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1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research

In Assocation with Financial Crypto 14
March 7, 2014
Accra Beach Hotel & Spa
Barbados

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All events take place in the Khiaroon at the Accra Beach Hotel unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
6:00pm–8:00pm Workshop Welcome Reception
Location: Accra Deck
8:00pm–9:00pm Floor Show: limbo dancing, fire eating, and stilt walking
(Open to Everyone)
Location: Fig Tree
Friday, March 7, 2014
8:30am–9:00am Registration
9:00am–9:15am Opening Remarks
Rainer Böhme
9:15am–10:30am
Session 1: Evaluating Bitcoin Transactions
Session Chair: Nicolas Christin

Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir.
How Did Dread Pirate Roberts Acquire and Protect His Bitcoin Wealth?
Paper

Malte Möser, Rainer Böhme and Dominic Breuker.
Towards Risk Scoring of Bitcoin Transactions
Paper

David Vandervort.
Challenges and Opportunities Associated with a Bitcoin-based Transaction Rating System
Paper
10:30am–11:00am Break
    Poster Session
11:00am–12:15pm
Session 2: Legal and Policy Issues
Session Chair: Tyler Moore

Franziska Boehm and Paulina Pesch.
Bitcoin: A First Legal Analysis - with Reference to German and American Law
Paper

Panel on Bitcoin's Past, Present and Future

  • Gabriel Abed, The Koblitz Group
  • Patrick Nagurny, Bitpay
  • Members of the Bitcoin Foundation Board of Directors
12:15pm–1:45pm Lunch
Location: Fig Tree
1:45pm–3:00pm
Session 3: Network Security
Session Chair: Rainer Böhme

Marie Vasek, Micah Thornton and Tyler Moore.
Empirical Analysis of Denial-of-Service Attacks in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
Paper

Benjamin Johnson, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags, Marie Vasek and Tyler Moore.
Game-Theoretic Analysis of DDoS Attacks Against Bitcoin Mining Pools
Paper

Joan Antoni Donet Donet, Cristina Pérez-Solà and Jordi Herrera.
The Bitcoin P2P network
Paper
3:00pm–3:30pm Break
    Poster Session
3:30pm–4:45pm
Session 4: Improving Digital Currencies
Session Chair: Andrew Miller

Marcin Andrychowicz, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski and Łukasz Mazurek.
Fair Two-Party Computations via Bitcoin Deposits
Paper

Amitabh Saxena, Janardan Misra and Aritra Dhar.
Increasing Anonymity in Bitcoin
Paper

Christina Garman, Matthew Green, Ian Miers and Aviel Rubin.
Rational Zero: Economic Security for Zerocoin with Everlasting Anonymity
Paper
6:15pm–9:30pm Oistons Fish Fry

 

 

 

This workshop is organized by the International Financial Cryptography Association.