Sponsors

ACADEMIC SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS

SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS

LOCAL SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS

Sponsorship

If you are interested in sponsoring the Bitcoin Edge Events, please contact: [email protected]

Sponsorship is currently available via the sponsorship of the Scaling Bitcoin events.

Important Dates:

2017-10-20 23:59 UTC - Last day for sponsorship application
2017-10-20 23:59 UTC - Submission of logos for print (must be submitted in AI or SVG vector file formats)

Trainers

Anditto Heristyo

DG Lab

Ethan Heilman

Researcher, Boston University

James Hilliard

MyRig

Jimmy Song

Programming Blockchain / Paxos

John Newbery

Chaincode Labs

Karl-Johan Alm

DG Lab

Nicolas Dorier

Metaco SA CTO / DG Lab

Thaddeus Dryja

MIT DCI Research Scientist
Lightning Network

Schedule

Notes:
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If you have any special dietary requirements or allergies, please e-mail [email protected] so that we can accommodate.

Please note that Day 1 of the event is held at the Paul Brest Hall and Day 2 is held at the Arrillaga Alumni Center
If you are a developer and would like to contribute toward expanding the Dev++ curriculum, please contact us.
All material presented at Dev++ will be recorded and published on this site under CC-BY license.

Schedule

November 2nd

08:15

(15 min )

Registration

Bitcoin Core (Layer I)

08:30

(15 min )

Introduction

PRESENTER:

Anton Yemelyanov

Introduction to Bitcoin C++ project

08:45

(90 min )

Foundational Math / ECDSA

TRAINER:

Jimmy Song

Finite Fields / Elliptic Curves / ECDSA

10:15

(90 min )

Transactions

TRAINER:

Jimmy Song

Transaction Structure, P2PKH, P2SH, Addresses, Scripts

11:45

(60 min )

Lunch

12:45

(60 min )

Blocks

TRAINER:

John Newbery

Proof-of-work, Block Structure and Block Headers

13:45

(60 min )

Blockchain

TRAINER:

John Newbery

Difficulty, Issuance, Merkle Trees and Proofs, Chain Re-orgs

14:45

(60 min )

Network

TRAINER:

John Newbery

p2p Protocol, Mempool Overview

15:45

Closing

November 3rd

Layer 2

09:00

(45 min )

Wallets

TRAINER:

John Newbery, Karl-Johan Alm (Kalle)

Coin selection, HD Key Generation (BIP32)

09:45

(45 min )

Mining Overview

TRAINER:

James Hilliard

Block templates, Mining pool operation, Diff-share accounting, Payout Schemes

10:30

(30 min )

Hostile Actors and Attack Vectors

TRAINER:

Karl-Johan Alm (Kalle)

Attack / Threat Model

11:00

(60 min )

RPC

TRAINER:

Anditto Heristyo

RPC Commands, Command-line interface, Customizing Bitcoin RPC interface

12:00

(60 min )

Lunch

13:00

(150 min )

Lightning Network & Discreet Log Contracts

TRAINER:

Thaddeus Dryja (Tadge)

Lightning Network In-Depth, Discreet Log Contracts

15:30

(60 min )

Crosschain Swaps

TRAINER:

Ethan Heilman & Nicolas Dorier

Crosschain Atomic Swaps & related functionality

16:30

(10 min )

Announcement

PRESENTER:

Shin'ichiro Matsuo

Announcement of Open Technology Competition by BSafe.network

16:40

(20 min )

Discussion

17:00

Closing

Requirements

The Dev++ course is meant to familiarize you with core Bitcoin algorithms, how by being combined together they form the Bitcoin peer to peer network, as well as to review and experiment with rapidly maturing layer-2 technologies.

Trainee Requirements:

Background in computer engineering
Knowledge of data structures and networking
Experience with a major software development language such as C++, Java, Python, Go, JavaScript (NodeJs), Scala etc.

