Desde Agosto 11, 2020 11:45 hasta Agosto 11, 2020 13:15

Ciclo de Coloquios 2020: "Understanding the Bitcoin Protocol and the Blockchain Structure"

Publicado por Katherine Quezada

El Departamento de Informática de la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María tiene el agrado de invitar a la comunidad Universitaria a su ciclo de coloquios. Esta presentación se realizará por videoconferencia a través de la plataforma Zoom, el día martes 11 de agosto a las 11:45. Transmisión: https://tv.inf.utfsm.cl/


Expositor

Martín Ugarte, director of Technology Transfer at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)

Mini Bio

Martín Ugarte is the Director of Technology Transfer at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), where he previously worked as a postdoc and research engineer. After obtaining his PhD from the Catholic University of Chile, he worked for three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) in Belgium under the Laboratory for Web & Information Technology. During his academic career Martín has been an active researcher on the field of Data Management, contributing to the foundational aspects of Complex Event Processing and Continuous Query Evaluation. Martín is also an advocate of cryptocurrencies. In the last years he has given several tutorials and invited talks on the technical aspects of cryptocurrencies and their relation to smart contracts.

Resumen

In the last five years Bitcoin has gained global attention, reaching in June 2020 a market capitalization of approximately 180 billion US dollars and a daily trading volume of billions of dollars. Although Bitcoin is mostly considered a financial asset, its underlying protocol, published in 2008 by the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, goes far beyond: it achieves consensus between distributed trustless parties in a decentralized manner. In this talk we will discuss in detail how this consensus is achieved, from the cryptographic premises to the specifics of the protocol and the Bitcoin blockchain. We will also discuss the incentives of the different actors in the Bitcoin network, and how these incentives complement the underlying cryptography to enforce the security and value of the currency.