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Secure Outsourcing of Computation using Smart Contracts by Rei Safavi-Naini
 
 
 
 
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A Licas Critique to the Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm of the Bitcoin System by Shunya Noda
 
 
 
 
 
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Blockchain@UBC- Industry Night
 
 
 
 

A Licas Critique to the Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm of the Bitcoin System by Shunya Noda

January 21, 2020
1961 E Mall
Stikine Room (Room 260)
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Abstract: The design of the difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) of the Bitcoin system is vulnerable as it dismisses miners' response to the difficulty adjustment. We develop an economic model of the Proof-of-Work based blockchain system. Our model allows miners to pause operation when the...

Blockchain@UBC- Industry Night

January 29, 2020
Room X860- ICICS Building (2366 Main Mall)
Vancouver, BC
Canada

We will be hosting an Industry Night for our community of Faculty Members, Industry Partners, Postdoctoral Fellows and students to meet with the attendees of the International Standards Organization’s meetings of Technical Committee 307 on Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technologies that we...