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Financial Cryptography and Data Security

FC 2018 International Workshops, BITCOIN, VOTING, and WTSC, Nieuwpoort, Curaçao, March 2, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 10958)

Part of the book sub series: Security and Cryptology (LNSC)

Conference series link(s): FC: International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security

Conference proceedings info: FC 2018.

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
  2. Bitcoin and Blockchain Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Smart Contracts for Bribing Miners

      • Patrick McCorry, Alexander Hicks, Sarah Meiklejohn
      Pages 3-18
    3. A Systematic Approach to Cryptocurrency Fees

      • Alexander Chepurnoy, Vasily Kharin, Dmitry Meshkov
      Pages 19-30
    4. A Wild Velvet Fork Appears! Inclusive Blockchain Protocol Changes in Practice

      • A. Zamyatin, N. Stifter, A. Judmayer, P. Schindler, E. Weippl, W. J. Knottenbelt
      Pages 31-42
    5. Confidential Assets

      • Andrew Poelstra, Adam Back, Mark Friedenbach, Gregory Maxwell, Pieter Wuille
      Pages 43-63
    6. Analysis of the Bitcoin UTXO Set

      • Sergi Delgado-Segura, Cristina Pérez-Solà, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí
      Pages 78-91
    7. Hostile Blockchain Takeovers (Short Paper)

      • Joseph Bonneau
      Pages 92-100
    8. Analyzing the Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Ecosystem

      • Marie Vasek, Tyler Moore
      Pages 101-112
    9. Exploiting Transaction Accumulation and Double Spends for Topology Inference in Bitcoin

      • Matthias Grundmann, Till Neudecker, Hannes Hartenstein
      Pages 113-126
    10. Egalitarian Society or Benevolent Dictatorship: The State of Cryptocurrency Governance

      • Sarah Azouvi, Mary Maller, Sarah Meiklejohn
      Pages 127-143
    11. Blockchain-Based Certificate Transparency and Revocation Transparency

      • Ze Wang, Jingqiang Lin, Quanwei Cai, Qiongxiao Wang, Jiwu Jing, Daren Zha
      Pages 144-162
  3. Advances in Secure Electronic Voting Schemes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
    2. A Verifiable Shuffle for the GSW Cryptosystem

      • Martin Strand
      Pages 165-180
    3. Voting Technologies, Recount Methods and Votes in Wisconsin and Michigan in 2016

      • Walter R. Mebane Jr., Matthew Bernhard
      Pages 196-209
    4. Towards Everlasting Privacy and Efficient Coercion Resistance in Remote Electronic Voting

      • Panagiotis Grontas, Aris Pagourtzis, Alexandros Zacharakis, Bingsheng Zhang
      Pages 210-231
    5. Verifiability of Helios Mixnet

      • Ben Smyth
      Pages 247-261

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 3 workshops held at the 22nd International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2018, in Nieuwport, Curaçao, in March 2018.


The 23 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They feature the outcome of the 5th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research, BITCOIN 2018, the Third Workshop on
Secure Voting Systems, VOTING 2018,and the Second Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, WTSC 2018.


The papers are grouped in topical sections named: Blockchain, Distributed Ledgers, Cryptography, Bitcoin, Voting, and Smart Contracts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

    Aviv Zohar

  • Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

    Ittay Eyal

  • University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Vanessa Teague

  • Concordia University, Beaconsfield, Canada

    Jeremy Clark

  • Computer Science and Mathematics, Stirling University, Stirling, UK

    Andrea Bracciali

  • Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Federico Pintore

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Massimiliano Sala

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Financial Cryptography and Data Security

  • Book Subtitle: FC 2018 International Workshops, BITCOIN, VOTING, and WTSC, Nieuwpoort, Curaçao, March 2, 2018, Revised Selected Papers

  • Editors: Aviv Zohar, Ittay Eyal, Vanessa Teague, Jeremy Clark, Andrea Bracciali, Federico Pintore, Massimiliano Sala

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-58820-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: International Financial Cryptography Association 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-58819-2Published: 11 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-58820-8Published: 09 February 2019

  • Series ISSN: 0302-9743

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 382

  • Number of Illustrations: 127 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cryptology

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