Call for Papers
The success of Bitcoin and subsequent decentralized cryptographic currencies has led to fascinating research in multiple venues, including top security conferences, legal journals, and reports of international financial organizations. This workshop aims to bring together interested scholars from all relevant disciplines who study cryptographic currencies and their surrounding ecosystems.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) empirical and theoretical studies of:
- The Bitcoin protocol and extensions (cryptography, scripting language etc.)
- Applications using or built on top of Bitcoin
- New applications of blockchain technology
- Permissioned and permissionless blockchains
- Cryptocurrency adoption and transition dynamics
- Economic and monetary aspects
- Relation to other payment systems
- Real-world measurements and metrics
- Transaction graph analysis
- Privacy and anonymity-enhancing technologies
- Fraud detection and financial crime prevention
- Regulation and law enforcement
- Forensics and monitoring
- Economics and game theory of mining
- Proof-of-work, -stake, -burn, and virtual mining
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Usability and user studies
- Legal, ethical and societal aspects of (decentralized) virtual currencies
- Case studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams, …)
Important Dates
| Paper Submission Deadline | 2016-12-15 | |
| Author Notification | 2017-01-30 | |
| Early registration deadline | 2017-02-17 | |
| Paper Revision Deadline | 2017-02-28 | |
| Workshop | 2017-04-07 | |
Submission
Submit your paper online here
The workshop solicits manuscripts that represent significant and novel research contributions. Submissions must not substantially overlap with works that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format and should be no more than 12 pages, excluding references and well-marked appendices. There is no limit on the length of the references and appendices. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors who seek to submit their works to journals may opt-out by publishing an extended abstract only.
Short papers (8 pages or less including references and appendices) are also welcome and should be submitted with "(short paper)" in the title.
All submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and as such, must be
anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or
obvious references.
Program Chairs |
| Joseph Bonneau | Stanford University, USA |
| Andrew Miller | University of Illinois, USA |
Program Committee |
| Elli Androulaki | IBM Zürich, Switzerland |
| Foteini Baldimtsi | George Mason University, USA |
| Iddo Bentov | Cornell University, USA |
| Rainer Böhme | University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| Melissa Chase | Microsoft Research, USA |
| Nicolas Christin | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Jeremy Clark | Concordia University, Canada |
| George Danezis | University College London, UK |
| Christian Decker | Blockstream, USA |
| Tadge Dryja | MIT Digital Currency Initiative |
| Ittay Eyal | Cornell University, USA |
| Bryan Ford | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Juan Garay | Yahoo! Research, USA |
| Christina Garman | Johns Hopins University, USA |
| Arthur Gervais | ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| Garrick Hilemen | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Ethan Heilman | Boston University, USA |
| Ari Juels | Cornell Tech, USA |
| Stefan Dziembowski | University of Warsaw, Poland |
| Aniket Kate | Purdue University, USA |
| Ian Miers | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Patrick McCorry | Newcastle University, UK |
| Malte Möser | Princeton University, USA |
| Andrew Poelstra | Blockstream, USA |
| Christian Reitwießner | Ethereum Foundation, Switzerland |
| Yonatan Sompolinsky | Hebrew University, Israel |
| Eran Tromer | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Peter Van Valkenburgh | Coin Center, USA |
| Luke Valenta | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Nathan Wilcox | Zcash, USA |
| Pieter Wuille | Blockstream, USA |
