MORCHAIN 2017: Blockchain Morocco First Edition Casablanca, Morocco, November 1-2, 2017 |
Conference website | http://maroc-chain.com/ |
The success of Bitcoin, a decentralized cryptographic currency, and the many alternative cryptocurrencies it has inspired has raised new research questions on the opportunities and risks of these currencies, as well as the potential applications of the underlying blockchain technology.
A growing number of projects have appeared in multiple disciplines, spanning a range of outlets, including top leader international financial organizations, governments, big industries to startups.
This first edition of the blockchain & cryptocurrency Africa Conference aims to bring together interested players in cryptocurrencies and their surrounding ecosystems from a technical or socio-economic perspective. It deals with the different aspects related to the design, development and deployment of current cryptocurrencies ecosystem such as (bitcoin, etheruem, hyperledger etc ) as well as the design and development of new blockchain based applications and architectures. It deals also with fault tolerance privacy and security issues in cryptocurency.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
Technical track
- Privacy and anonymity-enhancing technologies in cryptocurrencies
- Cryptocurrency based trust systems
- Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies
- Threat models and attacks in cryptocurrency systems
- Alternative defenses against Sybil attacks
- Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies
- P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis
- Private transactions in blockchain based systems
- Problem based mining for cryptocurrencies, like PrimeCoin
- Mining mechanisms: proof-of-work, proof of stake, proof of burn and alternatives
- New usages of the blockchain technology
- Permissioned and permissionless blockchains
- Scalability solutions for blockchain systems- Smart contracts
Financial track
- Legal, ethical, and societal aspects of blockchain and cryptocurrencies
- Relationship to traditional and other payment systems
- Financial markets
- Regulation and law enforcement
- Fraud detection and financial crime prevention
- New applications of the blockchain
- Economics and game theory of mining
- Legal, ethical and societal aspects of (decentralized) virtual currencies
- Case studies (e.g., of adoption, attacks, forks, scams, …)