Bitcoin Lecture - Breaking Free from Chains

Agenda: 19:00-19:30 - Gathering and refreshments 19:30-20:45 - Breaking free from chains: Secure "chainless" protocols for Bitcoin (Aviv Zohar) 20:45-21:30 - Free discussion Bitcoin and other blockchain-based crypto-currencies do not easily scale to process a high throughput of transactions, or to quickly approve individual transactions. When block creation rates and block sizes are accelerated, networking delays cause many conflicts to occur and the security of the protocol quickly degrades. We…