Bitcoin Summer School 2016 – Blockchain Technologies

We're running the first summer school on blockchains and cryptocurrencies. We welcome students, researchers and professionals with an interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchains to join us.

We have a great program lined up for 2016. We're excited to welcome the leading experts on blockchains from industry and academia.

Boston University, USA

University of Innsbruck, AT

Stanford University, USA

Coin Center, USA

IBM Research, CH

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

University College London, UK

University of Edinburgh, UK

University College London, UK

ETH Zurich, CH

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Foteini is a postdoctoral researcher in the BU Security group at Boston University.

Aggelos is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Sarah is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Computer Science and Security and Crime Science at UCL.

Bitcoin school is not-for-profit. We are accepting donations in bitcoin to help us run the school.

Thank you for your generosity!

We welcome diversity and are striving to offer equal opportunities to all students. We are dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion.

All stipends are now allocated. Thanks to NSF, IOHK and INTEL for their sponsorship.

The school will be hosted at the Corfu Imperial Hotel.

Participants that wish to stay at the school venue can book their rooms using the code SUMSCH at the discounted rate of 150/night for double- and 130/night for single-occupancy (taxes and breakfast included).

By plane

The best way to reach Corfu is by plane. Aegean Airlines has daily service between Athens and Corfu (3-4 flights per day) and Ryanair flies between Athens and Corfu every Sunday and Friday. Astra-airlines flies from Thessaloniki to Corfu 4 times a week.

Corfu is directly connected to various European cities via charter flights. Ryanair and EasyJet, also provide direct connection with multiple European airports.

By bus and ferry

You could also reach Corfu by bus and boat. The KTEL bus service provides 3 daily connections to Corfu from Athens. The total trip will be around 8 hours.

Corfucoin is the cryptocurrency of the summer school for attendees to play around with, mine and share!

Getting the Corfucoin wallet

Address registry

If you would like to share your Corfucoin address with the other attendees, you may use the address registry.

Mining Corfucoin

Corfucoin is a fork of Litecoin, which uses a scrypt proof-of-work scheme. Corfucoins can be mined by using cpuminer.

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Bitcoin Summer School 2016 - Blockchain Technologies