Breaking Bitcoin was born at the climax of the Scaling Debate. We, as a community, had enough of this focus on “scaling” when the real fundamentals are still under-researched. Privacy. Censorship-resistance. Decentralization. All for one ultimate goal: an extremely secure and resilient system to serve as the foundations of future infrastructure, services and products.
Breaking Bitcoin Vol. I (Paris, 2017) brought together 300 attendees from all over the world, for a world-class conference about Bitcoin protocol security. Let’s do even better this year!
Breaking Bitcoin Vol. II will host the world-best speakers on their respective area of expertise, to challenge the Bitcoin security model.
Hardware security, Governance, Protocol-level architecture, Social attacks, from both the theoretical and practical perspectives.
Breaking Bitcoin is aimed at Bitcoin professionals, academics and enthusiasts.
Attendees are expected to be familiar and up to date with Bitcoin’s state of the art.
As usual, the talks will be live-streamed and recorded.
Breaking Bitcoin is looking for speakers and panelists. We are open to academic and industry proposals, an attached research paper would be appreciated but not a requirement.
The conference is about security, attacks, vulnerabilities, points of failure and weaknesses around Bitcoin. This includes social, economic, hardware, privacy, network, etc; attacks. Speakers do not have to be experts in Bitcoin as long as the talk is relevant to the protocol (Example: SGX key extraction attack at Breaking Bitcoin vol 1).
Proposals should be submitted to: proposals@breaking-bitcoin.com , before April 17!
Required:
We do not tolerate irresponsible disclosure nor zero-days at Breaking Bitcoin. If you wish to submit a talk covering a vulnerability not yet/being patched, you can pgp-encrypt your email, checking the following fingerprint for proposals@breaking-bitcoin.com , preferably from a few sources.
GPG Fingerprint=B840 1997 0DBD 88F3 CFFE A103 28EA 9690 19E0 20C0
Speakers will be added on a rolling basis, applying earlier means you will receive feedback and thus have better chances to be accepted. Speakers can submit corrected proposals, or multiple proposals at once.
Breaking Bitcoin covers flights and accommodation of selected speakers.