Slides

• Course Introduction (Nov. 11. 2020) (PDF)

• Lecture 1 (part 1) - Crypography Basics to Construe Blockchain (PDF)

• Lecture 1 (part 2) - Help Alice solve her business problems (PDF)

• Lecture 2 - Lineage of E-cash and Blockchain (PDF)

• Lecture 3 - Cryptocurrency mechanics - From Bitcoin perspective (PDF)

• Lecture 4 - Swaps and Smart Contracts (PDF)

Session Videos

Online session recordings 2020/2021

• Course kick-off zoom session (Nov. 11, 2020)

• Online Session #1 (Nov. 25, 2020)

• Online Session #2 (Dec. 9, 2020)

• Online Session #3_short (Dec. 22, 2020)

• Online Session #4_extended (Jan. 20, 2021)

Session recordings from 2019 offering

• Session#1 (Jan. 23rd): part1, part2

• Session#2 (Jan. 30th): part1, part2

• Session#3 (Feb. 13th): part1, part2

• Session#4 (Feb. 20th): part1, part2

• Session#5 (Feb. 27th): part1, part2

• Session#6 (Mar. 6th): part1, part2

• Session#7 (Mar. 20th): part1, part2

***END OF FIRST PART OF THE COURSE***

Book chapters and papers

• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan, Joseph Bonneau, Edward Felten, Andrew Miller, Steven Goldfeder (click here)

• Bitcoin white paper (click here)

Extra reading material

(optional & extra to the course)

• Summary of early e-cash timeline with links to related papers

https://www.chaum.com/ecash/

• More readings about Bitcoin

Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (Book)

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3212998

https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/765.pdf?TB_iframe=true&width=921.6&height=921.6

• More on Smart Contracts and Ethereum-like Blockchain systems

Across Chain Swaps: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3212736

Ethereum yello paper: http://gavwood.com/paper.pdf

Survey on Blockchain: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8029379

More about Ethereum gas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd-ajiMl4HY