Princeton University Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies *Course*

[Blake Birk]

www.foodwool.com

Took a course offered by Princeton University on bitcoin, course was over last year but downloaded lectures and readings,

feel free to watch and read online for free

also included the original whitepaper by Satoshi on Bitcoin

help food wool = sheep (bitcoin) grow: bitcoin donation address: 1Eqrzvifdi7NfsHpBe1FrE4r7xJBNApqgh

have any bitcoin & crypto related material? send it over to foodwool@gmail.com or pm me, i'll add it

more food wool = sheep (bitcoin)  

Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Princeton University: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies

Course Details:

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?

[BellaBitBit]

Great that Princeton is offering this for free.  I have it downloaded on my computer from a month ago but have yet to dive in heavy.  Some if it is intimidating.  Thanks for sharing for those that do not know about it.

[Blake Birk]

Great that Princeton is offering this for free.  I have it downloaded on my computer from a month ago but have yet to dive in heavy.  Some if it is intimidating.  Thanks for sharing for those that do not know about it.

yeah i'm just crashing through it right now, finished all 11 video lectures and on the bonus lectures right now, then all that's left is the readings and im done lol

cool no problem for sharing, will add more material from various sources as I come across it

[kingbritain]

Thanks for the share I never knew about this until now. It is really great that Princeton university is offering this for free.

[capcher]

The resources (readings and all 12 videos) can be found on the Princeton course's Resources page: https://piazza.com/princeton/spring2015/btctech/resources

[P-Funk]

www.foodwool.com

Took a course offered by Princeton University on bitcoin, course was over last year but downloaded lectures and readings,

feel free to watch and read online for free

also included the original whitepaper by Satoshi on Bitcoin

help food wool = sheep (bitcoin) grow: bitcoin donation address: 1Eqrzvifdi7NfsHpBe1FrE4r7xJBNApqgh

have any bitcoin & crypto related material? send it over to foodwool@gmail.com or pm me, i'll add it

more food wool = sheep (bitcoin)  

Ok you ripped the Coursera bitcoin course and put it on youtube. Original lectures/materials can be found here: https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech

The design of your site could use some work. Some of the videos don't work.

[Blake Birk]

www.foodwool.com

Took a course offered by Princeton University on bitcoin, course was over last year but downloaded lectures and readings,

feel free to watch and read online for free

also included the original whitepaper by Satoshi on Bitcoin

help food wool = sheep (bitcoin) grow: bitcoin donation address: 1Eqrzvifdi7NfsHpBe1FrE4r7xJBNApqgh

have any bitcoin & crypto related material? send it over to foodwool@gmail.com or pm me, i'll add it

more food wool = sheep (bitcoin)  

Ok you ripped the Coursera bitcoin course and put it on youtube. Original lectures/materials can be found here: https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech

The design of your site could use some work. Some of the videos don't work.

free & definitely from coursera, lectures had free download buttons for each so no ripping was needed.

the website I started does allow you to watch + read everything for free so its all the same

wordpress + best theme I could find 

[Blake Birk]

The resources (readings and all 12 videos) can be found on the Princeton course's Resources page: https://piazza.com/princeton/spring2015/btctech/resources

nice thanks, I guess it saves people the time of ripping youtube if they wanted to download the lectures

[vincentvincent]

The princeton bitcoin book is absolutely a must read! Very interesting.

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

You can read course details at the Coursera.org link already given and the here is the direct link to the pdf of the course: https://d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.net/bitcointech/readings/princeton_bitcoin_book.pdf you can save a copy to your desktop.

[jyakulis]

Hah, they probably wouldn't let me in to attend this I bet.

This is secretly funny to me.

[Raimonn]

I made the course of Princeton university on coursea.org , it was very interesting and complete, i received last week an email from them saying that they are editing a book with all the course information.

[criptix]

Thanks for sharing good stuff