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CALL FOR PAPERS
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4th International Workshop on
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2020

In conjunction with ESORICS 2020

http://www.cbtworkshop.org/

September 17-28, 2020,
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline (Papers): July 25, 2020 (Anywhere, firm deadline, already extended)
Notification (Papers): August 20, 2020
Camera Ready (Papers): September 1st, 2020

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Since the appearance of Bitcoin in 2009, a plethora of new
cryptocurrencies and other blockchain based systems have been deployed
with different success. While some of them are slightly different
copies of Bitcoin, other ones propose interesting improvements or new
usages of the underlying blockchain technology. However, the novelty
of such technologies is often tied with rapid developments and
proof-of-concept software, and rigorous scientific analyses of the
proposed systems are often skipped.

This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers in this area to
carefully analyze current systems and propose new ones in order to
create a scientific background for a solid development of new
cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology systems.

The main topics include (but are not limited to):

* Anonymity and privacy in cryptocurrencies.
* Privacy-preserving technologies.
* Cryptocurrency based trust systems.
* Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies.
* Formal threat models in cryptocurrency systems.
* Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies.
* P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis.
* Private transactions in blockchain based systems.
* Consensus mechanisms: proof-of-work, proof of stake,
proof of burn, proof-of-useful-work.
* New usages of the blockchain technology.
* Scalability solutions for blockchain systems.
* Smart contracts.

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REGULAR PAPERS
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Regular and short papers must be original and not submitted for
publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts
following the LNCS Proceedings Manuscript style. Papers are limited to
16 pages (full papers), or 8 pages (short papers) including references
and appendices, and can be submitted as PDF via the CBT 2020 submission
site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbt2020

*Double blind review*: CBT requires anonymized submissions -- please
make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious
self-references.

Accepted regular papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS
collection. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to
register and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper
will not be included in the proceedings.

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PROGRAM COMMITEE
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PC Chairs:

* Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France
* Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - UAB, Catalonia

PC Members:

* Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay (France)
* Tesnim Abdellatif - EDF R&D (France)
* Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
* Rainer Böhme - Universität Innsbruck (Austria)
* Joseph Bonneau - NYU (USA)
* Alexander Chepurnoy - IOHK Research (Russia)
* Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Catalonia)
* Arthur Gervais - Imperial College London (UK)
* Hannes Hartenstein - KIT (Germany)
* Ghassan Karame - NEC Research (Germany)
* Eleftherios Kokoris-Kogias - EPFL (Switzerland)
* Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Georgetown University (USA)
* Andrew Miller - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
* Guillermo Navarro-Arribas - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Catalonia)
* Cristina Pérez-Solà - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Catalonia)
* Matteo Signorini - Nokia Bell Labs (France)
* Khalifa Toumi - SystemX (France)
* Edgar Weippl - SBA Research (Austria)

Further details at http://www.cbtworkshop.org/