BitDevs LA

This month we have the honor of hosting Nadav Kohen of SuredBits. Nadav will explore potential use cases and applications that can be built with Schnorr.

Guest Speaker

https://twitter.com/nadav_kohen

BitDevsLA

https://bitdevsla.org/

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**Socratic Seminar**

Inspired by Bitdevs NY, this is an event for those interested in discussing and participating in the research and development of Bitcoin and related protocols. The Socratic Seminar events are formatted to foster debate, information sharing, and lively discussion.

Discussion topics from a variety of sources are collated by meetup members in the weeks preceding the events. We investigate pull requests in the Bitcoin Core, lnd, and other relevant repositories; we study network statistics, research papers, technical blog posts and other interesting content. To complete the meeting, members present open source projects, companies, research and other relevant materials. A feedback and Q&A section follow.

Please contact the organizers if you'd like to present at the Socratic event or have a recommended topic for discussion: contact at bitdevsla.org

**Sponsors**

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Join us for another Socratic Seminar via Google Hangouts! This month we have the honor of hosting Alexis Sellier to discuss Nakamoto: A new Bitcoin light-client written in Rust.

Alexis develops software that enhances individual user freedom. Most of his time is dedicated to Radicle, a peer-to-peer code collaboration stack, and Bitcoin, a decentralized payment network and new kind of money.

He's been writing software for the last 17 years and have worked on almost all areas of the software stack, though his interest lies with distributed systems and peer-to-peer technology.

Alexis on github

https://github.com/cloudhead

This month we have the honor of hosting Dario Sneidermanis the founder of the Muun wallet project, an open source non-custodial on-chain/off-chain mobile Bitcoin wallet.

Dario Sneidermanis, github

Daniela Brozzoni who is a talented young Bitcoin developer who works at Slush Pool on the Braains OS team. Before joining Slush Pool Daniela was an intern at Blockstream and has also contributed to the Bitcoin Dev Kit project with implementations of branch and bound coin selection and hardware wallet interface (HWI) support. Daniela will be telling us about the Stratum v2 protocol, a next generation protocol for pooled mining. 

https://twitter.com/danielabrozzoni

**Sponsor** River Financial - The best place to buy, sell, and use Bitcoin for the long-term investor. Use this link for 2 months of 0 fees: https://river.com/signup?a=PRLBLIOI

This month we have the pleasure of hosting Clark Moody. He develops and maintain a popular web-based Bitcoin dashboard that many use to gather the latest information on the Bitcoin network including mining difficulty, fees, and even the Lightning network.

https://bitdevsla.org/socratic-seminar-16/

https://twitter.com/clarkmoody

https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/

https://cryptowat.ch/

This month we have the pleasure of hosting Ben Carmen and Nadav Kohen from SuredBits. SuredBits is a Bitcoin company and one of the driving forces behind developing Discreet Log Contracts (DLC's) for Bitcoin. Ben and Nadav will break down how they work and how this new technology can usher in a new era of multi-sig applications.

Satotious is a Lightning company that provides a new way of monetizing online content by giving users the choice between ads or micropayments. They hope to create a circular economy of online payments running on the Lightning Network which will generate more mainstream and widespread use of Bitcoin whilst ensuring maximum user and creator privacy.  CEO Ruby studied Journalism and Drama and is interested in decentralization and preserving the free web. CTO Christophe studied Computer Science and has experience working in blockchain tech.

https://twitter.com/satotious 

https://satotious.com/

Join us for another Socratic Seminar via Google Hangouts! This month we have the pleasure of hosting Pandora Core, one of the main teams developing the RGB protocol. RGB is a second/third layer smart contract system, that can work on Lightning Network and allows the use of digitalized assets over it.

This month we have Tankred Hase present on Photon SDK, a high level library for building bitcoin wallets with react-native.

his month we have Luke Jr who is a Bitcoin Core developer and the person who proposed a solution to implementing Segregated Witness(SegWit) as a soft-fork.  He will be covering the recently discovered SegWit vulnerability that Trezor disclosed in this blog: https://blog.trezor.io/latest-firmware-updates-correct-possible-segwit-transaction-vulnerability-266df0d2860

https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr