Bitcoin Scaling Event Set for Third Installment in Italy
A conference series started as a bid to better unite and focus the bitcoin development community in the wake of serious technical debates will see a third installment in 2016. Following two meetings in Montreal and Hong Kong last year, Scaling Bitcoin will host its next event in Milan, Italy, from 8th to 9th October, organizers announced over the weekend. Called "Scaling Bitcoin 2016: Retarget", the name is a nod to a part of the bitcoin mining process whereby miners adjust to new difficulties. The name is apt as the announcement comes in the wake of the bitcoin halving, a....
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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....
While the Bitcoin price has been creeping to the upside recently, volatility has remained extremely low which means that trading opportunities has been limited. We are hoping for a return to a more exploratory price action soon, however, we may have to wait another week or two before conditions are conducive. Over this past weekend Bitcoin developers gathered in Milan, Italy for the Scaling Bitcoin Conference, a two-day event focused on solutions to Bitcoin’s supposed scaling issues. This was the second of such meeting, out of a total of four scheduled so far. The main points of discussion....
Las Vegas-based Robocoin has announced that CEO Jordan Kelley is enroute to Rome to present to the Italian Parliament and launch the first bitcoin ATM in Italy on the 26th of June. On the matter, Kelley said that "this is an opportunity to help educate and have meaningful conversations with Italy's influential government. Italy is full of cultural tastemakers and has a rich history in banking and finance. These all support Robocoin's goal of helping proliferate Bitcoin." Specifically, Kelley is said to be presenting the Robocoin's AML (anti-money laundering) and KYC (know-your-customer)....
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,....
Italy has made first step towards Bitcoin by implementing the same regulations as they do to cash. Italians just love cash. There are about 7 million people in Italy, who do not have the bank account and by that I mean that they had never had one. At the same time however, the number of population that downloaded bitcoin wallet places Italy 12th among other countries and this is only what can be traced. Although, on the general technological front Italy is far from the techy countries in EU. That probably is due to distrust to digital means of managing money and as we know, that kind of....