Scaling Bitcoin is a volunteer-run nonprofit engineering workshop series that brought together Bitcoin developers and academic researchers to work on scalability and decentralized network design. Scaling Bitcoin's Twitter Score is 46 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #19,817 (top 5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Scaling Bitcoin launched in 2015 with two inaugural workshops, held in Montreal and Hong Kong, intended to foster structured technical dialogue within the Bitcoin engineering and academic communities. The workshops collected technical criteria, presented proposals, and evaluated materials covering Bitcoin scalability, decentralization, utility, security, and operational tradeoffs. Crucially, the events were designed to support consensus-building and the existing Bitcoin Improvement Proposal process rather than to make decisions directly. Sessions were livestreamed and supported remote participation through online channels.
Scaling Bitcoin continued with annual events in Milan, Stanford, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv through 2019, with the official events index listing six workshops in total between September 2015 and September 2019 and no events after that date. The series was organized by the Bitcoin development community with assistance from developer meetup members, and a significant portion of sponsorship funds went toward travel subsidies for developers and researchers. Beyond the core workshops, Scaling Bitcoin also supported related technical initiatives including the S3ND Bitcoin Wallet Standards Development Initiative and the Bitcoin Edge Dev++ tutorial track. Past backers of the series included Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chaincode Labs, Chain, and Blockstream, and the series was formerly affiliated with the Base58 Association.
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