🎯bitcoin++ has kicked off this week to a massive reception. bitcoin++ is a dev conf + hackathon for bitcoin builders, present + future
🟠➕➕ kicking off another day here @bitcoincommons 🎯 Hackathon presentations from @btcplusplus will be streamed here at 3pm Texas Time.🏄 follow below:📹 youtube: https://t.co/XT5xlibK3C📹 @VIDAislive: https://t.co/N2odpdZZhd📹 twitch: https://t.co/CdLT9sMTcN pic.twitter.com/3mm5U5a5gs— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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The bitcoin++ hackathon launched at the Bitcoin Commons for the second morning with over 13 team projects from over 40 talented Bitcoin developers from around the country gathering to participate in the hackathon.
Thanks for hosting Parker!— Asher (@Asher68W) June 10, 2022
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As many teams were up late into the evening on the first day, Day two got off to a fast start. Stacker News Live was live-streaming from the hackathon.
Stacker News Live https://t.co/qHI6CgArKZ— Stacker News (@stacker_news) June 10, 2022
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We started off the day with a warm welcome from the MC of the event Matt Donoand bitcoin++ hackathon volunteer Britneygoing over the scheduled events of the day.
🟠➕➕ kicking off another day here @bitcoincommons 🎯 Hackathon presentations from @btcplusplus will be streamed here at 3pm Texas Time.🏄 follow below:📹 youtube: https://t.co/XT5xlibK3C📹 @VIDAislive: https://t.co/N2odpdZZhd📹 twitch: https://t.co/CdLT9sMTcN pic.twitter.com/3mm5U5a5gs— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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The final project teams were announced prior to the event.
⚡ Project Teams:
✏️ Bitcoin Dev Shop: Lightning privacy wallet
🎯 Team Bitcoin Dev Shop - pLN🏄 It's hard to use lightning privately. pic.twitter.com/EkC12oULGV— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Liquidity Hub: Automated service to Bitcoin miners turn their held Bitcoin into liquidity
🎯 Team Liquidity Hub🏄 Miners generally are the largest (known) accumulatorrs of BTC & running a large routing node with some of their stack can earn them yield Additionally the Lightning Network needs a source of well-connected inbound liquidity, which miners could provide pic.twitter.com/9rRPl0piry— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Sats 4 Tips: Accepting tips in sats for restaurants, donation pages, charities and anyone working for tips
🎯 Team Sats 4 Tips🏄 Using @lnbits and @voltage_cloud pic.twitter.com/deHbKDinyv— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Arkive: It's hard to search the Bitcoin dev mailing list; so I archived it.
🎯 Team Dev List Archive🏄 Archiving the bitcoin dev mailing list pic.twitter.com/tmGVLTF0sr— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Zaploy: Enabling web-hooks on Galoy for Zaprite
🎯Team Zaploy🏄 @ZapriteApp and @GaloyMoney pic.twitter.com/P2g4mszzpn— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Progress Bar: People aren't able to purchase from Square merchants with Lightning; so we solve that.
🎯 Team Progress Bar🏄 @Square pic.twitter.com/kkTBfmyPNM— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Atlanta Bit Devs: Terminus Pay
🎯 Team Atlanta BitDevs 🏄 Terminus Pay pic.twitter.com/qGFuSf5vA7— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Minisimp: First deployment of simplicity language
🎯 Team Minisimp🏄 Using simplicity and minimint pic.twitter.com/oiaDWWFlju— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ TeamBase58
🎯 Team @base58btc 🏄 Presenting the upcoming bitcoin transactions protocol class startingJune 27, 2022 and running for 6 weeks. Every Monday and Thursday (Texas time) for an hour and a half. pic.twitter.com/eSH0MiemaY— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Frostymint: Removing BLS cryptography and utilizing Taproot native multi signatures for minimint so it integrates with the rest of hte ecosystem (for consistent standards)
🎯 Team Frostymint🏄 Removing BLS cyrptography and utilizing Taproot native multi signatures for minimint so it integrates with the rest of hte ecosystem (for consistant standards) pic.twitter.com/N7ckddwcIw— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ LNUptime.com: If your lightning node goes down, there is not always a notification; with this, an email is sent once service detects your lightning node goes offline.
pic.twitter.com/eNX5rmI86L— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Plz Use LDK/Adding LDK to Polar: Not a lot of people use LDK; most devs use Polar for development; but it doesn't have LDK. By adding more people to LDK, it encourages more people to use it.
🎯 Team Plz Use LDK/Adding LDK to Polar🏄 Not a lot of people use LDK; most devs use Polar for development; but it doesn't have LDK. By adding more people to LDK, it encourages more people to use it. Using Sensei Sensei + Polar pic.twitter.com/llZpiTnv7y— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Humble PLEB Stack Calculator: How to get more people to Daily Cost Average into Bitcoin.
🎯 Team Humble PLEB Stack Calculator🏄 How to get more people to Daily Cost Average into Bitcoin. pic.twitter.com/mZvYgArXoZ— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ GPG For Noobs: Authenticating software - is my app fake? Whenever you're downloading wallet software, how do you know it is authentic?
