Bitcoin Scalability Workshops
Scaling Bitcoin 2016 "Retarget" • October 8th-9th Milan, Italy
FOR THE ENGINEERING AND ACADEMIC COMMUNITY • NO EXHIBIT BOOTHS • NO DISTRACTIONS
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Workshop

How do the Workshops work?

Events are live-streamed with remote participation facilitated via IRC for parallel online discussion and passing questions to the event.
These workshops aim to facilitate the existing Bitcoin Improvement Proposals process. Most work will be done outside of the workshops in the intervening months. The workshops serve to be additive to the design and review process by raising awareness of diverse points of view, studies, simulations and proposals.
Travel, venue details, accommodation recommendation are available below.
Please see the FAQ section below, it should answer most other questions.
Workshop Sponsorship

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Travel Subsidy

Travel subsidy is no longer available. The event has been sold out.
If you have applied for travel subsidy, you will be notified before 2016-09-23 23:59 UTC.
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Call for Proposals

The second Scaling Bitcoin Workshop will take place 8th  October 2016 - 9th  October 2016 at the Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 20133 Milano - Italy. We are accepting technical proposals for improving Bitcoin performance including designs, experimental results, and comparisons against other proposals. The goals are twofold: 1) to present potential solutions to scalability challenges while identifying key areas for further research and 2) provide a venue where researchers, developers, and miners can communicate about Bitcoin development.

We are accepting two types of proposals: one in which accepted authors will have an opportunity to give a 20-30 minute presentation at the workshop, and another where accepted authors can run an hour-long interactive workshop.

Topics of interest include:
Improving Bitcoin throughput
Layer 2 ideas (i.e. payment channels, etc.)
Security and privacy
Incentives and fee structures
Testing, simulation, and modeling
Network resilience
Anti-spam measures
Block size proposals
Mining concerns
Community coordination

All as related to the scalability of Bitcoin.
Important Dates

2016-09-09 23:59 UTC - Last day for submission
2016-09-23 23:59 UTC - Last day for notification of acceptance and feedback
Formatting

We are doing rolling acceptance, so submit your proposal as soon as you can. Proposals may be submitted as a BIP or as a 1-2 page extended abstract describing ideas, designs, and expected experimental results. Indicate in the proposal whether you are interested in speaking, running an interactive workshop, or both. If you are interested in running an interactive workshop, please include an agenda.

Proposals should be submitted to proposals@scalingbitcoin.org by 2016-09-09 23:59 UTC.

All talks will be livestreamed and published online, including slide decks.

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Schedule

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Schedule
October 7th

19:00
Opening party

October 8th

09:30
(30 min )
Registration
Introduction


10:00
(5 min )
Introduction to Event
Fungibility


10:05
(25 min )
Fungibility Overview
PRESENTER:
Adam Back and Matt Corallo

10:30
(25 min )
JoinMarket
PRESENTER:
Adlai Chandrasekhar

10:55
(25 min )
TumbleBit: An Untrusted Bitcoin-Compatible Anonymous Payment Hub
PRESENTER:
Ethan Heilman and Leen AlShenibr

11:20
(25 min )
MimbleWimble
PRESENTER:
Andrew Poelstra

11:45
(20 min )
Break
Community


12:05
(45 min )
Build – Scale – Operate: The Three Pillars of the Bitcoin Community
PRESENTER:
Meltem Demirors and Eric Lombrozo

12:50
(90 min )
Lunch
Lightning


14:20
(25 min )
Onion Routing in Lightning
PRESENTER:
Olaoluwa Osuntokun

14:45
(25 min )
Flare: An Approach to Routing in Lightning Networks
PRESENTER:
Pavel Prikhodko

15:10
(25 min )
Unlinkable Outsourced Channel Monitoring
PRESENTER:
Tadge Dryja

15:35
(20 min )
Break
Scalability on Top


15:55
(25 min )
Sidechain Scaling -- Better Strategy Can Improve TX-Throughput, Even if it Can't Improve TX-Physics
PRESENTER:
Paul Sztorc

16:20
(25 min )
Scalable and Accountable Timestamping
PRESENTER:
Riccardo Casatta

16:45
(75 min )
Workshops

Lightning Network Routing
LEADERS:
C.J. Plooy

Scaling Non-Financial Applications
LEADERS:
Riccardo Casatta, Jude Nelson

Fungibility
LEADERS:
Adlai Chandrasekhar, Andrew Poelstra

Hashrate Decentralization
LEADERS:
Jack Liao, Alex Petrov

Getting into Bitcoin Protocol Development
LEADERS:
TBA

19:30
Main Reception

October 9th

10:00
(5 min )
Opening
Implementation and Small Changes


10:05
(25 min )
Lessons Learned with Segwit in Bitcoin
PRESENTER:
Greg Sanders

10:30
(25 min )
Elliptic Curve Schnorr-based Signatures in Bitcoin
PRESENTER:
Pieter Wuille

10:55
(25 min )
Scaling from the Perspective of End-Users
PRESENTER:
Jonas Schnelli

11:20
(20 min )
Break

11:40
(25 min )
Simulation-based Evaluation of Coin Selection Strategies
PRESENTER:
Mark Erhardt

12:05
(25 min )
On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains
PRESENTER:
Arthur Gervais

12:30
(15 min )
Bitcoin Covenants -- Opportunities and Challenges
PRESENTER:
Emin Gun Sirer

12:45
(90 min )
Lunch
Breaking the Chain


14:15
(25 min )
Enhancing Bitcoin Security and Performance with Strong Consistency via Collective Signing
PRESENTER:
Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias

14:40
(25 min )
Fast difficulty adjustment using a low-pass finite impulse response filter
PRESENTER:
Mark Friedenbach

15:05
(25 min )
New Braiding Techniques to Achieve Significant Scaling Gains
PRESENTER:
David Vorick

15:30
(25 min )
Progress on Scaling via Client-Side Validation
PRESENTER:
Peter Todd

15:55
(20 min )
Break

16:15
(90 min )
Workshops

Collaboration between the Bitcoin Community and Academia
LEADERS:
Shinichiro Matsuo, Neha Narula

Wallet Implementation Issues and Discussion
LEADERS:
Lawrence Nahum, TBA

"Breaking the Chain"
LEADERS:
Bob McElrath, TBA

Block Propagation
LEADERS:
Matt Corallo, Andrea Suisani

17:45
(15 min )
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