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September 26-27, 2019 | 3rd International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology

This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers in this area to carefully analyze current systems and propose new ones in order to create a scientific background for a solid development of new cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology systems.

University of Luxembourg
Alvisse Parc Hotel, 120 Route d’Echternach, L-1453 Luxembourg

The main topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Anonymity and privacy in cryptocurrencies;
  • Privacy-preserving technologies;
  • Cryptocurrency based trust systems;
  • Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies;
  • Formal threat models in cryptocurrency systems;
  • Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies;
  • P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis;
  • Private transactions in blockchain based systems;
  • Consensus mechanisms: proof-of-work, proof of stake, proof-of-burn, proof-of-useful-work;
  • New usages of the blockchain technology;
  • Scalability solutions for blockchain systems.;
  • Smart contracts.

Speakers include:

Arthur Gervais, lecturer at Imperial College London (UK), o-Founder, CEO, Blockchain Scalability Platform
Rainer Böhme, Professor of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Head of the Security and Privacy Laboratory
Alex Biryukov, University of Luxembourg
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Télécom SudParis

Web-site: deic.uab.cat

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