#153: BCH ZK Rollups & Crypto Conferences feat. Jerry (Lightswarm)

Jerry (@Lightswarm), OPTN BCH Covenants wallet builder, discusses bringing zero knowledge tech into BCH, rank 12 in CoinMarketCap, CHIPs, repping BCH at crypto conferences, and latest mess in BTC land. Please share your thoughts in the comments.

Links:

Jerry on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lightswarm

CHIP proposal (Native Elliptic Curve Arithmetic Operations): https://bitcoincashresearch.org/t/chip-2025-05-native-elliptic-curve-arithmetic-operations/1570

Episode slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bjxmn5MpiAdocHrYo7LsupA-wLMG1XUj/edit?slide=id.g1001e085589_0_4#slide=id.g1001e085589_0_4

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Timestamps:

00:00 Video starts

00:37 Intro

02:06 BCH price gains

15:32 Getting BCH ready for a tidal wave of hype

21:14 Jerry (lightswarm)

25:57 OPTN wallet

28:29 A BCH flavored hackathon?

37:36 ZK technology - CHIP

47:44 CHIP proposal: elliptic curve math

52:10 ZK technology - rollups

1:08:22 Other BCH upgrades

1:11:46 BTC conference & OP_NEXT

1:23:53 BTC upgrade update

1:39:43 -Blockstream- Chaincode Core

1:40:38 Community comment of the week

1:46:06 Meme of the week

1:54:10 Message to the community

1:56:31 Podcast supporter appreciation

1:57:30 Shoutouts & outro

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