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December 6th
Introduction
Introduction to Event
Overviews
BIP99 and uncontroversial hardforks
PRESENTER(s):
Jorge Timon
Fungibility and scalability
PRESENTER(s):
Adam Back
Zero-knowledge proofs for Bitcoin scalability and beyond
PRESENTER(s):
Madars Virza
Break
Security and Incentives
Security assumptions
PRESENTER(s):
Andrew Poelstra
In adversarial environments, blockchains don't scale
PRESENTER(s):
Peter Todd
Why miners will not voluntarily individually produce smaller blocks
PRESENTER(s):
Jonathan Bier
Break
Block Propagation
IBLT and weak block propagation performance
PRESENTER(s):
Kalle Rosenbaum and Rusty Russell
Tampering with the delivery of blocks and transactions in Bitcoin
PRESENTER(s):
Arthur Gervais
BIP101 block propagation data from testnet
PRESENTER(s):
Jonathan Toomim
Lunch
Miner's Panel
Miner's Panel
PRESENTER(s):
Xiang Fu, Marshall Long, Gang Wu, Wang Chun, Robin Yao, William Tang, and Mikael Wang (moderator)
Break
WIPs
Works in Progress
Break
Reception
December 7th
Open
Opening
Layer 2, etc
Segregated witness and its impact on scalability
PRESENTER(s):
Pieter Wuille
Overview of BIPs necessary for Lightning
PRESENTER(s):
Tadge Dryja
Network Topologies and their scalability implications on decentralized off-chain networks
PRESENTER(s):
Joseph Poon
Break
Breaking the chain
Braiding the blockchain
PRESENTER(s):
Bob McElrath
Breaking the chains of blockchain protocols
PRESENTER(s):
Yonatan Sompolinsky
SCP: A computationally-scalable byzantine consensus protocol
PRESENTER(s):
Loi Luu
Break
Tweaking the chain
A bevy of block size proposals: 100, 102 and more.
PRESENTER(s):
Jeff Garzik
A flexible limit: Trading subsidy for larger blocks
PRESENTER(s):
Mark Friedenbach
Validation-cost metric
PRESENTER(s):
Jonas Nick
Lunch
Discussion groups
Discussion groups
Wrap up from discussion groups, next steps and close
Reception
Independent Developer Meetup (December 8th-9th)
Cory Fields is organizing an independent developer meetup that will be taking place for 2 days following the Scaling Bitcoin conference. To make it easier for people to attend, the workshop will be held at the same location, Cyberport. Please note: this meetup is not related to Scaling Bitcoin and is explicitly for developers and technical people only. This information is being posted here for convenience. Meetup information can be found here: bitcoin-dev mailing list announcement.
December 8th
Developer Meetup
Closing
December 9th
Developer Meetup
Closing