Bitcoin Special Lecture - Fungibility, Privacy & Identity

Agenda: 19:30-20:00 - Gathering and refreshments 20:00-21:00 - Fungibility, Privacy & Identity (Adam Back) 21:00-22:00 - Free discussion Bitcoin gets its transaction cost advantage vs credit cards from its cash-like poperties: irrevocable, immediate final settlement. Traditional crypto ecash schemes like Chaum & Brands, and in decentralized settings the Sander & Ta Shma/zerocoin/zerocash protocols provide cryptogaphic fungibility based on blinding and ZKP set membership/SNARKs respectively. This…