MONEROKON 2023: Monero Konferenco: 23rd-25th June 2023 @ Paralelní Polis - Prague Paralelní Polis Prague, Czechia, June 23-25, 2023

Monero Konferenco (“MONEROKON”) strives to provide high-quality content that brings together global scientists, researchers, and subject-matter experts to present state-of-the-art developments in their respective fields. In addition to presentations that addresses the science, engineering, and the mathematics of blockchain technology, we are also keen to receive multidisciplinary submissions that touch on the wider implications of this emerging technology in relation to art, sociology, psychology, politics, philosophy, ecology, and law. Along with 20-minute presentations, we welcome 60-minute lectures, self-organized panel discussions with 3-6 panelist, and hands-on workshops/tutorials.
Submissions will be categorized into three tracks: (i) Security, (ii) Privacy, and (iii) Decentralization.

List of Topics

Security

• Economics of coin tail emission vs. post-emission fee market
• Spam attacks and transaction fees
• Node DDoS prevention
• Node sybil attacks
• Selfish mining attacks
• Difficulty adjustment algorithms
• Cryptocurrency Laws and Regulations
• Human Rights and the Blockchain
• Reducing or eliminating Monero's 10 block lock

Privacy

• Unique privacy-preserving cryptographic methods
• Post-quantum cryptography
• Novel implementations of zero-knowledge cryptographic schemes
• Anonymous network layers/mix networks
• Applied statistics in traceability and decoy selection algorithms
• Use of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) in Blockchain Analytics
• Transaction de-anonymization techniques
• Advisability of transaction churning and churning best practices
• Privacy issues with layer 2 solutions
• Privacy-preserving smart contracts
• Privacy-preserving Proof-of-Stake

Decentralization

• Cross-chain interoperability
• Atomic swaps
• Multisignature wallets
• Decentralized Exchanges (DEX)
• Novel distributed consensus protocols
• Environmental sustainability of consensus mechanisms
• Pool mining centralization
• Full node distribution
• Scalability issues with blockchain size
• Blockchain pruning
• Blockchain governance models

Venue

Paralelní Polis, 475/43, Dělnická, 170 00 Praha 7, Czechia

Key Dates

• Submission deadline: 3rd April 2023 @ 00:00 UTC
• Proposal review phase: 3rd-17th April 2023
• Notice of Acceptance: 18th April 2023
• Bursary request deadline: 1 August 2023

Submission Guidelines

Proposals should be original, significant, and insightful. Proposal may evaluate social constructs, present empirical finds, describe challenges and solutions, present new methods, schemes, models and/or highlight a research gap of a given topic. Workshops/tutorials should be pedagogical and geared towards introducing learners to practical skills, techniques, or ideas.

Please refrain from submitting proposals that are promotional in nature and if the proposal is related to another cryptocurrency project, try to focus on the high-level technical aspects of the project

Contact

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For further information about the conference, please contact orga@monerokon.com (key ID: 0xEE05E6F9)