| Session |
Session Chair |
Duration (minutes) |
Talk |
Speaker |
08:50 - 10:30 |
Ittay Eyal, Aviv Zohar |
15 |
Welcoming Remarks |
| 60 |
Keynote talk: The Blockchain Consensus Layer and BFT |
Dahlia Malkhi |
|
The Blockchain consensus engine, which achieves agreement among distrusting
parties in a scalable settings with unknown participants, seems very different
from the classical methods for Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT).
In this talk, we discuss Blockchain through the lens of the theory of distributed computing. |
| 18 |
Smart Contracts for Bribing Miners |
Patrick McCorry, Alexander Hicks, Sarah Meiklejohn |
| Coffee Break |
11:00 - 12:30 |
Joseph Bonneau |
18 |
A Multi-Party Protocol for Constructing the Public Parameters of the Pinocchio zk-SNARK |
Sean Bowe, Ariel Gabizon, Matthew D. Green |
| 18 |
Paralysis Proofs: Safe Access-Structure Updates for Cryptocurrencies and More |
Fan Zhang, Philip Daian, Iddo Bentov, Ari Juels, Phil Daian |
| 18 |
Analyzing the Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Ecosystem |
Marie Vasek, Tyler Moore |
| 18 |
Blockchain-based Certificate Transparency and Revocation Transparency |
Ze Wang, Jingqiang Lin, Quanwei Cai, Qiongxiao Wang, Jiwu Jing, Daren Zha |
| 18 |
A Systematic Approach To Cryptocurrency Fees |
Alexander Chepurnoy, Vasily Kharin, Dmitry Meshkov |
| Lunch |
14:00 - 15:35 |
Ian Miers |
18 |
Egalitarian Society or Benevolent Dictatorship: The State of Cryptocurrency Governance |
Sarah Azouvi, Mary Maller, Sarah Meiklejohn |
| 13 |
Hostile Blockchain Takeovers (Short Paper) |
Joseph Bonneau |
| 18 |
Analysis of the Bitcoin UTXO set |
Sergi Delgado-Segura, Cristina Perez-Sola , Jordi Herrera-Joancomati, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas |
| 18 |
Exploiting Transaction Accumulation and Double Spends for Topology Inference in Bitcoin |
Matthias Grundmann, Till Neudecker, Hannes Hartenstein |
| 13 |
(Short Paper) A Wild Velvet Fork Appears! Inclusive Blockchain Protocol Changes in Practice |
Alexei Zamyatin, Nicholas Stifter, Aljosha Judmayer, Philipp Schindler, Edgar Weippl, William Knottenbelt, Alexei Zamyatin |
| 15 |
Conclusion + Business Meeting |
| Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
WTSC roundtable and closing session. See the WTSC program here. |
