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The Full Lineup for Scaling Bitcoin is Now Available

The event schedule for next week's Scaling Bitcoin conference is now available.

Updated Sep 11, 2021, 12:31 p.m. Published Oct 3, 2016, 7:54 p.m.
milan, italy

The lineup for the third edition of the bitcoin developer conference Scaling Bitcoin is now available.

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, 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 fungibility, community, Lightning, Scalability on Top, Implementation and Small Changes, and Breaking the Chain.

View the full schedule here.

Politecnico di Milano image via Wikimedia

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