Socratic Seminar #1

Agenda

11:00am - Welcome to BitDevsKaduna

Announcements

We are excited to introduce our first Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsor BTrust for food and refreshments.

• What is BitDevs
• House Rules - the Chatham House Rule

11:20am - Address Encoding: Base58, Bech32, Bech32m

• Mastering Bitcoin Ch04
• Pwuille, bech32 address format lecture
• Transcripts on Segwit Addresses
• Bip 350, Applications of Bech32m

11:30am - Bitcoin digital signature schemes:

• ECDSA - a gentle introduction
• Bip 340, Schnorr Signatures
• Adam Gibson, How to design Schnorr Signatures
• Rene Pickhardt, Schnorr Signatures for Bitcoin

11:40ap - Refreshment Break, Chill and Chat

11:55am - Introduction to Fedimint Custody Protocol

• Fedimint primer
• Fedimint open source software
• Fedi! And other companies building on Fedimint

12:35pm - Designing a Bitcoin/Lightning wallet/Introduction to Bitcoin design philosophy

• Bitcoin design

News

• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter Updates

Events

• Africa Bitcoin Conference, December 9TH – 11TH, 2024
• Bitcoin Conferences

Location

The event is hosted at Colab Innovation Campus:

Colab Innovation Campus At Kaduna Technology City off Aliyu Makama Beside Living Faith Church, Barnawa, Kaduna

Map

Reminders

• No photos, videos, audio recording
• Chatham House Rule
• Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
• Suggest topics for the next Socratic Seminar! Where to find topics?