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. <\/p>\n
We have a great program lined up for 2016. We're excited to welcome the leading experts on blockchains from industry and academia. <\/p>\n
Boston University, USA <\/p>\n
University of Innsbruck, AT <\/p>\n
Stanford University, USA <\/p>\n
Coin Center, USA <\/p>\n
IBM Research, CH <\/p>\n
Carnegie Mellon University, USA <\/p>\n
University College London, UK <\/p>\n
University of Edinburgh, UK <\/p>\n
University College London, UK <\/p>\n
ETH Zurich, CH <\/p>\n
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA <\/p>\n
Foteini is a postdoctoral researcher in the BU Security group at Boston University. <\/p>\n
Aggelos is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh. <\/p>\n
Sarah is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Computer Science and Security and Crime Science at UCL. <\/p>\n
Bitcoin school is not-for-profit. We are accepting donations in bitcoin to help us run the school. <\/p>\n
Thank you for your generosity! <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
All stipends are now allocated. Thanks to NSF, IOHK and INTEL for their sponsorship. <\/p>\n
The school will be hosted at the Corfu Imperial Hotel. <\/p>\n
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). <\/p>\n
By plane <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Corfu is directly connected to various European cities via charter flights. Ryanair and EasyJet, also provide direct connection with multiple European airports. <\/p>\n
By bus and ferry <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Corfucoin is the cryptocurrency of the summer school for attendees to play around with, mine and share! <\/p>\n
Getting the Corfucoin wallet <\/p>\n
Address registry <\/p>\n
If you would like to share your Corfucoin address with the other attendees, you may use the address registry. <\/p>\n
Mining Corfucoin <\/p>\n
Corfucoin is a fork of Litecoin, which uses a scrypt proof-of-work scheme. Corfucoins can be mined by using cpuminer. <\/p>\n
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