Location

The event will be hosted at theBunkers Yaba:

279 Herbert Macaulay Way | Yaba, Lagos | Map

Announcements

Join us on our Thirteen Bitcoin Socratic Seminar! A special thank you to our sponsor Btrust for food and refreshments.

Reminders

We prefer no photos and no videos during the event
Chatham House Rule
Leave the meeting space as clean as you found it
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Topics

BDK cli

MC: Peter

Introducing BDK as a tool to leverage when building your bitcoin project or any application that involes Bitcoin. Different implementation of BDK inlcuding Kyoto, cli e.t.c. what each of them do and how you can use them. Discussion about people interested in contribute to BDK.

There was a live demo of how BDK cli works.

Relevant rsources: Check out the codebase to see usage example of any BDK APIs

This contains a high level documentation for the purpose of each library and its usage

The BDK website contains a blog that has excellent articles you can learn from

The BDK community is always welcoming and if you have any issue, you can ask in the users channel

Bitcoin Scripts

MC: Chigala

Introducing OP-codes: what OP-codes are, some of the different OP-codes that exists. How OP-codes are executed following the stack based approach in Bitcoin. Introduction to Bitcoin scripts, which act as building blocks for major concepts in Bitcoin development. How scripts uses these OP-codes and how they are being executed.

There was also a demo and visuals as to how Bitcoin scripts operates

Relevant resources: Bitscript sandbox to play around with scripts Bitscript script animations to visualize how script get executed Visuals for how Opcodes are executed Lessons on some technical bitcoin concepts