March 2024 Bitcoin Q&A and BitDevs Socratic Seminar

Hello all, the March, 2024 Seattle Bitcoin Q&A plus BitDevs Socratic Seminar will be held on March 28th at the Phinney Center (Upper Blue Building, Room 1 on the main floor) on Phinney Ridge.

Shout out and thanks to Swan for sponsoring the venue!

We'll start with bitcoin Q&A, bring your best questions, your worst questions, and all the other kinds. Then we'll dig into more technical topics in the BitDevs Socratic Seminar.

6:30 to 7:15 - Bitcoin Q&A
7:15 to 9:15 - Socratic discussion
9:XX to X:XX - post-event socializing nearby

Socratic seminars are group discussions about a wide range of bitcoin-related topics. Pull requests, new papers, security vulnerabilities and other topics are discussed at Socratic seminars. Read more about Socratic Seminars

Moderator: Brandon Black

Topics will be posted closer to the event, possibly MuSig2 in PSBTs and reducing the needed state for such, expiring bitcoin addresses (again), non-interactive lightning channels, and more!

Please send me topics or (even better) open a PR or issue with topic suggestions!

RULES:

1. This will be a Bitcoin (BTC) only event. We will only be discussing Bitcoin and auxiliary technologies related to the greatest accumulated work Bitcoin Blockchain and UTXO set, e.g. Lightning, vaults, Fedimints, Timeout Trees, Covenants, etc.
2. No video recording or photographs of the attendees or speakers.
3. Chatham House Rule applies.

"When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed."

OTHER NOTES:

1. Should we swap Telegram for Signal after recent impersonation attacks on Telegram?