Scaling Bitcoin Milan: A Recap of the Conference’s Scalability Discussions

Scaling Bitcoin Milan: A Recap of the Conference’s Scalability Discussions

Scaling Bitcoin 2016, “Retarget,” was held this past weekend on October 8-9 for the engineering and academic community. The event, created in 2015, offers the development community a place where they can discuss how to safely scale and decentralize the Bitcoin protocol. In order to aid the consensus process, Scaling Bitcoin has been held in Montreal,....


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