BitDevs Socratic Seminar #10 : Taproot & Tapscript, food & drinks

BitDevs Athens is a community for those interested in discussing and participating in the research and development of Bitcoin and Bitcoin-related protocols. You can be well versed with or new to the topics, all are welcome. Be advised: discussion will be ***technical***.

Our monthly Socratic Seminar events are formatted to foster debate, information sharing and lively discussion. If this is your first time, please read about our Socratic Seminar series here.

This day's topic will be:

1) Taproot: is a Bitcoin protocol upgrade implemented via a soft fork to enhance Bitcoin's privacy, efficiency, and smart contract capabilities.

We will talk about:

• Address formats and descriptors
• Tagged hashing and key tweaking
• Equations derivation
• Spending options
• Witness stack and serialization
• Tapscript and the opcodes

Reading material:

• BIP 341 & BIP 342
• Taproot demonstration by BitMex
• Bitcoin Stack Exchange examples of P2TR transactions on Mainnet
• Spending coins with Taproot and some more examples
• Overview of the Taproot & Tapscript proposed BIPs

2) Review of technical Bitcoin news/topics. In every meetup we go through technical Bitcoin news. Our list will be available closer to the event on bitdevs-athens.com

How should I prepare? Read the material.
Do you hold meetups for a wider audience? Yes, please subscribe to https://www.meetup.com/blockchaingreece-0/ and review past meetups.

The event will be held in English and is free. We start at 7pm and at 9 pm we will head to dinner & drinks, all are welcome!