Breaking bitcoin is an event for the technical community focusing on the security of Bitcoin and everything around it.
The presentations are technical, presenting practical or theoretical attacks or vulnerabilities on the network, the users, or other resources.
This event is geared toward people with knowledge of the technical aspects of bitcoin or security in general.
Welcome breakfast 9:00 - 9:55
Opening session 9:55 - 10:00
Political, Social, and Economic Threats
Jimmy Song 10:00 - 10:30
Socialized Costs of Hard Forks
Slides
Alyse Killeen 10:30 - 11:00
Social Attacks on Decentralization
Slides
Antoine Le Calvez 11:00 - 11:30
Hunting Moby Dick, an Analysis of 2015-2016 Spam Attacks
Slides
Break 11:30 - 11:45
Kim Nilsson 11:45 - 12:15
Cracking MtGox
Slides
Patrick McCorry 12:15 - 12:45
Gambling on the Success of a Hard Fork
Slides
Buffet 12:45 - 14:00
Applications, Usability, and Security
Giacomo Zucco 14:00 - 14:30
Traditional Banks as Bitcoin Custodians: Security Challenges and Implications
Slides
Renaud Lifchitz 14:30 - 15:00
Security of Bitcoin Light Wallets
Slides
Thomas Voegtlin 15:00 - 15:30
Light Clients During the Interfork Period of 2017
Slides
Applications and Usability Panel 15:30 - 16:15
Marta Piekarska
Lawrence Nahum
Thomas Voegtlin
Break 16:15 - 16:30
Hardware Security
Nicolas Bacca 16:30 - 17:00
Breaking Hardware Wallets - Tales from the Trenches and Glimpse Into the Future
Slides
Daniel Gruss and Michael Schwarz 17:00 - 17:30
Cache Attacks on SGX
Slides
Hardware Panel 17:30 - 18:15
Nicolas Bacca
Marek Palatinus
Thomas Bertani
Close 18:15 - 18:30
Metro 18:30 - 19:10
Party at Paris Minuit
Welcome breakfast 9:00 - 10:00
Protocol Security
Peter Todd 10:00 - 10:30
Solar Powered Space Pirates: A Threat to Bitcoin?
Eric Lombrozo 10:30 - 11:00
Consensus Rules : Changing them without Breaking bitcoin
Ren Zhang 11:00 - 11:30
On the Necessity of a Prescribed Block Validity Consensus: Analyzing Bitcoin Unlimited Mining Protocol
Slides
Break 11:30 - 11:45
Adam Back 11:45 - 12:15
Interview with Elizabeth Stark
Christopher Jeffrey 12:15 - 12:45
The Pitfalls of Consensus Implementation
Buffet 12:45 - 14:00
Mining Security
Eric Voskuil 14:00 - 14:30
Consensual not Political
Slides
Kevin Loaec 14:30 - 15:00
Proof of Moon
Slides
Ricardo Perez Marco 15:00 - 15:30
On Instabilities of the Bitcoin Protocol
Slides
Mining Panel 15:30 - 16:15
James Hilliard
Alex Petrov
Kevin Pan
Break 16:15 - 16:30
Layer 2 and Infrastructure
Adam Fiscor 16:30 - 17:00
Zerolink - The Bitcoin Fungibility Framework
Slides
Lightning Network Panel 17:00 - 18:00
Elizabeth Stark
Laolu Osuntokun
Fabrice Drouin
Dr Christian Decker
Amir Taaki 18:00 - 18:30
Technology is a Power We Use to Shape Society
Slides
Closing session 18:30 - 19:00