2015 Hong Kong Conference

At the end of my previous post, Bitcoin in the News : Satoshi Roundtable, I gave myself the action to look into the meaning of 'Segregated Witness'. While doing that I discovered a couple of posts on the domain gavinandresen.ninja ('Bitcoin developer. All-around geek.') that offer insights by a bitcoin insider.

• Segregated Witness Is Cool (December 2015)
• Satoshi Roundtable Thoughts (March 2016)

That first post links to 'a fantastic presentation on "Segregated Witness" in Hong Kong' by Pieter Wuille, which I embed here.

Scaling Bitcoin - Hong Kong (5:09:16) • 'Streamed live on 6 December 2015'

The presentation starts around 36:00 into the clip. I noted three other related videos on Youtube and tried to put them in order for later viewing; the running time is listed to differentiate them.

• 1:42:17; Day 1 AM, stream starts 15:30
• 2:58:12; Day 1 AM, stream starts 08:00; 'welcome back'
• 3:17:29; Day 1 PM, stream starts 16:11; 'mining panel'
• 5:09:16; Day 2 AM, stream starts 33:30; (agenda displayed 35:35)

The sponsor(?) of the conference is shown as 'Cyberport'. The Wuille presentation is laden with jargon and uses a few acronyms -- UTXO set, P2SH compatible, give time for IBLT, write BIP -- that I need to define. No surprise there. I'll do that in another post. No surprise there either.