Blockstream VP of Solutions Warren Togami, Researcher Jonas Nick and Engineers Steven Roose & Pablo Greco took to stage to explain the Liquid Sidechain, how the federation works, the role of functionaries and the Liquid roadmap.
Warren is a Linux developer since 2000 and founder of Fedora Linux. He has been a Bitcoin developer since 2013. Currently, Warren is VP Solutions at Blockstream. He holds degrees in BS Computer Science and MBA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Jonas Nick has been a Bitcoin developer with Blockstream since 2015. He is currently working in the research group focused on signatures and script languages like Miniscript and Simplicity for the Bitcoin protocol, wallets, the Elements sidechain and the Lightning Network. He is also a contributor to free and open source projects like Bitcoin Core, libsecp, rust-bitcoin and many others. Jonas is also a co-author of the Schnorr and Taproot specifications and works on both, theory and implementation, of various Bitcoin protocols like adaptor signatures, key aggregation, MuSig, MuSig2, FROST, Batch Verify and many more.
Profiles:
https://adoptingbitcoin.org/speaker/JonasNick/
https://adoptingbitcoin.org/speaker/WarrenTogami
Twitters:
https://twitter.com/wtogami
https://twitter.com/n1ckler
Warren is a Linux developer since 2000 and founder of Fedora Linux. He has been a Bitcoin developer since 2013. Currently, Warren is VP Solutions at Blockstream. He holds degrees in BS Computer Science and MBA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Jonas Nick has been a Bitcoin developer with Blockstream since 2015. He is currently working in the research group focused on signatures and script languages like Miniscript and Simplicity for the Bitcoin protocol, wallets, the Elements sidechain and the Lightning Network. He is also a contributor to free and open source projects like Bitcoin Core, libsecp, rust-bitcoin and many others. Jonas is also a co-author of the Schnorr and Taproot specifications and works on both, theory and implementation, of various Bitcoin protocols like adaptor signatures, key aggregation, MuSig, MuSig2, FROST, Batch Verify and many more.
Profiles:
https://adoptingbitcoin.org/speaker/JonasNick/
https://adoptingbitcoin.org/speaker/WarrenTogami
Twitters:
https://twitter.com/wtogami
https://twitter.com/n1ckler
