Welcome everyone to MIT Bitcoin Expo 2016. If you haven't heard of Bitcoin by now, then I am not sure how you got here. My name is nchinda. I am the reigning Bitcoin club president. I am going to have some fun. The club is hijacking the #mit-dci IRC channel. You can twitter with #mitbitcoinexpo. The...

So, the last talk today is going to be from Pindar Wong. He's been involved with Internet in Hong Kong. He also helped organize the Scaling Bitcoin workshops. It's my pleasure to have him speaking today. Okay. Thank you very much for staying until the bitter end. My topic today is forked to death, ...

In Bitcoin we have made this tradeoff where we don't have everyone running full nodes. Not everyone is participating equally. If you have a full node, you have lots of gigs of hard drive space, but if you do that, you only get a few transactions per second. Modularizing validation an argument for th...

This can be a broad range of topics for improvements. I am Mark Friedenbach, I have worked on Bitcoin protocol research, but I also do Core tech engineering at Blockstream. We also have Jonas, an independent Bitcoin Core developer. We also have Andrew Poelstra, who has been core to the crypto work w...

Another 30 seconds. Take your seats. We have Arvind Narayanan. Some of the research from Princeton has rivaled the work of MIT. Professor Narayanan is going to teach us some lessons for Bitcoin. Thank you. Can you hear me? I think you can. What I want to do today is to look at lessons from history ...

NASDAQ Linq I have heard that Alex Zinder has a grasp of what makes NASDAQ Linq good and bad, and the advantages of a public versus permissioned blockchain. Alex is director of global software development at NASDAQ, but he is here to talk about Linq, which is a platform for managing securities. Ale...

Distributed Ledger Group R3 I work at R3. It manages the distributed ledger group, of 42 banks interested in using blockchain or distributed ledger tech. People wonder when I tell them that I work for a consortium that wants to use electronic ledgers. What does that have to do with capital markets...

Sergio is co-founder and chief scientist at RSK Labs. The whitepaper was pretty good. I am happy that he is here. Thank you. Just give me a minute. Alicia Bendhan Lous Parker BitDevsNYC Yes, I use powerpoint. Please don't read my emails. Thanks everyone for staying here and not going to the next ...

I really appreciated the fact that.... I really appreciated Cory's talk. I quoted someone in my talk. It was a fairly recent quote. His whole talk was speaking about governance. There's a lot of governing issues coming into Bitcoin. We like the solving the whole world with technical. The word that ...

I have been working on a decentralized cloud storage platform. Before I go into that, I wanted to mention that I have been working on Bitcoin since 2011. Since 2013 I have been in the wizards channel. In 2014 a friend and myself founded a company to build Siacoin. The team has grown to 3 people. Sia...