| SES # | TOPICS | Key Dates |
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1 | Signatures, Hashing, Hash Chains, e-cash, and Motivation |
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2 | Proof of Work (PoW) and Mining |
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3 | Signatures | Pset 1 due: Hash-based Signature Schemes |
4 | Transactions and the UTXO Model |
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5 | Synchronization Process, Pruning |
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6 | Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) and Wallet Types |
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OP_RETURN and Catena Guest Lecturer: Alin Tomescu (PhD student in security and applied cryptography) | Pset 2 due: Mine Your Name |
8 | Forks |
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Peer-to-peer Networks Guest Lecturer: Sharon Goldberg (associate professor in computer science at Boston University focusing on network security) |
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10 | PoW Recap, Other Fork Types |
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11 | Fees |
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12 | Transaction Malleability and Segregated Witness |
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13 | Payment Channels and Lightning Network | Pset 3 due: UTXOhunt |
14 | Lightning Network and Cross-chain Swaps |
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15 | Discreet Log Contracts |
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16 | Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST), Taproot, Graftroot |
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17 | Anonymity, Coinjoin and Signature Aggregation |
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18 | Confidential Transactions |
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19 |
Ethereum and Smart Contracts Guest Lecturer: Joseph Bonneau (assistant professor at NYU's Courant Institute researching security, applied cryptography, security economics, and human factors) |
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20 | More about Ethereum |
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21 |
Proof of Work at Industrial Scales Guest Lecturer: David Vorick (Co-founder and CEO of Nebulous / Sia & Obelisk) |
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22 | Alternative Consensus Mechanisms |
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23 | New Directions in Crypto |
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24 | zkLedger |
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