2^nd Berlin Conference
Crypto-Currencies in a Digital Economy
(CCConf 2018)

`ccconf.org`

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the recently established collaborative project "Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society"
are organising an academic, interdisciplinary (econ | cs | law) conference on cryptographic assets and DLT
on Nov. 29^th – 30^th 2018
at the Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin, Germany.

Call for Participation

Programme and Speakers

Keynotes by:

David L. Yermack, Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation, NYU Stern (finance)
Roger Wattenhofer, Head of the Distributed Computing Group, ETH Zürich (cs)
Rainer Böhme, Head of the Security and Privacy Lab, Innsbruck University (cs)
Dirk Bullmann, FinTech Coordinator, European Central Bank

Detailed programme:

Thursday, 29.11.2018

Rainer Böhme + Layer 0

09:00 - 09:30 | Arrival and registration
09:30 - 09:45 | Welcome speech
09:45 - 10:30 | Rainer Böhme (Uni Innsbruck) — A Decade of Cryptocurrency: From Utopia to Reality
10:30 - 11:00 | Elias Rohrer (Technische Universität zu Berlin) — State of Blockchain Networks
11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break

Privacy + Legal Aspects

11:15 - 11:45 | Tim Ruffing (Blockstream)
11:45 - 12:15 | Markus Kaulartz (CMS) — Tokens and the law
12:15 - 12:45 | Jason Allen (Centre for British Studies) — Bitcoins Are Not “Digital Bearer Instruments”: A Contribution to the Law of Property in Cyberspace
12:45 - 13:00 | Break
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch

Dirk Bullmann + Applications for Blockchain

14:00 - 14:45 | Dirk Bullmann (EZB) — Central banks and distributed ledger technology
14:45 - 15:15 | Benedikt Notheisen (KIT) — Trading Stocks on Blocks - The Quality of Decentralized Markets
15:15 - 15:45 | Jesus Martin (LBS) — The Value and Risk of Crypto for Managing Energy Communities
15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee Break

Skeletons on the blockchain + Lightning talks

16:15 - 16:45 | Roman Matzutt (RWTH Aachen) — On the Risks of Objectionable Blockchain Content
16:45 - 17:15 | Alexandra Dmitrienko (Uni Würzburg) — What you chain is not what you gain: Data inclusion attacks in Bitcoin
17:15 - 17:45 | Up to 6 ligthning talks (5 minutes each), including:
- Har Preet Singh — A Private Key Recovery Scheme Using Partial Knowledge
- Ingolf Pernice — Stablecoins: In 5 minutes from Buzz to Structure
- Angela Kreitenweis — Token Engineering
- Chloé Ipert — Blockchain & Real Estate
- Raphael Reule — Metamorphōseōn librī - About Smart Contracts
- Jörg Osterrieder — Data Analysis and Process Design at ZHAW
17:45 - 19:00 | Break; you can also stay at the conference venue

Dinner

19:00 - 21:00 | Conference Dinner*
*Complimentary for all speakers and panellists; Location: Hofbräu Wirtshaus Berlin (close to Alexanderplatz - see on map)

Friday, 30.11.2018

David Yermack

09:30 - 10:15 | David Yermack (NYU) — Are ICOs Here to Stay?
10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break

Markets, banks and finance

10:30 - 11:00 | Jamsheed Shorish (Shorish Research) — Hedonic Pricing of Cryptocurrency Tokens
11:00 - 11:30 | Cathy Yi-Hsuan Chen (HU Berlin) — Crypto opinion mining and option pricing
11:30 - 12:00 | Taojun Xie (Sim Kee Boon Inst./Singapore Management University) — Central Bank Digital Currency in Small Open Economies
12:00 - 12:15 | Break
12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch

Roger Wattenhofer + Second-layer solutions

13:15 - 14:00 | Roger Wattenhofer (ETH Zürich) — Does a Blockchain Need Altruism?
14:00 - 14:30 | Arthur Gervais (Imperial College London / HSLU) — Centralized but Untrusted Financial Intermediaries
14:30 - 15:00 | Stefanie Roos (TU Delft) — Routing Algorithms for Multi-Hop State Channels
15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee Break

Panel discussion: Crypto-currency as mainstream currency?

15:15 - 16:15 | 3-5 panelists (Frank Heinemann, Michael Burda, Roger Wattenhofer, Jason Allen)
16:15 - 16:30 | Closing speech

Purpose and Focus

Since its introduction in 2008, distributed ledger technology emerged from its use in crypto-currencies and continues to disrupt numerous of technological and economic applications. Despite its potential as a trust-free, cost-efficient, and automated system, DLT is still an emergent technology and, therefore, faces a number of challenges.

The Berlin Crypto-Currencies Conference (CCConf) provides a platform for interdisciplinary discussion of these challenges, as well as the technological and economic potential of blockchain-based systems. We welcome researchers and practitioners working on topics such as:

macro-economic consequences, decentralized monetary policy, CBDC
high-frequency exchanges, portfolio optimisation and risk management
privacy, security, and alternative DLT approaches
governance by and of blockchain-based systems
legal aspects

Location

Weizenbaum Institute
Hardenbergstraße 32
10623 Berlin
Germany

How to get to the venue

Getting to the venue by different means of transport is described in the factsheet with details.
To search and plan your public transport rides around Berlin, visit www.bvg.de/en, where directions, fares and schedules can be found.

Accommodation

If you like to stay in Berlin and pay in crypto, see www.cryptocribs.com.
If you prefer to pay in fiat and need a hotel, you can use a contingent of hotel rooms already booked by us. To find out more, please refer to the factsheet with details.

Conference Organisers

Hermann Elendner (Finance Group, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / IRTG)
Martin Florian (Computer Engineering Group, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Weizenbaum Institute)
Wolfgang Karl Härdle (Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Chair of Statistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / IRTG)
Björn Scheuermann (Chair of Computer Engineering, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Weizenbaum Institute / HIIG)

If you have any questions, contact us.

Registration

The registration is free but required. Registration is closed.

Additional Information

CCConf 2018 is a broader and deeper sequel to last year's CCConf 2017.

CCConf is a purely academic conference. For our regular discussion event series bridging academia and practice, see blockchainnights.com.

There are fellowship opportunities available at the Weizenbaum Institute. If a research stay in Berlin sounds interesting to you, please see our page or contact Martin Florian (research group 17, "Trust in distributed environments").