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Title: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: elux on May 02, 2013, 04:52:00 AM Quote from: Khan Academy Quote How Bitcoin Works: An introduction to the mechanics of bitcoins and an overview of how transactions take place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-w7SnQWwVA Quote Proof of Work: An explanation of cryptographic proof-of-work protocols, which are used in various cryptographic applications and in bitcoin mining. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1bipPkCTU Quote Transaction Block Chains: The mechanics of a bitcoin transaction block chain, which is a construct that is generated by bitcoin miners and functions as a global ledger for recording and validating bitcoins. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzDO44oZWtE Quote The Money Supply: The mechanisms by which the supply of bitcoins is controlled. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuWYLAtz3Y4 Quote Digital Signatures: A high-level explanation of digital signature schemes, which are a fundamental building block in many cryptographic protocols. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq3a-_O2NcI Quote Transaction Records: The basic mechanics of a bitcoin transaction between two parties and what is included within a given bitcoin transaction record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-9_v1wSPBQ Quote Cryptographic Hash Functions: What cryptographic hash functions are and what properties are desired of them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WiTaBI82Mc Quote All videos by Zulfikar Ramzan for Khan Academy. Zulfikar Ramzan is a world-leading expert in computer security and cryptography and is currently the Chief Scientist at Sourcefire. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: Mike Christ on May 02, 2013, 04:54:51 AM Awesome! I was already a fan of Khan academy, but this is great. Reaffirms the fact that Bitcoin is only going to get more and more popular.
Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: lunarboy on May 02, 2013, 01:09:35 PM you can find the whole series here in one easy place. ;)
http://bitcointraining.org/ (http://bitcointraining.org/) Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: Bees Brothers on May 02, 2013, 03:37:26 PM Just when the kids thought summer vacation was withing grasp.... Some new classes for them to do.
At least these classes they will enjoy. Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: kiba on May 02, 2013, 04:21:12 PM Just when the kids thought summer vacation was withing grasp.... Some new classes for them to do. At least these classes they will enjoy. Summer vacation are outdated concept. You should always at the minimum takes one hour to learn something new or practice old skills everyday. Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: cybrbeast on May 02, 2013, 04:25:31 PM Very nice and clear explanation. I wonder if Bitcoin experts have found any faults in it?
Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: Bees Brothers on May 02, 2013, 05:00:19 PM Just when the kids thought summer vacation was withing grasp.... Some new classes for them to do. At least these classes they will enjoy. Summer vacation are outdated concept. You should always at the minimum takes one hour to learn something new or practice old skills everyday. They don't really get a summer vacation. They have several "required" books to read beside their own books, and they usually start science fair projects for the next year, plus they spend about 30 hrs a week working for Bees Brothers. Learning some cryptography and Quickbooks are the two big topics for this summer. But these tutorials will be something we can watch together that they would be interested in. Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: Spaceman_Spiff on May 02, 2013, 05:25:28 PM I wrote him a few months back to ask him to do a series on bitcoin. Salman seemed like the perfect guy for this. Really glad he did it.
Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: kiba on May 02, 2013, 05:38:18 PM I wrote him a few months back to ask him to do a series on bitcoin. Salman seemed like the perfect guy for this. Really glad he did it. You didn't even read the thread or watch the video! The voice is clearly not Sal. Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: Spaceman_Spiff on May 02, 2013, 09:04:41 PM I wrote him a few months back to ask him to do a series on bitcoin. Salman seemed like the perfect guy for this. Really glad he did it. You didn't even read the thread or watch the video! The voice is clearly not Sal. True, I was at work, so I didn't have the time to watch it. Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: Stunna on May 05, 2013, 09:08:51 PM Makes me love khan academy even more, the videos are actually pretty helpful and worth a watch for anyone wondering.
Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: WiW on May 06, 2013, 09:56:17 AM Big fan of Khan Academy.
I started watching the first video, and found it very not coherent. No mistakes, just not coherent. Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: No_2 on May 06, 2013, 09:17:22 PM Really good videos thanks; have pointed many people at these now.
Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: jbreher on May 08, 2013, 07:29:14 AM Really? I went through the whole series. I thought they were very cohesive all the way through.
It may be that I was just ready for this level of detail at my current state of awakening, but I thought these were incredibly useful to me. Thanks. Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: minimalB on May 08, 2013, 09:17:52 AM Khan Academy is great... and now even this? SO COOL!!!
Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: chriswen on May 09, 2013, 01:06:34 AM Yup I'm a bit new to khan academy but I think its awesome. Bringing together a lot of great material.
And the speed is just perfect for 2x listening. Actually 2x sound is even more awesome. Gets you through material even faster. So, they published the videos under MONEY, BANKING AND CENTRAL BANKS. Good decision. I watched quite a bit of finance stuff. The info is interesting. Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: dmnd on May 09, 2013, 07:48:08 AM KA dev here. You can also find the videos on Khan Academy itself (https://www.khanacademy.org/science/core-finance/money-and-banking/bitcoin/v/bitcoin-what-is-it).
I expect the people reading this forum to know much more about bitcoin than a lot of the people watching these videos, so I encourage you to help out answering the questions being asked below the videos! Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: Koekiemonster on May 13, 2013, 12:16:16 AM They added another video:
Quote Bitcoin - The security of transaction block chains: A detailed explanation of what makes bitcoin transaction block chains secure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgvzmKZ5vo Title: Re: 2013-05-02 Khan Academy: How Bitcoin Works (Video series) Post by: BitshireHashaway on May 13, 2013, 05:31:52 AM Very nice series, very useful and interesting, thank you for providing this for us, I really appreciate it and will use it.
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