Recent rapid development of blockchain has attracted a giant attention by both academia and the industry. Migrating a centralized computing to decentralized computing seems to be a main stream to establish a trust and secure storage and trading environment. However, it is actually too early to make a solid statement about the adoption of blockchain technology, since there are many unsolved problems in the field. The success of blockchain technique in Bitcoin does not mean the technique can be successfully deployed in all domains. This international conference aims to gather most updated papers in the field of blockchain and provides a platform for both scholars and practitioners.

The scope of SmartBlock conference involves a broad range related to blockchain realms, from privacy-preserving solutions to designing advanced blockchain mechanism, from empirical studies to practical manuuals. All high quality updated work is highly welcomed. smartblock 2019 will be held in Birmingham, UK and its conference proceedings publisher is Springer.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Blockchain theory
Legal, ethical and societal aspects of blockchain
Blockchain application in social networking
Smart contract and distributed ledger
P2P network analysis for blockchain
Blockchain-enabled cloud/edge computing
Blockchain-enabled services
Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms
Permissioned and permissionless blockchains
Privacy and anonymity-enhancing techniques in blockchain
Security, privacy and trust of blockchain
Blockchain performance optimization
Cryptocurrency adoption and economic impacts in blockchain
Lightweight protocols and algorithms of blockchain
Forensics and monitoring in blockchain
Blockchain based lightweight data structures for IoT data
Blockchain based IoT security and privacy
Blockchain in cyber physical systems
Attacks on blockchain based systems
Bolckchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing
Fraud detection and financial crime prevention in blockchain
Trust management in blockchain
Smart Blockchain and token economy
Smart Blockchain and applications
Smart Blockchain and digital economy