Bitcoin Summer School 2016

We're running the first summer school on blockchains and cryptocurrencies. We welcome students, researchers and professionals with an interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchains to join us.

Speakers

We have a great program lined up for 2016. We're excited to welcome the leading experts on blockchains from industry and academia.

Foteini Baldimtsi

Boston University, USA

Rainer Böhme

University of Innsbruck, AT

Joseph Bonneau

Stanford University, USA

Jerry Brito

Coin Center, USA

Jan Camenisch

IBM Research, CH

Nicolas Christin

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

George Danezis

University College London, UK

Adam Joyce

Elliptic, UK

Aggelos Kiayias

University of Edinburgh, UK

Sarah Meiklejohn

University College London, UK

Roger Wattenhofer

ETH Zurich, CH

Vassilis Zikas

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Organizers

Foteini Baldimtsi

Foteini is a postdoctoral researcher in the BU Security group at Boston University.

Aggelos Kiayias

Aggelos is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Sarah Meiklejohn

Sarah is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Computer Science and Security and Crime Science at UCL.

Donate

Bitcoin school is not-for-profit. We are accepting donations in bitcoin to help us run the school.

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Thank you for your generosity!

Equal opportunity

We welcome diversity and are striving to offer equal opportunities to all students. We are dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion.

Stipends

All stipends are now allocated. Thanks to NSF, IOHK and INTEL for their sponsorship.

Schedule

Monday

09.00	-	09.25	Registration
09.25	-	09.30	Opening
09.30	-	10.30	Bitcoin overview (Joe)
10.30	-	11.00	☕
11.00	-	12.30	Scaling Bitcoin securely (Aggelos)
12.30	-	14.00	🍕
14.00	-	15.30	Consensus (Roger)
15.30	-	16.00	☕
16.00	-	17.30	Mining (Joe)
19.00	-	20.30	Reception

Tuesday

09.30	-	11.00	Cryptographic e-cash (Jan)
11.00	-	11.30	☕
11.30	-	12.30	Anonymity in cryptocurrencies (Foteini)
12.30	-	14.00	🍕
14.00	-	15.30	Cryptography on the blockchain (Vassilis)
15.30	-	16.00	☕
16.00	-	18.00	Short talks

Wednesday

09.30	-	11.00	Decentralization as a privacy-enhancing technology (George)
11:00	-	11.30	☕
11.30	-	12.30	Bitcoin de-anonymization in practice (Adam)
12.30	-	14.30	🍕
14.30	-	17.30	Breakout sessions Main hall: IOHK session Scorex: A Modular Toolbox for Cryptocurrency Research. A Haskell Implementation of RSCoin Alkinoos room: Corfucoin session Corfucoin: How to implement your own cryptocurrency

Thursday

09.30	-	11.00	Anonymous online marketplaces (Nicolas)
11.00	-	11.30	☕
11.30	-	13.00	The Bitcoin economic ecosystem (Rainer)
13.00	-	14.00	🍕
14.00	-	15.30	Regulation in Bitcoin (Jerry)
15.30	-	16.00	☕
16.00	-	17.30	Alternatives to blockchains (Sarah)

Accommodation

The school will be hosted at the Corfu Imperial Hotel.

Participants that wish to stay at the school venue can book their rooms using the code SUMSCH at the discounted rate of €150/night for double- and €130/night for single-occupancy (taxes and breakfast included).

Alternative options Hotel Nefeli (20' walking from the venue) offers rooms in discounted rate of €42/night for double- and €34/night for single-occupancy (taxes and breakfast included). To reserve a room email them directly and mention that you are attending the cryptocurrencies event. For more options please check on booking.com.

Travel

By plane

The best way to reach Corfu is by plane. Aegean Airlines has daily service between Athens and Corfu (3-4 flights per day) and Ryanair flies between Athens and Corfu every Sunday and Friday. Astra-airlines flies from Thessaloniki to Corfu 4 times a week.

Corfu is directly connected to various European cities via charter flights. Ryanair and EasyJet, also provide direct connection with multiple European airports.

By bus and ferry

You could also reach Corfu by bus and boat. The KTEL bus service provides 3 daily connections to Corfu from Athens. The total trip will be around 8 hours.