BitDevs Socratic Seminar #11: Taproot Assets, 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 Assets:

We will talk about:

• Why Taproot Assets
• TAP protocol overview
• Putting assets in taproot channels
• How we didn’t “pollute” LND

Reading material:

• If you have 10mins: read first page of https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/taproot-assets plus FAQ
• If you have 45mins: read all the chapters of above link
• If you have 2h: read above docs, plus skim through https://ellemouton.com/posts/taproot-chan-txs/ (useful for how we make TAP channels), plus take a quick look at the BIP https://github.com/Roasbeef/bips/blob/bip-tap-pr/bip-tap.mediawiki
• More than 2h: try it out (supported by Polar, https://lightningpolar.com/) and read the APIs https://lightning.engineering/api-docs/api/taproot-assets/

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!