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If you have applied for travel subsidy, you will be notified before 2016-09-23 23:59 UTC.

Call for Proposals

The current Scaling Bitcoin Workshop will take place October 8th -9th 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) to 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

Important Dates

2016-09-09 23:59 UTC - Last day for submission

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

Formatting

All as related to the scalability of Bitcoin.

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.