Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security

[milaliss]

Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security
Stanford University offers a course on digital currency as a part of the online Cyber Security Graduate Certificate program this year. The new course is intended for information security professionals, web developers, and computer network architects.
http://www.coinfox.info/news/2833-stanford-opens-online-course-on-cryptocurrency-and-cyber-security

[Kingno.1]

Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security
Stanford University offers a course on digital currency as a part of the online Cyber Security Graduate Certificate program this year. The new course is intended for information security professionals, web developers, and computer network architects.
http://www.coinfox.info/news/2833-stanford-opens-online-course-on-cryptocurrency-and-cyber-security

Can u give me some more details about course, timing and fees structure, I am from India can i join this course . Tell me the procedure

I am interested in this course. 

[Possum577]

Can u give me some more details about course, timing and fees structure, I am from India can i join this course . Tell me the procedure

I am interested in this course.  

Here's some more information, straight from Stanford University's course catalog: http://scpd.stanford.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=58085700&showInternal=true

CS251 - Crypto Currencies: Bitcoin and Friends

Overview
The potential application for Bitcoin-like technologies is enormous. This course covers the technical aspects of engineering secure software, system interactions with crypto-currencies, and distributed consensus for reliability.

Instructors
Dan Boneh Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Topics Include
Altcoins
Bitcoin transactions
Consensus protocols
Cryptocurrency
Elliptic curves
Hash functions
Mining strategies and incentives
Proposed Bitcoin regulations
Zerocoin, zerocash
Units
Prerequisites
CS110

Tuition
For course tuition, reduced tuition (SCPD member companies and United States Armed forces), and fees, please click Tuition & Fees

Supports a Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security

The course only costs ~BTC16 (although I'm not sure Stanford accepts tuition in bitcoin)

[Possum577]

It looks like MIT is conducting a similar course!

http://www.coindesk.com/mit-course-to-inspire-next-generation-of-bitcoin-ceos/

If Ivy League schools start offering education on the topic, this will be a boon for widespread adoption and it's coming from very intelligent places!

[vennali]

Funny to see this thread in Politics and Society .

It looks like MIT is conducting a similar course!

http://www.coindesk.com/mit-course-to-inspire-next-generation-of-bitcoin-ceos/

If Ivy League schools start offering education on the topic, this will be a boon for widespread adoption and it's coming from very intelligent places!

I believe MIT will have a great development for the bitcoin ecosystem ahead because of the latest Professor they hired at the Media lab who is really doing a lot of work on bitcoin. I hope they stick to bitcoin and not deviate to creating a new currency or work on a centralized currency system .

[Possum577]

https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech

I found a BETTER option...it's FREE...and it's from Princeton.

Coursera offers free courses from major Universities.

Course Syllabus

Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
Cryptographic Hash Functions
Hash Pointers and Data Structures
Digital Signatures
Public Keys as Identities
Simple Cryptocurrencies

How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
Centralization vs. decentralization
Distributed consensus
Consensus without identity: the block chain
Incentives and proof of work
Putting it all together

Mechanics of Bitcoin
Bitcoin transactions
Bitcoin scripts
Applications of Bitcoin scripts
Bitcoin blocks
The Bitcoin network
Limitations & improvements

How to Store and Use Bitcoins
Simple Local Storage
How to Store and Use Bitcoins
Secret Keys
Hot and Cold Storage
Splitting and Sharing Keys
Online Wallets and Exchanges
Payment Services
Transaction Fees
Currency Exchange Markets

Bitcoin mining
The task of Bitcoin miners
Mining hardware
Energy consumption & ecology
Mining pools
Mining incentives and strategies

Bitcoin and anonymity
Anonymity basics
Overview of Bitcoin deanonymization
Mixing
Decentralized mixing
Zerocoin and Zerocash
Tor and the Silk Road

Community, Politics, and Regulation
Consensus in Bitcoin
Bitcoin Core Software
Stakeholders : Who’s in Charge?
Roots of Bitcoin
Governments Notice Bitcoin
Anti Money-Laundering Regulation
New York’s BitLicense Proposal

Alternative Mining Puzzles
Essential Puzzle Requirements
ASIC Resistant Puzzles
Proof-of-useful-work
Nonoutsourceable Puzzles
Proof-of-Stake

Bitcoin as a platform
Bitcoin as an append-only log
Bitcoins as “smart property”
Secure multi-party lotteries in Bitcoin
Bitcoin as randomness source
Prediction markets & real-world data feeds

Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
Short History of Altcoins
Interaction between Bitcoin and altcoins
Lifecycle of an Altcoin
Bitcoin-Backed Altcoins, “Side Chains”

The future of Bitcoin?
The block chain as a vehicle for decentralization
Routes to decentralization
What can we decentralize?
When is decentralization a good idea?