As Scaling Bitcoin Retargets in Milan, Focus Shifts to Fungibility
The Scaling Bitcoin conference, held at the Politecnico Milan, returned for its third iteration this weekend, with the focus throughout the speaking slots and workshops shifting away from scaling alone. Emphasizing that Bitcoin faces a more diverse set of challenges, this year’s edition of the technical conference included a broad range of topics. Chief....
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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,....
While bitcoin's limited transaction capacity is no secret, day one of the ongoing Scaling Bitcoin conference in Milan served to assert that there is perhaps another stage of development that needs to take place before the network is ready for increased volume. Rather than focus on elements that have been given the most attention (most notably, the long-contentious block size), day one opened with discussions focused on the economic concept of fungibility, or the idea that no one bitcoin should be able to be deemed less valuable or less legitimate as a result of its past use or ownership.....
An innovation called TumbleBit that improves the privacy and fungibility of bitcoin transactions was presented at the Bitcoin Scaling conference in Milan, reports NASDAQ. TumbleBit builds on the CoinSwap intermediary solution with added layers of cryptography to improve both the privacy and fungibility of bitcoin transactions. The fact that the transaction history of each bitcoin is traceable puts all bitcoins’ fungibility at risk. “Tainted” bitcoins can be valued less than other bitcoins, possibly undermining bitcoin’s value proposition as money. A key problem for fungibility and privacy....
The lineup for the third edition of the bitcoin developer conference Scaling Bitcoin is now available. Released today, the lineup features a heavy emphasis on talks devoted to scaling, or proposed improvements that would boost the transaction capacity of the bitcoin protocol. Planned talks include "Sidechain Scaling" by Bloq’s Paul Sztorc and "Progress on Scaling via Client-Side Validation" by developer Peter Todd. The event is scheduled to be held from 8th to 9th October in Milan, Italy, at Politecnico di Milano. The full program is divided into six sections including....
Italian soccer club AC Milan has announced a non-fungible token (NFT) partnership with the web3 game MonkeyLeague. MonkeyLeague Has Become AC Milan’s New NFT Gaming Partner As revealed in a post on the club’s website, AC Milan and MonekyLeague plan to create a variety of non-fungible tokens together as part of the agreement. AC Milan […]