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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