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TABConf is The Atlanta Bitcoin Conference — an event for building communities, providing education, and supporting developers. This is a conference where no one can "buy" a talk. We like to think of this as the most inclusive, organic, grassroots event possible for Bitcoin.
We are planning to have a heavy workshop schedule on day 1 of the conference, November 4th. The next 2 days, November 5th - 6th, will be panels, talks, and village activities. There are still opportunities to run workshops on the 5th - 6th, but this would need to be done with coordination of a village leader.
Thursday, November 4
 

10:30am EDT

BitcoinJS
Ever wonder what exactly your bitcoin wallet does under the hood?

In this workshop we will be building our own bitcoin wallet from scratch to gain a better understanding of how bitcoin and bitcoin wallets work.

We will be writing code in Javascript using BitcoinJS.

This workshop is guided by code, but high level enough for plebs to follow along.

Speakers
avatar for Kevin Mulcrone

Kevin Mulcrone

Software Engineer, Lily Wallet
I'm a software engineer focused on bridging the gap between great user experience, security, and sovereignty in bitcoin.



Thursday November 4, 2021 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
B304 - Independence Village

10:30am EDT

Sapio
Sapio is an in-development tool that empowers Bitcoin Developers to craft smart contracts in an intuitive, safe, and composable way. Sapio challenges the notion that you can’t make complex smart contracts for Bitcoin, and opens the floodgates for a myriad of new ideas to be defined easily. Jeremy Rubin will be instructing.

Speakers
JR

Jeremy Rubin

CEO Judica and Pleb At Large @ Pleb.fi, judica.org
i am a bitcoin core dev working on building smart contracts for bitcoin through bip-119 (utxos.org) sapio (learn.sapio-lang.org) and judica (judica.org).



Thursday November 4, 2021 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

1:00pm EDT

DLC Workshop - Ben Carman
Discreet log contracts (DLCs) are an exciting new technology that facilitates conditional payments on Bitcoin. By creating a Discreet Log Contract, two parties can form a monetary contract redistributing their funds to each other, based on preset conditions, without revealing any details of those conditions to the blockchain. Its appearance on the blockchain will be no different than an ordinary multi signature output. Therefore the contract is discreet in the sense that no external observer can learn its existence or details from the public ledger.
See the specs here.
This workshop will be run by Ben Carman.

Thursday November 4, 2021 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

1:00pm EDT

Zebedee
Adding the ZEBEDEE SDK into your toolkit will unlock a new frontier of creativity and transform the profitability and engagement of your gameplay and digital experiences.
ZEBEDEE offers a robust RESTful API allowing for the integration of Bitcoin Lightning microtransactions into Games and Applications. ZEBEDEE’s API aims to provide developers an easy path to integrating Bitcoin by abstracting all of the complexities of the underlying system, and by providing development tools such as SDKs and web clients.

Sponsors
avatar for Zebedee

Zebedee

Zebedee
Virtual payments for virtual worlds — by harnessing the power of Bitcoin, we attach real-world value to points, scores and economies in virtual worlds.



Thursday November 4, 2021 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
B304 - Independence Village
  Workshop

2:30pm EDT

Bitcoin Dev Kit
The Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) project (originally called Magical Bitcoin ) aims to build a collection of tools and libraries that are designed to be a solid foundation for cross platform Bitcoin wallets, along with a fully working reference implementation wallet called Magical Bitcoin. All BDK components are designed to be lightweight and modular so that they can be adapted for virtually any use-case: from single-sig mobile wallets to multi-billion-dollar cold storage vaults.
This workshop will be run by Thunderbiscuit.


Thursday November 4, 2021 2:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
B304 - Independence Village

2:30pm EDT

Sphinx Chat
For the first time, real money and free speech can be sent instantly around the world for near zero cost. This will unlock a better version of things we use today and inspire completely new use cases that we can’t imagine at this point.

Sphinx is a free, open source browser for the lightning network. We’ve built encrypted file storage, group chat, bots, people directories, authentication, and more that all work with the Sphinx browser.


Thursday November 4, 2021 2:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

4:00pm EDT

Hackathon Kickoff
💻 This is the official kick-off for the hackathon! Build cool stuff with Bitcoin for a chance to win prizes. There are $6,250 in prizes! If you are interested, please sign up here: https://tabconf.com/hackathon/

Thursday November 4, 2021 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Room 301
 
Friday, November 5
 

9:30am EDT

Opening Announcements
🥳 Let's get this party started.

