Commodity Futures Trading Commission <div id="ndf" /> # NDFs description Panel I: CFTC Clearing for Non-Deliverable Forwards (NDF) The first panel will discuss whether mandatory clearing should be required of NDF swaps contracts. Each panelist will present and then there will be opportunity ...

OP\_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY workshop notes # Reference materials transcript tweet tweet or and IRC logs: bip119 proposal: proposal site: branch comparison: workshop scripts: slides: # Introduction Howdy livestreamers. Can someone just tweet that the livestream has actually started? ...

paper: slides: or We are going to have next month on September 13 when Ethan Heilman will be talking about something controversial but he hasn't told me what it is yet. But it's controversial. I am Amy. I organize the meetup with some help from other people in the MIT Bitcoin Club. I write ab...

Location: Zcon 3 FROST paper: Sydney Socratic on FROST: Introduction Elizabeth Crites (EC): My name is Elizabeth Crites, I’m a postdoc at the University of Edinburgh. Chelsea Komlo (CK): I’m Chelsea Komlo, I’m at the University of Waterloo and I’m also a Principal Researcher at the Zcash Fou...

Location: Monash Cybersecurity Seminars ROAST paper: ROAST blog post: ROAST in Python: Introduction (Amin Sakzad) Welcome everyone to Monash Cybersecurity Seminars. Today we will be having Tim Ruffing. Tim is an applied cryptographer in the research team of Blockstream, a Bitcoin and blockc...

Tracking issue in Bitcoin Core: Pieter Wuille on Chaincode podcast discussing consensus rules: Intro Hi everyone. I’m Carl Dong from Chaincode Labs and I’m here to talk about libbitcoinkernel, a project I’ve been working on that aims to extract Bitcoin Core’s consensus engine. When we download...

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Location: She256 Onboarding to Bitcoin Webinar Introduction John: My name is John. I am a Bitcoin Protocol Engineer at Chaincode Labs in New York. I'm going to talk about contracts a little bit from a theoretical perspective, but I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not a legal scholar. For all of you legal...

Location: Chaincode Labs, NYC Run: `jupyter notebook` See also Schnorr signatures and taproot: Why Schnorr and why taproot? Who here already feels comfortbale with Schnorr/Taproot? This is a proposed consensus change to bitcoin. When we talk about consensus changes, we often talk...

Location: Black Hat USA 2019 Blackhat: Slides: Intro Hi everyone. Thanks for coming to my talk. As I was introduced I’m Jonathan Metzman. I’m here to talk about how you can get more bugs with coverage guided fuzzing by adding structure awareness to your fuzzers. Unstructured Fuzzing = Magic...

On-chain defense in depth (UCL CBT seminar) Introduction It seems strange to come to a university and put PhD on my slides because in the finance world that's weird. I put it up there. Okay, so. I work for Fidelity Digital Assets. Just a couple words about this. Our lawyers make us say this: "...

Unchained Capital Bitcoin Socratic Seminar Socratic Seminar 87 at BitDevs NYC has all of the links on meetup.com available. # Last time Last time Andrew Poelstra gave a talk about research at Blockstream. He also talked about scriptless scripts and using the properties of Schnorr signatures...

Location: LA Blockchain Meetup Introduction I'm Jim from the protocol team at Coinbase. We work on open source stuff in the crypto space. We just contribute to projects like Bitcoin core. The reason I'm talking about this is I've been contributing on and off to one of the major lightning implemen...

49th Milan Bitcoin meetup Introduction Alright. Thank you for that introduction, Giacamo. I am here to talk about bulletproofs. This is different from proof-of-bullets, which is what fiat currencies use. In bulletproofs, we use a zero-knowledge proof which has nothing to do with consensus at ...

Future technological directions in bitcoin: An unreliable guide notes: or # Introduction Thank you very much for that introduction. Alright, well polished machine right there. Let's try that again. Thank you for that introduction. My talk today is all about this. I'm not going to be talking a...

Host: Mr. Ver, can you hear this? RV: Yes, I can. Host: Welcome to Whalepool. Gavin: Hey Roger, it's Gavin. I heard about this. RV: Hey Eric. I see lots of familiar names in here. RV: Who was that? I don't know whose voice that was. Hodl: Mr. Hodl RV: Thanks for organizing this. Hello Mr. Hod...

New Context Conference 2016 We are using a hashtag to organize the information today. The hashtag we're using is nccblockchain. Ncc stands for new conference context. That's where we are. Blockchain is what we're talkin gabout. Can I ask the people in the back to take a seat? We're about to get re...

Bitcoin scaling tradeoffs with Adam Back (adam3us) at Paralelni Polis Institute of Cryptoanarchy slides: description: "In this talk, Adam Back overviews the Bitcoin scaling and discuses his personal view about its tradeoffs and future development." # Intro fluff And now I would like to introd...

FSE 2013 Welcome to the second invited talk, to be given by Dan Bernstein. Dan is one of the few members of our community who does not need an introduction. It's a great honor and pleasure that he has agreed to give a talk here. Dan comes from UC Berkeley and from Chicago. Just a few things you mig...

* Andrew Poelstra (andytoshi) * Pieter Wuille (sipa) * Brian Deery * Chris Odom Starts at 26min. I am going to introduce our guests here in just a minute. Launch of zcash might be delayed in order to allow the code to be analyzed by multiple third-party auditors. Zooko stated, "I feel bad that we...

EB65 – Adam Back & Greg Maxwell: people: - Sebastien Couture - Brian Fabian Crain - Adam Back (adam3us) - Greg Maxwell (gmaxwell) Brian: We are here today we have Adam Back and Greg Maxwell, to anyone who is following bitcoin and bitcoin's development, you will have probably heard of these two g...

First of all I was going to explain what we mean by fungibility before bitcoin and ecash. It's an old legal concept in fact, about paper currency. It's the idea that a one ten dollar note is the same as any other ten dollar note. If you receive a note that was involved in a theft, 10 transactions ag...

[Daniel J. Bernstein (djb)]( and [Tanja Lange]( SchmooCon 2014 video 2 (same?): # Video intro text There are several different standards covering selection of curves for use in elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC). Each of these standards tries to ensure that the elliptic-curve discrete-logarithm ...

I've been working on essentially rewriting the Bitcoin Core wallet, one piece at a time. Now when I say "the wallet", a lot of people think of the GUI. That's not what I've been working on. Rather I've been changing the internals; how keys are managed, how transactions are tracked, how inputs are se...

BC: Adam Back is here for the second time on this show. Some of you will be familiar that Adam Back is the inventor of proof-of-work or hashcash as it was then. He was one of the few people cited in the original Bitcoin whitepaper. More recently he has been involved in sidechains and Blockstream whe...

NY DFS BitLicense update 2014-12-18 And that's a serious problem that we all need to address with a hightened sense of urgency and focus. Let me start with the BitLicense and virtual currencies. These came on our radar screen last year at DFS because like all of the other states we regulate mone...