Behind the Scenes of BitVM’s Architecture

Thursday, August 28
11:30 am
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11:00 am
Genesis Stage
Whale Pass Required

Moderator

Sagun Garg

Moderator

Sagun Garg

Global Innovation Director - Engineering
Bank Julius Baer
1. Expert in Security Protocols, a Computer Science cyberpunk currently working on applied miniscript use cases i.e Future of Inheritance in Bitcoin, BitVM and Hardware/Software B2B Wallets + HSMs specially for enterprise offerings like Banks to upgrade to Bitcoin standard for their clients.

2. 10+ yrs in Bitcoin (Class of 2013) as a Bitcoin Maxi, a Bitcoin Globe trotter from Shanghai, Bangalore, NewYork, Las Vegas, Ireland, Austin, Hong Kong, Prague, Lugano, Zurich and Amsterdam attending Bitcoin Conferences and meetups orange pilling my extended family and friends

3. He has Angel invested in 28+ Bitcoin native startups

4. Cool Bitcoin Story: He got his first Trezor from OG Slush in person at the Shanghai conference in 2014 and bought his Bitcoin via an ATM in Shanghai. He has been a big believer in self custody of keys ever since.

5. He has 15+yrs experience as a Founder/CTO(serial entrepreneur-venture capital backed) who has built/sold 3 AI/ML startups in Asia (Singapore, Hong Kong & India)

Speakers

Liam Eagen

Founding Cryptographer
Alpen Labs

Liam Eagen

Founding Cryptographer
Alpen Labs
I have been into bitcoin and zk for a long time and have been working on it full time since 2020. Previously worked on zkSNARK research at Blockstream. Currently research at Alpen Labs trying verify SNARKs on bitcoin to bring about the private, permissionless, decentralized digital cash we were promised.

Stephen Duan

CTO
GOAT Network

Stephen Duan

CTO
GOAT Network
Stephen Duan is the Core Contributor of GOAT Network, Dev Lead at ZKM, former Co-founder of Baidu Blockchain, former Founder of Eigen Network, and holds a Master's degree from Peking University.

Janusz

Researcher

Janusz

Researcher
Janusz is an independent researcher focused on bitcoin L2s. He maintains the Bitcoin Layers open-source project and also acts as the Editor-in-Chief of the Bitcoin++ Insider Edition.