Bitcoin chinese miracle
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After Zurich I stuck around Europe, visiting a number of places in the Netherlands, as well as Milan. Ended up being a very busy trip – I wasn’t exactly sightseeing! – and among other work I gave three talks and taught a Bitcoin developer workshop. I also found out that sixty year old Italians are way better than me at football, but that’s another story…
I think the most interesting is from when I visited BlockchainLab.it in Milan. I talked about the work I’m doing on Dex, a deterministic expressions language I’m developing based on research commissioned by Christopher Allen of Alacrity Software to further Smart Signatures, as well as prior research I did for my Proofchains work. I didn’t have a specific time limit – or any preparation for that matter – so I wound up giving a fairly comprehensive ground up overview of how deterministic expressions could be used as a building block for better ways to build digital identities and signatures. Secondly, I talked about how Dex could be used to define and validate client-side verified transactional state-machines. This research is working towards making so-called “smart contracts” possible using decentralized consensus systems like Bitcoin for anti-replay, without putting all the “logic” in the consensus system itself – think telephone vs. the internet. I also believe this approach has a good potential for scalability, both in centralized and decentralized environments (e.g. treechains).
I was hoping to do a better writeup to accompany the talk, but I’ve been pretty sick for the past few days, so I’m just going to put it up as-is. My apologies for the poor video quality!
Talks: BlockchainLab.it Dex/Proofchains, Bitcoin Arnhem, and Bitcoin Dev Workshop
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