Bitcoin Lecture - Can Bitcoin Scale?

Agenda:

19:00-19:30 - Gathering and refreshments
19:30-20:30 - Can Bitcoin Scale? (Aviv Zohar)
20:30-22:00 - Free discussion

One of the important questions that will affect Bitcoin's future adoption, is whether or not it will be able to scale to support the high volume of transactions required from a global currency system. In this talk we will discuss some of the limitations on Bitcoin's growth potential, as well as the various trade-offs that Bitcoin and other altcoins have made between confirmation time, security, and scalability. Finally, we will present our suggestion for a small change in the protocol that can improve Bitcoin's security and allow it to become faster.

(Based on joint work with Yonatan Sompolinsky).

The talk will be aimed at a general audience and will not assume any prior knowledge of the protocol. It will be given in Hebrew.

We would like to start the lecture at 19:30 sharp, so please make an effort to arrive on time, taking traffic into account. From 19:00 you'll have the opportunity to enjoy refreshments and socialize.

As always, the talk will be recorded for those of us who can't attend.

There is a large paid parking lot nearby on Harakevet street. In addition, you can park inside the building, it will cost 20 NIS with a sticker you can collect in the meetup.