Cryptocurrency: Burn It With Fire - Nicholas Weaver - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2019

Cryptocurrency: Burn It With Fire - Nicholas Weaver - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2019

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And Technical Attacks

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And Technical Attacks

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Cryptocurrency: Burn It With Fire - Nicholas Weaver - USENIX Enigma Conference - 2019

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

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