{"id":84277,"date":"2017-09-10T08:20:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T05:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/decentralized-cryptographic-currencies-and-blockchains\/"},"modified":"2017-09-10T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T05:20:32","slug":"decentralized-cryptographic-currencies-and-blockchains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/decentralized-cryptographic-currencies-and-blockchains\/","title":{"rendered":"Decentralized Cryptographic Currencies and Blockchains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';\"><b>Invitation to the Media<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';\"><b>Technion&#8217;s Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Research Center will hold a conference next week on:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';\"><b>\u201cDecentralized Cryptographic Currencies and Blockchains\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde';\"><b>Sunday-Thursday, September 10-14, 2017, Churchill Auditorium<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Research Center at Technion will hold a conference next week on one of the hottest technological topics in the world today: \u201cDecentralized Cryptographic Currencies and Blockchains,\u201d which will feature a number of leading experts in the field including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Vitalik Buterin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, founder of Ethereum, an open-source platform based on blockchains. Ethereum skyrocketed by 2,800% in 2017, reaching an all-time high.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Zooko Wilcox<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, founder of Zcash, a system that maintains user privacy in cryptocurrencies. The project began with a study initiated by Prof. Ben-Sasson of Technion, with the cooperation of colleagues from MIT, Berkeley, Tel Aviv, and John Hopkins universities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Kathryn Haun<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a federal prosecutor from the United States, who has exposed both criminals who used cryptocurrencies to fund crimes worth millions on the \u201cSilk Road\u201d website, and FBI detectives who misappropriated the cryptocurrencies confiscated from the same site.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Peter Van Valkenburg<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an attorney and expert on cryptocurrencies who testified on the matter to the US Congress.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Prof. Joseph Bonneau<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the University of New York<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Prof. Rafael Pass<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Cornell University<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Prof. Zohar Aviv<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Prof. Eli Ben-Sasson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Technion, who developed the scientific-technological platform behind Zcash<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference organizers are <\/span><b>Prof. Eli Biham<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, head of the Fujiwara Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Research Center, and <\/span><b>Prof. Eli Ben-Sasson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a faculty member at Technion&#8217;s Computer Science Department who specializes in the subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference, to be held at Technion\u2019s Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Research Center, is part of a series of cybersecurity and computer conferences held by the Center. Cryptocurrencies are an invention of the last few decades. They are designed to replace tangible currency platforms (bills and coins) as well as virtual platforms such as wire transfers. The first cryptocurrency was the Bitcoin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference will also deal with blockchains, the technological concept on which are based cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Zcash; the regulation of virtual currencies; and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The conference is intended for students, researchers, and industry professionals, and is already arousing great interest among members of the virtual currency community in Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>The Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber Security Research Center<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Technion focuses on cyber security research such as software and hardware protection, operating systems and cloud information protection as well as communication to and from the cloud, protection of IoT (Internet of Things) systems, verification of software and hardware, computer vision, security of autonomous systems, machine learning for security, cryptology and \u00a0cryptanalysis, security and privacy of medical and aeronautical systems, and many other subjects. The Center is a leader in its field in Israel and manages research grants for researchers, funds graduate and doctoral students, and is a magnet for research in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the full conference program <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.technion.ac.il\/events\/2017-summer-school\/program\/\">click here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>For more information: Doron Shaham, Technion Spokesperson, 050-310-9088<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invitation to the Media Technion&#8217;s Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Research Center will hold a conference next week on: \u201cDecentralized Cryptographic Currencies and Blockchains\u201d Sunday-Thursday, September 10-14, 2017, Churchill Auditorium The Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber \u200b\u200bSecurity Research Center at Technion will hold a conference next week on one of the hottest technological topics in the world today: \u201cDecentralized Cryptographic&hellip; 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