Here’s a look back on the highly technical conference in London, where ordinals, silent payments and the Lightning Network were studied and discussed.
From March 2 to 3, Bitcoin bear market builders gathered in London, UK, to participate in a Bitcoin implementation meeting limited to Bitcoin participation.
General BTC conference terms such as "macroeconomic", "junk coin" and "debt quantitative change to qualitative change" are not seen in the debate, followed by computer science terms such as "OP_RETURN", "Nonce" and "ordinal". The two-day developer conference is technical and deliberate-this is a space for people to write their own code.
Leon Johnson, the conference planner and director of operations at bitcoin company Fedi, told Cointelegraph that the conference had entered its fourth year and the image of the participants had gradually evolved:
In 2019, there are indeed many people I call amateurs, enthusiasts and restorers. To some extent, these people have grown to work for Bitcoin companies.
It is well deserved that this meeting has promoted bitcoin enthusiasts to bitcoin enterprises. For example, Johnson explains that online game company Zebedee is separated from the trend of interaction between bitcoins.
Alex Lashman, CEO of River, a lightning network company that continues to accumulate bitcoin in the US, told Cointelegraph that the event was a high-quality test ground for contractors:
Be able to participate in seminars and presentations, it's a pleasure to really fully understand the innovative weeds and internal principles that are taking place in this field-- whether it's numbering, lightning networks, protocol updates-- and what it means to the customer experience and optimize the physical products we've been working on.
In all the meetings, developers and computer scientists continued to tap the computer keyboard. At the age of 10, participants resumed building hardware wallets, writing code, and interrogating blockchains and bitcoin memory pools. The whole day was spent on the forum.
Johnson echoed the comments from other developers and computer scientists that it is good to focus on development, but the layer 2 lightning network is still in its infancy, and Bitcoin is just a child with nearly 15 years of existence. In that case, what does Bitcoin have to perfect?
"Bitcoin needs someone. We should not only be speculators. We should pay attention to the application software.
Eric Silisborne, founder of FEDI and manager of Femint contracts, joined the group: "Don't gamble-this is also a bear market, which is used to create a bear market." He suggested that it was time to "go out into the world and encourage everyone".
Uncle Rockstar (pseudonym), the brain behind some of the operations of bitcoin company Strike, ended her first day of negotiations. Instead of going deeper into scientific and technical standards, as many speeches have done, Rockstar is reprimanding, comforting and motivating developers, especially those who focus on casual, open source software.
A bear market can burn down the best of everyone, she explained in her speech. "it doesn't matter to take a break and take out a fixed income before returning to the building." Lashman said he would allow:
I think Bitcoin will become a global loan coin and change everything. If we are very smart about how to deal with this problem, we can speed up the process.
The bear market continues as the price of Bitcoin stays at the bottom of $20,000. The deepening Bitcoin recently announced that it is going to take this definition to Malaga, Italy in the fall. The Italian version will focus on enterprises and organizations, rather than developers as the core.