Beyond Hellman's time-memory trade-offs with applications to proofs of space # Introductions Hi everyone. This presentation is based off of a paper called "<a href=" Hellman's time-memory trade-offs</a>". I'll get to why it's called that. These slides and the proofs are by Hamza Abusalah. # Out...

Introduction Good morning everyone. I am Benedikt Bünz and I am going to talk about bulletproofs. This is joint work with myself, Jonathan Bootle, Dan Boneh, Andrew Poelstra, Pieter Wuille, and Greg Maxwell. Bulletproofs are short proofs that we designed originally with the goal of improving confid...

slides: Introduction My name is Pieter Wuille. I work at Blockstream. I contribute to Bitcoin Core and bitcoin research in general. I work on various proposals for the bitcoin system for some time now. Today I will be talking about Schnorr signatures for bitcoin, which is a project we've bee...

slides: previous talk (2017): previous slides (2017): Introduction I am basically going to go over some ways that I've been thinking about basically hardening <a href=" network</a>, in terms of making security better and making the client more scalable itself, and then I'll talk about some i...

Slides: Simplicity white paper: Intro Good morning everyone. I have been working on a new language for the consensus layer of blockchains and I am here to present that to you today. Blockchains and Smart Contracts I know everyone is familiar with this in the audience but I want to make sure...

Slides: Intro Good afternoon. My name is Christopher Allen, I am with Blockstream and today I wanted to give you an introduction to something that isn’t about consensus, isn’t about proof of stake and other things. I want to pop up a level. I want to talk about smart signatures. These are a numb...