Pavel Laskov is full professor at the Institute of Information Systems and head of the Hilti Chair of Daata and Application Security at the University of Liechtenstein. His research is focused on the development of reactive security mechanisms, especially for detection of and response to novel attacks.
20 May 2019
Since the dramatic surge of Bitcoin’s value in December 2017, crypto mining has become an established instrument of the digital economy, as an elegant incentive mechanism for trust and consensus building in distributed systems. Crypto miners are able to increase their profits by cutting the physical costs of mining itself, and the opportunity of letting others...