INFORMATIK 2012 Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
42. Jahrestagung, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI), Braunschweig

.: Tutorial Bitcoin:.

The Bitcoin tutorial will have the following structure and topics:

Slot 1 (Cap):
Requirements
Bitcoin structure (Double Spending, Block Chain, Identity, Proof of Work, Bitcoin creation and Bitcoin sharing - Deflation, Money generation)
Functionality of Building Blocks (Hash, Signature, etc)

Slot 2 (Katzenbeisser):
Cryptographic primitives
Survey on other payment systems
Details on the double spending attack
Other attacks on Bitcoin

Slot 3 (Hamacher):
Bitcoin Anonymity
Network analysis aspects (How does the bitcoin network look like?)
Infrastructure for Bitcoin (technical perspective: exchange, explorer, webshop connection, Bitcoin in the payment process)

Slot 4 (Loviscach):
The Environmental Cost of Bitcoin
Mining Pools vs. Individuals

 

 

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