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- Make sure to check out the program of the Bitcoin Edge Dev++ event that takes place September 9th-10th, right before this Scaling Bitcoin event
Schedule
September 11th
Registration
Introduction
Invited Talk: A Survey of Progress in Succinct Zero Knowledge Proofs: Towards Trustless SNARKs
PRESENTER(s):
Ben Fisch (Stanford University)
Scripts
Threshold Scriptless Scripts
PRESENTER(s):
Omer Shlomovits (KZen Research)
Developing secure Bitcoin contracts with BitML
PRESENTER(s):
Nicola Atzei, Massimo Bartoletti, Stefano Lande (University of Cagliari), Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College London), Roberto Zunino (University of Trento)
Break
ZkVM: zero-knowledge virtual machine for fast confidential smart contracts
PRESENTER(s):
Oleg Andreev (Stellar)
Scriptless Lotteries on Bitcoin from Oblivious Transfer
PRESENTER(s):
Lloyd Fournier (Independent Researcher)
Network
TxProbe: Discovering Bitcoin's Network Topology Using Orphan Transactions
PRESENTER(s):
Sergi Delgado Segura (UCL), Surya Bakshi, Andrew Miller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Cristina Pérez-Solà (UOC), James Litton, Andrew Pachulski, Bobby Bhattacharjee (UMD)
Lunch
Bandwidth-Efficient Transaction Relay for Bitcoin
PRESENTER(s):
Gleb Naumenko (Chaincode Labs), Gregory Maxwell (Independent Researcher), Pieter Wuille (Blockstream), Alexandra Fedorova, Ivan Beschastnikh (The University of British Columbia)
Transaction Throughput
BIP: OP_SECURETHEBAG
PRESENTER(s):
Jeremy Rubin (Independent Researcher)
Elastic Block Caps
PRESENTER(s):
Meni Rosenfeld (Israeli Bitcoin Association)
Break
Privacy
A Tale of Two Trees: One Writes, and Other Reads, Scaling Oblivious Accesses to Large-Scale Blockchains
PRESENTER(s):
Duc V. Le, Adil Ahmad, Mohsen Minaei, Aniket Kate (Purdue University), Lizzy Hurtado (National University of Colombia), Byoungyoung Lee (Seoul National University)
Applying Private Information Retrieval to Lightweight Bitcoin Clients
PRESENTER(s):
Kaihua Qin, Henryk Hadass, Arthur Gervais (Imperial College London), Joel Reardon (University of Calgary)
ZeroLink Sudoku: Real vs. Perceived Anonymity
PRESENTER(s):
Aviv Milner (Black Tie Consultants) Yuval Kogman, (Independent Researcher)
Break
Alternative Blockchain Protocols
Prism: Scaling Bitcoin to Physical Limits
PRESENTER(s):
Vivek Bagaria, David Tse (Stanford), Sreeram Kannan (University of Washington), Giulia Fanti (CMU), Pramod Viswanath (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
BackPackers: A New Paradigm for Secure and High-performance Blockchain
PRESENTER(s):
Phuc Thai, Hong-Sheng Zhou, Thang Dinh (Virginia Commonwealth University), Jonathan Katz (University of Maryland), Lei Fan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Education
Overview of Dev++ Topics
Signet
PRESENTER(s):
Karl-Johan Alm (DG Lab)
Close
Main Reception at LABS TLV
September 12th
Lightning Network
Improving routing in the Lightning Network with Trampoline Payments
PRESENTER(s):
Bastien Teinturier (Acinq)
PISA: Arbitration Outsourcing for State Channels
PRESENTER(s):
Patrick McCorry (PISA Research), Surya Bakshi, Andrew Miller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Iddo Bentov (Cornell University), Sarah Meiklejohn (UCL)
Break
Outpost: A Responsive Lightweight Watchtower
PRESENTER(s):
Tejaswi Nadahalli, Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich), Majid Khabbazian (University of Alberta)
Açai: a backup protocol for Lightning Network wallets
PRESENTER(s):
Margherita Favaretto (Technical University of Denmark)
Rainbow Network: Synthetic Assets on Lightning
PRESENTER(s):
Dan Robinson (Paradigm)
Lunch
Layer 2
Atomic Multi-Channel Updates with Constant Collateral in Bitcoin-Compatible Payment-Channel Networks
PRESENTER(s):
Christoph Egger (Friedrich-Alexander~University Erlangen-Nueremberg), Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Matteo Maffei (Vienna University of Technology)
Plasma Cash: Towards more efficient Plasma Constructions
PRESENTER(s):
Georgios Konstantopoulos (Independent Researcher)
Payment Channels
A2L: Anonymous Atomic Locks for Scalability and Interoperability in Payment Channel Hubs
PRESENTER(s):
Erkan Tairi, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Matteo Maffei (Vienna University of Technology)
Break
Recovering Payment Channel Midstates Using only The User's Seed
PRESENTER(s):
David Vorick (Nebulous)
PoW & Verification
Proof of Necessary Work: Succinct State Verification with Fairness Guarantees
PRESENTER(s):
Assimakis Kattis, Joseph Bonneau (New York University)
Proof-of-Verification for Proof-of-Work: Miners Must Verify the Signatures on Bitcoin Transactions
PRESENTER(s):
Kanta Matsuura (The University of Tokyo)
Schedule Drift (Adjustment)
Break
Fountain Codes
SeF: A Secure Fountain Architecture for Slashing Storage Costs of Blockchains
PRESENTER(s):
Swanand Kadhe, Jichan Chung, Kannan Ramchandran (University of California, Berkeley)
Work in Progress
Optical Proof of Work
PRESENTER(s):
Mikael Dubrovsky
A Lucas Critique to the Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm of the Bitcoin System
PRESENTER(s):
Yoshinori Hashimoto (BUIDL, Ltd)
Offline Transactions (inspired by Blockchain Ethics)
PRESENTER(s):
Daniel Marquez (MIT Media Lab)
Conditional Transfer of Tokens on Top of Bitcoin
PRESENTER(s):
Thomas Eizinger
Storm: layer 2/3 storage & messaging
PRESENTER(s):
Maxim Orlovsky (Pandora Core)
Building Ultra-light Clients with SNARKs
PRESENTER(s):
Noah Vesely (C-Labs)
Signet
PRESENTER(s):
Karl-Johan Alm (DG Lab)
Miniscripts
PRESENTER(s):
Andrew Poelstra (Blockstream)
Vaults
PRESENTER(s):
Bryan Bishop
Scaling R&D Grant Awards
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