Bitcoin

Ethan Heilman from Boston University gave a talk on TumbleBit: An Untrusted Bitcoin-Compatible Anonymous Payment Hub. I’ll present an overview of the work, and you can refer to his paper for more details.

Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan came to MIT to give a talk on his work redesigning the Bitcoin network. I’ll provide an overview here, but for more details, I refer you to his paper.

Yonatan Sompolinsky from The Hebrew University, Jerusalem came to MIT to give a talk about the Bitcoin blockchain. This talk covered a lot of his most recent work, so I refer you to his publications for more details outside of this blog post.