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What Is A "Cryptocurrency"?
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Cryptocurrency: Burn It With Fire - Nicholas Weaver - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2019
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- 1 Intro
- 2 What Is A "Cryptocurrency"?
- 3 What Is A "Blockchain (well, "Public" or "Permissionless' Blockchains)
- 4 What About Private/Permissioned Blockchains?
- 5 Why They Don't Work As Currency
- 6 So What's The Purpose: Censorship-Resistance For Crime
- 7 Why Public Blockchains Don't Work At All: Inefficient or insecure
- 8 And Decentralization
- 9 Only One Financial Innovation : Smart Contracts
- 10 The Reality: Buggy Finance Bots With Million Dollar Bug Bounties
- 11 Everything Else: Speedrunning 500 years of Economic Failures
- 12 So What To Do... Beyond Pointing and Laughing
- 13 And Enforce The Laws!
- 14 And Technical Attacks
- 15 Conclusions...