Requirements to participate in the hands-on part of the course:

Familiarity with C++
Familiarity with Python
Familiarity with GCC toolchain
Basic knowledge of Git

You should have previous experience working with C++ projects and possess knowledge of data structures and networking. If you develop software using a different ecosystem such as Java, NodeJs, Python, Go etc., you can participate in the course but will have difficulty performing some of the tasks.

Beneficial knowledge:

Experience with Unix
Previous experience with cryptography

What you must bring

Participant must bring his own laptop (Windows, OSX, Linux)

Additional information will be published closer to the date of the event.

Material

Please note that all Dev++ sessions will be recorded and published on this site under CC-BY license.

Extra Curriculum

Programming Blockchain

Please be advised that for two days prioir to Dev++, on October 31^st and November 1^st, Jimmy Song will be giving the Programming Blockchain course. This is an extremely in-depth technical course that will help you fully understand the math behind Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECDSA), internals of Bitcoin transactions, Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) as well as other elements. Key elements of this course will be covered by Jimmy Song during the Dev++ Transactions session.

If you are interested in understanding the underlying cryptography, you can apply to participate in Programming Blockchain. Knowledge of Python is beneficial for this course. The cost of this course is 0.5 BTC and seating capacity is limited (20 people).

Following topics will be covered during this course:

Finite Fields
Elliptic Curves
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Signing/Verifying Messages
Parsing Transactions
Signing Transactions
Creating Transactions
Script parsing and processing
Address construction/Private Key WIF Format Construction
Parsing Blocks
Validating Proof-of-Work
Difficulty Calculations
Merkle Tree Construction
Merkle Proofs
Network Message Parsing
Simple Bitcoin Network Node

Location

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Stanford University

Arrillaga Alumni Center

Arrillaga Alumni Center

Arrillaga Alumni Center

Arrillaga Alumni Center

Arrillaga Alumni Center

Stanford University

DAY 1
Paul Brest Hall
555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

DAY 2
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305-6105, USA

• http://stanford.edu

Airports

Hotels

• Stanford Lodging Guide

Please visit Stanford Lodging Guide for the list of hotels and prices.

Directions

From Highway 101 North & South
Take the Embarcadero Road exit west - toward Stanford. At El Camino Real, Embarcadero turns into Galvez Street as it enters the Stanford campus. Stay in the left lane and continue toward the center of campus. The Alumni Center is on the right side of Galvez Street, just after you cross over Campus Drive
From Highway 280 North & South
Exit Sand Hill Road east toward Stanford. Continue east, turning right at the traffic light on Santa Cruz Avenue. Make an immediate left onto Junipero Serra Boulevard. Turn left at the second traffic light and onto Campus Drive East. Continue around Campus Drive East and turn left when you reach Serra Street, at the gas station. Follow Serra Street until it ends at Galvez Street.
From El Camino Real
Exit El Camino Real at University Avenue. Turn toward the hills (away from the center of Palo Alto). As you enter Stanford, University Avenue becomes Palm Drive. Go through one traffic light, and turn left onto Campus Drive at the first stop sign.

Registration

- WHO SHOULD ATTEND -

Students preparing for internships or first year jobs
Developers starting with Bitcoin development
Developers looking to integrate with Bitcoin

Purchase tickets using Credit Card or PayPal via EventBrite

Purchase tickets using Bitcoin

The cost of the ticket is $1000 USD.

Student subsidy applications are no longer available due to filled capacity.

About

Planning Committee

Anton Yemelyanov, Base58 Association NPO. (Planning Committee Chair)
Nelly Milanova, Base58 Association NPO.
Jeremy Rubin, Bitcoin Core contributor
Ferdinando M. Ametrano, Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology professor at Politecnico di Milano
Allison Berke, Executive Director at the Stanford Cyber Initiative (Host Committee Chair)
Byron Gibson, Engineering Consultant and Startup Advisor
Alexy Khrabov, By The Bay

Tutorial Committee

Shin'ichiro Matsuo, Georgetown University, BSafe.network
Pindar Wong, BSafe.network
Taro Watanabe, Digital Garage
Jimmy Song, Paxos
Anton Yemelyanov, Base58 Association NPO.
Shigeya Suzuki, Keio University

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