Conferences
16–21 September 2012, Braunschweig, Germany
Workshop & Tutorial Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a form of electronic money whose core properties root in stochastic replication consistency. The algorithm is completely decentralized and operates in a peer-to-peer environment. As a project, Bitcoin is an Open Source activity with contributions according to the crowd sourcing model.
The concept raises a number of challenging technical, economical, legal and architectural issues, which combine questions from the area of stochastic algorithms, replication consis-tency, cryptography, data protection and security, privacy enhancement and network analy-sis. The concept which is used in Bitcoin for electronic money may also be used for other decentralized, weakly-consistent, replicated registries, such as name services.