Speakers
avatar for Michael Tidwell

Michael Tidwell

head of sysops, Zebedee
im a lightning dude



Friday November 5, 2021 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

10:00am EDT

Morning Keynote: Aleks Svetski
Speakers
avatar for Aleks Svetski

Aleks Svetski

CEO, Amber Labs
Best place to auto-accumulate Bitcoin:https://amber.appBest podcast on Bitcoin, Philosophy & Liberty:https://anchor.fm/WakeUpPodMost thought provoking essays on Bitcoin, Philosophy & Liberty:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/aleksandarsvetskihttps://svetski.medium.com


Friday November 5, 2021 10:00am - 10:10am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

10:00am EDT

10:10am EDT

Morning Keynote: Matt Hill
Matt Hill has a passion for helping people find their own freedom through self sovereign technologies. He is the CEO of Start9. Start 9 sponsored the Independence Village and created the Embassy -- an elegant, plug-and-play personal server for running self-hosted software.

Speakers

Friday November 5, 2021 10:10am - 10:20am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

10:20am EDT

Who supports Bitcoin? - Charity Panel
Let's meet some folks from our conference charities!

  • Alex LI, representing the Human Rights Foundation.
    • The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies.
  • Ben Price, representing OpenSats.
    • Open Sats is building a web donation platform where donors can learn, donate, and contribute to Bitcoin Core and related free and open source projects.
  • Mike Schmidt, representing Brink.
    • Brink exists to strengthen the Bitcoin protocol and network through fundamental research and development, and to support the Bitcoin developer community through funding, education, and mentoring.

Moderators
avatar for Michael Tidwell

Michael Tidwell

head of sysops, Zebedee
im a lightning dude

Speakers
avatar for Alex Li

Alex Li

Strategy Associate, Human Rights Foundation
Alex works at Human Rights Foundation as a Strategy Associate, helping HRF with all things technical related to Bitcoin. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2020 with a degree in Business Administration.


Friday November 5, 2021 10:20am - 10:45am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

10:45am EDT

Village Introductions
Let's meet the village leaders!
  • Shaun and J - BitDevs Socratic Village
  • Matt Hill - Independence Village
  • Bitcoin Gaming - André Neves
  • Bitcoin Basics - Sarah Satoshi

Speakers
avatar for André Neves

André Neves

Co-Founder and CTO, ZEBEDEE
SS

Sarah Satoshi

education stuff, Bitcoin Magazine
S

Shaun

BitDevs


Friday November 5, 2021 10:45am - 10:50am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

11:00am EDT

Introduction to Bitcoin
Speakers
SS

Sarah Satoshi

education stuff, Bitcoin Magazine


Friday November 5, 2021 11:00am - 11:15am EDT
B305 - Basics Village

11:00am EDT

Rachel Rybarczyk
Rachel Rybarczyk is the VP of Mining at Galaxy Digital. Word on the street is that she can explain Stratum and Stratum V2 better than most.

Speakers
RR

Rachel Rybarczyk

VP of Mining, Galaxy Digital


Friday November 5, 2021 11:00am - 11:25am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

11:00am EDT

11:15am EDT

The History of Money and Bitcoin
Speakers
avatar for Travis Ball

Travis Ball

Educator, Bitcoin EDU


Friday November 5, 2021 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

11:15am EDT

Socratic Session: Bitcoin Protocol
This session will be focused on Bitcoin protocol development. Content will be drawn from the bitcoin-dev mailing list, a variety of github repositories (Bitcoin Core, libsecp256k1, HWI, BIPs), research papers, IRC chat logs and other sources relevant to Bitcoin protocol discussion. We will also look at recent phenomena in the network, observing oscillations in the mempool, changes in difficulty, shifts in the UTXO and more. A final topic list will be posted on November 2nd.

Speakers

Friday November 5, 2021 11:15am - 12:30pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

11:30am EDT

Tony UcedaVelez
Tony is all about security! He's the CEO of a security company called VerSprite, which has consulted with Bitcoin companies to find critical vulnerabilities and help them keep their bitcoin safe. 🔐

Speakers
avatar for Tony UV

Tony UV

Founder, VerSprite
Founder of VerSprite – a risk-focused security consulting firm in Atlanta – Tony works with global Fortune 500 organizations seeking something beyond compliance- driven approaches to security challenges. With nearly 20 years of IT/ IS experience across three continents, Tony has... Read More →


Friday November 5, 2021 11:30am - 11:55am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

11:30am EDT

Lightning Onboarding Talk
Speakers
avatar for Richard Safier

Richard Safier

ZEBEDEE
System Architect / .NET C# Dev now focusing most of my time on lightning ecosystem.R&D Lightning Ops Engineer @ ZEBEDEEAdmin for plebnet.wiki and creator of Plebnet Playground @ plebnet.fun


Friday November 5, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EDT
B304 - Independence Village

11:30am EDT

Friday Lunch
Lunch will be served in the main commons area outside of the villages.

Friday November 5, 2021 11:30am - 1:30pm EDT
Other

12:00pm EDT

Earn Carrot App Demo
Speakers
JE

Jameson Evans

Software Developer, Carrot


Friday November 5, 2021 12:00pm - 12:15pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

12:00pm EDT

Nick Tucker
Nick Tucker is the Sales Ops Lead at Bitcoin Depot, a fast-growing Bitcoin ATM Network which offers users the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin instantly at hundreds of locations across the United States.


