Neutrino: The Privacy Preserving Bitcoin Light Client

Olaoluwa Osuntokun (https://twitter.com/roasbeef) (roasbeef), Cofounder at Lightning Labs, will speak about Neutrino, a privacy preserving Bitcoin light client. The current widely used standard for Bitcoin light clients (BIP 37) has several drawbacks including: virtually zero privacy for users, exploitable DoS vectors against BIP-37-serving full-nodes, and a lack of client-side verifiability for information received (lies by omission, etc). In this talk, Olaoluwa will present Neutrino, an implem…