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This is a clickbaity title, I realize. But the reason I say it is because it's become a mantra for at least myself but for the people who hear me banging my hands on the desk all the time. I am Cory Fields and I work here at the MIT DCI. I am also a Bitcoin Core developer. I am less active these day...

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It's basically open-source funding. It's a subset of open-source funding. But these are similar problems with many open-source projects. As far as I can tell, all these digital currency cryptocurrency projects are licensed with open-source licenses. There may be some that are not, and some things ar...

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Near misses: What could have gone wrong # Introduction Thank you. I am Ethan Heilman. I am a research whose has done a bunch of work in security of cryptocurrencies. I am also CTO of Arwen which does secure atomic swaps. I am a little sick today so please excuse my coughing, wheezing and drinking ...

Slides: Simplicity white paper: Intro So Simplicity is a programming language that I have been working on at Blockstream. I call it an alternative or reimagination of Bitcoin Script as it would have been if I had invented Bitcoin. An alternative or new instruction set that is compatible with B...

Intro ===== I'll be the contrarian - I think academia is awful and should be destroyed. Reputation is completely independent of content and should not be the mechanism by which you judge the quality of research; *your reputation is worthless to me*. (laughter) *My perspective*: \[first, slide...

Reproducible builds, binaries and trust Carl Dong (Chaincode Labs) # Introduction I am Carl and I work at Chaincode Labs and I will be talking about software, binaries and trust. I am happy that Ethan talked about his subject because it ties into my talk. For the purposes of this talk, assume tha...

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Slides: Introduction It's great to be here. My name is Tim Ruffing and I work for the research team at Blockstream. This is a talk about practical threshold Schnorr signatures and our quest for constructing them. Disclaimer First of all, this is work in progress. It's pretty early work in pro...

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# Introduction I founded Sia, a decentralized storage platform started in 2014. Today, Sia is the only decentralized storage platform out there. I also founded Obelisk which is a mining equipment manufacturing company. # Mining supply chains are centralized Basically all the mining chips are comi...

Introduction Indeed I am Madars Virza. I am going to talk about SHARKs. I am going to be talking about zero-knowledge SHARKs. It's actually something serious and it's related to non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs. Non-interactive zero knowledge proofs zkproofs are protocols between two partie...