Cryptocourse
Complex full-fledged University-grade course for Computer Science classes focused on in-depth understanding of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technology lectured at Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies at Slovak University of Technology by David Stancel, MSc. of CoinStory and Kristian Kostal,Phd.
The creation of this course has been supported by Ernst&Young - Thank you!
Feel free to use anything for whatever purpose as long as you attribute credits appopriately. Everyone is also welcomed to send comments, inquires and proposals of topics, and resources to include into the course at [email protected].
Updated slides will be linked here throughout 2021.
Inspired by Courses:
Based on Books:
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- 3.A. Narayanan, J. Bonneau, E. Felten, A. Miller, S. Goldfeder - Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies (available for free) or at Amazon
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- 6.Darren Lau, Daryl Lau, T. Sze Jin, K. Kho, E. Azmi, TM Lee, B. Ong -- How to DeFi (available for free)
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Further Recommedned Reading:
- 1.A. Antonopoulos, O. Osuntokun, R- Pickhardt - Mastering Lightning Network (available for free on Github)
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- History and emergence of digital currencies - Digicash, Bitgold, B-money,Hashcash, RPOW, E-gold ..
- Fundamental technology stack
- Emergence of Bitcoin
- Main principles and definitions
Optional:
Live Examples:
- Bitcoin protocol specifications
- Transactions - UTXO model, data structures
- Proof-of-Work Consensus Mechanism
- Bitcoin Script
- Mining & Consensus Mechanisms,
- Bitcoin Core
Reading & Resources:
- Ethereum protocol specifications
- Smart contracts (ERC standards)
- Alternative smart contract platforms
- Syntax, Tools
- Programming decentralized applicatins
Building Ethereum Dapps - Roberto Infante - Chapters 4,5,6, and 8
- Introduction to Altcoins
- Basic Differences
- Comparison of selected altcoins in terms of technology - Monero, Zcash, Decred, Pivx ...
- Smart Contract Platforms: Cardano, Cosmos, Avalanche, Polkadot, Near
- Tokenisation as a phenomenom
Mastering Blockchain - Imran Bashir - Chapter 15
- Bitcoin and Ethereum scaling techniques
- Lightning Network - main principles, and overview of implementations
- Plasma, State Channels - main principles, and overview of implementations
Beginners Guide to Lightning Network: https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/what-is-lightning-network
FYI
- Types of Wallets, Seeds and archiving
- Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Tools
- Attack vectors - 51% attack, Selfish Mining, Time Jacking, Eclipse attack, Flood attack, Sybil attacks ...
- Anonymity and privacy techniques
- Blockchain Consortia - overview adn technologies
- Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, Hyperledger, Qorum
- EY - Nightfall, Baseline
- Overview of different blockchain usecases and applicaitons
- Public sector usecases, Supply Chain, Finance, Timestamping
- NOnf-ungible tokens
- DeFi - MakerDAO & DAI, Decentralized Exchanges, Lending, Derivatives, Insurance, Aggregators
- Cosmos, Polkadot
- Homogenous vs. heterogenous
- different categorization of blockchain interoperability
- Legal Challenges of Smart Contracts & Dapps & DAOs
- Legal and Economic Aspects of Cryptocurrencies - KYC, AML, MiCA
- ICOs, STOs, IEOs, Airdrops, CBDCs
- Introduciton to DeFi
- MakerDAO & DAI
- Decentralized Exchanges, Lending, Derivatives, Insurance, Fund Management, Lottery
- Uniswap, Compound, Synthetix, Opyn, TokenSets, PoolTogether
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