Club: The Cryptographic Foundations of Bitcoin

About this event

The Cryptographic Foundations of Bitcoin Join us every Thursday at 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC. In this club, we will learn what Bitcoin is actually made of. 📅 When: Every Thursday 🕗 8:00 PM IST / 2:30 PM UTC 🎙️ Hosted by: @sha512rma M.Sc. Cybersecurity, City College of New York (CUNY), Focus areas: ZK-ML, verifiable inference and compute, decentralized AI, applied cryptography, LLM guardrails, red-teaming, and differential privacy. We start with one-way functions and what "hard" really means in cryptography. From there we work through hash functions and how they become Proof-of-Work, Merkle trees and the proofs that let light clients verify a block, elliptic curves and the secp256k1 group your keys live in, ECDSA and Schnorr signatures, and finally threshold schemes like MuSig2 and FROST. Bitcoin's security is not a matter of trust or opinion. It rests on a handful of mathematical assumptions, and in this club we will implement them ourselves. Join us in Bitshala discord lounge: https://discord.com/invite/STeQFVEWf9