Units
The lectures are broken into 11 units, as shown below, which are available online and in PDF form. Sometimes we will use slides for class, which will also be posted here. These pages are also reachable from the calendar.
- Unit 1: Money as a medium of exchange (Class 1)
- Unit 2: Bitcoin overview (Class 2)
- Unit 3: Cryptographic hashing (Classes 3–5)
- Unit 4: Overlapping Generations and Money is Memory (Classes 6–8)
- Unit 5: Cryptographic puzzles and mining (Classes 9–11)
- Unit 6: Digital signatures and transactions (Classes 12–16)
- Unit 7: Bitcoin in the real world (Classes 17–19)
- Unit 8: Alternative consensus mechanisms (Classes 20–22)
- Unit 9: Etheruum network and smart contracts (Classes 23–26)
- Unit 10: Contract enforcement and stablecoins (Classes 27–28)
- Unit 11: Project 2 presentations (Classes 29–30)