Older Bitcoin Seminars and Talks at UCL:
| THUR 10 Sept 2015, Birkbeck B30, WC1E 7HX, near Gower str. |
16:00-17:00 | Centrally banked cryptocurrencies: details .Dr. Sarah Meiklejohn, UCL |
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| THUR 8 Oct 2015, Birkbeck B30, WC1E 7HX, near Gower str. |
16:00-17:00 | Mixing and Anonymous Transactions in Bitcoin (cf. paper). Dr. Henrik Ziegeldorf, Aachen University |
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| THUR 9 Jul 2015, Roberts G06 Sir Ambrose Fleming LT |
11:00-13:00 | Consensus algorithms, blockchain technology and bitcoin recent book by the speaker. Video recording of the talk. Andreas M. Antonopoulos, bitcoin evangelist and former UCL student |
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| THUR 2 Jul 2015 MPEB1.04 |
17:30-19:00 | Guangyan, Song (PHD candidate) will present some software for bitcoin blockchain explorations. Then Dr Nicolas Courtois will speak on ECDSA and bitcoin elliptic curve. cf. slides on ECCs and some overview slides on bitcoin storage and more slides on bitcoin key management. -Nicolas Courtois, UCL |
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| Thur 23 April 15 Roberts 110, Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
17:00-19:00 | Crypto Currency Price Stability, cf. slides and also here on pegging and also on blockchain finance Roberts Sams, Founder and CEO Clearmatics, see here on p. 4 |
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| THUR 26 Feb 15 2015 MPEB1.03 |
16:00-17:00 | UCL ACE Seminar series: Dr Nicolas Courtois will speak on ECDSA and bitcoin thefts followed be A SECOND SEMINAR by Dr Luca De Feo on elliptic curves and graphs formed by their morphisms. Topics: A paper on ECDSA bad randoms and bitcoin, some overview slides and slides about bitcoin key management. -Nicolas Courtois, UCL |
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| Thur 18 December 14 Roberts 106, Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
18:00-20:00 | Bad Random Events in the Bitcoin Blockchain Topics: Recent events, how to steal 100,000 USD. -Nicolas Courtois, UCL |
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| Thur 13 November 14 Roberts 110 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
16:00-18:00 | UCL ACE seminar: EMV and bitcoin Topics: Attacks on EMV bank cards, gateways interfacing EMV with bitcoin Mike Bond, Cryptomathic, Denmark |
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| Monday 10 November 14 Malet Place Eng 1.20 Torrington Place, WC1E 7J |
18:00-19:30 | Bitcoin Digital Currency for Beginners, part of UCL Digifest festival. Slides Nicolas Courtois, UCL |
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| Thur 6 November Engineering Front Suite 104 Torrington Place, WC1E 7J |
18:00-20:00 | Bitcoin ECDSA Key Management Topics: Security of BIP 032 Nicolas Courtois, UCL |
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| FRIDAY 31 October Malet Place Eng 1.02 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
16h-18:00 | Bitcoin contracts – digital economy without lawyers? Topics: cf. video and these slides. Dr. Stefan Dziembowski (bio) Uni of Warsaw |
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| Thur 23 October Rockefeller G15 21 University st., WC1E 6DE |
18:00-20:00 | How to Steal ALL the Bitcoins in Cold Storage Topics: Bad Randoms ECDSA, HD Wallets, BIP032 (new powerful attacks on bitcoin systems) Nicolas Courtois, UCL |
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| Thur 16 October Malet Place Eng 1.02 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
17h-19h | Bitcoin Anonymity Topics: Tracing Bitcoin Activity paper, live video Dr. Sarah Meiklejohn, UCL |
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| Thur 2 October Foster 233 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
18:00-20:00 | Bitcoin Storage Topics: Hardware Wallets, BIP032 (slides) Guangyan Song, UCL |
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| Thur 25 Septembre Foster 219 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
16:00-18:00 | Bitcoin Topics: Bitcoin Adoption and Anthroplogy (slides will be posted later, his blog) Lui Smyth, CoinJar and UCL |
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| Thur 18 Septembre MPEB 6.12 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
16:00-18:00 | UCL ACE seminar:PKI talk Topics: PoliCert: Highly Resilient PKI, Prof. Adrian Perrig, ETH Zurich, UCL |
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| MONDAY 8 Septembre MPEB 6.12 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
16:00-18:00 | UCL ACE seminar:Contactless Credit Card Fraud Topics: Harvesting attacks on EMV contactless payment, Martin Emms, Newcastle University |
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| Thur 4 Septembre MPEB 6.12 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
16:00-18:00 | UCL ACE seminar:Advanced ECC Attacks Topics: Elliptic Curves, Discrete Log, Attacks Christophe Petit, UCL |
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| Thur 28 August NO SEMINAR — |
17:00-19:00 | – NO SEMINAR– – |
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| Thur 21 August Roberts 110 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
17:00-19:00 | Bitcoin Topics: Bitcoin Yang Jiahui and Di Wang, Yang Bingning, UCL |
