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Scaling Bitcoin Annual Workshop 2019 – “Yesod”
September 11th-12th - Smolarz Auditorium, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Bitcoin Edge Dev++ Tutorial Track
September 9th-10th - Tel Aviv University, Israel
SPONSORSHIP
INFORMATION
2019
For any additional information, please e-mail sponsor@scalingbitcoin.org
History & Organizational Goals We launched Scaling Bitcoin in 2015 as a two-part event in Montreal and Hong Kong to foster a dialogue within the Bitcoin engineering and academic communities. We executed the initial Scaling Bitcoin events with the underwriting support of the MIT Digital Currency Initiative, Chaincode Labs, Chain, and Blockstream and housed under Base58 Association, a Canadian non-profit organization. Following the success of the first two events, we’ve scheduled the Scaling Bitcoin conference as an annual event. We held our 2016 event in Milan, Italy., 2017 event at Stanford University, U.S.A., and 2018 event at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. We’ve also branched out to support related initiatives which aim to complement the existing consensus and community building process by organizing highly focused in-person working group meetings. In April 2017, we held the first S3ND Bitcoin Wallet Standards Development Initiative (http://s3nd.org) and built stronger relationships between Bitcoin wallet developers by helping them create standards and identify interoperability opportunities. The event took place in Berlin with over 20 wallet developers in attendance. In 2017 we’ve launched Bitcoin Edge Dev++ tutorial track aimed at fostering blockchain related education within the software development community. We are currently planning our next set of events at Tel Aviv University for September 9th-12th 2019.
Upcoming Event
Scaling Bitcoin 2019 “Yesod”
Tel Aviv University – Smolarz Auditorium
https://telaviv2019.scalingbitcoin.org
SCALING BITCOIN 2019
Scaling Bitcoin “Yesod”
Scaling Bitcoin focuses on the systematic identification of portions of the
Bitcoin protocol that best lend themselves to continuous, non-’consensus
layer’ improvement.
Scaling Bitcoin focuses on the refinement of Bitcoin’s existing impressive
security, integrity and performance properties by identifying opportunities
to drive further algorithmic efficiency and rigorous testing.
Particular attention will be paid to the precision engineering of all aspects of
Bitcoin’s quality assurance processes, such as unit, integration and system-
level testing, testnet data gathering and analysis, streamlining toolchain
support and the verification and validation of existing integrity testing and
distribution approaches.
In 2018, more than 20 research teams from around the world came to Tokyo to present their
ground-breaking Bitcoin scalability research. Over the last year, these researchers have been
hard at work pushing the envelope with cutting edge technologies. Scaling Bitcoin serves as
the de-facto venue for disseminating the highest caliber innovations to the broader Bitcoin
ecosystem. We hope that you will join us in sponsoring the event so that we can continue to
support the science and scaling of Bitcoin with high quality programming.
Bitcoin Edge Initiative
Through our communication with our past sponsors and
event participants about what problems they’re
experiencing that Scaling Bitcoin should focus on, we
have received one message repeatedly - "Lack of
talent". Organizations that want to participate in and
integrate with the Bitcoin ecosystem face great
difficulty recruiting developers with relevant expertise.
We are running Bitcoin Edge (http://bitcoinedge.org) to
address the bitcoin engineering talent deficit. We ran
Bitcoin Edge Dev++ Bootcamp for the first time during
the Scaling Bitcoin 2017 ‘Scaling the Edge’ in Silicon
Valley.
Bitcoin Edge Dev++ Bootcamp is meant to focus on scaling the development capacity of the
ecosystem via education of developers in the field of cryptocurrency and helping the
industry streamline the process of developer training. The primary focus of this tutorial will
be a basic first-principles introduction to cryptocurrency as well as cryptocurrency-specific
engineering methodologies, security practices, and standard operating procedures.