Speakers
NT

Nick Tucker

Sales Ops, Bitcoin Depot


Friday November 5, 2021 12:00pm - 12:25pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

12:30pm EDT

Bitcoin Wallets with Edge
Speakers
avatar for Paul Puey

Paul Puey

CEO & Co-founder, Edge
Paul is CEO and Co-Founder of Edge, a non-custodial exchange and security platform for blockchain applications. Edge (formerly Airbitz) has won accolades including being one of the top 3 mobile apps for bitcoin in the 2014 Blockchain Awards, being voted in the 'Top 50 FinTech Companies... Read More →


Friday November 5, 2021 12:30pm - 1:15pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

12:30pm EDT

History of Bitcoin - How We Got Here
Podcast host Stephan Livera is moderating a panel on the history of Bitcoin, featuring Matt Corallo, Junseth, and Peter Todd.

Moderators
avatar for Stephan Livera

Stephan Livera

Podcast Host, Stephan Livera Podcast

Speakers
avatar for Peter Todd

Peter Todd

Founder, OpenTimestamps


Friday November 5, 2021 12:30pm - 1:25pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

12:30pm EDT

12:45pm EDT

Socratic Panel: Diving into the Mempool
The mempool is neither static nor uniform across nodes. There exists a complex relationship between transactions, some may conflict, others may be directly related (as part of an ancestor/descendant package). This affects block templating for miners as well as the propagation of transactions relevant to layer n+1 protocols. This panel will be an opportunity to explore these complexities and how they are being addressed.

Moderators
Speakers
avatar for Murch

Murch

Murch, Chaincode Labs
Murch works as an Engineer at Chaincode Labs contributing to educational content, research, and opensource projects. He is a moderator and contributor on Bitcoin Stack Exchange, reports the Mempool weather, co-hosts the Chaincode Podcast and NYC BitDevs, and contributes to Bitcoin... Read More →
avatar for Clara Shikhelman

Clara Shikhelman

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER, Chaincode


Friday November 5, 2021 12:45pm - 1:30pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

1:15pm EDT

Bitcoin Nodes 101
Speakers

Friday November 5, 2021 1:15pm - 1:45pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

1:30pm EDT

Business Panel
Justine Harper, VP of Concierges at Unchained Capital, is moderating a panel about business and Bitcoin, featuring:
  • Jason Lau, COO of Okcoin
  • Paul Puey, CEO & Co-founder of Edge
  • William Zielke, CMO of BitPay
  • Frank Hinek, Executive Director, Innovation at NCR

Moderators
avatar for Justine Harper

Justine Harper

VP, Business Development, Unchained Capital

Speakers
avatar for Jason Lau

Jason Lau

COO, Okcoin
avatar for Paul Puey

Paul Puey

CEO & Co-founder, Edge
Paul is CEO and Co-Founder of Edge, a non-custodial exchange and security platform for blockchain applications. Edge (formerly Airbitz) has won accolades including being one of the top 3 mobile apps for bitcoin in the 2014 Blockchain Awards, being voted in the 'Top 50 FinTech Companies... Read More →
WZ

William Zielke

CMO, BitPay


Friday November 5, 2021 1:30pm - 2:05pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

1:30pm EDT

1:30pm EDT

1:45pm EDT

2:10pm EDT

Scaling Bitcoin: On-Chain
Podcast host Stephan Livera will be moderating a discussion about on-chain Bitcoin scaling, featuring:
  • Pieter Wuille, Bitcoin Core Contributor, Chaincode Labs
  • Andrew Chow, Bitcoin Core Contributor, Blockstream
  • Vivek Kasarabada, Business Development Manager at Blockstream
  • Murch, Bitcoin Core Contributor, Chaincode Labs

Moderators
avatar for Stephan Livera

Stephan Livera

Podcast Host, Stephan Livera Podcast

Speakers
PW

Pieter Wuille

Engineer, Chaincode Labs
avatar for Andrew Chow

Andrew Chow

Blockstream
Bitcoin Core Contributor focusing on the wallet
VK

Vivek Kasarabada

BD, Blockstream
avatar for Murch

Murch

Murch, Chaincode Labs
Murch works as an Engineer at Chaincode Labs contributing to educational content, research, and opensource projects. He is a moderator and contributor on Bitcoin Stack Exchange, reports the Mempool weather, co-hosts the Chaincode Podcast and NYC BitDevs, and contributes to Bitcoin... Read More →


Friday November 5, 2021 2:10pm - 2:55pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

2:15pm EDT

Converting $35T to bitcoin: Unlocking the Power of Your Retirement Account
Sponsors
avatar for Unchained Capital

Unchained Capital

Unchained Capital
Our mission is to build a bitcoin native ecosystem that ensures everyone can secure and maximize the value of their bitcoin holdings over multiple generations.


