This books constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers and poster abstracts from the FC 2014
Workshops the First Workshop on Bitcoin Research BITCOIN 2014 and the Second Workshop on
Applied Homomorphic Cryptography and Encrypted Computing WAHC 2014 co-located with the 18th
International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security held in Christ Church
Barbados on March 7 2014. The 15 full papers and 3 poster abstracts presented were carefully
reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They are grouped in topical sections on Bitcoin
transactions policy and legal issues Bitcoin security improving digital currencies posters
and WAHC papers.