MIT Bitcoin Expo 2020
- When
- Mar 7–8, 2020
- Where
- MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Run by
- MIT Bitcoin Club
- March 7 to 8, 2020, at MIT. Theme: Building the Stack.
- It went ahead despite early COVID worries, with each room capped at 150 people.
- Big topics: Taproot, a proposed upgrade called BIP 119, a Bitcoin Core developers panel, Lightning and mining.
Start here
- Taproot, Andrew Poelstra
Andrew Poelstra explains Taproot, more than a year before it activated in November 2021.
- Bitcoin Core Devs Panel
Bitcoin Core developers, including Pieter Wuille and Amiti Uttarwar, on how the software is built.
- Lightning Panel
Lightning engineers from ACINQ, Square Crypto and Bitrefill on the state of the network.
Watch
Day 1
Welcome!
Taproot, Andrew Poelstra
Bitcoin Core Devs Panel
Contributing to Bitcoin Core: A Case Study of assumeutxo, James O'Beirne
What Is Bitcoin Being Used For?
Lightning Network Data: Ambitious, Not Reckless
Institutional Custody Panel
Day 2
BIP 119 (CheckTemplateVerify), Jeremy Rubin
Lightning Panel
Mining Panel
Node Modes: A Taxonomy of Bitcoin Network Nodes
Bitcoin and the Explosion in Self-Hosting
The Promise and Perils of Non-Deterministic Bitcoin Scripts
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What happened
Day 1Sat, Mar 7
Andrew Poelstra on Taproot, the upgrade that made some transactions more private and flexible, more than a year before it activated in November 2021.
▶ Watch: Taproot, Andrew PoelstraA Bitcoin Core developers panel.
▶ Watch: Bitcoin Core Devs PanelJames O'Beirne on contributing to Bitcoin Core, using assumeutxo (a way to start a new node quickly from a snapshot) as the case study.
▶ Watch: Contributing to Bitcoin Core: A Case Study of assumeutxo, James O'Beirne
Day 2Sun, Mar 8
Jeremy Rubin on BIP 119, or CheckTemplateVerify, a proposed upgrade that would let coins be locked so they can only be spent in set ways.
▶ Watch: BIP 119 (CheckTemplateVerify), Jeremy RubinA Lightning panel.
▶ Watch: Lightning PanelA mining panel.
▶ Watch: Mining Panel