PREVIOUS EVENT - BITCOIN EDGE DEV++ 2018
PROGRAM
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION TO BITCOIN EDGE DEV++
Anton Yemelyanov
CRYPTOGRAPHY CHAINS I
- FINITE FIELDS - HANDLING RE-ORGS & FORKS
- ELLIPTIC CURVES Bryan Bishop
- ECDSA - ABSTRACT THINKING ABOUT CONSENSUS SYSTEMS,
- SCHNORR Luke Dashjr
John Newberry (Chaincode) CHAINS II
- BLIND SIGNATURES - SIDECHAINS & FEDERATION MODELS
, Ethan Heilman (Boston University) Greg Sanders (Blockstream)
BITCOIN DATA STRUCTURES CROSS-CHAIN INTEROP
- BLOCK STRUCTURE & HEADERS - CROSS-CHAIN SWAPS
- UTXO Ethan Heilman, Nicolas Dorier
- MERKLE TREES LIGHTNING
- ADDRESS - LIGHTNING NETWORK OVERVIEW
- PROOF-OF-WORK & DIFFICULTY - LIGHTNING CHANNEL FACTORIES
Akio Nakamura (DG Lab) Thaddeus Dryja
SCRIPTING & TRANSACTIONS I SECURITY
- SCRIPTS (GENERAL & SIMPLE) - SECURITY ISSUES / ATTACKS / THREAT MODELS
John Newbery (Chaincode) Karl-Johan Alm
- P2PKH/P2WPKH/P2H/P2WSH
PLATFORMS
Greg Sanders (Blockstream)
- SIGHASH NOINPUT (BIP118) - AN OVERVIEW OF BITCOIN CORE ARCHITECTURE
Bryan Bishop James O'Beirne (Chaincode)
- BITCOIN TOOLCHAIN
WALLETS
- UNIT TESTING & DETERMINISTIC BUILDS
- COIN SELECTION Marco Falke (Chaincode)
Karl-Johan Alm (DG Lab) - INTERFACING WITH PYTHON VIA PYTHON-BITCOINLIB
- HD WALLETS (BIP32) Bryan Bishop
- WALLET SECURITY - LIBBITCOIN
- KEY MANAGEMENT James Chiang
Bryan Bishop
- HARDWARE WALLETS
- HSM VALIDATION MODELS
- PSBT (BIP174)
Greg Sanders (Blockstream)
SCRIPTING & TRANSACTIONS II
- BULLET PROOFS
Karl-Johan Alm (DG Lab)
- M-OF-N THRESHOLD SIGNATURE USING SCHNORR
Takatoshi Nakagawa (DG Lab)
- TAPROOT/GRAFTROOT
Greg Sanders (DG Lab)
CRYPTOECONOMICS
- PRINCIPLES OF CRYPTODYNAMICS
Eric Voskuil
PREVIOUS EVENT - SCALING BITCOIN 2018
CURRENT STATE OF BITCOIN
AN ANALYSIS OF DUST IN UTXO BASED
PROGRAM
CRYPTOCURRENCIES
Cristina Pérez-Solà, Sergi Delgado Segura, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas
ARCHITECTURE
and Jordi Herrera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
OMNILEDGER: A SECURE, SCALE-OUT, DECENTRALIZED
HOW MUCH PRIVACY IS ENOUGH? THREATS, SCALING, LEDGER VIA SHARDING
AND TRADE-OFFS IN BLOCKCHAIN PRIVACY PROTOCOLS Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias, Philipp Jovanovic, Linus Gasser, Nicolas
Ian Miers (Cornell Tech) Gailly, Ewa Syta and Bryan Ford (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
ON-CHAIN SCALING Lausanne)
FORWARD BLOCKS: ON-CHAIN/SETTLEMENT CAPACITY THE GHOSTDAG PROTOCOL
INCREASES WITHOUT THE HARD-FORK Yonatan Sompolinsky and Aviv Zohar (The Hebrew University of
Mark Friedenbach Jerusalem)
PLAYING WITH FIRE: ADJUSTING BITCOIN'S BLOCK LIGHTNING NETWORK
SUBSIDY REBALANCING IN THE LIGHTNING NETWORK: ANALYSIS
Anthony Towns (Xapo) AND IMPLICATIONS
Sebastián Reca (Muun)
SELF-REPRODUCING COINS AS UNIVERSAL TURING
MACHINE REPRODUCTIBLE LIGHTNING BENCHMARK
Dmitry Meshkov, Alexander Chepurnoy and Vasily Kharin (Ergo Nicolas Dorier (DG Lab, Metaco)
Platform)
INCENTIVIZING PAYMENT CHANNEL WATCHTOWERS
SCALING SECURITY Georgia Avarikioti, Felix Laufenberg, Jakub Sliwinski, Yuyi Wang
COMPACT MULTI-SIGNATURES FOR SMALLER and Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zurich)
BLOCKCHAINS INTEROPERABILITY
Dan Boneh, Manu Drijvers and Gregory Neven (Stanford University, THE STATE OF ATOMIC SWAPS
IBM Research) Thomas Eizinger, Lloyd Fournier and Phillip Hoenisch (CoBlox)
IMPROVING SPV CLIENT VALIDATION AND SECURITY STATECHAINS: OFF-CHAIN TRANSFER OF UTXOs
WITH FRAUD PROOFS Ruben Somsen
Mustafa Al-Bassam (University College London)
NIJI: BITCOIN BRIDGE UTILIZING PAYMENT CHANNELS
A SCALABLE DROP IN REPLACEMENT FOR MERKLE TREES Hiroki Watanabe, Shigenori Ohashi, Shigeru Fujimura, Atsushi
Benedikt Bünz, Benjamin Fisch and Dan Boneh (Stanford University) Nakadaira, Kota Hidaka and Jay Kishigami (NTT Service Evolution
SCRIPTLESS SCRIPTS AND MULTI-PARTY CHANNELS Labs., NTT Corp.)