Friday November 5, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

2:30pm EDT

What is digital sovereignty / how do we get people on board?
Speakers
SS

Sarah Satoshi

education stuff, Bitcoin Magazine


Friday November 5, 2021 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
B304 - Independence Village

3:00pm EDT

Scaling Bitcoin: Off-Chain / Lightning
Podcast host Stephan Livera will moderate a panel about scaling Bitcoin off-chain with Lightning, featuring:
  • Alex Bosworth, Lightning Infrastructure Lead, Lightning Labs
  • Graham Krizek, CEO / Founder, Voltage
  • Lisa Neigut, Sr. Software Engineer, Blockstream
  • Matt Corallo, Bitcoin Core Contributor / LDK, Square Crypto

Moderators
avatar for Stephan Livera

Stephan Livera

Podcast Host, Stephan Livera Podcast

Speakers
avatar for Graham Krizek

Graham Krizek

CEO, Voltage
avatar for niftynei

niftynei

Lightning Protocol Engineer, Blockstream
niftynei is a hacker, community organizer, and educator. She works at Blockstream on Core-Lightning, does bitcoin protocol education at Base58, and organizes leet dev conferences (with all her friends) at bitcoin++.


Friday November 5, 2021 3:00pm - 3:55pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

3:00pm EDT

3:15pm EDT

Socratic Panel: Covenants
Covenants offer “introspection” to transactions, providing novel methods to restrict the future spends of an output. There are several proposals that would allow the use of covenants in Bitcoin, each with different designs and trade-offs. In the wake of the activation of taproot, future soft fork changes are under active consideration with Bitcoin’s use of covenants as a significant point of discussion. What are covenants, and what are their use cases for Bitcoin? What are the current proposals that would allow covenants, and how should Bitcoin users approach an understanding of their tradeoffs? Aside from new use cases, how would covenants improve existing off-chain/scaling protocols?

Moderators
S

Shaun

BitDevs

Speakers
JR

Jeremy Rubin

CEO Judica and Pleb At Large @ Pleb.fi, judica.org
i am a bitcoin core dev working on building smart contracts for bitcoin through bip-119 (utxos.org) sapio (learn.sapio-lang.org) and judica (judica.org).


Friday November 5, 2021 3:15pm - 4:00pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

3:15pm EDT

Multisig: The Digital Citadel for Your Bitcoin
Speakers
avatar for Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang

Client Services Manager, Casa, Inc.
Bitcoin and multisig security.


Friday November 5, 2021 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

4:00pm EDT

Paul Sztorc
Paul Sztorc is the author of BIP 300 and BIP 301. Paul is pushing for Drivechain, which allows Bitcoin to create, delete, send BTC to, and receive BTC from “Layer-2”s called “sidechains”.

Speakers
PS

Paul Sztorc

Independent Bitcoiner


Friday November 5, 2021 4:00pm - 4:25pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

4:15pm EDT

Bitcoin Nomad Lifestyle Panel
Speakers
avatar for Stephan Livera

Stephan Livera

Podcast Host, Stephan Livera Podcast
avatar for Aleks Svetski

Aleks Svetski

CEO, Amber Labs
Best place to auto-accumulate Bitcoin:https://amber.appBest podcast on Bitcoin, Philosophy & Liberty:https://anchor.fm/WakeUpPodMost thought provoking essays on Bitcoin, Philosophy & Liberty:https://bitcoinmagazine.com/authors/aleksandarsvetskihttps://svetski.medium.com
avatar for Dread

Dread

Lightning Pleb, One Love Bitcoin
Dread is a Jamaican Bitcoiner with a passion for human rights and individual sovereignty. When people think of what it means to be Jamaican, they picture beaches and waterfalls, spicy jerk chicken, Bob Marley, and Rastafari. But Dread, like Jamaica, is so much more than that. Yes... Read More →


Friday November 5, 2021 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

4:20pm EDT

Socratic Panel: Lightning in Asynchronous Environments
The liveness requirement of the Lightning Network is rooted in the interactive nature of the protocol. This poses a significant challenge to parties who do not interact with the network from a device that supports an always-on lightning wallet. This panel will look at two schemes which play a part in addressing the complexities of this context: a “Lightning Service Provider” – Lightning Address, and how to use a long CLTV in conjunction with such a provider to enable mobile to mobile lightning payments.

Moderators
avatar for Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang

Client Services Manager, Casa, Inc.
Bitcoin and multisig security.

Speakers
avatar for André Neves

André Neves

Co-Founder and CTO, ZEBEDEE


Friday November 5, 2021 4:20pm - 5:05pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

4:30pm EDT

Andrew Chow
Andrew Chow is a developer at Blockstream. He has been an impactful Bitcoin Core contributor, having authored BIP 174 for the PSBT format (Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions). Andrew is not stingy with his knowledge -- you can watch him code live on Twitch to see how he approaches problem-solving in Bitcoin.

