After 8 sessions, our seminar series has concluded.
Thank you for your participating in, contributing to, submitting to,
speaking at, helping with, or interacting at Theory and Practice
of Blockchains 2021. On behalf of everyone, I thank you for your efforts.
The website and this mailing list will remain active, waiting for future
editions. Recordings of talks are available on the TPBC Youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_twxak5nXJrG-krI2c8YJA/videos
It is the hope of everyone that conferences may take place again
in-person next year. The TPBC Steering Committee (which a subset of
this year's program committee) is interested in finding a venue
and organizers for TPBC 2022. If you would like to volunteer, please
get in touch with us immediately.
Best regards,
Christian Cachin
Dear TPBC 2021 participants,
This is a kind reminder:
The next session of TPBC 2021 will run TODAY, July 7, 15:00-17:30 UTC.
Sessions will be held online using Zoom, and the link is only sent by email to the registered participants, see below. There is also a link that will import the ICS file to your calendars. Please make your real name visible and ensure you are muted when participating.
We plan to record the sessions and make them available in the Youtube channel of TPBC.
Here is the agenda for the session:
* 15:00 UTC: Keynote: SPARKs: Succinct Parallelizable Arguments of Knowledge
Rafael Pass
Cornell University
* 15:45 UTC: Break
* 16:00 UTC: Lockable Signatures for Blockchains: Scriptless Scripts for All Signatures
Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Giulio Malavolta
Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
* 16:30 UTC: Differentially Private Mixing for Cryptocurrencies
Foteini Baldimtsi, Samuel D. Gordon, Ioanna Karantaidou, Mingyu Liang, Mayank Varia
George Mason University, Boston University
* 17:00 UTC: Foundations of Ring Sampling
Viktoria Ronge, Christoph Egger, Russell W.F. Lai, Dominique Schröder, Hoover H.F. Yin
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
* 17:30 UTC: End of session
Looking forward to seeing you later today!
TPBC 2021 organization team
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Dear TPBC 2021 participants,
This is a kind reminder:
The next session of TPBC 2021 will run on Wednesday , July 7, 15:00-17:30 UTC.
Sessions will be held online using Zoom, and the link is only sent by email to the registered participants, see below. There is also a link that will import the ICS file to your calendars. Please make your real name visible and ensure you are muted when participating.
We plan to record the sessions and make them available in the Youtube channel of TPBC.
Here is the agenda for the session:
* 15:00 UTC: Keynote: SPARKs: Succinct Parallelizable Arguments of Knowledge
Rafael Pass
Cornell University
* 15:45 UTC: Break
* 16:00 UTC: Lockable Signatures for Blockchains: Scriptless Scripts for All Signatures
Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Giulio Malavolta
Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
* 16:30 UTC: Differentially Private Mixing for Cryptocurrencies
Foteini Baldimtsi, Samuel D. Gordon, Ioanna Karantaidou, Mingyu Liang, Mayank Varia
George Mason University, Boston University
* 17:00 UTC: Foundations of Ring Sampling
Viktoria Ronge, Christoph Egger, Russell W.F. Lai, Dominique Schröder, Hoover H.F. Yin
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
* 17:30 UTC: End of session
Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
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Topic: TPBC 2021
Time: May 26, 2021 05:00 PM Zurich
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Dear TPBC 2021 participants,
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We plan to record the sessions and make them available in the Youtube channel of TPBC.
Here is the agenda for the session:
* 15:00 UTC: Keynote: On the Central Role of Networks in Blockchain Privacy, Security, and Performance
Giulia Fanti
Carnegie Mellon University
* 15:45 UTC: Break
* 16:00 UTC: GearBox: An Efficient UC Sharded Ledger Leveraging the Safety-Liveness Dichotomy
Bernardo David, Bernardo Magri, Christian Matt, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Daniel Tschudi
IT University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, Concordium
* 16:30 UTC: Ebb-and-Flow Protocols: A Resolution of the Availability-Finality Dilemma
Joachim Neu, Ertem Nusret Tas, David Tse
Stanford University
* 17:00 UTC: On the Routing-Aware Peering against Network-Eclipse Attacks in Bitcoin
Muoi Tran, Akshaye Shenoi, Min Suk Kang
National University of Singapore, KAIST
* 17:30 UTC: End of session
Looking forward to seeing you later!