MULTI-PARTY CHANNELS IN THE UTXO MODEL: CROSSING SYSTEMS BOUNDS WITH
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES CRYPTOCURRENCY-BACKED TOKENS
Olaoluwa Osuntokun (Lightning Labs) Alexei Zamyatin, Dominik Harz and William Knottenbelt (Imperial
College London)
INSTANTIATING [SCRIPTLESS] 2P-ECDSA: FUNGIBLE
2-OF-2 MULTISIGS FOR TODAY'S BITCOIN OTHER SESSIONS & WORKSHOPS
Conner Fromknecht (Lightning Labs) WORK-IN-PROGRESS (WIP) SESSION
This session will contain overview of latest projects and currently
MULTI-HOP LOCKS FOR SECURE, PRIVACY-PRESERVING ongoing work in Bitcoin ecosystem that has been submitted to the
AND INTEROPERABLE PAYMENT-CHANNEL NETWORKS conference following the WIP Call for Proposals.
Giulio Malavolta (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-
Nuernberg), Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (Purdue University), Clara WORKSHOPS
Schneidewind (Vienna University of Technology), Aniket Kate The Program Committee will prepare series of topic-driven
(Purdue University) and Matteo Maffei (Vienna University of workshops that will be ran in parallel on the second day of the
Technology) conference.
SCALING BITCOIN 2019
TEAM
Scaling Bitcoin Planning Committee Program Committee
o Anton Yemelyanov, Base58 Association NPO. o Yonatan Sompolinsky, The Hebrew
(Planning Committee Chair) University of Jerusalem, DAGlabs
o Nelly Milanova, Base58 Association NPO. (Program Chairman)
o Jeremy Rubin, Bitcoin Core Contributor
o Neha Narula, MIT DCI THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE IS BEING
o Ferdinando M. Ametrano, Bitcoin and ASSEMBLED FOR THE 2019 EVENT
Blockchain Technology Professor at
Politecnico di Milano
o Ethan Heilman, Boston University
o Byron Gibson, Engineering Consultant &
Startup Advisor
o Taro Watanabe, DG Lab (Digital Garage)
o Shin’ichiro Matsuo, Georgetown University,
BSafe Network
o Elaine Ou, Global Financial Access
Workshop Host Committee
o Aviv Zohar, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem (Chairman)
o Hila Mark, DAGlabs
o Tal Benno Sklar, Andromeda
o Jonathan Levi, Hacera
o Tomer Weiss, Bitcoin emBassy TLV
o Sarah Wiesner, Bitcoin emBassy TLV
o Noa Mashiah, Israeli Bitcoin Association
o Meni Resenfield, Israeli Bitcoin Association
o Shauli Rejwan, Bitcoin emBassy TLV
SPONSORSHIP BENEFITS Scaling Bitcoin conference is a non-commercial event. We do not allow promotional activities during the event. However, while limited in this capacity, organizers of the conference are looking for sponsorship support to allow execution of activities and initiatives related to the conference and the Bitcoin ecosystem. The primary organizational benefit of supporting Scaling Bitcoin is contributing to the development and health of Bitcoin’s engineering and academic community. Scaling Bitcoin’s strong track record of improving community relations and supporting the development of new solutions and technologies readily proves its worth. To recognize and incentivize contributions, we’re offering the following incentives to sponsors of the upcoming Scaling Bitcoin event: All sponsors will receive logo placement on http://scalingbitcoin.org and logo placement on at least one of the conference posters (located at the venue). Logo placement on http://bitcoinedge.org is available only to Gold and higher tiers. The following sponsor-related material will be produced during & after the event: o SUMMARY VIDEO - If sponsored, we will be producing a summary video review of the conference, following which there will be a "brought to you by" credits that include names and logo of Satoshi tier sponsors. o ½ HOUR CONFERENCE CALL with your organization, scaling organizers, and experts to discuss summary of the event (Available at the Gold Level) o NAMED BEST PAPER AWARD (Selected by Program Committee, presented by the sponsor) o NAMED BEST PRESENTATION AWARD (Selected by Program Committee, presented by the sponsor)
SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES
RÉSUMÉ Access to the Bitcoin Edge profile database1
$1.6k USD
BRONZE
Logo on the Scaling Bitcoin website
Access to the Bitcoin Edge profile database1
$5k USD
2 Attendee Ticket to Scaling Bitcoin
2 Attendee Tickets to Bitcoin Edge Dev++
1 Invitation to Sponsor Dinner
SILVER Executive Summary of research brought forth at Scaling
Bitcoin explaining potential industry impact
Logo on the Scaling Bitcoin website
$10k USD
Access to the Bitcoin Edge profile database1
4 Attendee Tickets to Scaling Bitcoin