Speakers
avatar for Andrew Chow

Andrew Chow

Blockstream
Bitcoin Core Contributor focusing on the wallet


Friday November 5, 2021 4:30pm - 4:55pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

5:00pm EDT

Day 1 Closing Remarks
That's a wrap on day one.

Speakers
avatar for Brianna Honkawa d'Estries

Brianna Honkawa d'Estries

Organizer, TABConf
avatar for Michael Tidwell

Michael Tidwell

head of sysops, Zebedee
im a lightning dude


Friday November 5, 2021 5:00pm - 5:10pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

5:10pm EDT

Charity Poker Tournament

Friday November 5, 2021 5:10pm - 7:30pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

5:15pm EDT

Hackathon Judging Expo
Located in Room 301
Present your hackathon projects to the judges! To learn more about joining the hackathon, go here.

Speakers
CC

Christopher Calicott

Managing Director, Trammell Venture Partners (TVP)
JR

Jeremy Rubin

CEO Judica and Pleb At Large @ Pleb.fi, judica.org
i am a bitcoin core dev working on building smart contracts for bitcoin through bip-119 (utxos.org) sapio (learn.sapio-lang.org) and judica (judica.org).
S

Shaun

BitDevs


Friday November 5, 2021 5:15pm - 6:30pm EDT
Other

5:15pm EDT

Lisa Neigut’s Bitcoin LARP
Curious about how the Bitcoin network works at a low level? This is your chance to learn in a live setting! Users will take on the identity of nodes and miners and role play as software clients in the network. Participants will build blocks, find hashes, construct and pass transaction and block messages and interact in real time.

Speakers
avatar for niftynei

niftynei

Lightning Protocol Engineer, Blockstream
niftynei is a hacker, community organizer, and educator. She works at Blockstream on Core-Lightning, does bitcoin protocol education at Base58, and organizes leet dev conferences (with all her friends) at bitcoin++.


Friday November 5, 2021 5:15pm - 7:00pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

8:15pm EDT

NYDIG After Party

Friday November 5, 2021 8:15pm - 11:55pm EDT
Other
 
Saturday, November 6
 

9:30am EDT

Opening Announcements
Let's kick-off the second day of TABConf. 🚀

Speakers
avatar for Michael Tidwell

Michael Tidwell

head of sysops, Zebedee
im a lightning dude


Saturday November 6, 2021 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

10:00am EDT

Morning Schnorr Keynote
In addition to having the coolest hat in Bitcoin, Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin educator, the host of the Bitcoin Fixes This podcast, and the author of Programming Bitcoin and Thank God for Bitcoin. Let's hear his thoughts on Schnorr signatures!

Speakers
avatar for Jimmy Song

Jimmy Song

Author, Bitcoin Expert, Bitcoin Expert
Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He's an open source contributor to many different Bitcoin projects and is the author of Programming Bitcoin from O'Reilly, The Little Bitcoin Book, Thank God for Bitcoin and Bitcoin and the American Dream. Jimmy writes... Read More →


Saturday November 6, 2021 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

10:00am EDT

Bitcoin Gaming Village - CS:GO Tournament Quarterfinals
Sponsors
avatar for Zebedee

Zebedee

Zebedee
Virtual payments for virtual worlds — by harnessing the power of Bitcoin, we attach real-world value to points, scores and economies in virtual worlds.


Saturday November 6, 2021 10:00am - 12:30pm EDT
B303 - Gaming Village

10:00am EDT

Setting up CalyxOS & Graphene
Speakers
avatar for Dread

Dread

Lightning Pleb, One Love Bitcoin
Dread is a Jamaican Bitcoiner with a passion for human rights and individual sovereignty. When people think of what it means to be Jamaican, they picture beaches and waterfalls, spicy jerk chicken, Bob Marley, and Rastafari. But Dread, like Jamaica, is so much more than that. Yes... Read More →


Saturday November 6, 2021 10:00am - 12:30pm EDT
B304 - Independence Village

10:30am EDT

Vivek Kasarabada
Speakers
VK

Vivek Kasarabada

BD, Blockstream


Saturday November 6, 2021 10:30am - 10:45am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

10:30am EDT

Bitcoin and the Environment
Speakers
avatar for Nic Carter

Nic Carter

Partner, Castle Island Ventures
GP at Castle Island Ventures, co-founder and chairman of Coin Metrics, and host of On the Brink


Saturday November 6, 2021 10:30am - 11:00am EDT
B305 - Basics Village

10:30am EDT

Chaincode Seminar
Speakers
avatar for Murch

Murch

Murch, Chaincode Labs
Murch works as an Engineer at Chaincode Labs contributing to educational content, research, and opensource projects. He is a moderator and contributor on Bitcoin Stack Exchange, reports the Mempool weather, co-hosts the Chaincode Podcast and NYC BitDevs, and contributes to Bitcoin... Read More →


