Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy

Smart Contract Derivatives.- Bitcoin Crypto-Bounties for Quantum Capable Adversaries.- An Econophysical Analysis of the Blockchain Ecosystem.- Stress Testing Diversified Portfolios: The Case of the CoinShares Gold and Cryptoassets Index.- Selfish Mining in Ethereum.- The Speculative (In)Efficiency of the CME Bitcoin Futures Market.- Carbon Trading with Blockchain.- Economic Games as Estimators.- Promise: Leveraging Future Gains for Collateral Reduction.- Step on the Gas? A Better Approach for Recommending the Ethereum Gas Price

Panos Pardalos is a Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida. Additionally, he is the Paul and Heidi Brown Preeminent Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Computer and Information Science Department, the Hellenic Studies Center, and the Biomedical Engineering Program. He is also the Director of the Center for Applied Optimization. Pardalos is a world leading expert in global and combinatorial optimization. Pardalos is also a member of several Academies of Sciences, and he holds several honorary PhD degrees and affiliations. He is the Founding Editor of Optimization Letters, Energy Systems, and Co-Founder of the International Journal of Global Optimization, and Computational Management Science. His recent research interests include network design problems, optimization in telecommunications, e-commerce, data mining, biomedical applications, and massive computing. Ilias S. Kotsireas serves as a full professor of Computer Science at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In 2002 he founded the CARGO Lab, and serves as its director for more than 15 years. He has over 150 refereed journal and conference publications, chapters in books, edited books and special issues of journals, in the research areas of Computational Algebra, Metaheuristics, High-Performance Computing, Dynamical Systems and Combinatorial Design Theory. He serves on the Editorial Board of 7 international journals. He serves as the Managing Editor of a Springer journal and as the Editor-in-Chief of a Springer journal and a Birkhauser book series. He has organized a very large number of international conferences in Europe, North America and Asia, often serving as a Program Committee Chair or General Chair.