🎯 Team GPG For Noobs🏄 Authenticating software - is my app fake? Whenever you're downloading wallet software, how do you know it is authentic? pic.twitter.com/UTZYpXtRUV— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Rainforest: There's not a good incentive for every-day consumers and businesses to use Bitcoin over fiat; fiat business models are limited, whereas Bitcoin models are more open-source and democratic than what is possible with fiat.
🎯 Team Rainforest🏄 There's not a good incentive for every-day consumers and businesses to use Bitcoin over fiat; fiat business models are limited, whereas Bitcoin models are more open-source and democratic than what is possible with fiat. pic.twitter.com/wl1uK8WA5j— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Wallet Fingerprinting: Wallets construct transactions that can give away what the wallet is specifically. Making a tool that shows this so wallet devs will be incentivized to solve this.
🎯 Team Wallet Fingerprinting🏄 Wallets construct transactions that can give away what the wallet is specifically. Making a tool that shows this so wallet devs will be incentivized to solve this. pic.twitter.com/hruWKEeshl— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ TransLnd: Being able to have a new lightning pub key for every LN invoice
🎯 Team TransLnd🏄 Being able to have a new lightning pub key for every LN invoice pic.twitter.com/zhVy5Ohray— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Minecraft Appreciatoors: Routers currently rely on a handful of centralized services to facilitate swapping onchain / offchain; LOOP, Boltz, WoS, etc. While better p2p solutions like PeerSwap are in the works, a transitory solution in the vein of Amboss' Magma could find utility.
🎯 Team Minecraft Appreciatoors🏄 Routers currently rely on a handful of centralized services to facilitate swapping onchain/offchain. While better p2p solutions like PeerSwap are in the works, a transitory solution in the vein of Amboss' Magma could find utility. pic.twitter.com/kdpljH37jP— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Satoshi Dog: Unable to gamble in a decentralized trustless way. Satoshi Dog would combine Bitcoin and Lightning to do just that.
🎯 Team Satoshi Dog🏄 Can't gamble in a decentralized trustless way, and Satoshi Dog would combine Bitcoin and Lightning to do that. Using @Liquid_BTC pic.twitter.com/zwwGJ83hO4— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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📹 Check out the full live stream here.
bitcoin++ Live from Austin, Texas https://t.co/VMPWlTSVyT— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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🏄♂️ bitcoin++ Judges
🎯 Winners of the event were as follows:
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Watch:Announcing the winners of the bitcoin++ hackathon
✏️ Project Galoy: Zaploy
@ZapriteApp + @GaloyMoney (Team Zaploy) celebrating the winner of the ‘Best Galoy Integration’ category at the @btcplusplus conference @bitcoincommons in Austin, TX. pic.twitter.com/AoBFb920Ot— John { zaprite.com } (@john_zaprite) June 11, 2022
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✏️ Project Voltage: LNUptime.com
https://t.co/87Ya2UWZnD https://t.co/C4E5TPkOP2— neb_b (@neb_b) June 11, 2022
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✏️ Project Sensei: Bitcoin Dev Shop
These folks 👀https://t.co/8aEynsPFYu— arvin (@vindaRd) June 11, 2022
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✏️ Project Core Lightning: Team Atlanta BitDevs
Trying to not mess up the live demo 😬😅 with @StephenDeLorme and Georgiy Pyantkovs'ky - our team @atlantabitdevs building tools for @terminusbtc @btcplusplus #Bitcoin https://t.co/DB7gsOwXLB— ₿ry (@btcbry) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Most Polished: Satoshi Dog
Lots of dope stuff coming out of @btcplusplus https://t.co/FsKoHPlobS— grubles (@notgrubles) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Best Idea: Team Liquidity Hub
Congrats to @RyanAlderink for winning the Best Idea entry in the @btcplusplus hackathon!His project enables miners to automatically offer their mined bitcoin on the lightning network using Magma and the Amboss API. ⛏️➕🌋➕⚡— AMBOSS 🔳 👾 (@ambosstech) June 11, 2022
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🎯 Team Liquidity Hub🏄 Miners generally are the largest (known) accumulatorrs of BTC & running a large routing node with some of their stack can earn them yield Additionally the Lightning Network needs a source of well-connected inbound liquidity, which miners could provide pic.twitter.com/9rRPl0piry— btc++ (@btcplusplus) June 10, 2022
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✏️ Best Hack Overall: Minisimp
WinnerWinner! pic.twitter.com/uOhCz9UEw4— Lightning Ventures (@ltngventures) June 10, 2022
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Winners of the hackathon celebrating their win in proper form. Thank you @btcplusplus and @PlebLab for letting the #bitcoin Commons host the hackathon, and thank you to everyone who participated! https://t.co/khtcvopBJe pic.twitter.com/vK0BZHJJma— Bitcoin Commons (@bitcoincommons) June 10, 2022
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✌️see ya at the next bitcoin++
