Dahlonega Gold Dollar

CSC596/686-C: (The Real) Blockchain

by: burt rosenberg
at: university of miami
semester: fall 2022 (231)
time: F 10:10 AM – 11:00 AM
location: Ungar 330–G

Syllabus:

• The course meets on Fridays only.
• Slack channel: csc-minicourses.slack.com, #blockchain
• Github: github.com/csc-courses/csc686.
• The course advertisement (PDF)
• Wide range of discussions — from social impact and reaction to deep crypto.
• An experiment in opening up the curriculum as a community by the UM community. Modeled after Bitcoin at Berkeley Decal.

Presentations:

Presentations are to be 20 minutes with slides.

• TBA

Exercises:

• Exercise 1: TBA

Class Notes:

• Lecture 1 The History of Electronic Money
• Lecture 2 Cryptographic Technologies
  • Wednesday 2 September, class notes
• Lecture 3 Consensus
• Lecture 4 Proof of Work
• Lecture 5 Signing Transaction
• Lecture 6 Details: ECDSA
• Lecture 7 Alt Coins
• Lecture 8 Proof of Stake
• Chaum's e-Cash

Textbooks like stuff:

• Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos.
• Blockchain at Berkeley

References like stuff:

• E-Cash implementations
  • Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto (pdf)
  • B-Money by Wei Dai (txt)
  • Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure by Adam Beck (pdf)
  • Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments David Chaum (Crypto '83 PDF)
  • Untraceable Electronic Cash by David Chaum, Amos Fiat, Moni Naor, (Crypto '88 PDF)
  • David Chaum: Scientific American August 1992 (pdf)
• Cryptography
  • New Directions in Cryptography by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman (pdf)
  • Zcash explainer including zk-Snarks (advanced math required)
• Culture and Counter-Culture
  • Eric Hughes Manifesto
• Bit coin implementation
  • blockchain.info (now blockchain.com)
  • bitcoin.org documentation.
  • blockcypher.com at the genesis block
• Geth and Rinkeby
  • Geth, reference implementation of Etherium.
  • Rinkeby faucet
  • Rinkeby stats

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author: burton rosenberg
created: 12 jan 2019
update: 19 sep 2022