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As scheduled, payment channels were one of the more visible topics of the day, with three sessions focusing on how these proposed layers could become more private.
Leading off was Purdue University's Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, who gave an overview of current designs for the 
In contrast to past years, the event also proved open to the discussion of topics that may have proven taboo – a decision that appears to have led some conference organizers and former supporters to boycott the conference this year. (Notably not present were many developers from Bitcoin Core, the software's most widely used client).
For example, Peter Rizun and Andrew Stone, developers most known for their work on the alternative bitcoin software 
Also of note was the inclusion of talks on bitcoin's proof-of-work consensus protocol, the aspect of the technology of most relevance to the cryptocurrency's mining industry.
However, here, too, the conference show signs of past divisions, with relatively little participation from miners this year, including only one – BTCC – that plays a decision-making role in whether the protocol