Authors
Aviv Zohar, Ittay Eyal, Vanessa Teague, Jeremy Clark, Andrea Bracciali, Federico Pintore, Massimiliano Sala
Publication date
2019/2/9
Volume
10958
Publisher
Springer
Description
The year leading to the Bitcoin 2018 workshop witnessed a continuing increase in research on the Bitcoin protocols and on many related blockchain systems. The workshop, along with its parent conference FC, continued its tradition of providing a venue for some of the leading results in the field. Even as many alternative workshops and conferences have begun to accept and attract research on blockchains, the Bitcoin workshop remains the prominent venue for such work. The workshop received a large number of submissions: A total of 27 papers were submitted for review. Of these, a selection of 11 papers (nine full papers and two short papers) were accepted after review by the Program Committee and ten chose to be included in the proceedings. A single paper deferred from BITCOIN 2017 is also included in these proceedings. Topics covered in the workshop provide a wide coverage of both theoretical and practical aspects of cryptocurrencies and included: economically driven attacks on cryptocurrencies, as well as non-economic extrinsically motivated attacks, an analysis of the Ponzi scheme ecosystem, approaches to cryptocurrency fee systems, topology inference in the Bitcoin network, a protocol for securely setting the public parameters of zk-SNARKs, discussions of cryptocurrency governance, analysis of the UTxO set, mechanisms to upgrade the rules of blockchains, and the use of blockchains for transparent certificate signing and revocation. The workshop included a keynote talk By Dahlia Malkhi of VMWare Research that discussed blockchain protocols through the lens of classic research on distributed computing, and concluded …
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