DCCL 2017 - Workshop on Distributed Cryptocurrencies and Consensus Ledgers

This workshop aims at discussing questions of consistency, concurrency, distributed knowledge, integrity, and reaching consensus in the context of cryptocurrencies and consensus ledgers. The workshop solicits submissions describing current work addressing decentralized cryptocurrencies and consensus ledgers, including analytical results, work on systems, and/or position papers.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
Distributed consensus among selfish nodes
Scalability
Mechanisms for consensus ledgers
Proof-of-work and alternatives
Byzantine fault tolerance
Systems implementing distributed ledgers and blockchains
Applications of blockchains to distributed computing
Nakamoto consensus and protocols based on proof-of-work
Smart contracts
Anonymity and privacy