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For this meetup Lloyd Fournier will explain at a high level the ideas in the new paper Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments and how it might change the way we think about Bitcoin “smart contracts”. The presentation is expected to take 30mins and there will be 30mins for questions. Topics of discussion - What is a DLC - How does Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments change things - Is there any value to Ethereum style smart contracts other than extracting money from fools? - What could Bitcoin “smart contracts” look like in the future? Here’s Background reading/listening resources. None of these are necessary to consume or understand before attending. Further Readings The mailing list post : https://mailmanlists.org/pipermail/dlc-dev/2022-August/000150.html Bitcoin Optech summary on BLS based DLC : https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/08/17/ Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/499.pdf Orginal DLC paper : https://adiabat.github.io/dlc.pdf Optech Twitter Space on the topic: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1DXxyDqAXdNJM

For this meetup Lloyd Fournier will explain at a high level the ideas in the new paper Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments and how it might change the way we think about Bitcoin “smart contracts”. The presentation is expected to take 30mins and there will be 30mins for questions. Topics of discussion - What is a DLC - How does Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments change things - Is there any value to Ethereum style smart contracts other than extracting money from fools? - What could Bitcoin “smart contracts” look like in the future? Here’s Background reading/listening resources. None of these are necessary to consume or understand before attending. Further Readings The mailing list post : https://mailmanlists.org/pipermail/dlc-dev/2022-August/000150.html Bitcoin Optech summary on BLS based DLC : https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/08/17/ Cryptographic Oracle-Based Conditional Payments: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/499.pdf Orginal DLC paper : https://adiabat.github.io/dlc.pdf Optech Twitter Space on the topic: https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1DXxyDqAXdNJM

In this session we went deep into the Minimint protocol, a Federated Chaumian E-Cash system, with developer Eric Sirion (https://twitter.com/EricSirion) We discussed on - Overview of Minimint - User workflow with e-cash - Privacy approaches taken in the design - BFT consensus used in the federation - A tour over the minimint codebase - Life cycle of a mint transaction - Generic rust programming approaches with Eric For more details on minimint - Website : https://fedimint.org/ - Github : https://github.com/fedimint/minimint For more details on APAC BitDevs - Twitter : https://twitter.com/APACbitcoin - Meetup.com : https://www.meetup.com/apac-bitcoin/