Moustafa Amin
I’m a seasoned network infrastructure architect with over two decades of hands-on experience in data networking, cloud architecture, and protocol design. I’ve spent much of my career helping global organizations build scalable, secure, and high-performance systems but my passion lies in rethinking the foundations of communication itself.
As a lifetime CCIE and a builder deeply aligned with the Bitcoin ethos, I believe the Internet’s legacy stack - especially TCP/IP - needs a clean break. My current work on the Bitcoin Communication Network Protocol (BCNP) is a practical step toward a future where communication is as decentralized and sovereign as money.
I see BCNP as an open, MAC-address-based protocol stack that could one day serve the Lightning and Bitcoin ecosystem, replacing the Internet’s central choke points with peer-driven, prefix-routed autonomy.
Session
The Internet still runs on a bloated and insecure legacy: TCP/IP. What if we rethought the data layer entirely, just like Bitcoin rethought money?
BCNP (Bitcoin Communication Network Protocol) is a minimalist alternative to TCP/IP. Inspired by the clean design of the good old CLNP and the ethos of Bitcoin Lightning; BCNP removes IP addresses, DNS, NAT, etc in favor of self-assembling communication based on MAC-derived addressing and gateway-assigned prefixes.
This talk presents a working prototype of BCNP, including host to gateway negotiation, Ethernet-based transmission, and IP-tunneled multi-segment communication. It’s not just theory; BCNP runs now on Linux, over real hardware.
Like Lightning, BCNP favors locality, speed, and direct connections. It’s an open invitation to rethink everything beneath Bitcoin and to stop relying on an Internet stack built for surveillance and control.