Breaking Bitcoin

Conference


Paris 9-10 Sep 2017

Breaking Bitcoin Center
16 Rue Jean Rey
Paris, 75015 France

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Breaking Bitcoin

Conference


Paris, France, 9-10 September 2017

About


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.

Agenda


Friday 20:00 Social Meetup Sof Bar


Saturday

Saturday Stream

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

Sunday

Sunday Stream Part 1

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


Sunday Stream Part 2

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

Speakers


Venue


16 Rue Jean Rey, 75015 Paris, France

Media


Organizers