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 of CoinStory and Kristian Kostal.
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 david@coinstory.tech.
Slides with presentation will be linked here later in 2020.
Inspired by Courses:
1.Introduction to Digital Currencies at University of Nicosia as well as the whole MSc. program
2.Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies at Princeton University​
Based on Books:
A. Antonopoulos - Mastering Bitcoin available for free on Github or at Amazon​
A. Antonopoulos - Mastering Ethereum (available for free on Github), or at Amazon​
A. Narayanan, J. Bonneau, E. Felten, A. Miller, S. Goldfeder - Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies (available for free) or at Amazon​
P. Kravchenko - Blockchain and Decentralized Systems​
SerHack & Monero Community - Mastering Monero (available for free) or at Amazon​
Darren Lau, Daryl Lau, T. Sze Jin, K. Kho, E. Azmi, TM Lee, B. Ong -- How to DeFi (available for free)
Kurt M. Alonso, Sarang Noether, Koe - Zero to Monero (available for free)
Further Recommedned Reading:
A. Antonopoulos, O. Osuntokun, R- Pickhardt - Mastering Lightning Network (available for free on Github)​
J. Song - Programming Bitcoin (avaialble fore free on Github) or at Amazon​
D. Boneh, V.Shoup - Applied Cryptography (available for free)​
History and emergence of digital currencies - Digicash, Bitgold, B-money,Hashcash, RPOW, E-gold ..
Fundamental technology stack
Emergence of Bitcoin
Main principles and definitions
A. Back - Hashcash​
N. Szabo - Bitgold​
W. Dai - B-money​
S. Nakamoto - Bitcoin Whitepaper​
H. Finney - RPOW​
Lamport, Shostak, Peace - The Byzantine General Problem​
Optional:
Diffie, Hellman - New Directions in Cryptogprahy​
D. Chaum - Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payment​
S. Haber, S. Stornetta - How to Timestamp a Digital Document​
D. Chaum - Dinning Cryptographers Problem​
Bitcoin protocol specifications
Transactions - UTXO model, data structures
Proof-of-Work Consensus Mechanism
Bitcoin Script
​Mastering Bitcoin - Chapters 2,3,6 & 10
​Script on Bitcoin Wiki​
​Learning Bitcoin tools​
​Script Playground​
​Bitcoin Script Guide by Blockgeeks​
​Bitcoin Script for Dummies​
​Installing Bitcoin Core​
​Bitcoin Developer Guide​
​Miniscript Playground​
​Blockchain Demo​
​Bitcoin Resources by Jameson Lopp​
​3D Blockchain Explorer Symphony by IOHK​
Ethereum protocol specifications
Smart contracts
Decentralised Applications
Alternative smart contract platforms - RSK, Dfinity, Polkadot, Cosmos, AVA,
​Mastering Ethereum - Chapter 5,6,7 and 12
​Resources on Etheruem.org​
​Ethereum 2.0. Overview by ChainSafe​
​Polkadot WP​
​Learning ETH resources​
​All writings of Vitalik Buterin at one place​
TBD
TBD
​Solidity Documentation​
​Comparison ERC20 vs ERC223 vs ERC777​
​Solidity and Vyper Cheatsheet​
​CryptoZombies - learning Solidity ​
Introduction to Altcoins
Basic Differences
Comparison of selected altcoins in terms of technology - Monero, Zcash, Decred, Pivx ...
Tokenisation as a phenomenom
ICOs and classification of tokens
​Mastering Monero - Chapter 3
​Zero to Monero -
​Decred Documentation​
​Zcash WP​
​PIVX WP​
Bitcoin and Ethereum scaling techniques
Lightning Network - main principles, and overview of implementations
Plasma, State Channels - main principles, and overview of implementations
​Mastering Lightning Network​
​History of Lightning Network by Bitcoin Magazine​
​Lightning Network Web​
​Making Sense of Ethereum Layer 2 (Medium)​
​The State of Optimistic Rollups (Medium)​
​Learning Plasma Web​
FYI
​Running LN on Raspberry Pi - Guide​
Attack vectors - 51% attack, Selfish Mining, Time Jacking, Eclipse attack, Flood attack, Sybil attacks ...
Anonymity and privacy techniques
​Hypotehtical Cryptocurrency Attacks​
​Application of Zeroknowledge proofs in Blockchain (Medium)​
​Staying Anonymous on Ethereum - Tornado Cash)​
​Breaking MimbleWimble Privacy Model​
​Zeroknowledge-proofs - Intro, comparisons​
​Zeroknowledge Starter Pack by Eth Research​
​How to Run BTC node over TOR - Guide​
Types of Wallets
Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Tools
Seeds
​How to Create BTC adress​
​Base58 encoding​
​Seed​
​Deterministic Wallet​
​BIP 0032​
​Bitcoin Trezor Wiki​
Blockchain Consortia - overview nad technologies
Ethereum Enterprise Alliance, Hyperledger, Nightfall protocol, Qorum ...
​Enterprise Blockchain Protocols Overview​
​Enterprise Blockchain Resources by ConsenSys​
​EY's Nightfall Protocol​
​Baseline Protocol by EY, Microsoft & ConsenSys​
​IBM Blockchain Platform​
​Enterprise Ethereum Alliance​
​Hyperledger General Resources​
​Hyperledger Presentations​
Overview of different blockchain usecases and applications
Timestamping, Non-fungible tokens, Supply Chain, Academic Certificates, Public Records,
European Blockchain Service Infrastructure (EBSI) usecases
​Open Timestamps​
​Ujo Music​
Legal Challenges of Smart Contracts & Dapps & DAOs
Legal and Economic Aspects of Cryptocurrencies
ICOs, STOs, IEOs, Airdrops, CBDCs
University of Cambridge - 2nd Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study​
​The NFT Bible​
​NFTs from Legal Perspective​
Introduciton to DeFi
MakerDAO & DAI
Decentralized Exchanges, Lending, Derivatives, Insurance, Fund Management, Lottery
Uniswap, Compound, Synthetix, Opyn, TokenSets, PoolTogether
​How to DeFi Book​
​Flash Loan Attacks on bZx Explained​
​DAI Derivatives - github Amazing Primer on Virtual Economy​
