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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : Is Bitcoin Stable\, Secure\, and Scalable?
DTSTART:20150928T161500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:By : Roger Wattenhofer - ETH ZurichVideo of his talkAbstract :
 \nI will first give a short introduction to the Bitcoin system\, explainin
 g some of the basics such as transactions and the block chain. Then\, I wi
 ll discuss some interesting technical aspects in more detail\, regarding t
 he stability\, security\, and scalability of Bitcoin. Regarding stability\
 , I will discuss Bitcoin's eventual consistency\, and the related problem 
 of double spending. Regarding security\, I will shed some light into our f
 indings regarding the bankruptcy of MtGox\, previously the dominant Bitcoi
 n exchange service. Finally\, I will discuss scalability\, and present dup
 lex micropayment channels. Apart from scalability\, these channels also gu
 arantee end-to-end security and instant transfers\, laying the foundation 
 of a network of payment service providers.Bio :\nRoger Wattenhofer is a fu
 ll professor at the Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Depa
 rtment\, ETH Zurich\, Switzerland. He received his doctorate in Computer S
 cience in 1998 from ETH Zurich. From 1999 to 2001 he was in the USA\, firs
 t at Brown University in Providence\, RI\, then at Microsoft Research in 
  Redmond\, WA. He then returned to ETH Zurich\, originally as an assistant
  professor at the Computer Science Department.\nRoger Wattenhofer's resear
 ch interests are a variety of algorithmic and systems aspects in computer 
 science and information technology\, currently in particular wireless netw
 orks\, wide area networks\, mobile systems\, social networks\, and physica
 l algorithms. He publishes in different communities: distributed computing
  (e.g.\, PODC\, SPAA\, DISC)\, networking (e.g.\, SIGCOMM\, MobiCom\, SenS
 ys)\, or theory (e.g.\, STOC\, FOCS\, SODA\, ICALP).More information
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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