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Topic: TPBC 2021
Time: May 26, 2021 05:00 PM Zurich
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This is a kind reminder:
The next session of TPBC 2021 will run on Wednesday, June 30, 15:00-17:30 UTC.
Sessions will be held online using Zoom, and the link is only sent by email to the registered participants, see below. There is also a link that will import the ICS file to your calendars. Please make your real name visible and ensure you are muted when participating.
We plan to record the sessions and make them available in the Youtube channel of TPBC.
Here is the agenda for the session:
* 15:00 UTC: Keynote: On the Central Role of Networks in Blockchain Privacy, Security, and Performance
Giulia Fanti
Carnegie Mellon University
* 15:45 UTC: Break
* 16:00 UTC: GearBox: An Efficient UC Sharded Ledger Leveraging the Safety-Liveness Dichotomy
Bernardo David, Bernardo Magri, Christian Matt, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Daniel Tschudi
IT University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University, Concordium
* 16:30 UTC: Ebb-and-Flow Protocols: A Resolution of the Availability-Finality Dilemma
Joachim Neu, Ertem Nusret Tas, David Tse
Stanford University
* 17:00 UTC: On the Routing-Aware Peering against Network-Eclipse Attacks in Bitcoin
Muoi Tran, Akshaye Shenoi, Min Suk Kang
National University of Singapore, KAIST
* 17:30 UTC: End of session
Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
TPBC 2021 organization team
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Topic: TPBC 2021
Time: May 26, 2021 05:00 PM Zurich
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Dear TPBC 2021 participants,
This is a kind reminder:
The next session of TPBC 2021 will run today, June 23, 15:00-17:30 UTC.
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* 15:00 UTC: : Keynote: Scalability of Decentralized Trust: Some Lessons and some Recent Advances
Ittai Abraham
VMware
* 15:45 UTC: Break
* 16:00 UTC: On the Anonymity Guarantees of Anonymous Proof-of-StakeProtocols
Markulf Kohlweiss, Varun Madathil, Kartik Nayak, Alessandra Scafuro
University of Edinburgh, North Carolina State University, Duke University
* 16:30 UTC: BFT Protocol Forensics
Peiyao Sheng, Gerui Wang, Kartik Nayak, Sreeram Kannan, Pramod Viswanath
UIUC, Duke University, University of Washington
* 17:00 UTC: Achieving State Machine Replication without Honest Players Conor McMenamin, Vanesa Daza, Matteo Pontecorvi
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CYBERCAT - Center for Cybersecurity Research of Catalonia, NOKIA Bell Labs Nozay
* 17:30 UTC: End of session
Looking forward to seeing you later!
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Topic: TPBC 2021
Time: May 26, 2021 05:00 PM Zurich
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We plan to record the sessions and make them available in the Youtube channel of TPBC.
Here is the agenda for the session:
* 15:00 UTC: : Keynote: Scalability of Decentralized Trust: Some Lessons and some Recent Advances
Ittai Abraham
VMware
* 15:45 UTC: Break
* 16:00 UTC: On the Anonymity Guarantees of Anonymous Proof-of-StakeProtocols
Markulf Kohlweiss, Varun Madathil, Kartik Nayak, Alessandra Scafuro
University of Edinburgh, North Carolina State University, Duke University
* 16:30 UTC: BFT Protocol Forensics
Peiyao Sheng, Gerui Wang, Kartik Nayak, Sreeram Kannan, Pramod Viswanath
UIUC, Duke University, University of Washington
* 17:00 UTC: Achieving State Machine Replication without Honest Players Conor McMenamin, Vanesa Daza, Matteo Pontecorvi
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CYBERCAT - Center for Cybersecurity Research of Catalonia, NOKIA Bell Labs Nozay
* 17:30 UTC: End of session
Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
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Topic: TPBC 2021
Time: May 26, 2021 05:00 PM Zurich
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Dear TPBC 2021 participants,
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The next session of TPBC 2021 will run today, June 16, 15:00-17:30 UTC.
