BitDevsLASatotious is a Lightning company that provides a new way of monetizing online content by giving users the choice between ads or micropayments. They hope to create a circular economy of online payments running on the Lightning Network which will generate more mainstream and widespread use of Bitcoin whilst ensuring maximum user and creator privacy.  CEO Ruby studied Journalism and Drama and is interested in decentralization and preserving the free web. CTO Christophe studied Computer Science and has experience working in blockchain tech.https://twitter.com/satotious https://satotious.com/
2020-09-2333 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LARGB Protocol: Bitcoin Lightning Smart Contracts | BitDevsLAJoin us for another Socratic Seminar via Google Hangouts! This month we have the pleasure of hosting Pandora Core, one of the main teams developing the RGB protocol. RGB is a second/third layer smart contract system, that can work on Lightning Network and allows the use of digitalized assets over it.
2020-09-2355 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LAPhoton SDK with Tankred Hase | BitDevsLAThis month we have Tankred Hase present on Photon SDK, a high level library for building bitcoin wallets with react-native.
2020-09-2355 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LASegwit/PSBT vulnerability (CVE-2020-14199) with Luke Dashjr | BitDevsLAhis month we have Luke Jr who is a Bitcoin Core developer and the person who proposed a solution to implementing Segregated Witness(SegWit) as a soft-fork.  He will be covering the recently discovered SegWit vulnerability that Trezor disclosed in this blog: https://blog.trezor.io/latest-firmware-updates-correct-possible-segwit-transaction-vulnerability-266df0d2860https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr
2020-09-2319 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LAWallet Libraries with Alekos Filini of Magical Bitcoin | BitDevsLAThis month we have Alekos Filini who is the main developer behind the Magical Bitcoin project and also a contributor to other notable bitcoin projects such as Elements and the LNP/BP standard library. The Magical Bitcoin project aims to build a collection of tools and libraries that are designed to be a solid foundation for Bitcoin wallets, along with a fully working reference implementation wallet.  Twitter: https://twitter.com/afilinihttps://bitdevsla.org/
2020-09-2344 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LAAttacking Bitcoin with Amiti Uttarwar of Xapo | BitDevsLAJoin us as we host Amiti Uttarwar who is a Bitcoin Core Contributor at Xapo. Amiti discusses various attack vectors for the Bitcoin network and how they are addressed.Twitter: https://twitter.com/amizihttps://bitdevsla.org/
2020-09-2350 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LACoin Selection with Mark "Murch" Erhardt of BitGo | BitDevsLAJoin us as we host Mark "Murch" Erhardt who is a Software Engineer at BitGo! He wrote his Master's Thesis on Coin Selection which has been merged into Bitcoin Core. He is also an avid contributor and moderator of http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ where people can ask technical Bitcoin questions and the answers are crowdsourced by experts.  
2020-09-2342 minBitDevs LA
BitDevs LASats Back with Will Reeves of Fold | BitDevsLAWill Reeves talks about Fold App, Lightning Pizza, and incentivizing Bitcoin mass adoption through stas back rewards.    Homepage: https://bitdevsla.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitDevsLA Attend Our Meetup: https://meetup.com/BitDevsLA/   *Sponsors*  River Financial: The best place to buy, sell, and use Bitcoin for the long-term investor. https://river.com &  Square Crypto: Funding open source development for Bitcoin. https://twitter.com/sqcrypto
2020-09-1633 min