Bitcoin Sydney Socratic

Casey Rodarmor presents his A E S T H E T I C proposal "Ordinal Numbers" which gives every satoshi that's ever been minded a serial number. See: https://github.com/casey/ord

Ruben Somsen presents his work on Bitcoin "Silent Payments" pre-bip: https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/c43b79517e7cb701ebf77eec6dbb46b8

We discuss FROST: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/852.pdf and its applications to Bitcoin with Jesse Posner (@jesseposner). Bitcoin Sydney Socratic Seminar 29-03-2022: https://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin_Sydney/events/284841622

CoBloX (coblox.tech) present their layer-2 Bitcoin CFD protocol.

Rene Pickhardt presents his work Optimally Reliable & Cheap Payment Flows on the Lightning Network. The paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.05322.pdf Earlier paper giving background: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.08576.pdf slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CDJ2Wf3qtSr66DUqCePXq6wQ2_eGSUQMUQz6VR1jxf0/edit

@LLFourn demonstrates how to do bets on twitter.

Lukas Aumayr presents his work "Donner: UTXO-Based Virtual Channels Across Multiple Hops". Donner is a virtual channel construction for Bitcoin. The stackexchange question that was being talked about in the Q&A is here: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/109542/why-are-multi-hop-virtual-payment-channels-desirable

Gijs Van Dam presents his latest work on the application of Differential privacy to payment channels https://twitter.com/gijswijs

The CoBloX research lab https://coblox.tech/ presents their work on Bitcoin to Monero atomic swaps. Presented by Thomas Eizinger https://twitter.com/oetzn.