1st Workshop on Bitcoin Research

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

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

3:30pm–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