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
All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion.
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
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Université de Princeton
À propos de ce cours
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Compétences que vous acquerrez
Bitcoin NetworkBlockchainsCryptocurrencyBitcoin
Programme du cours : ce que vous apprendrez dans ce cours
Semaine
14 heures pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 59 min), 1 lecture, 1 quiz
6 vidéos
Welcome1 min
Cryptographic Hash Functions18 min
Hash Pointers and Data Structures8 min
Digital Signatures9 min
Public Keys as Identities5 min
A Simple Cryptocurrency14 min
1 lecture
Course Information10 min
Semaine
21 heure pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 74 min)
5 vidéos
Distributed Consensus13 min
Consensus without Identity: the Block Chain17 min
Incentives and Proof of Work19 min
Putting It All Together18 min
Semaine
31 heure pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 78 min)
6 vidéos
Bitcoin Transactions11 min
Bitcoin Scripts15 min
Applications of Bitcoin Scripts14 min
Bitcoin Blocks5 min
The Bitcoin Network18 min
Limitations & Improvements11 min
Semaine
44 heures pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 81 min), 1 quiz
7 vidéos
Hot and Cold Storage13 min
Splitting and Sharing Keys11 min
Online Wallets and Exchanges19 min
Payment Services8 min
Transaction Fees5 min
Currency Exchange Markets16 min
Semaine
51 heure pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 86 min)
5 vidéos
Mining Hardware23 min
Energy Consumption & Ecology14 min
Mining Pools14 min
Mining Incentives and Strategies23 min
Semaine
62 heures pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 112 min)
6 vidéos
Anonymity Basics26 min
How to de-anonymize Bitcoin18 min
Mixing21 min
Decentralized Mixing14 min
Zerocoin and Zerocash19 min
Tor and the Silk Road11 min
Semaine
74 heures pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 75 min), 1 quiz
8 vidéos
Consensus in Bitcoin6 min
Bitcoin Core Software10 min
Stakeholders: Who's in Charge?9 min
Roots of Bitcoin9 min
Governments Notice Bitcoin9 min
Anti Money-Laundering5 min
Regulation11 min
New York's BitLicense Proposal10 min
Semaine
81 heure pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 45 min)
5 vidéos
ASIC Resistant Puzzles13 min
Proof-of-useful-work9 min
Nonoutsourceable Puzzles7 min
Proof-of-Stake "Virtual Mining"8 min
Semaine
91 heure pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 85 min)
5 vidéos
Bitcoin As Smart Property16 min
Secure Multi-Party Lotteries in Bitcoin10 min
Bitcoin As Randomness Source18 min
Prediction Markets & Real-World Data Feeds23 min
Semaine
101 heure pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 64 min)
4 vidéos
Interaction Between Bitcoin and Altcoins15 min
Lifecycle of an Altcoin15 min
Bitcoin-Backed Altcoins, "Side Chains"11 min
Semaine
111 heure pour terminer
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 vidéos (Total 84 min)
4 vidéos
Routes to Blockchain Integration28 min
What Can We Decentralize?24 min
When Is Decentralization a Good Idea?16 min
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Meilleurs avis
Great course, a very broad and in-depth overview of concepts surrounding cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin in particular. Would be great to have an update of course; perhaps once the ICO craze is over? (-:
I've gained a strong knowledge of Bitcoin's architecture but wish this course was updated to include the developments of the last two years. A few lectures on alt-coins would have been useful as well.
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Arvind Narayanan
Associate ProfessorComputer Science
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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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