Saturday November 6, 2021 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

10:50am EDT

Andrew Poelstra
Speakers

Saturday November 6, 2021 10:50am - 11:10am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

11:00am EDT

Bitcoin Community
Speakers
avatar for Jimmy Song

Jimmy Song

Author, Bitcoin Expert, Bitcoin Expert
Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He's an open source contributor to many different Bitcoin projects and is the author of Programming Bitcoin from O'Reilly, The Little Bitcoin Book, Thank God for Bitcoin and Bitcoin and the American Dream. Jimmy writes... Read More →
GM

George Mekhail

Director of Marketing, BTC Inc


Saturday November 6, 2021 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
B305 - Basics Village

11:15am EDT

Lisa Neigut
⚡️Lisa Neigut is a developer at Blockstream. In addition to being a pioneer with c-lightning, she's known for helping people learn Lightning and spending time with new contribs in getting their first PRs merged into c-lightning. 🙌

Speakers
avatar for niftynei

niftynei

Lightning Protocol Engineer, Blockstream
niftynei is a hacker, community organizer, and educator. She works at Blockstream on Core-Lightning, does bitcoin protocol education at Base58, and organizes leet dev conferences (with all her friends) at bitcoin++.


Saturday November 6, 2021 11:15am - 11:35am EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

11:30am EDT

Lightning 101
Speakers
RG

Ryan Gentry

Director of Business Development, Lightning Labs


Saturday November 6, 2021 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

11:30am EDT

Saturday Lunch
Lunch will be served in the main commons area outside of the villages.

Saturday November 6, 2021 11:30am - 1:30pm EDT
Other

11:40am EDT

Legal Panel
Jagruti Solanki, CFO of BitPay, will moderate a panel about Bitcoin and legal matters, featuring:
  • Justin Wales, First Amendment Bitcoin Lawyer, K&L Gates
  • Zack Shapiro, Attorney, Venture Counsel
  • Stan Sater, Corporate & Technology Attorney, Founders Legal


Moderators
JS

Jagruti Solanki

CFO, Bitpay

Speakers
SS

Stan Sater

Attorney, Founders Legal
avatar for Zack Shapiro

Zack Shapiro

Founder, Private Law Firm
Bitcoiner and attorney. Let's talk about the future of sound money and what we can do to build the world around it.


Saturday November 6, 2021 11:40am - 12:25pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

12:00pm EDT

Real World Bitcoin Applications
Speakers
avatar for André Neves

André Neves

Co-Founder and CTO, ZEBEDEE
avatar for Keto Miner

Keto Miner

general ass-kicker, nodl


Saturday November 6, 2021 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

12:15pm EDT

Socratic Session: Lightning Protocol
This session will be focused on Lightning protocol development. Topics will be drawn from the lightning-dev mailing list, pull requests in popular repositories (lnd, c-lightning, eclair, rust-lightning, lightning-rfcs), discussions of ANYPREVOUT/eltoo, as well as interesting projects that enhance the lightning protocol (e.g. LNURL). A final topic list will be posted on November 2nd.

Speakers
avatar for niftynei

niftynei

Lightning Protocol Engineer, Blockstream
niftynei is a hacker, community organizer, and educator. She works at Blockstream on Core-Lightning, does bitcoin protocol education at Base58, and organizes leet dev conferences (with all her friends) at bitcoin++.
RG

Ryan Gentry

Director of Business Development, Lightning Labs


Saturday November 6, 2021 12:15pm - 1:30pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

12:30pm EDT

Brink Projects
Let's learn what Brink has been up to! Featuring:
  • Package Mempool Accept with Gloria Zhao 
  • FROST with Jesse Posner
  • Network Mining Simulator with Larry Ruane
  • Mike Schmidt, Co-Founder & Director of Programs, Brink
Brink exists to strengthen the Bitcoin protocol and network through fundamental research and development, and to support the Bitcoin developer community through funding, education, and mentoring.

Moderators
Speakers
LR

Larry Ruane

engineer, Brink, ECC
I'm working part-time on Bitcoin Core, mostly PR review. My full-time job is with Electric Coin Company, developer of Zcash, which is a Bitcoin Core software fork from 2015. I'm interested in bitcoind, performance, scaling, mining, Bitcoin history -- pretty much all things Bitcoi... Read More →


Saturday November 6, 2021 12:30pm - 12:55pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

12:30pm EDT

1:00pm EDT

DeFi & Smart Contracts on Bitcoin
Speakers
JR

Jeremy Rubin

CEO Judica and Pleb At Large @ Pleb.fi, judica.org
i am a bitcoin core dev working on building smart contracts for bitcoin through bip-119 (utxos.org) sapio (learn.sapio-lang.org) and judica (judica.org).


