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If you have applied for travel subsidy, you will be notified before 2019-08-01 23:59 UTC.

Call for Proposals

The current Scaling Bitcoin Workshop will take place September 11th -12th in Tel Aviv University, Claire and Emanuel Rosenblatt Auditorium, (Engineering Building), Tel Aviv, Israel. 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 event, and another where accepted authors can run an hour-long interactive workshop.

This year we would like to place a stronger focus on the following topics:



Simulation, modeling and testing



Methods and tools for simulation and testing of blockchain behavior

Game theory and Mechanism Design

Fungibility

Enhancement of Scripting

New Validation Methods

We also welcome compilation/review of material on above topics made available to public since the last Scaling Bitcoin event.

Other topics of interest include:



Improving Bitcoin throughput

Layer 2 ideas (i.e. payment channels, etc.)

Security and privacy

Incentives and fee structures

Network resilience

Anti-spam measures

Block size proposals

Empirical mining data

All as related to the scalability of Bitcoin.

Apart from general presentations and workshop, we plan to accept a limited number of short engineering presentations to cover state-of-the-art engineering progress after the submission deadline. Details of the short presentation submission will be announced later.

While proposals that may apply to digital currencies in general are welcome, this event deals with the scalability of Bitcoin, and submissions which focus primarily on other digital currency systems are out of scope for this event.

Important Dates

2019-06-10 23:00 UTC - Last date for submission

- Last date for submission 2019-07-16 23:59 UTC - Last date for notification of acceptance and feedback

PLEASE NOTE: The last date for notification and feedback has been advanced by 24 hrs to 2019-07-16 23:00 UTC.

Reviewing Process

For the regular presentation proposals, review is conducted by double blind reviewing process. Submissions must be anonymous, with no author name, affiliations, acknowledgement or obvious reference.

Formatting

Proposals may be submitted as a BIP, as a 1-2 page extended abstract, or a paper 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.

All submissions are processed on EasyChair. Please submit your proposal through the following URL:

Proposals should be submitted by 2019-06-10 23:00 UTC.



PLEASE NOTE: Due to multiple requests, after the original date of 2018-06-10, the Program Committee has re-opened submissions on 2019-06-12 9:00 UTC with a firm deadline on 2019-06-17 23:00 UTC.

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