During the panel discussion, each participant was able to share his vision for how Bitcoin should be scaled to handle a much larger userbase.

Ciphrex CEO and Bitcoin Core Contributor Eric Lombrozo

For Lombrozo, scaling Bitcoin is about getting the greatest gains in terms of throughput increases while also limiting the amount of risk and security vulnerabilities involved in those improvements.

"Obviously, if you have just a few entities that are validating the transactions for everyone, then that creates a point of attack or a single point of failure," said Lombrozo. "Part of the whole philosophy of Bitcoin is you should be able to validate your own transactions."