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Here is the agenda for the session:
* 15:00 UTC: Keynote: Economic Incentives and Blockchain Consensus
Sara Tucci
CEA LIST
* 15:45 UTC: Break
* 16:00 UTC: The Discriminating Miner Dilemma: Revisiting Liveness Guarantees under Content Discrimination
Fredrik Kamphuis, Bernardo Magri, Sebastian Faust
Robert Bosch GmbH, Aarhus University, Technical University of Darmstadt
* 16:30 UTC: A Rational Protocol Treatment of 51% Attacks
Christian Badertscher, Yun Lu, Vassilis Zikas
IOHK, University of Edinburgh, Purdue University
* 17:00 UTC: Post-Quantum Security of the Bitcoin Backbone and Quantum Multi-Solution Bernoulli Search
Alexandru Cojocaru, Juan Garay, Aggelos Kiayias, Fang Song, Petros Wallden
Inria, Texas A&M University, University of Edinburgh, IOHK, Portland State University
* 17:30 UTC: End of session
Looking forward to seeing you later!
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Topic: TPBC 2021
Time: May 26, 2021 05:00 PM Zurich
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Here is the agenda for the session:
* 15:00 UTC: Keynote: Economic Incentives and Blockchain Consensus
Sara Tucci
CEA LIST
* 15:45 UTC: Break
* 16:00 UTC: The Discriminating Miner Dilemma: Revisiting Liveness Guarantees under Content Discrimination
Fredrik Kamphuis, Bernardo Magri, Sebastian Faust
Robert Bosch GmbH, Aarhus University, Technical University of Darmstadt
* 16:30 UTC: A Rational Protocol Treatment of 51% Attacks
Christian Badertscher, Yun Lu, Vassilis Zikas
IOHK, University of Edinburgh, Purdue University
* 17:00 UTC: Post-Quantum Security of the Bitcoin Backbone and Quantum Multi-Solution Bernoulli Search
Alexandru Cojocaru, Juan Garay, Aggelos Kiayias, Fang Song, Petros Wallden
Inria, Texas A&M University, University of Edinburgh, IOHK, Portland State University
* 17:30 UTC: End of session
Looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
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Topic: TPBC 2021
Time: May 26, 2021 05:00 PM Zurich
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The next session of TPBC 2021 will run TODAY, June 09, 15:00-17:30 UTC.
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Here is the agenda for the session:
* 15:00 UTC: Keynote: Should We Care About Central Bank Digital Currency?
Roger Wattenhofer
ETH Zurich
* 15:45 UTC: Break
* 16:00 UTC: MAD-HTLC: Because HTLC is Crazy-Cheap to Attack
Itay Tsabary, Matan Yechieli, Alex Manuskin, Ittay Eyal
Technion, IC3, Technion, IC3, ZenGo-X
* 16:30 UTC: Reparo: Publicly Verifiable Layer to Repair Blockchains
Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Adithya Bhat, Bernardo Magri, Daniel Tschudi, Aniket Kate
Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Purdue University, Concordium Blockchain Research Center, Aarhus University, Denmark, Concordium, Zurich, Switzerland
* 17:00 UTC: Free2Shard: Identity-free sharding via Dynamic Self-allocation
Ranvir Rana, Sreeram Kannan, David Tse, Pramod Viswanath
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Washington, Seattle, Stanford University
* 17:30 UTC: End of session
Looking forward to seeing you later!
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