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Welcome to the UCL Blockchain Reading Group. We meet fortnightly to discuss papers on blockchain design and applications, with a focus on security and privacy.

Meeting agenda

We spend about 60 minutes per paper. 30-40 minutes are allotted to the main presentation, while the remaining time is spent on questions and answers or discussions. Slides are preferred but not mandatory. Usually you will find additional resources for the papers such as slides and videos on the conference website; feel free to reuse those during the meeting.

Upcoming meetings

Date	Time	Location	Paper	Presenter	Misc
20th March 2018	11:00-11:30	MPEB 6.12a	Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum Networks	Haaroon Yousaf
3rd April 2018	11:00-11:30	MPEB 6.12a	Plasma: Scalable Autonomous Smart Contracts	Thomas Sibut-Pinote
16th April 2018	11:00-11:30	MPEB 6.12a	P2P Mixing and Unlinkable Bitcoin Transactions	George Kappos

(Optional) How to read research papers

• How to read a paper. S. Keshav. 2007. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 37, 3 (July 2007), 83-84.
• Reading a Computer Science Research Paper. Philip W.L. Fong. 2009. SIGCSE Bull. 41, 2 (June 2009), 138-140.

Previous meetings

Date	Time	Location	Paper	Presenter	Misc
20th Feburary	10:30-11:30	MPEB 6.12a	Sprites and State Channels: Payment Networks that Go Faster than Lightning	Patrick McCorry