Location

The event will be hosted at Jenga Leo:

12th Floor WESTPARK TOWERS | Mpesi Ln, Nairobi | Map

Announcements

Join us on our Eighth Bitcoin Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsor Btrust for food and refreshments.

Reminders

• We prefer no photos and no videos during the event
• Chatham House Rule
• Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! Where to find topics?

Topics

Bitcoin

MC: Brandon

• Silent Payments
• BIP352: PSBT support for Silent Payments
• A new BIP for Miniscript
• 12 vs 24-word seed phrase entropy
• Brollups

Mining

MC: Simon

• TIDES rewards scheme for pooled mining
• SV2 Protocol Extension: Share Accounting + Accountability

Lightning Network

MC: Jodom

• Upgrading Existing Lightning Channels
• Stable Channels - peer-to-peer dollar balances on Lightning
• Bolt 12 website is now fresher!
• Bolt 12 Playground
• LSPS1 improvements

Ecash

MC: Jodom

• DNS attack on Fedimints
  • Mitigation: Guardian API endpoint migration
  • doesn't affect Cashu
• the big ecash debate
• ecash vs statecoins
• New Fedimint Wallets
  • Harbor by Mutiny
• New Cashu Wallets
  • Chamberlain
  • Nutmix
• Open Cash Association - support for building on Cashu

Other Bitcoin Tech

MC: Charles

• Pushtx for broadcasting transactions
• BitEscrow API: Tooling for building Bitcoin Escrows
• Volt - open source descriptor bitcoin wallet
• Sentrum Watch only bitcoin wallet
• ArkLabs Launch

Regulatory

MC: Vlad

Extras

MC: Isaack

• Rust for Bitcoiners
• BitScript - learn bitcoin script
• Coinbase integrates Bitcoin’s Lightning Network in partnership with Lightspark

Upcoming Events

MC: Sharon