Bitcoin Developers’ Socratic Seminar #13
Details
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) ARK:
Reading material:
- One-page introduction: https://docs.second.tech/protocol/intro/
- One-page introduction plus deeper developer documentation: https://arkdev.info/docs/learn/concepts
- 75-minute podcast with Stephan Livera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VSNArCC9yw
2) Bitcoin Blockchain indexing and wallet address handling:
Types of indexing required for different use cases.
Reading material:
- Primers on UTXOs and P2PKH, P2SH, P2WPKH, P2WSH & P2TR transaction templates: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/transaction/utxo/ (use the menu on the left to navigate to these topics)
- 4-minute read: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/107619/why-does-bitcoin-core-support-a-transaction-index-but-not-an-address-index
- 3-minute read: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/89008/how-do-i-extract-the-address-from-a-scriptpubkey
3) Review of technical Bitcoin news/topics. In every meetup we go through technical Bitcoin news.
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!