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, Hong Kong and now Milan, Italy. The conference enables workshops and keynote speeches concerning technical criteria, proposals, and evaluate the information with an academic discipline. Attendees consisted of academic researchers, engineers, and journalists.
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