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 theoretic analysis of cryptocurrency protocols
- 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 | 2017-11-04 | |
| Author Notification | 2017-12-17 | |
| Early registration deadline | 2018-01-05 | |
| Submit Pre-Proceedings Version | 2018-01-15 | |
| Workshop | 2018-03-02 | |
Registration
Registration is via the FC conference website.
Submission
Submission is now closed.
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.
Format. Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format (see here) and should be no more than 12 pages, excluding references and well-marked appendices.
Short papers (8 pages or less including references and appendices) are also welcome and should be submitted with "(short paper)" in the title.
There is no limit on the length of the references and appendices. Committee members will read the appendices at their discretion, therefore the body of the paper should be intelligible without them.
Double blind. All submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and as such, must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.
Violating submissions will be desk-rejected at the discretion of the PC chairs.
Publication. 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.
Program Chairs |
| Ittay Eyal | Technion, Israel |
| Aviv Zohar | Hebrew University, Israel |
Program Committee |
| Elli Androulaki | IBM Zürich, Switzerland |
| Foteini Baldimtsi | George Mason University, USA |
| Iddo Bentov | Cornell, USA |
| Alex Biryukov | University of Luxembourg, LU |
| Rainer Böhme | University of Innsbruck, Austria |
| Christian Cachin | IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland |
| Srdjan Capkun | ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| Melissa Chase | Microsoft Research, USA |
| Nicolas Christin | Carnegie Mellon University, USA |
| Jeremy Clark | Concordia University, Canada |
| Phil Daian | Cornell, USA |
| Christian Decker | Blockstream, USA |
| Tadge Dryja | MIT DCI, USA |
| Stefan Dziembowski | University of Warsaw, Poland |
| Juan Garay | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Christina Garman | Johns Hopins University, USA |
| Arthur Gervais | ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| Sharon Goldberg | Boston University, USA |
| Jens Grossklags | Technical University of Munich, Germany |
| Ethan Heilman | Boston University, USA |
| Garrick Hileman | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Aquinas Hobor | National University of Singapore, SG |
| Philipp Jovanovic | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Aniket Kate | Purdue University, USA |
| Aggelos Kiayias | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Yoad Lewenberg | Hebrew University, Israel |
| Joshua Lind | Imperial College London, UK |
| Patrick McCorry | University College London, UK |
| Ian Miers | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Tyler Moore | University of Tulsa, USA |
| Malte Möser | Princeton University, USA |
| Olaoluwa Osuntokun | Lightning Labs, USA |
| Michael Riabzev | Technion, Israel |
| Peter Rizun | Bitcoin Unlimited, CA |
| Abhi Shelat | Northeastern University, USA |
| Yonatan Sompolinsky | Hebrew University, Israel |
| Eran Tromer | Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Luke Valenta | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Peter Van Valkenburgh | Coin Center, USA |
| Marco Vucolic | IBM Research - Zurich |
| Roger Wattenhofer | ETH Zürich, Switzerland |
| Nathan Wilcox | Zcash, USA |
| Fan Zhang | Cornell, USA |
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