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| Thur 14 August Roberts 106 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
17:00-19:00 | Bitcoin Topics: Pooled Mining Stratum, Zhouyixing Wang, , UCL |
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| Thur 24 July 14 Roberts 110 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
17:00-19:00 | Bitcoin Topics: TBA Jingxian Luo, UCL, his later thesis / slides. |
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| Thur 17 July 14 Rockefeller 333 21 University st. WC1E 6DE |
12:00-14:00 | Miner Attacks Topics: selfish m., 2ble-spend, 51%, displacement etc. Yongxing Chen, UCL, slides |
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| Thur 10 July 14 Foster Court 233 Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
12:00-14:00 | Need for Speed Topics: Fast transactions, block withholding, slide 166, Joseph Attueyi, Nicolas Courtois, UCL |
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| Thur 3 July 14 Foster Court 233 Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
12:00-14:00 | Bitcoin Adoption Topics: payment and adoption Qihang Yu, Xue Pan, Congyi Li, UCL |
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| Thur 19 June 14 UCL Maths 505 25 Gordon Street Maths WC1H 0AY |
12:00-14:30 | Altcoins Topics: comparison, monetary policies Olly Wasser [altcoinspeculation.com] and Yiteng Zhang: later thesis/slides [UCL] |
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| Thur 12 June 14 Foster Court 130 Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
12:00-14:00 | Making Bitcoin Price More Stable Adaptive Elastic Monetary Supply: Method 1+2, Method 2 Roberts Sams, Founder and CEO, Kryptonomic LTD |
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| Thur 05 June 14 Roberts 422 Torrington Place, WC1E 7JE |
12:00 | Evolution of Electronic Trading Topics: Bitcoin vs. equities trading etc. (slides presented) Pinar Emirdag, Hupomone Labs, London, UK |
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| Thur 01 May 14 Gordon sq. (16-18) 101 Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
12:00-14:00 | Bitcoin Double Spending Attacks Topics: Bitcoin economics, Altcoins, Dogecoin (extended slides) Nicolas Courtois, UCL |
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| Thur 24 April 14 Chadwick B05 LT Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
12:00 | How To Make Bitcoin More Anonymous Topics: Bitcoin, Zerocoin, ZK, Mixing (slides) George Danezis, University College London |
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| Thur 24 April 14 Roberts 110 Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
18:00!!!! | Double Spending Attacks and Elliptic Curves Topics: Litecoin, Dogecoin, Double Spending, ECC Cryptography Nicolas Courtois, UCL |
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| Thur 10 April 14 UCL Darwin B05 Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
12:00 | Bitcoin Mining in a SAT solving framework Topics: Bitcoin Mining, formal coding, SAT Solvers (slides) Jonathan Heusser, PhD, Data Scientist at Lyst, London |
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| Thur 10 April 14 Roberts 105a Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
18:00!!!! | Digital Signatures in BitcoinTransactions, Signatures , ECCs Nicolas Courtois, UCL |
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| Thur 03 April 14 Foster Court 112 Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
12:00 | Mining in Practice Topics: Mining profitability (slides)Nikola Tchouparov, BerkTec Consulting Ltd |
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| Thur 27 March 14 Wilkins Gustave Tuck LT Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
12:00 | Is Bitcoin Money Topics: What is money? What is a currency? . (slides)Nadav Rosenberg, General Manager Europe at Taboola |
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| Thur 20 March 14 UCL Darwin B05 Gower street, WC1E 6BT |
12:00 | Bitcoin (continued) Topics: Signatures, attacks (bitcoin signatures)Nicolas T. Courtois, University College London |
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| Thur 30 Jan 14 Chandler G10, Wakefield street UCL Chandler house, WC1N 1PF |
13:20 | Bitcoin Regulation Topics: Legal status of bitcoin in various contries, EU e-money directive Adam Vaziri, Director Diacle Ltd, member of the Neopay GroupShort summary of the talk |
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| Thur 30 Jan 14 Chandler G10, Wakefield street UCL Chandler house, WC1N 1PF |
12:00 | Introduction to Bitcoin Topics: About this seminar, what is Bitcoin?, who runs bitcoin?, is it money? Nicolas T. Courtois, University College London (slides) |
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| 14 Sept 2013 Roberts, Torrington pl. WC1E 7JE |
12:00-15:00 | “Analysis of Bitcoin Transaction Flows to Reveal Usage and Geographic Patterns”, M.Sc. thesis/presentation/more, Shiva Bissessar, University College London and Pinaka tech. |
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| 8 June 2013 12h-15h, South Wing G14 Committee Room, UCL WC1E 6BT |
13:00-15:00 | Intorduction to Bitcoin Topics: Crypto currency in practice Nicolas Courtois, University College London |
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