Bitcoin Lecture - The Blockchain as TCP/IP

Agenda: 18:30-19:00 - Gathering and refreshments 19:00-20:15 - Bitcoin 2.0 and OP_RETURNs - The Blockchain as TCP/IP? (Gideon Greenspan) 20:15-22:00 - Free discussion With the addition of OP_RETURN outputs in version 0.9, it's now possible to attach arbitrary pieces of information to Bitcoin transactions. This turns Bitcoin into a low-level communications protocol, just like TCP/IP, on which many new applications can be built. Despite its powerful features, Bitcoin is also limited, costly and in…