Financial Systems, Traditional Currency & Centralized Banking Systems (2008 crisis)

Cardinal canons of Cryptocurrency: Decentralization

E-Cash, Hashing, Byzantine agreement, Consensus protocols, Blockchain

Cryptography Basics: Hashing, Public Key Cryptosystem

Compression functions, SHA, RIPEMD families

Digital Signatures (DSS); Elliptic curves, Message authentication and integrity

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Public Key Cryptosystem, Cryptography

Bitcoin Ecosystem

Bitcoin peer-to-peer Network, Wallet, address, Transactions, Blocks, Mining and proof of work for consensus, Blockchain, Testnets

Keys, Bitcoin nodes

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Workshop on identifying 5 use cases; Business perspective
Office Hours

Keys, Wallets, Bitcoin nodes

Lab
Workshop on identifying 5 use cases; Business perspective
Office Hours
Keys, Wallets, Bitcoin nodes

Transactions in more detail, outputs and inputs

Blocks


Blockchains

Practice on Testnet

Transaction scripts and components, Pay-to-public key-Hash (P2PKH), Multisignature, Pay-to-script Hash (P2SH)

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Blockchains (Preceding module)

Bitcoin Network revisited: Node types and roles, SVP nodes and bloom filters, transaction pool, network discovery, and full nodes

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Blockchains (Preceding module)

Blocks: Structure of a block, header, identifier

Merkle trees, chaining blocks to form a blockchain

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Blockchains (Preceding module)

Mining and consensus: Bitcoin economics and currency creation, coinbase transaction

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Blockchains (Preceding module)

Proof of work, difficulty adjustments, consensus rules, Hard and Soft Forks

Bitcoin security and Blockchain applications

Recent directions and development

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Project Showcase1

Project Showcase2