Science of Blockchain (SBC) 2024 submission deadline is in one month: 16 April. Learn more here: sbc-conference.com/#cfp.

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Congratulations to Jovana Milojević Jovana Milojevic for passing her Ph.D. examination yesterday at Universität Bern, with her thesis titled “Security and Fairness of Blockchain Consensus Protocols”! crypto.unibe.ch/2024/03/08/phd…

Get the latest on the science and engineering of consensus, from the experts in the field, in Year 2 of our consensus workshop at the blockchain conference of The Stanford Center for Blockchain Research ! 👇🧵
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Looking forward to the CUSO Winter School 2024 on Computer Science and Distributed Computing, in 10 days in Champéry. Taught by Christian Scheideler, Laurent Vanbever, Patrick Thiran, Fabian Kuhn, and Roger Wattenhofer. winterschool2024.inf.unibe.ch

Ignacio Amores Sesar (Ignacio Amores Sesar) passed his Ph.D. exam at Universität Bern with his thesis 'Scaling the Unscalable: A Study About Consensus' - Congratulations! Many thanks to Arthur Gervais (@HatforceSec) for co-examining.

The first conference talk of Luca Zanolini for Ethereum Foundation, after graduating from Universität Bern, at SBC'23 The Stanford Center for Blockchain Research today -- congratulations!

Looking forward to hosting this workshop tselab.stanford.edu/workshop-sbc23/. Thanks for the sponsorship of this event by EigenLayer Espresso Systems Input Output @SupraOracles and Stanford Future of Digital Currencies Initiative.

Congratulations to Orestis Alpos for passing his doctoral exam yesterday at @Unibern with a thesis on 'Distributed protocols with threshold and general trust assumptions'. Well done! Thanks to Jesper Buus Nielsen from Aarhus Universitet for co-examining. crypto.unibe.ch

Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC) 2023 happening in 11 days. Dozens of regular presentations and three excellent invited speakers: Dankrad Feist (EF), Dan Robinson (Paradigm), and Eli Ben-Sasson (StarkWare).

View the program at: cbr.stanford.edu/sbc23/.

We had a blast last year so please join us this year with another set of superb speakers: vitalik.eth , Ed Felten, Sreeram Kannan , Aniket Kate , Elaine Shi , Aviv Zohar , David Mazières and Peter Gazi

Congratulations to Luca Zanolini : Started four years ago as the first Ph.D. student in the CRYPTO group at Universität Bern, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on Asymmetric Trust in Distributed Systems today. Well done! Best wishes for your future consensus research at Ethereum Foundation.

Save the date for this year's Science and Engineering of Consensus workshop, on the day before SBC'23!
🗓️ When? Sunday, 27 August 2023.
📍 Where? Stanford campus.
🎯 Confirmed speakers, tentative schedule, and registration: tselab.stanford.edu/workshop-sbc23/

The Swiss Crypto Day is back in 2023: A full day of cryptography talks in Switzerland.
Mark your calendars for 8 September at ETH Zurich . To receive updates, sign up to the mailing list: swisscryptoday.github.io
Hosted by Francesca Falzon and kennyog.
#crypto means #crypto graphy

Perfectly secure steganography is closer than ever before. Recent work gives much more realistic cover text. Read the piece by Stephen Ornes in Quanta Magazine.
Samuel Sokota Christian Schroeder de Witt Zico Kolter Jakob Foerster Martin

Join us at Financial Cryptography (FC '23) in Croatia May 1-5: Program published, keynote by George Danezis, plus 5 workshops/tutorials. Early registration deadline coming soon.
#cryptography , #privacy , #DeFi , #cryptocurrency , #blockchain
fc23.ifca.ai

Financial Cryptography (FC '23) in Bol on Brač island: 41 papers accepted on topics like #cryptography , #privacy , #DeFi , #cryptocurrency , #blockchain and more, fc23.ifca.ai/program.html
Watch out for participation information here and at
fc23.ifca.ai

ETH-Forscher finden im Schweizer Chat-Dienst Threema mehrere Sicherheitslücken.

Diese ermöglichen einem Angreifer etwa, Metadaten auszulesen, die Reihenfolge von Nachrichten zu verändern oder gar einen Account zu klonen.

Threema hat die Schwachstellen inzwischen behoben. 1/