报告题目：Bitcoin and Blockchain: A Brief Introduction
报告时间：2018年7月9日（周一）上午10:30 – 11:30
报告地点：合肥工业大学翡翠湖校区科教楼B座1101室
报 告 人：苏循华教授
工作单位：挪威经济学院
主办单位：经济学院
报告人简介：苏循华，中国科学技术大学学士，挪威商学院硕士，挪威经济学院金融博士，挪威科学技术大学博士后。现任挪威经济学院金融系教授，苏教授具体研究方向为公司金融，包括企业融资、创新、流动性管理、金融契约与企业竞争等。企业在当今社会扮演着极其重要的角色，针对企业竞争、融资、创新等方面的学术研究具有十分重要的理论与现实意义，其研究结果发表在顶级金融学杂志Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA)，Journal of Money Credit and Banking (JMCB)，Financial Management等。
报告摘要：Bitcoin is the world's first cryptocurrency, a form of electronic cash. It is the first decentralized digital currency: the system was designed to work without a central bank or single administrator. Bitcoins are created as a reward for a process known as mining. They can be exchanged for other currencies, products, and services. Research produced by the University of Cambridge estimates that in 2017, there were 2.9 to 5.8 million unique users using a cryptocurrency wallet, most of them using bitcoin. A blockchain, originally block chain, is a continuously growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography. It is "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way". The invention of the blockchain for bitcoin made it the first digital currency to solve the double-spending problem without the need of a trusted authority or central server.
