Blockchain in Society: Applications, Economics, Law, and Ethics 2019
2019-11-18..2019-11-22
Berkeley, United States
who it's for
blockchain researchers, regulators and policy makers, cryptography engineers, protocol developers, payments engineers, security engineers, economists and game theorists, ethics researchers
topics
differential privacy for legal definitions; predicate singling out; smart contract exploits and forks; token economics and registries; mining pool game theory; Stellar consensus quorum slices; transparency logs with revocation; zk-STARK throughput proofs (StarkEx); blockDAG designs and Spacemesh; verifiable public lotteries; verifiable delay functions (square-and-prove); taxation and FATF travel-rule compliance
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Law and CS | Kobbi Nissim | 01h 16m |
Project builds formal links between legal terms and CS privacy: extracts a FERPA-derived mathematical definition, proves that standard differential privacy… | ||
| Regulation through Governance | Primavera De Filippi | 01h 01m |
Argues that blockchain code both enforces rules and can evade law, showing concrete failures and levers: a smart‑contract exploit drains about $60M in the DAO… | ||
| Blockchain and Economics: Progress and Open Questions | Stephanie Hurder | 51m |
Argues that tokens are not a free lunch: token curated registries fail in practice and native tokens need real economic purpose; cites Storj’s exploitable… | ||
| Game Theory Applied to Mining Pools, Token Offering, Dao, and Consensus Protocols | Jiasun Li | 01h 20m |
Three short game‑theory results: empirical + model work shows mining pools arise for risk sharing but never monopolize, pools with sticky “passive” miners… | ||
| Fast and Secure Global Payments with Stellar | David Mazières | 01h 03m |
Stellar implements a production payment network that claims issuer-enforced finality and cross-issuer atomicity via the Stellar Consensus Protocol where nodes… | ||
| WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization Framework from Transparency Logs | Raluca Popa | 01h 07m |
Wave replaces a central access-control server with a cryptographically enforced authorization graph stored on a new ULDM transparency log that adds revocation… | ||
| Inclusive Accountability at Scale via Proofs | Eli Ben-Sasson | 01h 05m |
Cryptographic integrity is achieved by batching off‑chain computation into succinct proofs that verify on‑chain in tiny time; the system uses zk-STARKs to… | ||
| Untangling the BlockDAG | Tal Moran | 55m |
Compares specific block DAG designs (GHOST, inclusive/FruitChain, parallel-chain, SPECTRE, Phantom) and presents Spacemesh as a built layered-DAG consensus… | ||
| Bitcoin Regulation in Israel | Aviv Zohar | 01h 05m |
Israel treats Bitcoin as an asset, so capital gains tax applies and accountants use FIFO first-in-first-out, producing surprising tax bills (example: buying at… | ||
| Blockchain Ethics Field Building | Rhys Lindmark, Neha Narula | 55m |
Argues for a field called blockchain ethics and gives concrete examples: lists ZK tools (SNARKs, STARKs, Halo, Sonic) as active research; describes immutable… | ||
| Blockchain Intermediation | Angela Walch | 56m |
Argues that miners function as de facto intermediaries and gives concrete examples and open questions: miners can rewind transactions (DAO fork), mining-pool… | ||
| Blockchains and Publicly-Verifiable Lotteries | Joseph Bonneau | 58m |
Describes concrete constructions and tradeoffs: classic commit–reveal needs penalties or an honest majority to prevent last-player aborts, threshold-signature… | ||
| Regulatory Incentives Towards Decentralization | Peter Van Valkenburgh | 01h 04m |
Argues that regulatory choices act like taxes or subsidies: avoiding costly compliance makes open blockchains more competitive than legacy finance, while state… | ||
| BDoS: Blockchain Denial of Service | Ittay Eyal | 52m |
Claim: publishing only block headers and proving prior work makes rational miners prefer to stop and can halt a proof‑of‑work chain far cheaper than 51%… | ||
| Zexe: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation | Pratyush Mishra | 54m |
Zexe claims a ledger-layer for decentralized private computation that lets parties compute off‑chain and publish succinct attestations. It uses zk‑SNARKs with… | ||
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