The Scaling Bitcoin workshops are gearing up for their second phase. After the initial conference in Montreal in September, Bitcoin’s engineering and academic community will gather in Hong Kong later this week to discuss how best to scale up the network to allow for more than a handful of transactions per second.
To get a feel for what to expect from the workshop, Bitcoin Magazine spoke with Pindar Wong, co-founder of Hong Kong’s first licensed ISP and the Scaling Bitcoin Hong Kong planning committee chair, and MIT Digital Currency Initiative’s Neha Narula, Scaling Bitcoin Hong Kong program chair . What will result from the upcoming @ScalingBitcoin workshop? https://t.co/DQxvHXuc7v — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) December 1, 2015 BM: What do you hope to accomplish in Hong Kong?
Wong : “With these conferences, we’re trying to foster the educational and technical understanding that the scaling Bitcoin discussion is both broad and nuanced. In doing so, we hope to help build community, not by controlling the dialogue, but by synchronizing it by focusing on facts, not opinion. By using the scientific and academic approach we’re trying to foster collaboration.”
Narula : “One of the amazing things about this workshop is that we’re actually going to get specific plans. We’re going to have presenters talk about the BIPs [Bitcoin Improvement Proposals] that they have created, their designs, their ideas and their implementations. And we’re even going to get some test data and experimental results.”
BM: Is this more specific approach the biggest difference as compared to the first edition in Montreal?
Narula : “I think so. One major goal of phase one was community building, and really getting people together in one place who haven’t had a lot of opportunity to talk to each other face-to-face. This time we’re really trying to focus […]
