Cryptocurrency Implementers' Workshop
A Workshop Associated with Financial Crypto 2019
February 22, 2019
St. Kitts Marriott Resort
St. Kitts
Overview
With the inclusion of the BITCOIN: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Research Workshop into the "Blockchain Track" of the Financial Cryptography conference, we now want to try out an experimental new workshop format, which focuses on engineering, development, and real world use of cryptocurrencies and permissionless blockchains.In this first iteration, the workshop will be a half day, and the program will consist of two main components:
Invited talks on implementation post mortems: we will aim to have several talks from developers and engineers that have led and maintained open source software projects in use by cryptocurrencies today.
Artifact Evaluation and Demo show and tell: We will have a technical program of demo presentations about open source software artifacts. Presenters must submit their talk and demo abstract along with the open source software itself for review. Presentation abstracts should be no more than 6 pages in LNCS format, or the equivalent length (no more than 2000 words) of text, Markdown, etc. The write up should include:
- motivation and application,
- novelty or differences compared to alternative or related implementations,
- challenges faced,
- possible evaluation approaches
Submissions must include a software artifact that can be reviewed. It is expected the review committee will at least be able to run the artifact and observe the outputs. We recommend including a virtual machine image or Docker-based build instructions to facilitate this.
Suggested topics
The following list is non-exhaustive:- Cryptography implementations, such as digital signatures, ring signatures, zero knowledge proofs
- Proof-of-work consensus protocols
- Proof-of-stake consensus protocols
- Mining hardware designs
- Peer-to-peer networking and broadcast relay code
- Full node synchronization
- SPV and lightweight clients
- Wallets and key management
- Security vulnerabilities and defenses
- Mining pools
- Mining rig controllers
- Staking wallets
Important Dates
- Dec 21: Submission deadline
- Jan 7: Presenter notification
- Feb 22: Workshop
Submission Instructions
Abstract submission is simply by email to soc1024@illinois.edu. Please include CIW in the subject line, the abstract as text or an attachment (no more than 6 pages), and any link to externally-hosted source code.Demos accepted to this program will not be included in any proceedings. Submission and acceptance in this workshop does not preclude publication elsewhere.
Submissions may be anonymized at the authors' discretion, but it is not a requirement.
Program Commitee
- J. Ayo Akinyele (Bolt Labs)
- Rebekah Mercer (Aarhus University)
- Pieter Wuille (Blockstream)
- Benedikt Bünz (Stanford)
- Ethan Heilman (Boston University, Commonwealth Crypto)
- Patrick McCorry (Kings College London)
- Justin Ehrenhofer (Monero Community WorkGroup)
- Jacob Eberhardt (tu-berlin)
- Suhas Daftuar (Chaincode Labs)
Program Chairs
- Andrew Miller (UIUC)
- Christopher Allen