Saturday November 6, 2021 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

1:05pm EDT

Privacy, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Bitcoin - Fireside Chat with Nic Carter & Matt Hill
Matt Hill is the CEO of Start9. He has a passion for helping people find their own freedom through self sovereign technologies.

Nic Carter is Founding Partner of Castle Island Ventures, freedom advocate, and fighter of energy FUD.

Speakers
avatar for Nic Carter

Nic Carter

Partner, Castle Island Ventures
GP at Castle Island Ventures, co-founder and chairman of Coin Metrics, and host of On the Brink


Saturday November 6, 2021 1:05pm - 1:30pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

1:30pm EDT

Start9 Demo - Product Overview
Speakers

Saturday November 6, 2021 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
B304 - Independence Village

1:30pm EDT

Bitcoin Gaming Village - CS:GO Tournament Semis and Finals
Sponsors
avatar for Zebedee

Zebedee

Zebedee
Virtual payments for virtual worlds — by harnessing the power of Bitcoin, we attach real-world value to points, scores and economies in virtual worlds.


Saturday November 6, 2021 1:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
B303 - Gaming Village

1:35pm EDT

Matt Corallo
Matt Corallo is the 10th known contributor to Bitcoin Core. He works at Square Crypto doing full-time open source work on Bitcoin and Lightning projects, including leading the development of LDK.

Speakers

Saturday November 6, 2021 1:35pm - 2:05pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

1:45pm EDT

Bitcoin is Freedom
Speakers
avatar for Dread

Dread

Lightning Pleb, One Love Bitcoin
Dread is a Jamaican Bitcoiner with a passion for human rights and individual sovereignty. When people think of what it means to be Jamaican, they picture beaches and waterfalls, spicy jerk chicken, Bob Marley, and Rastafari. But Dread, like Jamaica, is so much more than that. Yes... Read More →


Saturday November 6, 2021 1:45pm - 2:15pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

2:10pm EDT

Defi, DLC's, and Decentralization!
A panel discussion about decentralization, covering topics like DeFi (Decentralized Finance) on Bitcoin, DLCs (Discrete Log Contracts), and oracles. Featuring:
  • Jimmy Song, Bitcoin Educator, programmingbitcoin.com
  • Ben Carman, Developer, SuredBits
  • Jeremy Rubin, CEO, Judica

Moderators
VK

Vivek Kasarabada

BD, Blockstream

Speakers
avatar for Jimmy Song

Jimmy Song

Author, Bitcoin Expert, Bitcoin Expert
Jimmy Song is a Bitcoin developer, educator and entrepreneur. He's an open source contributor to many different Bitcoin projects and is the author of Programming Bitcoin from O'Reilly, The Little Bitcoin Book, Thank God for Bitcoin and Bitcoin and the American Dream. Jimmy writes... Read More →
JR

Jeremy Rubin

CEO Judica and Pleb At Large @ Pleb.fi, judica.org
i am a bitcoin core dev working on building smart contracts for bitcoin through bip-119 (utxos.org) sapio (learn.sapio-lang.org) and judica (judica.org).


Saturday November 6, 2021 2:10pm - 2:45pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

2:15pm EDT

Bitcoin for Businesses
Sponsors
avatar for BitPay

BitPay

BitPay
Manage and spend your Bitcoin with the BitPay App, and turn Bitcoin into dollars with BitPay’s Prepaid Mastercard®.


Saturday November 6, 2021 2:15pm - 2:45pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

2:30pm EDT

Submarine Swaps
Speakers
HG

Harsha Goli

Lightning Labs


Saturday November 6, 2021 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
B304 - Independence Village

2:45pm EDT

2:50pm EDT

Lightning for Plebs
Ryan Gentry of Lightning Labs moderates a panel about Lightning...for the plebs! Featuring:
  • Nate G, Support Engineer, Voltage
  • André Neves, CTO, ZEBEDEE
  • Keto Miner, Cofounder, nodl
  • Dread, International Bitcoin Advocate, OneLoveBitcoin Podcast

Moderators
RG

Ryan Gentry

Director of Business Development, Lightning Labs

Speakers
N

Nate

Support Engineer, Voltage
avatar for André Neves

André Neves

Co-Founder and CTO, ZEBEDEE
avatar for Keto Miner

Keto Miner

general ass-kicker, nodl
avatar for Dread

Dread

Lightning Pleb, One Love Bitcoin
Dread is a Jamaican Bitcoiner with a passion for human rights and individual sovereignty. When people think of what it means to be Jamaican, they picture beaches and waterfalls, spicy jerk chicken, Bob Marley, and Rastafari. But Dread, like Jamaica, is so much more than that. Yes... Read More →


Saturday November 6, 2021 2:50pm - 3:25pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage
  Panel

3:00pm EDT

Bitcoin Gaming Village - Free play, open to all
Sponsors
avatar for Zebedee

Zebedee

Zebedee
Virtual payments for virtual worlds — by harnessing the power of Bitcoin, we attach real-world value to points, scores and economies in virtual worlds.


