LECTURE: C-Chain: The Simple, Scalable, Transparent Blockchain

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Tuesday, 6. February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30

Melanie Neumann, TUB

17:00 to 18:30

Title:

C-chain: the simple, scalable, transparent blockchain

Summary:

The talk questions some of the fundamental design decisions of blockchain, namely:

Proof of work
blockchain datastructure
miner
consensus

and argues, that they must be replaced by other desing decisions resulting in the C-chain method, which avoids all disadvantages of blockchain, in particular:

C-chain is easy to understand and to use 2. C-chain scales perfectly 3. guarantees immediate final settlement 4. has very low transaction costs

At the end of the talk there will be a handson experiment of the C-chain demonstrator, bring an Android device.

Shortbio:

Rudolf Bayer ist emeritierter Professor für Informatik an der TU München. Er studierte Mathematik in München und promovierte an der University of Illinois 1966. Nach Aufenthalten am Boeing Research Lab in Seattle und als Associate Professor an der Purdue University begründete er 1972 den Lehrstuhl für Datenbanksysteme an der TU München. Bekannt ist er vor allem für die Erfindung und Weiterentwicklung des B-Baums und des UB-Baums. Er leitete mehrere Forschungsgruppen und viele Projekte.

Er erhielt 1999 das Bundesverdienstkreuz und 2001 den SIGMOD Innovations Award der ACM.

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