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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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第1週 |
9/18 |
Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
．Cryptographic Hash Functions
．Hash Pointers and Data Structures
．Digital Signatures
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第2週 |
9/25 |
Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
．Centralization vs. decentralization
．Distributed consensus
．Consensus without identity: the block chain |
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第3週 |
10/02 |
How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
．Centralization vs. decentralization
．Distributed consensus
．Consensus without identity: the block chain |
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第4週 |
10/09 |
How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
．Incentives and proof of work
．Putting it all together |
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第5週 |
10/16 |
Mechanics of Bitcoin
．Bitcoin transactions
．Bitcoin scripts
．Applications of Bitcoin scripts |
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第6週 |
10/23 |
Mechanics of Bitcoin
．Bitcoin blocks
．The Bitcoin network
．Limitations & improvements |
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第7週 |
10/30 |
How to Store and Use Bitcoins
．Simple Local Storage
．How to Store and Use Bitcoins
．Secret Keys
．Hot and Cold Storage
．Splitting and Sharing Keys
．Online Wallets and Exchanges
．Payment Services
．Transaction Fees
．Currency Exchange Markets |
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第8週 |
11/06 |
Bitcoin mining
．The task of Bitcoin miners
．Mining hardware
．Energy consumption & ecology
．Mining pools
．Mining incentives and strategies |
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第9週 |
11/13 |
Bitcoin and anonymity
．Anonymity basics
．Overview of Bitcoin deanonymization
．Mixing
．Decentralized mixing |
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第10週 |
11/20 |
Bitcoin and anonymity
．Zerocoin and Zerocash
．Tor and the Silk Road |
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第11週 |
11/27 |
Community, Politics, and Regulation
．Consensus in Bitcoin
．Bitcoin Core Software
．Stakeholders : Who’s in Charge?
．Roots of Bitcoin |
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第12週 |
12/04 |
Community, Politics, and Regulation
．Governments Notice Bitcoin
．Anti Money-Laundering Regulation
．New York’s BitLicense Proposal |
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第13週 |
12/11 |
Alternative Mining Puzzles
．Essential Puzzle Requirements
．ASIC Resistant Puzzles
．Proof-of-useful-work
．Nonoutsourceable Puzzles
．Proof-of-Stake |
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第14週 |
12/18 |
Bitcoin as a platform
．Bitcoin as an append-only log
．Bitcoins as “smart property”
．Secure multi-party lotteries in Bitcoin
．Bitcoin as randomness source
．Prediction markets & real-world data feeds |
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第15週 |
12/25 |
Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
．Short History of Altcoins
．Interaction between Bitcoin and altcoins |
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第16週 |
1/01 |
Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
．Lifecycle of an Altcoin
．Bitcoin-Backed Altcoins, “Side Chains” |
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第17週 |
1/08 |
The future of Bitcoin?
．The block chain as a vehicle for decentralization
．Routes to decentralization
．What can we decentralize?
．When is decentralization a good idea? |