Saturday November 6, 2021 3:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
B303 - Gaming Village

3:30pm EDT

VC Panel
💰Panel discussion amongst Bitcoin venture capital folks! Featuring:
  • Christopher Calicott, Trammel Venture Partners
  • Oleg Mikhalsky, Fulgur Ventures
  • Peter Yang


Moderators
SS

Sarah Satoshi

education stuff, Bitcoin Magazine

Speakers
PY

Peter Yang

Managing Director, Fenbushi Capital
CC

Christopher Calicott

Managing Director, Trammell Venture Partners (TVP)


Saturday November 6, 2021 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

3:30pm EDT

Alex Bosworth
Alex Bosworth is a Lightning Infrastructure Lead at Lightning Labs. He is a helper to devs and plebs alike, and created the BOS score for LN nodes.

Speakers

Saturday November 6, 2021 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

3:30pm EDT

CoinBeasts
Speakers
DP

D plusplus

PLEBNET


Saturday November 6, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
B304 - Independence Village

3:45pm EDT

Socratic Panel: Channel Leasing
The Lightning Network is quickly expanding. As it grows, so too does the demand for both inbound and outbound liquidity. With this growing demand and the ability to “dual fund” a channel, the rise of channel leasing markets has begun. How these markets operate and under what conditions channel counterparties cooperate are active areas of research and development. This panel will explore two modes of these markets (Lightning Pool and Liquidity Advertisements), how they work, and what their differences/tradeoffs are.

Moderators
Speakers
avatar for niftynei

niftynei

Lightning Protocol Engineer, Blockstream
niftynei is a hacker, community organizer, and educator. She works at Blockstream on Core-Lightning, does bitcoin protocol education at Base58, and organizes leet dev conferences (with all her friends) at bitcoin++.
RG

Ryan Gentry

Director of Business Development, Lightning Labs


Saturday November 6, 2021 3:45pm - 4:30pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

4:05pm EDT

Taproot Circle Q&A
The Taproot soft-fork will activate in November! What does this mean for Bitcoin, and how will it improve things? Let's talk about it. Bring your Taproot questions! Featuring:
  • Pieter Wuille, Bitcoin Core Contributor, Chaincode Labs
  • Andrew Chow, Bitcoin Core Contributor, Blockstream
  • Vivek Kasarabada, Business Development Manager, Blockstream
  • Ben Carman, Developer, SuredBits
  • Murch, Bitcoin Core Contributor, ChaincodeLabs
  • Matt Corallo, Bitcoin Core Contributor / LDK, Square Crypto

Speakers
PW

Pieter Wuille

Engineer, Chaincode Labs
avatar for Andrew Chow

Andrew Chow

Blockstream
Bitcoin Core Contributor focusing on the wallet
VK

Vivek Kasarabada

BD, Blockstream
avatar for Murch

Murch

Murch, Chaincode Labs
Murch works as an Engineer at Chaincode Labs contributing to educational content, research, and opensource projects. He is a moderator and contributor on Bitcoin Stack Exchange, reports the Mempool weather, co-hosts the Chaincode Podcast and NYC BitDevs, and contributes to Bitcoin... Read More →


Saturday November 6, 2021 4:05pm - 4:40pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

4:15pm EDT

Careers in Bitcoin
Moderators
SS

Sarah Satoshi

education stuff, Bitcoin Magazine

Speakers
avatar for Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang

Client Services Manager, Casa, Inc.
Bitcoin and multisig security.


Saturday November 6, 2021 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
B305 - Basics Village

4:40pm EDT

Closing Ceremony
We're giving out awards:
- Hackathon Winners
- Pleb Helper of the Year
- First Time PR
- Most Impactful PR

And we're going share some stats with you. 🔢



Speakers
avatar for Brianna Honkawa d'Estries

Brianna Honkawa d'Estries

Organizer, TABConf
avatar for Michael Tidwell

Michael Tidwell

head of sysops, Zebedee
im a lightning dude


Saturday November 6, 2021 4:40pm - 5:10pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

5:10pm EDT

Charity Poker Tournament

Saturday November 6, 2021 5:10pm - 7:30pm EDT
308/309 - Mainstage

5:15pm EDT

Trivia!
Find a group of three and join up for some trivia! There will be three rounds: one with a technical focus on the lightning protocol, another on the Bitcoin protocol and a final round on Bitcoin history! First, second and third place teams take home satoshis!

Saturday November 6, 2021 5:15pm - 7:00pm EDT
B302 - Socratic Village

8:00pm EDT

CardCoins Afterparty

Saturday November 6, 2021 8:00pm - 11:30pm EDT
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