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Columbus, OH · Sept 23–24, 2026
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🚨SPECIAL EDITION: Citrea Trusted Setup Ceremony – LIVE from a Secret Location! 🚨
Show Notes
Join me on Bitcoin Takeover as I team up with Talip from Citrea for the official Trusted Setup Ceremony! 🔒 We’re in an **undisclosed, heavily guarded, sterile environment** to generate secure parameters for Citrea – Bitcoin’s first ZK rollup for scalable, private DeFi. This multi-party computation (MPC) ritual ensures **no single person** can compromise the system. Watch us: ✅ Explain how Trusted Setups work ✅ Run the ceremony step-by-step ✅ **SMASH a computer to bits** for permanent entropy destruction! 💥 👉 What is Citrea? A Bitcoin L2 using zero-knowledge proofs for EVM-compatible apps with full BTC finality. 👉 Why it matters: Enables DeFi, NFTs, and more – all settled on Bitcoin. **Like, subscribe, and hit the bell** for more Bitcoin deep dives! 🔔 🔗 Citrea: https://citrea.xyz 🔗 Follow Talip: https://x.com/otaliptus 🔗 Bitcoin Takeover: https://x.com/BTCTKVR 0:00 Buying the computer 0:35 Buying the tools to destroy the computer afterwards 1:20 The Citrea Trusted Setup ceremony 3:20 Installing Docker 7:20 Creating an environment to run Docker 9:35 Running to command 13:30 Vlad's words for the audience 15:05 Concluding the ceremony 16:45 Introducing entropy (feat: Jerry) 17:54 The destruction process #Bitcoin #Citrea #ZKRollups #TrustedSetup #Crypto
