Dr Nicolas T. Courtois is a senior lecturer in cryptography at UCL's Department of Computer Science. We are very excited to have him talk in Cambridge.



Nicolas is an altcurrency skeptic. Presenting at the Inside Bitcoin's conference in London, he spoke about the 'stupid coin syndrome', noting that altcoins that are clones of Bitcoin are 'unbelievably stupid'. In addition, he has set up a bet that someone will break the Bitcoin elliptic curve by 2015.



Nicolas runs weekly Bitcoin seminars (http://blog.bettercrypto.com/?page_id=20) at UCL to present ongoing research, analysis and criticism of the technology.



We hope you will join us for what promises to be an engaging presentation. The Facebook event page is available here (https://www.facebook.com/events/1564301790469174/?notif_t=plan_edited).