Technical discussions take center stage at Advancing Bitcoin conference in London

cointelegraph.com:

The Bitcoin (BTC) bear market builders convened in London, United Kingdom, during the Bitcoin-only conference “Advancing Bitcoin.”

Common Bitcoin conference vernacular, words like “macro,” “shitcoin,” or “debt spiral” were absent from the debate, replaced by computer science terms; words like “OP_return,” “nonce,” and “ordinals” dominated the discussion. The two-day developer conference was technical and thoughtful, a space to get one’s hands dirty writing code.

Leon Johnson, a conference organizer and the head of operations at Bitcoin company Fedi, told Cointelegraph that the conference is entering its fourth year and the profile of attendees has slowly evolved:

True to its name, the conference has advanced Bitcoin hobbyists to Bitcoin companies. Gaming company Zebedee, for example, spun up from interactions at Advancing Bitcoin, Johnson explained.

Alex Leishman, CEO of River, a U.S.-based Bitcoin accumulation and Lighting company told Cointelegraph that the event is a high-quality arena for builders:

True to form, developers and computer scientists pitter-pattered on their keyboards throughout the conference. Attendees as young as ten constructed hardware wallets from scratch, spun up code and interrogated the blockchain and Bitcoin Mempool. An entire day was dedicated solely to workshops.

Echoing comments made by other developers and computer scientists, Johnson highlighted that progress is good, but the layer-2 Lightning Network is still in its infancy and Bitcoin is a teenager at almost 15 years of existence. So what does Bitcoin need to mature?

Eric Sirion, cofounder of Fedi and maintainer of the Fedimint protocol joined in: “Don’t gamble–it’s a bear market and bear markets are for building.” It’s time to “get out