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Schedule

November 4th

08:30

(30 min)

Registration

Introduction

09:00

(5 min)

Introduction to Event

Privacy and Fungibility

09:05

(25 min)

Concurrency and Privacy with Payment-Channel Networks

PRESENTER(s):

Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (Purdue University)

09:30

(25 min)

BOLT Anonymous Payment Channels for Decentralized Currencies

PRESENTER(s):

Ian Miers (Johns Hopkins University)

09:55

(25 min)

ValueShuffle: Mixing Confidential Transactions

PRESENTER(s):

Tim Ruffing (Saarland University)

10:20

(20 min)

Break

Scalability

10:40

(25 min)

FlyClient: Super Light Clients for Cryptocurrencies

PRESENTER(s):

Benedikt Bünz (Stanford University)

11:05

(25 min)

BlockSci: a Platform for Blockchain Science and Exploration

PRESENTER(s):

Harry Kalodner (Princeton University)

11:30

(25 min)

Graphene: A New Protocol for Block Propagation Using Set Reconciliation

PRESENTER(s):

Brian N. Levine (College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst)

11:55

(25 min)

Measuring maximum sustained transaction throughput on a global network of Bitcoin nodes

PRESENTER(s):

Peter Rizun, Andrea Suisani, Andrew Stone (Bitcoin Unlimited)

12:20

(90 min)

Lunch

Smart Contracts

13:50

(25 min)

Atomically Trading with Roger: Gambling on the success of a hardfork

PRESENTER(s):

Patrick McCorry (University College London)

14:15

(25 min)

Discreet Log Contracts

PRESENTER(s):

Thaddeus Dryja (MIT Digital Currency Initiative)

14:40

(25 min)

Bitcoin script 2.0 and strengthened payment channels

PRESENTER(s):

Johnson Lau, Olaoluwa Osuntokun

15:05

(40 min)

Invited Talk: The State of Cryptography

PRESENTER(s):

Benedikt Bünz (Stanford University)

15:45

(20 min)

Break

Proof Of Work

16:05

(25 min)

The Future of Proof of Work

PRESENTER(s):

Min Chen, (Avalon)

16:30

(25 min)

Bobtail: A Proof-of-Work Target that Reduces Blockchain Mining Variance

PRESENTER(s):

Brian N. Levine (College of Information and Computer Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst)

16:55

(40 min)

Invited Talk: The Past, Present, and Future of Bitcoin in China

PRESENTER(s):

Bobby Lee (BTCC)

17:35

(20 min)

Break

18:30

Main Reception

November 5th

Open

09:00

(5 min)

Opening

Layer 2

09:05

(30 min)

Keynote

PRESENTER(s):

Joi Ito (Director of MIT Digital Media Lab)

09:35

(25 min)

How to Charge Lightning

PRESENTER(s):

Aviv Zohar (The Hebrew University)

10:00

(25 min)

Using the Chain for what Chains are Good For

PRESENTER(s):

Andrew Poelstra (Blockstream)

10:25

(20 min)

Break

Consensus

10:45

(25 min)

Microchains

PRESENTER(s):

David Vorick (Nebulous Inc.)

11:10

(25 min)

Incentives and Trade-offs in Transaction Selection in DAG-based Protocols

PRESENTER(s):

Yonatan Sompolinsky (The Hebrew University)

11:35

(25 min)

Changes without unanimous consent

PRESENTER(s):

Anthony Towns

12:00

(90 min)

Lunch

Fees and Radio

13:30

(25 min)

Optimizing fee estimation via the mempool state

PRESENTER(s):

Karl-Johan Alm (DG Lab)

13:55

(25 min)

Redesigning Bitcoin’s fee market

PRESENTER(s):

Or Sattath (The Hebrew University)

14:20

(25 min)

Weak-Signal Radio Communications for Bitcoin Network Resilience

PRESENTER(s):

Nick Szabo, Elaine Ou (Global Financial Access)

14:45

(20 min)

Break

15:05

(40 min)

Invited Talk: Plasma for Bitcoin

PRESENTER(s):

Joseph Poon

Discussion groups

15:45

(120 min)

Discussion groups

17:45

(60 min)

Wrap up from discussion groups, next steps and close

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Schedule

Introduction

Privacy and Fungibility

Scalability

Smart Contracts

Proof Of Work

Open

Layer 2

Consensus

Fees and Radio

Discussion groups

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