Blockchain Research at University Zurich
After the summer break, we are resuming our Blockchain Research Zurich Meetup. To kick off the autumn series with our fourth meetup, Prof. Claudio Tessone is guest-hosting us at UZH. This gives us all a nice opportunity to learn about what topics our colleagues at UZH are working on in the blockchain space.
Place: Universität Zürich Zentrum external pageKOL-E-21call_made, Rämistrasse 71 8006 Zürich
Day: Tuesday, 25. September 2018
Time: 18.00 - 20.30 (incl. Apéro)
After the summer break, we are resuming our Blockchain Research Zurich Meetup. To kick off the autumn series with our fourth meetup (see previous), Prof. Claudio Tessone is guest-hosting us at UZH. This gives us all a nice opportunity to learn about what topics our colleagues at UZH are working on in the blockchain space.
We follow our proven concept with brief Q&A after the talks and a longer Apéro at the end (use Doodle below!). :)
Program
18:10 Welcome – Marcus M. Dapp (ETHZ) / Claudio Tessone (UZH)
18:15 Cardossier, The digital blockchain ecosystem – Liudmila Zavolokina (UZH)
Information Asymmetries and lack of trust between buyers and sellers are prevailing today’s used-car market. To counteract these problems, together with project partners from the car ecosystem (insurance, importer, car dealer, road traffic agency, legal research department), researchers from the Information Management Research Group at the UZH implement a blockchain-based digital car dossier.
18:45 Q&A
19:00 Uprise from the Underground: An analysis of the relationship between cryptomarkets and Bitcoin – Jan Bühlmann (UZH)
The focus of this study is an analysis of the historical origins of online drug trade and its key components. Moreover, it examines the role of the cryptocurrency bitcoin within that context. While it is clear that the invention of bitcoin was an existential condition to the creation of the first cryptomarket, it is left to wonder if bitcoin would have made it into the mainstream without the prior adaptation in online drug trade.
19:30 Q&A
19:45 Closing – Claudio Tessone (UZH) / Marcus M. Dapp (ETHZ)
APERO Sponsored by the COSS group and futurICT2.eu research project
The meetup has a research focus, thus only active researchers and students from ETH and UZH are cordially invited.
If you want to stay for the Apéro please use doodle so we know how many people to expect, thanks! external pageDoodlecall_made
About the meetup: http://www.coss.ethz.ch/news/blockchainmeetup.html
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