4 Attendee Tickets to Bitcoin Edge Dev++
2 Invitations to Sponsor Dinner
GOLD Webstream Advertisement Segment
5 minute time slot during coffee break2
$20k USD ½ hour conference call with your organization, scaling
organizers, and experts to discuss summary of the event
Logo on the Bitcoin Edge website
Logo on the Scaling Bitcoin website
Executive Summary of research brought forth at Scaling
6 Attendee Tickets to Scaling Bitcoin Bitcoin explaining potential industry impact
6 Attendee Tickets to Bitcoin Edge Dev++ Access to the Bitcoin Edge profile database1
4 Invitations to Sponsor Dinner
1 Bitcoin Edge profile database contains profiles of companies and developers who opted-
in to register after attending Bitcoin Edge Dev++ and are looking for work or contractual
opportunities. These registrations are also available to anyone online and can be
valuable for companies looking for talent with blockchain relevant expertise.SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES
PLATINUM
Named Best Presentation Award3
Banners at Social Events
$50k USD Logo on the Scaling Bitcoin website
Logo on the Bitcoin Edge website
Webstream Advertisement Segment
5 minute time slot during coffee break2
½ hour conference call with your organization, scaling
organizers, and experts to discuss summary of the event
Executive Summary of research brought forth at Scaling
8 Attendee Tickets Bitcoin explaining potential industry impact
8 Attendee Tickets to Bitcoin Edge Dev++ Access to the Bitcoin Edge profile database1
8 Invitations to Sponsor Dinner
SATOSHI
Named Best Paper Award3
Webstream Advertisement Segment
$100k USD 15 minute time slot during lunch break2
”Brought to you by” credit in the summary video4
Logo on the Scaling Bitcoin website
Logo on Bitcoin Edge website
Banners at Social Events
½ hour conference call with your organization, scaling
organizers, and experts to discuss summary of the event
Executive Summary of research brought forth at Scaling
10 Attendee Tickets for Scaling Bitcoin
Bitcoin explaining potential industry impact
10 Attendee Tickets to Bitcoin Edge Dev++ Access to the Bitcoin Edge profile database1
20 Invitations to Sponsor Dinner
Additional tickets can be purchased separately (subject to availability)
2 Subject to availability - Webstream Advertisement Segments are available as 5 minute
blocks for Gold and Platinum level sponsors, and as 15 minute blocks for Satoshi tier
sponsors. Segments must be technical in nature, provided by the sponsor and vetted by
the planning committee. It is preferable if advertisements are done in the form of
interviews and cover engineering topics such as Bitcoin related service APIs, etc. These
video segments will be integrated into the YouTube/CDN livestream during coffee breaks
(Gold and Platinum levels) and lunch-time (Satoshi tier). Video segments will remain
within the video published on YouTube. NOTE: Additional content published within the
video stream must not contain copyrightable material.
3 Subject to availability - Award naming and presentation is available to Satoshi and
Platinum tier sponsors on the first-come-first-serve basis with priority given to Satoshi
tier sponsors.
4Summary video will contain "This summary is brought to you by " mention
of the sponsor.DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We are firmly committed to Diversity & Inclusion and have always kept a
sharp focus on promoting the inclusion of new voices and faces. This year we
have a dedicated Diversity & Inclusion Committee to underscore our
commitment.
Part of the sponsorship funds is directed toward coverage of travel
subsidies. In the past, we subsidized 20-25 attendees per conference who
otherwise would not be able to attend our events.
Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion extends beyond participation in the
event. It’s also critical that we incorporate peoples of many different
backgrounds in our planning and hosting process. Scaling Bitcoin events are
run by volunteers from all around the world with participants from over 18
countries. Each year we aim to host Scaling Bitcoin in a new geographic
region where we will bring maximum benefit to the local hosting community.
We also ensure that Scaling Bitcoin is a welcoming space for everyone
through our strictly enforced Code of Conduct. We take violations of our
Code of Conduct seriously.
For more information
please visit our web site
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