HCPP22 | Daniela Brozzoni - Life is short, Bitcoin is forever

What would happen to your coins if you were to die in the next three hours? Would they be lost forever? Would your relatives be able to recover them? Descriptors, timelocks, taproot. 0% custodians.
The premise
We don’t like custodians. Not your keys, not your coins.
The problem
Self-custody of Bitcoin is hard. Making sure that your relatives can access your coin after your death, but can’t steal them before your death, is even harder.
The solution
…You’ll have to listen to my talk to find out. Sorry, no spoilers!
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Daniela is a Bitcoin developer working mainly on wallets - she is now dedicated full time to BDK, a library for seamlessly building highly-customizable Bitcoin wallets, while in the past she spent time working on Blockstream Green, BraiinsOS, Stratum V2, revaultd, and revault-gui.
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Prefer to read? The speech transcript is available at bitlyrics.co/transcripts/life...
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Paralelní Polis is a one-­of-­a-­kind nonprofit organization that brings together art, social sciences, and modern technologies. The ideas of liberty, independence, innovative thinking, and the development of society are the main underlying foundations the whole project is built upon.
The project intends to remain state-free as it operates entirely without government support. Most of the funds come from voluntary contributions of our donors and partly from commercial activities such as running a unique co­working space and the world’s first bitcoin-­only cafe.
It was founded by members of a contemporary-­art group Ztohoven, and Slovak and Czech hacker­spaces. Its main goal is to promote economic, social, and digital freedom. We try to be a vocal voice of liberty in order to shape the public discourse, and ultimately work towards a freer future.

[@marcusmartinez303]

great talk!

[@nitemare1525]

Super excited to hear this talk for sure

[@thibm93]

Super good talk. Learned a lot. Thank you!