MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019
- When
- Mar 9–10, 2019
- Where
- MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Run by
- MIT Bitcoin Club
- March 9 to 10, 2019, at MIT. Sixth edition.
- Early looks at ideas that shaped Bitcoin later, including Schnorr signatures, the Utreexo plan to shrink what nodes store, and Wasabi Wallet's coin mixing.
- We show the Bitcoin sessions; the expo also hosted several projects for other coins, which we leave out.
Start here
- Schnorr, MuSig, Thresholds and More for Bitcoin: A History, Andrew Poelstra
Andrew Poelstra's history of the signature schemes that led to Taproot.
- Utreexo: Reducing Bitcoin Nodes to 1 Kilobyte, Tadge Dryja
Tadge Dryja on Utreexo, a plan to shrink what a node must store.
- Lightning Implementations: A Scaling Story
Christian Decker, Tadge Dryja and Fabrice Drouin on the history and future of Lightning.
Watch
Day 1
Welcome!
Schnorr, MuSig, Thresholds and More for Bitcoin: A History, Andrew Poelstra
Utreexo: Reducing Bitcoin Nodes to 1 Kilobyte, Tadge Dryja
Wasabi Wallet: Unfairly Private, David Molnar
10 Years of Bitcoin: Evaluating Its Performance as a Monetary System
Lightning Implementations: A Scaling Story
Landing a Node on the Moon: Does It Have to Be Rocket Science?
Incentivizing Mesh Networks with Layer 2 Micropayments
The Path to Personal Sovereignty, Jeremy Welch of Casa
Day 2
Funds Are ScAFE: Security of Open-Source Hardware Wallets, Charles Guillemet of Ledger
These videos come from the MIT Bitcoin Club YouTube channel. They are shared under YouTube’s Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), which lets anyone share them with credit. We play them from YouTube and have not changed them.
What happened
Day 1Sat, Mar 9
Andrew Poelstra on Schnorr signatures, a more compact way to sign that lets many keys act as one. Taproot brought them to Bitcoin more than two years later.
▶ Watch: Schnorr, MuSig, Thresholds and More for Bitcoin: A History, Andrew PoelstraTadge Dryja on Utreexo, a proposal to shrink the record of coins a node keeps to about a kilobyte.
▶ Watch: Utreexo: Reducing Bitcoin Nodes to 1 Kilobyte, Tadge DryjaDavid Molnar on Wasabi Wallet, a privacy wallet, and why its team calls it "unfairly private."
▶ Watch: Wasabi Wallet: Unfairly Private, David MolnarLightning implementations: a scaling story.
▶ Watch: Lightning Implementations: A Scaling Story
Day 2Sun, Mar 10
Charles Guillemet of Ledger on the security of open-source hardware wallets.
▶ Watch: Funds Are ScAFE: Security of Open-Source Hardware Wallets, Charles Guillemet of Ledger