Coursera - Princeton Univ. - Webinar "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies"

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Coursera and Princeton University starts an online webinar course with title "Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies" on 1st September 2015.
Course Syllabus and details here https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech.
The webinar is Free.

EDIT: starts on 4th September 2015

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Quote from their welcome email:

"To really understand what is special about Bitcoin, we need to understand how it works at a technical level. Bitcoin truly is a new technology and we can only get so far by explaining it through simple analogies to past technologies. This course is for computer science students, developers, entrepreneurs, hobbyists, power users, and anyone interested in cryptocurrency technology."

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Course Syllabus
01. Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
02. How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
03. Mechanics of Bitcoin
04. How to Store and Use Bitcoins
05. Bitcoin mining
06. Bitcoin and anonymity
07. Community, Politics, and Regulation
08. Alternative Mining Puzzles
09. Bitcoin as a platform
10. Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
11. The future of Bitcoin?

[Harry Hood]

Princeton, MIT, Stanford...when the best schools in the US are teaching Bitcoin and cryptocurrency it doesn't matter what the Government has to say about it. The Project is legit, the ecosystem is built, the benefits to society are clear, and the need for education is here and being met.

This is really, really fantastic news.

Here's a thread on the announcement from Stanford: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1160671.0

[White sugar]

Joined.

Let's meet in the discussion forum, after the course starts

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The seminar just started. Enjoy it. The first material is online.

All lectures and course materials will be released on Fridays at 9 a.m. EST (UTC -5:00).

Week 1 - 4 September
Lecture 1: Introduction to Crypto
Lecture 2: How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization

Week 2 - 11 Sept.
Lecture 3: Mechanics of Bitcoin

Week 3 - 18 Sept.
Lecture 4: How to Store and Use Bitcoins
Lecture 5: Bitcoin Mining

Week 4 - 25 Sept.
Lecture 6: Bitcoin and Anonymity

Week 5 - 2 October
Lecture 7: Community, Politics, and Regulation
Lecture 8: Alternative Mining Puzzles

Week 6 - 9 October
Lecture 9: Bitcoin as a Platform
Lecture 10: Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem

Week 7 - 16 October
Lecture 11: The Future of Bitcoin
Bonus Lecture: The History of Cryptocurrencies

[Mickeyb]

Princeton, MIT, Stanford...when the best schools in the US are teaching Bitcoin and cryptocurrency it doesn't matter what the Government has to say about it. The Project is legit, the ecosystem is built, the benefits to society are clear, and the need for education is here and being met.

This is really, really fantastic news.

Here's a thread on the announcement from Stanford: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1160671.0

Exactly this! Sooner than later, everybody will start paying attention. This is really an awesome news. I don't know how I have missed this thread and an announcement, but this move by these schools just shows how legit we are and what are true possibilities of the Bitcoin and crypto in general.

Man, I wish they were teaching these courses when I was in the school in states. This would be the most interesting class by far and I would have a straight A without even doing any work!

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... I don't know how I have missed this thread and an announcement, but this move by these schools just shows how legit we are and what are true possibilities of the Bitcoin and crypto in general.

Man, I wish they were teaching these courses when I was in the school in states. This would be the most interesting class by far and I would have a straight A without even doing any work!

You can join the free Coursera - Princeton University webinar today at https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech

[Luqman]

This is really fantastic news 

[manselr]

It's always great news to see universities paying cryptocurrencies (specially bitcoin) the attention it deserves. As a teacher you would be mentally insane to not tell your students about Bitcoin. Anyone involved in technology should be holding some Bitcoins by now an studying the protocol on a daily basis if you want a job in the industry, in the next 10 years it will be everywhere.

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Also the University of Nicosia http://digitalcurrency.unic.ac.cy offers a MSc in Digital Currency and a free introductory MOOC.
For the MSc degree you can pay with Bitcoin. I think it must be the first university in the world that you can pay for a degree course with Bitcoin.

[Za1n]

I just joined the course and watched the first two lectures, I think I may need to watch them a couple more times to let it all sink in.

This looks to be an interesting course and I hope to come out of it with a lot better understanding of Bitcoin.