niteshbalusu11 commented 5 months ago

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Me and Alex Lewin were talking about this couple of days ago and I found our conversation very interesting. What actually is scaling from consensus changes? When we talk about scaling with soft forks like covenants or drivechains or the 1million other ideas, are we really getting the true non custodial nature of Bitcoin like owning keys to a UTXO or are we just trying to get to a world where we come as close as possible to it? The base chain is always going to be limited by block size and how much the utxo set can grow. In spectrum of 0-100 where 0 being holding your own keys to utxos to 100 being Bitcoin ETFs, where would all these consensus changes actually land you?

What would an attendee learn from this talk?

what does scaling truly mean.
are we actually scaling and can everyone really own keys to utxos on chain.
what are the trade offs.

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30 mins (maybe)

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bnonni commented 3 months ago

@niteshbalusu11 we've moved this talk into "Under Consideration" because we think its a great idea, but we need some more information, and we need clarity on who you think should speak. If you can help us refine the details and find a speaker, we'll accept it.

murchandamus commented 3 months ago

Possibly interesting for whomever will speak: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/66534/5406

iglesiasbrandon commented 2 months ago

Hey @niteshbalusu11 what do you think about converting this issue to a panel instead of a talk? it might be interesting to hear different perspectives on the definition of scaling.

niteshbalusu11 commented 2 months ago

Sure, I don't mind it being a panel. Idk, if we found speakers for this so far though.

murchandamus commented 2 months ago

I’m not following the introspection debate closely enough to give a talk on this, but I could perhaps join a panel

bnonni commented 2 months ago

@murchandamus any suggestions for panel speakers?

bnonni commented 2 months ago

@niteshbalusu11 have you been able to find any panelists?

niteshbalusu11 commented 2 months ago

@niteshbalusu11 have you been able to find any panelists?

No luck.

adiabat commented 1 month ago

Hi - I'd be interested in joining this panel if it's happening. I think about scaling in Bitcoin a lot and think this is a huge question / topic right now.

niteshbalusu11 commented 1 month ago

@bnonni and @iglesiasbrandon looks like we have 2 people ready. Need one more person I suppose?

murchandamus commented 1 month ago

Are you counting me or not? ;)