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Hey nostriches listen up. @btcplusplus ecash edition is coming up next week in Berlin at w3 hub. Who's coming to talk about advancements in the bitcoin ecash ecosystem 👇 @elsirion will be talking about "Federated eCash Mints 101". Curious about Federated eCash Mint but not sure what it’s all about? In this session, we’ll break down how it works, what you can actually do with it, and why it matters @0x_orkun will be talking about "eCash is Obsolete: ZK is the Future". Discover why Zero-Knowledge (ZK) systems are the future, offering privacy, scalability, and decentralization @bob will be talking about "Better Payments: eUSD, eTips, eGifts" This talk explores the hurdles of adoption and shows how eCash bridges @gudnuf will be giving a workshop on "Building a Custodial Lightning Wallet the Right Way". With the help of cashu-ts and Replit, participants will implement sending and receiving Lightning payments @Egge will be giving a workshop on "Building a Cashu web-wallet with Cashu-ts" @Leito will be talking about "Ecash in non-permissive environments". Ecash is a revolutionary technology, but would it work in a SHTF situation? How would people transact during a national blackout or if a government severed a country's international internet connection? @Abdel will be talking about "Could STARK proofs be good for Cashu?" What if we could create a mint that could be penalized if it doesn't play by the rules? That's where STARK proofs come in. @Shaurya911 will be talking about "Stability Pools in Fedi(mint)". Stability Pool modules in Fedi lock the value of their bitcoin against fiat, thereby giving them peace of mind against market volatility. @IroncladDev will be talking about "Building Ecash Support into Web Apps" @m1sterc001guy will be talking about "Fedimint Lightning Gateway v2". This presentation will describe the evolution of Fedimint's Lightning Gateway architecture @Oz (new npub: npub1tvagkqml8ng8jyr8eq089d8g8tnhlht... will be giving a workshop on "P2P Transmission Methods". We'll explore different ways of transmitting ecash from one device to another, particularly mobile devices in low-connectivity environments. `joschisan` will be talking about "Fedimint Consensus". How to design a low latency Byzantine Fault Tolerant system for constant performance with respect to the number of nodes. Lefteris + Tacio will be talking about "Federation Stats". Short presentation on Fedi's white-glove federations. Rachel Rybarczyk will be talking about "How do you know a pool is not debasing your shares?" Auditing mining share submissions with blind signatures. Brad Starchurski will be talking about "Fedimint Footprints: Exploring What's Visible". A brief exploration of publicly available data from Fedimints using an open-source tool, Fedimint Observer. @supertestnet will be giving a workshop on "Nostr Wallet Connect and Ecash". Learn how to add lightning to your project easily by combining ecash with Nostr Wallet Connect. @nothingmuch will be giving a remote presentation on "Blind Signatures & Anonymous Credentials" . There are many ways of constructing e-cash systems out of cryptographic building blocks. This talk will overview some of those building blocks. @vnprc will be giving a talk about "Hashpools: A Peer-to-peer Free Market for Bitcoin Mining". A solution to the mining pool centralization problem that uses a self-hostable FOSS mining pool stack to generate ecash assets backed by mining shares. @calvadev⚡️ will be talking about "Nutsack: Unsiloed Data, Unsiloed Money". NIP-60 + NIP-61 bring interoperable wallets to any nostr app, along with immediate, verifiable zaps. @Max Hillebrand will be talking about "Ecash for Other Stuff". The rational, challenges, and optimizations of using ecash in Wasabi Wallet as anonymous api access right management tool. @thesimplekid will be leading a workshop doing a deep dive into CDK. He'll walk you through how to set up CDK in your project and how to use it to create a basic wallet. @calle 👁️⚡👁️ will be kicking us off with a keynote about Cashu and the math behind the NUTTIEST mints known to man. It's going to be a huge three days of building and cashing out, don't miss it! Ticket prices go up tomorrow, Oct 1st. Get yours before they're gone! https://btcpp.dev/ecash