benny b

contact me via email or view my github & twitter


engineer w/ an opensats grant. building dlcdevkit . dlc application tooling and research (2024-pres)

founder @ bitcoin bay a 501c3 non-profit focused on education & adoption in tampa, fl (2021-pres)

engineer for my favorite musician mike. i built an ai trained on his music, a song lyric generator, and a website for fans to vote on what songs are played at his concerts.

prev engineer @ blockspaces building enterprise lightning infrastructure and applications. created a lending protocol on lightning reducing counterparty risk with real time collateral management. (2022-2024)

My Work

rust

  • dlcdevkit : application tooling for dlc applications
  • sons of liberty : frontend interface for dlcdevkit for trading bitcoin futures. blog post
  • kormir : build your own oracle library
  • city tavern & midnight rider : a proxied dlc messaging service for p2p communication (midnight rider). also creates a central order book for dlc trading (city tavern). blog post
  • ernest oracle : an oracle implentation supporting all data bitcoin core spits out. blog post
  • taproot-dlc : taproot dlc implementation for dlc scalability and efficiency
  • dlcat : covenant enabled dlc client. supports OP_CAT & OP_CTV
  • bitender : an automated lightning beer tap. see it in action!
  • arc : automated collateral management of derivatives contracts using lightning
  • benln : a ready-to-go ln node implementation with a gRPC server & CLI for spiral's ldk-node
  • benlnurl : a non-custodial lnurl server that offers lnurl addresses for multiple users w/ multiple nodes connected.
  • lnurl-cli : cli toolkit for various lnurl functions
  • mempool websocket : subscribe to mempool.space websocket and use a callback function when new blocks arrive
  • btc-tx-search : a rust cli to query bitcoin transactions and addresses
  • lnd-test-util : Utility to run a regtest lnd process connected to a given bitcoind instance, useful in integration testing environment.
  • buzz buddy : bitcoin enabled toy (nsfw)

web

  • upside down playlist : created a website for fans to vote on what songs are played at mike's concerts. i worked directly with my favorite musician and thousands of fans used it. might be still hosted
  • peer paid : video conference app that allows users to pay for calls to the host in sats in real time.
  • lightning connect : enterprise lightning solution for businesses to transact over lightning and connect to their existing business infrastructure
  • bay wallet : a non-custodial lightning node running on the phone with a nostr client. built with ldk. Bitcoin Bay engineering collaborative project. a part of tampa bitdevs.
  • nostr-react-native : react native hooks for nostr (thanks react-native builds)
  • bitcoin bay website the best city in the usa. (everyone stop moving here tho)
  • bay wallet (old) : a lightning wallet built for the residents of tampa bay, powered by lnbits
  • bitcoin bay nostr relay : i maintain a nostr relay for bitcoin bay (wss://nostr.bitcoinbay.engineering)
  • bitcoin bay farms : our food initiative in the tampa area. a storefront that connects tampians to locally sources food
  • hexynip5 : a cli tool to quickly convert npub's to hex format
  • bitcoinbay.club nip05 : nip05 verified accounts for bitcoin bay. join the club!
  • ~/creatv : a social media app built on lightning, powered by rn-ldk
  • cold brew : a social media application powered by hive
  • auntie lnd : winner of the satsby 2023 hackathon by pleb lab

ai

  • song lyric generator : users upload an mp3 which is then translated and used to generate lyrics with an llm
  • ask steve : llm trained on creator's content, podcasts, posts, etc. to engage their community. fans can engage creators by asking the llm questions about the creator

Contributions

Blog Posts

Publications & Talks