Socratic Seminar 9

August 17, 2022

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We will start with introductions, some basic ground rules, and jump into technical discussions. We will cover aspects of the bitcoin protocol, new research developments, recent news, and software developments.

Note: This is a preliminary agenda. It is subject to change before the event date.

Bitcoin Protocol

• BIP152 Compact Block Relay

Lightning

• Anchor Outputs

Privacy

• Teleport Transactions
• Private Authentication Protocols

Scaling

• CoinPool: efficient off-chain payment pools for Bitcoin

Miscellaneous

• Fedimint
• Hal Finney discusses secp256k1