Об этом курсе: To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level. We’ll address the important questions about Bitcoin, such as: How does Bitcoin work? What makes Bitcoin different? How secure are your Bitcoins? How anonymous are Bitcoin users? What determines the price of Bitcoins? Can cryptocurrencies be regulated? What might the future hold? After this course, you’ll know everything you need to be able to separate fact from fiction when reading claims about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. You’ll have the conceptual foundations you need to engineer secure software that interacts with the Bitcoin network. And you’ll be able to integrate ideas from Bitcoin in your own projects. Course Lecturers: Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University
Автор: Princeton University
Преподаватели: Arvind Narayanan, Associate Professor
Computer Science
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Программа курса
НЕДЕЛЯ 1
Introduction to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
Learn about cryptographic building blocks ("primitives") and reason about their security. Work through how these primitives can be used to construct simple cryptocurrencies.
6 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Course Information
- Видео: Cryptographic Hash Functions
- Видео: Hash Pointers and Data Structures
- Видео: Digital Signatures
- Видео: Public Keys as Identities
- Видео: A Simple Cryptocurrency
Оцениваемый: Scrooge Coin
НЕДЕЛЯ 2
How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
Learn Bitcoin's consensus mechanism and reason about its security. Appreciate how security comes from a combination of technical methods and clever incentive engineering.
5 видео
- Видео: Distributed Consensus
- Видео: Consensus without Identity: the Block Chain
- Видео: Incentives and Proof of Work
- Видео: Putting It All Together
НЕДЕЛЯ 3
Mechanics of Bitcoin
Learn how the individual components of the Bitcoin protocol make the whole system tick: transactions, script, blocks, and the peer-to-peer network.
6 видео
- Видео: Bitcoin Scripts
- Видео: Applications of Bitcoin Scripts
- Видео: Bitcoin Blocks
- Видео: The Bitcoin Network
- Видео: Limitations & Improvements
НЕДЕЛЯ 4
How to Store and Use Bitcoins
This week we'll explore how using Bitcoins works in practice: different ways of storing Bitcoin keys, security measures, and various types of services that allow you to trade and transact with bitcoins.
7 видео
- Видео: Hot and Cold Storage
- Видео: Splitting and Sharing Keys
- Видео: Online Wallets and Exchanges
- Видео: Payment Services
- Видео: Transaction Fees
- Видео: Currency Exchange Markets
Оцениваемый: Consensus from Trust
НЕДЕЛЯ 5
Bitcoin Mining
We already know that Bitcoin relies crucially on mining. But who are the miners? How did they get into this? How do they operate? What's the business model like for miners? What impact do they have on the environment?
5 видео
- Видео: Mining Hardware
- Видео: Energy Consumption & Ecology
- Видео: Mining Pools
- Видео: Mining Incentives and Strategies
НЕДЕЛЯ 6
Bitcoin and Anonymity
Is Bitcoin anonymous? What does that statement even mean—can we define it rigorously? We'll learn about the various ways to improve Bitcoin's anonymity and privacy and learn about Bitcoin's role in Silk Road and other hidden marketplaces.
6 видео
- Видео: How to de-anonymize Bitcoin
- Видео: Mixing
- Видео: Decentralized Mixing
- Видео: Zerocoin and Zerocash
- Видео: Tor and the Silk Road
НЕДЕЛЯ 7
Community, Politics, and Regulation
We'll look at all the ways that the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technology touches the world of people. We'll discuss the community, politics within Bitcoin and the way that Bitcoin interacts with politics, and law enforcement and regulation issues.
8 видео
- Видео: Bitcoin Core Software
- Видео: Stakeholders: Who's in Charge?
- Видео: Roots of Bitcoin
- Видео: Governments Notice Bitcoin
- Видео: Anti Money-Laundering
- Видео: Regulation
- Видео: New York's BitLicense Proposal
Оцениваемый: Blockchain
НЕДЕЛЯ 8
Alternative Mining Puzzles
Not everyone is happy about how Bitcoin mining works: its energy consumption and the fact that it requires specialized hardware are major sticking points. This week we'll look at how mining can be re-designed in alternative cryptocurrencies.
5 видео
- Видео: ASIC Resistant Puzzles
- Видео: Proof-of-useful-work
- Видео: Nonoutsourceable Puzzles
- Видео: Proof-of-Stake "Virtual Mining"
НЕДЕЛЯ 9
Bitcoin as a Platform
One of the most exciting things about Bitcoin technology is its potential to support applications other than currency. We'll study several of these and study the properties of Bitcoin that makes this possible.
5 видео
- Видео: Bitcoin As Smart Property
- Видео: Secure Multi-Party Lotteries in Bitcoin
- Видео: Bitcoin As Randomness Source
- Видео: Prediction Markets & Real-World Data Feeds
НЕДЕЛЯ 10
Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
Hundreds of altcoins, or alternative cryptocurrencies, have been started, either to fix Bitcoin's perceived flaws or to pursue different goals and properties. We'll look at everything that goes into an altcoin and how they interact with Bitcoin.
4 видео
- Видео: Interaction Between Bitcoin and Altcoins
- Видео: Lifecycle of an Altcoin
- Видео: Bitcoin-Backed Altcoins, "Side Chains"
НЕДЕЛЯ 11
The Future of Bitcoin?
The use of Bitcoin technology for decentralizing property, markets, and so on has been hailed as a recipe for economic and political disruption. We'll look at the technological underpinnings of these proposals and the potential impact on society.
4 видео
- Видео: Routes to Blockchain Integration
- Видео: What Can We Decentralize?
- Видео: When Is Decentralization a Good Idea?
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Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. It is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.
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Superb course, incredibly clear, complete and useful.
The best reference and source to learn about Bitcoin available.
Great course, very happy that I took it, I feel I understand the intrinsics well now and will be happy to continue research on the topic beyond the course.
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Very well presented -- simple explanations but deep dives into how cryptocurrency works.