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CALL FOR PAPERS
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6th International Workshop on
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2022

(in conjunction with ESORICS 2022 and DPM 2022)

September 29-30, 2022

*(hybrid mode: in-person attendance is encouraged,
but remote participation will be made available
upon request)*
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline: July 27, 2022 (*already extended, hard deadline*)

Notification: September 4, 2022

Camera Ready: September 20, 2022

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WORKSHOP HISTORY
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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
* Application and service cases of DLT and Smart-Contracts
* P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis
* Private transactions in blockchain based systems
* New usages of the blockchain technology
* Scalability solutions for blockchain systems
* Blockchain-defined networking
* Smart contracts
* Distributed consensus and fault tolerance
* Blockhain Protocols and algorithms
* Transaction Monitoring and Analysis
* Token Economy, finance and payments
* Consensus mechanisms: proof-of-work, proof-of-useful-work, ...
* On-chain and off-chain code synergies
* Oracles, DeFi, NFT dapps and protocols
* Blockchain as a service



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SUBMISSION DETAILS
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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 2022 submission
site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbt2022

*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:

* Nicola Dragoni, Technical University of Denmark
* Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

PC Members:

* Lennart Ante - Blockchain Research Lab
* Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay
* Artem Barger - IBM Research
* Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg
* Rainer Boehme - University of Innsbruck
* Karima Boudaoud - University of Nice
* Jeferson Campos-Nobre - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
* Richard Chbeir - University Pau & Pays Adour
* Alexandre Chepurnoy - IOHK Research
* James Chiang - Technical University of Denmark
* Jeremy Clark - Concordia University
* Mauro Conti - University of Padua
* Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
* Jeremie Decouchant - Delft University of Technology
* Matteo Dell'Amico - EURECOM
* Sven Dietrich - City University of New York
* Kaoutar Elkhiyaoui - EURECOM
* Joshua Ellul - University of Malta
* Nour El-Madhoun - EPITA Engineering School
* Antonio Faonio - EURECOM
* Paula Fraga - University of A Coruna
* Victor Garcia - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
* Hannes Hartenstein - KIT
* Ryan Henry - University of Calgary
* Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
* Sandra Johnson - ConsenSys
* Ghassan Karame - NEC Research
* Jiasun Li - George Mason University
* Daniel-Xiapu Luo - Hong Kong Polytechnic University
* Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Georgetown University
* Darya Melnyk - Aalto University
* Jose Luis Munoz-Tapia - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
* Guillermo Navarro-Arribas - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
* Aafaf Ouaddah - Institut National des Postes et Telecommunications
* Cristina Perez-Sola - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
* Alfredo Rial - University of Luxembourg
* Motoyoshi Sekiya - Fujitsu Limited
* Matteo Signorini - Nokia Bell Labs
* Weidong Shi - University of Houston
* Hitesh Tewari - Trinity College Dublin
* Eirini Tsiropoulou - University of New Mexico
* Dimitrios Vasilopoulos - IMDEA Software Institute
* Edgar Weippl - SBA Research


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VENUE/FORMAT
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The workshop will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in conjunction with
the 27th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security,
ESORICS. More information on accommodation and venue available from
the ESORICS 2022 website at: https://esorics2022.compute.dtu.dk/

In-person attendance is encouraged, but remote participation will
be made available upon request.

This call for papers and additional information about CBT 2022
can be found at http://cbtworkshop.org/

Kinldy contact cbt2022@easychair.org in case of doubts or questions