Workshops

Fall 2019

Blockchain in Society: Applications, Economics, Law, and Ethics

Nov 18, 2019 to Nov 22, 2019

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Monday, November 18th, 2019
9:00 am–9:20 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am–9:30 am		Welcome Remarks
9:30 am–10:20 am		Legal Theorems for Privacy Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University)
10:20 am–10:50 am		Break
10:50 am–11:40 am		Regulation through Governance Primavera De Filippi (Harvard & CNRS)
11:40 am–1:40 pm		Lunch
1:40 pm–2:30 pm		Game Theory Applied to Mining Pools, Token Offering, Dao, and Consensus Protocols Jiasun Li (George Mason University)
2:30 pm–3:45 pm		Break
3:45 pm–4:35 pm		Blockchain and Economics: Progress and Open Questions Stephanie Hurder
4:35 pm–5:35 pm		Reception

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:20 am		Fast and Secure Global Payments with Stellar David Mazières (Stanford University)
10:20 am–10:50 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization Framework from Transparency Logs Raluca Popa (UC Berkeley)
12:00 pm–2:30 pm		Lunch
2:30 pm–3:20 pm		Inclusive Accountability at Scale via Proofs Eli Ben-Sasson (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
3:20 pm–3:40 pm		Break
3:40 pm–4:30 pm		Untangling the BlockDAG Tal Moran (IDC Herzliya)

Wednesday, November 20th, 2019
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:20 am		Bitcoin Regulation in Israel Aviv Zohar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:20 am–10:50 am		Break
10:50 am–11:40 am		Workshop: Functional Equivalence: Mapping Legal Constraints to Technical Guarantees
11:40 am–1:40 pm		Lunch
1:40 pm–2:30 pm		Economics of Libra Nils Wernerfelt (Facebook)
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–3:50 pm		Blockchain Ethics Field Building Rhys Lindmark (MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative)

Thursday, November 21st, 2019
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:20 am		Elections, Blockchains, and Maybe Catastrophes Sunoo Park (Harvard & MIT)
10:20 am–10:50 am		Break
10:50 am–11:40 am		Blockchain Voting David Jefferson (LLNL)
11:40 am–1:40 pm		Lunch
1:40 pm–2:30 pm		Blockchain Intermediation Angela Walch (UCL)
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–3:50 pm		Blockchains and Publicly-Verifiable Lotteries Joseph Bonneau (NYU)

Friday, November 22nd, 2019
9:00 am–9:30 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am–10:20 am		Regulatory Incentives Towards Decentralization Peter Van Valkenburgh (Coin Center)
10:20 am–10:50 am		Break
10:50 am–11:40 am		BDoS: Blockchain Denial of Service Ittay Eyal (Technion)
11:40 am–1:40 pm		Lunch
1:40 pm–2:30 pm		Zexe: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation Pratyush Mishra, UC Berkeley