62nd Bitcoin Austria Meetup Vienna

After years of debate, the Bitcoin scaling crisis was heading toward its climax. On August 1, nodes might attempt to enforce SegWit via a User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF). Another solution, “SegWit2x” (softfork + hardfork), was also supposed to be deployed beforehand. Meanwhile, Ethereum was facing its own scaling problems during the recent ICO hype.

Joint event with Ethereum Vienna — celebrating 1,000 members in both meetup groups!

Talks #

1. Scaling Bitcoin: To Fork or Not to Fork? #

Andreas gave an introduction to the scaling problem and then covered SegWit and block size increases.

2. Scaling Ethereum #

The plan for Ethereum scaling included both on-chain improvements and off-chain mechanisms: Raiden, State Channels, Sharding, and more.

3. Socializing and Blockchain Analysis #