The second Scaling Bitcoin Workshop will be held this year in Milan, Italy from October 8th-9th with a focus to provide a physical space for software developers and researchers, working on projects related to bitcoin, to meet and discuss the challenges and solutions related to bitcoin scalability.

According to the event website, the workshop will be held at the Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 20133 Milano - Italy. The conference called for papers and technical proposals that focus on improving bitcoin performance including designs, experimental results, and comparisons against other proposals.

The  key goals of the workshop are “twofold: 1) to present potential solutions to scalability challenges while identifying key areas for further research and 2) provide a venue where researchers, developers, and miners can communicate about bitcoin development,” the website stated.

The workshop’s main topics of interest include areas that are related to scalability of bitcoin like security and privacy, improving bitcoin throughput, incentives and fee structures, anti-spam measures, block size proposals, mining concerns, among others.

The key highlight of the workshop is that the events are live-streamed with remote participation facilitated via IRC for parallel online discussion and passing questions to the event. For remote participants, the official live stream feeds will be available through YouTube channel.

The event is being sponsored by leading firms that are focused on blockchain development including Deloitte, Blockstream, Bloq, BitFury, Kraken, PwC, GreenAddress, Digital Currency Group, Blockchain Foundation, among others. The workshop is supported by academic organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford Computer Security Laboratory. The deadlines for registrations, sponsorships and project proposals have passed.