Scaling Bitcoin Preview: 5 Talks to Watch at Bitcoin's Big Summit
Will bitcoin, the much-hyped $10bn distributed digital currency network, scale? The open question is set to be addressed at the latest in a series of developer conferences aimed at the issue this week. Scaling Bitcoin, scheduled to run from 9th to 10th October, is the third conference of its kind since divisions in the digital currency's community began following debate on how to accommodate more transactions, and some argue, more users. While the conference has lost some of its former intrigue, what's at stake is still the development roadmap for bitcoin, a project that critics argue is....
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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....
Just today, Thursday, August 28th, by paying with bitcoin you can buy one of the 25 discounted tickets for the Digital Currency Summit that will be in Andorra next September 17-19. Only for 2 BTC, instead of the regular price of 1190€, you can participate in this event and enjoy a wide range of talks organized in different categories like investment opportunities, regulation laws, banking, and workshops where speakers will be se.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about cryptocurrency at a recent Summit for Democracy hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden. He called for global collaboration on cryptocurrencies “so that they are used to empower democracy, not to undermine it.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi Talks About Crypto at President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy President Joe Biden hosted a two-day virtual “Summit for Democracy” on Dec. 9-10. The conference “brought together leaders from government, civil society, and the private sector in our shared....
"We were all busy arguing about the block size, but everything else is crucial." That statement, by Cornell's Emin Gün Sirer, may have come in the middle of the second and final day of the Scaling Bitcoin conference, but it was perhaps the overriding theme of this year's edition of the digital currency network's developer summit. Despite the public visibility of a protest event scheduled in parallel with the conference, the content of this year's event did much to showcase that, for many developers, the "block size" is no longer a significant factor in discussions on....
The gathering of Lightning developers and builders, taking place in El Salvador, kicked off with high energy and fantastic talks.