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Workshop on Blockchain Technology and Theory
Program
The schedule includes time for questions and discussions.
| 8:50-9:00 |
Welcome |
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Maria Potop-Butucaru
(UPMC - LIP6, Paris, France)
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Christian Cachin
(IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland)
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| 9:00-9:30 |
Blockchain and BFT Design Choices: A Distributed Computing Perspective
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Ittai Abraham, VMWare Research, Israel |
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| 9:30-10:00 |
But Why Does It Work? A Rational Protocol Design Treatment of Bitcoin (Presentation)
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Juan Garay, Texas A&M University, USA |
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| 10:00-10:15 |
OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger (Presentation)
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Philipp Jovanovic, EPFL, Switzerland |
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| 10:15-10:30 |
Message Passing and Shared Memory Blockchain Abbreviation (Presentation)
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Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Proof of Stake Blockchain Protocols (Presentation)
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Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh, UK & IOHK |
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| 11:30-12:00 |
REM: Resource-Efficient Mining for Blockchains (Presentation)
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Ittay Eyal, Cornell University, USA and Technion, Israel |
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| 12:00-12:15 |
On Sustainable Economic Incentives for Blockchains (Presentation)
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Fabio Pianese, Nokia - Bell Labs, France |
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| 12:15-12:30 |
Bitcoin Blockchain as a Shared Distributed Register (Presentation)
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Romaric Ludinard, IMT Atlantique, France |
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| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00-14:30 |
Thunderella: A Fast and Scalable Blockchain (Paper)
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Elaine Shi, Cornell University, USA |
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Sleepy Consensus (Paper)
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Rafael Pass, Cornell University, USA |
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| 15:00-15:15 |
On Bitcoin's Limitations to Deliver Fairness to Users (Presentation)
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Sara Tucci-Piergiovanni, CEA LIST, France |
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| 15:15-15:30 |
Hyperledger Fabric V1 (Presentation)
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Christian Cachin, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland |
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Break |
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| 16:00-16:20 |
Scalable Communication Middleware for Permissioned Distributed Ledgers (Presentation)
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Gregory Chockler, Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), UK |
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| 16:20-16:40 |
The Red Belly Blockchain: BFT is back but is it the same?
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Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney, Australia |
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| 16:40-17:00 |
Subversion Resistance of SNARKs (Presentation)
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Georg Fuchsbauer, Inria and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France |
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| 17:00-17:30 |
Discussion and Brainstorming
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Emmanuelle Anceaume, IRISA, Rennes, France
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Maria Potop-Butucaru
(UPMC - LIP6, Paris, France)
and
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, USA
and
Christian Cachin
(IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland)
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| 17:30 |
Workshop end |
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